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I used to have the SFWA anti-piracy logo on the front page of my website. I've now taken it off, as it appears SFWA has become overzealous in its pursuit of piracy. When you order the takedown of Creative Commons fiction for an author who you are not representing, when you evidently do a simple search for an author's name and order a site to remove all the files the search returns, you have overstepped all reasonable bounds.
I sent in my dues to SFWA this year, as I seem to do every year lately, with increasing reluctance. SFWA seems to be becoming less and less relevant with each passing year -- overrun by stupid flame wars, by award-nomination-trading, by the voting drag of a population of people who are no longer professionally-publishing writers but who remain in Active status because once attained, that status is retained for as long as you care to pay your dues.
It's far past time for SFWA to require that Active members 're-credential' their Active status, so that the voting members of the organization are all writers whose careers will be directly affected by the outcome of any vote. I'm getting far, far more 'bang for my buck' from SFNovelists, the new group Toby Buckell started strictly for published novelists of the genre (and which does require that you publish every so often.)
Dear Officers of SFWA, I'm ashamed and I'm angry reading about this. You have cast all members in a poor light by this action, and I want an explanation as to why and how this happened....
I sent in my dues to SFWA this year, as I seem to do every year lately, with increasing reluctance. SFWA seems to be becoming less and less relevant with each passing year -- overrun by stupid flame wars, by award-nomination-trading, by the voting drag of a population of people who are no longer professionally-publishing writers but who remain in Active status because once attained, that status is retained for as long as you care to pay your dues.
It's far past time for SFWA to require that Active members 're-credential' their Active status, so that the voting members of the organization are all writers whose careers will be directly affected by the outcome of any vote. I'm getting far, far more 'bang for my buck' from SFNovelists, the new group Toby Buckell started strictly for published novelists of the genre (and which does require that you publish every so often.)
Dear Officers of SFWA, I'm ashamed and I'm angry reading about this. You have cast all members in a poor light by this action, and I want an explanation as to why and how this happened....
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Oh, the SF Novelists link is to the wiki (which would confuse outsiders, since that's our login members page, the www.sfnovelists.com link might be more useful in this context).
And, thanks for the compliment re: the usefulness of SF Novelists. I've been very happy with it :-)
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Oops, my bad. I'll change that.
"thanks for the compliment re: the usefulness of SF Novelists..."
Wouldn't have said it if it wasn't true!
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TB: :-)
Wouldn't have said it if it wasn't true!
TB: I'm just so pleased with all we've done over the last year or so, particularly after the humble beginnings. And as for me on a selfish note, I've learned a ton of information from it, so I'm a very happy author :-)
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SFWA SCRD
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Also, figuring out ways to compartmentalize your groups so that they don't exceed 200-300 people is crucial! 1500 is too many networks/faces/interpersonal issues and a facelessness, there's plenty of evidence that shows groups break down and need ways to great subgroups due to that.
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Has this issue hit Japan? How are people reacting to it?
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I'd be okay with a re-qual of some sort. Perhaps not something that kicks folks out completely, but maybe a bump from active back down to associate... I've never understood exactly why you'd want to stay active if you were no longer active in the field.
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That's just beyond incompetence.
Did Andrew Burt ever pay back that money, do you know?
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I haven't seen Cory since he posted it. No comment here in Japan about it. We're all busy riding the largest Ferris Wheel in the world.
Paul
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