Sort of Draconian, wouldn't you say?
CBS/Paramount sues to stop Axanar
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Fan Film Factor has a preliminary interview with Alec Peters on the Financial Committee. Not a lot of details as that is next interview but lists who is on committee:
http://fanfilmfactor.com/2017/01/13...and-his-review-committee-interview/#more-3264
http://fanfilmfactor.com/2017/01/13...and-his-review-committee-interview/#more-3264
On AxaMonitor: We finally find out who sits on Axanar's so-called independent financial review board, only to discover one of them has already resigned. Naturally, it's all MY fault.
Curious. I know that some involved have seen the new financials. I'm naturally sceptical due to.... well, everything we all know in this thread so I won't list all the reasons 
But curious to see how this goes and how it all matches up.
One of Alec's biggest problems is his mouth; there's been too much talking - both from the perspective of him not actually having made a fan film yet, and from giving out too many contradictory statements (and there will be more to come).
Silence should be his default, to protect himself more than anything. Unfortunately I think that ship has sailed and the interview will be another reassurance directed to those already on his side. more little digs don't help.
But curious to see how this goes and how it all matches up.One of Alec's biggest problems is his mouth; there's been too much talking - both from the perspective of him not actually having made a fan film yet, and from giving out too many contradictory statements (and there will be more to come).
Silence should be his default, to protect himself more than anything. Unfortunately I think that ship has sailed and the interview will be another reassurance directed to those already on his side. more little digs don't help.
Far as I am aware, all they did was unfollow everyone they were following. Which they did not have to do – they could have accomplished the same thing (getting rid of too many email notifications, so far as I am aware, was the motivation) by simply adjusting their preferences.Am trying to understand the why of this twitter thing the production account is doing. I don't have a twitter account and only understand the basics.
Can whomever a twitter account belongs to delete every tweet to and from them at their discretion? Like say, could I unfriend my 109K followers and delete alllll the tweets whether I was the tweeter or it was my Friended tweeters? So like erase everything and make the account a clean slate?
I'm pretty sure I understand the restart with the unFriending. To bring order to chaos, right? And get the account populated with actual Friends? Whereas in the beginning of the account the blowback, the magnitude of the Star Trek magnifying glass on Everything, then this lawsuit just wasn't foreseen. Then everything turned into this whole thing. With, like fandom has been known for for 50 years... all the dissecting every single flaw in every single ST episode, series, movie, authorized and fan produced. And each and every person responsible for every single word in the scripts. Every showrunner, writer, director, producer who doesn't do it the way sections of us wanted. Tear to shreds any actor we might not like, dissect and discuss everything anyone who worked on Star Trek has said or done in their lives outside of ST, every DUI, arrest, breakdown, weight gain, et cetera........... you know, just doing what fans who wish to have always done with Star Trek done by anyone.
And for a long time the account was a promotional kind of account to get the word about the production to a really wide a twitter audience. Probably? Everybody's happy, things are great, it's great, he's great, the world of Star Trek is great.
But like with all Star Trek productions, authorized or fan, everybody in fandom can an opinion. And those of us who wish to can get very loud about our opinions. Both our likes and our dislikes.
Then this new Star Trek production and producer starts being looked at with the same Star Trek magnifying glass used on allllll Star Trek productions; official or fan. And this ST magnifying glass that's been used on everything Star Trek for 50 years..... was and still is not tolerated by this producer. Who responded in the least effective way imaginable to mitigate and get past it. He goes on the attack.
And how did that turn out?
The lawsuit, the questions, the research, the demands, the anger, the responses to the questions and/or points of fact. Stuff like that. Which turns the twitter account into an access point to the production after the production's Facebook went private because 'it' had ceased to be effective for promoting the production & Works when it all stopped being all 'everything is grreaaattt'.
The production is facebooking the twitter account now too, right? Like they did the production's website comments sections too.
So I get the unFriending thing from the production/producer's POV. Only the like minded will be reFriended. That will bring order to chaos like it did with Facebook and the production website. Order.
My main question I guess is can a twitter account delete every single tweet and start all over with a clean slate?
But of course if you want to cherry pick out the 'haters' then you can delete everyone you're following.
As for deleting everything and starting from scratch, it looks like you need a tool like this: http://deletealltweets.com/connect.php?hl=en (I have never used that tool and never heard of it until Googling it just now, so I can't comment on its effectiveness).
They are currently (as of the writing of this post) following 88 accounts and are followed by 109k.
It works very well, for the record. Your tweet count remains, but all content is flushed out. I've done it before by accident when showing someone else how easy it was
So easy, and with a click of a...yup, just like thatIt works very well, for the record. Your tweet count remains, but all content is flushed out. I've done it before by accident when showing someone else how easy it was
Unless proven otherwise, I will assume that in this case "independent" means "likely to cover up and/or sweep under the rug AP's spending". I am all for giving people the benefit of the doubt, but he lost me a long time ago.
Good grief. At least no one who wields such flimsy, simplistic, self-serving thinking to contort words could ever wind up running this country. ... wait, what? Bartender, pour me another Tranya.
Or "does as Alec says".
Better add some Theragin derivative to that...
The leap in Alex's definition of independent is truly staggering. And I can't really see what he thinks he's achieving here. Those that are concerned about the Axanar finances have probably already seen what's happening via the court documents. Further shenanigans (to borrow a word) using a predictably NOT independent group of Alec's buddies aren't going to be convincing. Really it's just going to reaffirm to the faithful that Alec's on the up-and-up and they didn't need convincing.
Or does this mean neither set of financials Alec submitted to the court were correct and now we've got a new third set? Not exactly reassuring either.
It's pretty transparently an attempt to control the narrative before the unfiltered finances are released as part of the trial, but other than some amusement in seeing how he's tried to justify things I can't see it swaying opinion on either side.
On the flip side if Alec is entirely on the up-and-up and every penny has indeed been used for its intended purpose, it'll be *really* interesting to see how someone spends 1.4 million on a fan film and fail to produce anything.
Or does this mean neither set of financials Alec submitted to the court were correct and now we've got a new third set? Not exactly reassuring either.
It's pretty transparently an attempt to control the narrative before the unfiltered finances are released as part of the trial, but other than some amusement in seeing how he's tried to justify things I can't see it swaying opinion on either side.
On the flip side if Alec is entirely on the up-and-up and every penny has indeed been used for its intended purpose, it'll be *really* interesting to see how someone spends 1.4 million on a fan film and fail to produce anything.
And we have blog liftoff!
Axanar Proposed Jury Instructions
http://www.semanticshenanigans.com/axanar-proposed-jury-instructions/
Another kitchen sink-style blog post, as I got a few documents and served them up together.
Axanar Proposed Jury Instructions
http://www.semanticshenanigans.com/axanar-proposed-jury-instructions/
Another kitchen sink-style blog post, as I got a few documents and served them up together.
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