A hypothetical question for you all....
Aug. 14th, 2006 10:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
corilannamJust because I'm really curious as to what kind of reaction this would get in various parts of greater fandom....
A quick poll -- Let's say....
You belong to a hypothetical LJ fan fiction community of approximately 200 people, which if left to its own devices would get between 1-3 posts a day including stories and chapters of WIPs. There are several different pairings represented (this may or may not be relevant, depending on your opinion on how fan fiction should be read).
The moderator implements a courtesy "suggestion" which requires that only one story or part of a story can be posted on the community each day. If one author posts something, everyone else has to wait for the next day in order to give the first author her "moment in the sun" and to keep readers from being overwhelmed by too many stories. This limit is not enforced except through peer pressure and occasional pointed reminders from the moderator.
My questions, based on your previous individual experiences with fan fiction communities:
1) Have you seen this kind of thing in fiction communities before?
2) Are these people on crack, or is this a reasonable and considerate means of increasing feedback, promoting community, and helping the readers?
I'd make this into a proper LJ poll, but my account ran out while I was off being a hermit last month. Oops. But if this goes well, I'll try a proper poll on OTP reading tomorrow. Whee!
A quick poll -- Let's say....
You belong to a hypothetical LJ fan fiction community of approximately 200 people, which if left to its own devices would get between 1-3 posts a day including stories and chapters of WIPs. There are several different pairings represented (this may or may not be relevant, depending on your opinion on how fan fiction should be read).
The moderator implements a courtesy "suggestion" which requires that only one story or part of a story can be posted on the community each day. If one author posts something, everyone else has to wait for the next day in order to give the first author her "moment in the sun" and to keep readers from being overwhelmed by too many stories. This limit is not enforced except through peer pressure and occasional pointed reminders from the moderator.
My questions, based on your previous individual experiences with fan fiction communities:
1) Have you seen this kind of thing in fiction communities before?
2) Are these people on crack, or is this a reasonable and considerate means of increasing feedback, promoting community, and helping the readers?
I'd make this into a proper LJ poll, but my account ran out while I was off being a hermit last month. Oops. But if this goes well, I'll try a proper poll on OTP reading tomorrow. Whee!
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Date: 2006-08-14 02:39 pm (UTC)(2) On crack. (a) Practically speaking, it's just ridiculous--it gives priority to whoever happens to be online whenever the moderator decides the "day" starts. (b) If someone decides to post a story one chapter a day, if their timing is good, it means that everyone else in the community has to wait until that story is finished before they can post at all, which is completely unfair to the other authors.
Now, I can see the point of limiting each writer to one story post per day, but the whole community? Insane.
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Date: 2006-08-15 02:36 pm (UTC)It's all just very silly.