# - Know the ACTUAL definition of Freedom of Speech, the knowledge will prevent you from looking like an idiot if a site or admin or mod prevents you from saying or posting something.
# - A gallery of fanart is NOT like a clip art book. Do not use it as such. Fanartists are scary when riled up.
#- Do not try to defend yourself on fandom wank. You'll only end up worse than you started as they don't care about "your side" just the LOLZ and the drama.
# - If someone can overreact to it, they will. Just expect it.
# - Try not to let your tin hat be too obvious. For example, the entirety of another fandom is NOT on the sci-fi channel's payroll, nor is Sean Astin conspiring against Elija Wood's true sexuality. *
# - if you find yourself actually infuriated to the point of a capslock level flame war with SMILEY405 and yet have never talked tot hat person before now and you wouldn't know them in RL if they came up and gave you 50 bucks, you might want to considering getting of the internet before you humiliate yourself.
# - the internet is eternal. What yu do today may come back to bite you 10 years later. Keep that in mind.
# - It has not yet been ruled illegal for you boss to see your myspace page.
# - Don't have the chan art in plain view. The law, US law at least, doesn't protect it as much as you might think it does.
# - That triple X fic you wrote where Starscream gets it on with Megatron is NOT high art. It's porn. Just be honest with yourself and the world.
* In case you are wondering about my first example there, in there an original Battlestar Galactica there is a fan who is not shy about sharing is opinion that the entire NEw BSG fandom consists of stealth marketers and Sci-Fi channel employees who falsify the internet to make it *look* like the show is popular. Adn that's is more sane argument. I really have no words for him. In all my years in HP I've never met anyone like him. Not even Msscribe.
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# - A gallery of fanart is NOT like a clip art book. Do not use it as such. Fanartists are scary when riled up.
#- Do not try to defend yourself on fandom wank. You'll only end up worse than you started as they don't care about "your side" just the LOLZ and the drama.
# - If someone can overreact to it, they will. Just expect it.
# - Try not to let your tin hat be too obvious. For example, the entirety of another fandom is NOT on the sci-fi channel's payroll, nor is Sean Astin conspiring against Elija Wood's true sexuality. *
# - if you find yourself actually infuriated to the point of a capslock level flame war with SMILEY405 and yet have never talked tot hat person before now and you wouldn't know them in RL if they came up and gave you 50 bucks, you might want to considering getting of the internet before you humiliate yourself.
# - the internet is eternal. What yu do today may come back to bite you 10 years later. Keep that in mind.
# - It has not yet been ruled illegal for you boss to see your myspace page.
# - Don't have the chan art in plain view. The law, US law at least, doesn't protect it as much as you might think it does.
# - That triple X fic you wrote where Starscream gets it on with Megatron is NOT high art. It's porn. Just be honest with yourself and the world.
* In case you are wondering about my first example there, in there an original Battlestar Galactica there is a fan who is not shy about sharing is opinion that the entire NEw BSG fandom consists of stealth marketers and Sci-Fi channel employees who falsify the internet to make it *look* like the show is popular. Adn that's is more sane argument. I really have no words for him. In all my years in HP I've never met anyone like him. Not even Msscribe.