Saying my piece and leaving it at that.

As many of you probably already know, Selene and I had the unhappy task of disqualifying a fic at good__evil yesterday. I said in my post on there that I would not be entering into a debate about it and I am not, however as I had suspected they would be, accusations that this is a 'personal issue' are being touted around.

The truth of the matter is that if it had been one of the other authors that I had suspected was cheating I would actually have acted sooner.... I wouldn't have waited for an official complaint. The 'Personal issues' and 'history' I have with the authors in question is what stayed my hand, as I KNEW that if I said anything it would be blamed on said issues.

Ultimately, people will believe what they want to believe, and that is fine.... I'm not asking anyone to choose sides and while I am leaving the comments section open I would like to reiterate that I do NOT want to turn this into either a debate or a public lynching. As far as I am concerned the matter is over and done. I have been in communication with one of the authors, there are no hard feeling of any sort from either of us, and she assures me that she understands why I had to act on the information available to me. Quite honestly I am sick of the ongoing kerfuffles, so if you do comment here, that is fine but I won't be responding or continuing the 'drama'.