The feuding vampires and werewolves in Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" serial publication have enjoyed a longstanding truce, only the battle between unembarrassed fans of the a la mode novel, "Breaking Dawn," and those wHO were thwarted or maddened over the eagerly anticipated conclusion is just heating up.
On Friday, that struggle went technological, as the most striking "Twilight" fan site on the Web, the Twilight Lexicon web log, was hacked by a malicious figurer criminal, shutting down the site for more than 48 hours. It was an opening salvo aimed directly at the series' most vociferous and zealous supporters, wHO were targeted because of their fealty, site moderator Nicole Bright told MTV News.
"The Internet community has become very polarized � either you liked this book or you hated this book. We took a stance that if you liked the book, we're sledding to be a home for discourse about that," Bright aforesaid. "We know that it was a disgruntled fan of the series wHO hacked our system. It took lieu as a direct result of the Lexicon's championship of Stephenie Meyer and her work."
By Bright's have admission, the Lexicon web log is non particularly welcoming of those readers world Health Organization hated the book, peculiarly when that hate spills over from appropriated review sections and message boards into other areas of the site. In recent weeks, moderators have removed many of these peculiarly hateful comments, in issue limiting the free exchange of ideas and thoughts on the blog.
That's their right, Bright insisted, claiming the Lexicon is non the position for factious contrarianism.
"If you were bill on every thread on our forums, 'Stephenie Meyer is a terrible writer. Everything about it is horrible,' then we just aren't the place for you," Bright aforesaid. "As her official fan site, this needs to be a positive situation where we can gather together and discuss what we wish and experience positive conversation. Hate junk e-mail makes it very difficult for someone to enjoy the site."
It was this aggressive moderation that the hackers victimized as their war weep, ironically stating that they were championing free
