On the "appropriation" wank that has been occupying a fair portion of my flist

You people are way too nice, you know that? XD; Too nice, too disinclined to raise a fuss, too willing to give the benefit of the doubt, too worried about jumping the gun and hurting someone else's feelings. I'm talking from the inside of a glass house here because I'm like that too. Short of someone completely C&Ping my work and claiming it as their own, I cannot really bring myself to care - in The Real World these issues are settled with money, and it's not like I'm making any off my LJ/fandom activities to begin with. (The people who care a lot, I suspect, come to it from the POV of "in Academia these issues are settled with reputation.")

Thing is, if you're one person, you're being nice. If you're ten people, you're sending the message that it's okay. So I have learnt a lesson from being on the outside of this kerfuffle.