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 06:02 pm (UTC)2) Soooo much crack, they'll probably need rehab soon. ;)
3 stories per day isn't that much. And if the community is multi-pairing, it means (possibly) having the reader wait for days until their preferred showing shows up. And if you're a writer, who wants to wait days before you can post your story?
I'm an avid fanfic reader. I don't like to wait for my stories. And such a "suggestion" wouldn't change the fact that of 100 readers, maybe 10 will comment: so their moment in the sun thing might not work.
*adds her 0.02$CAN*
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Date: 2006-08-15 03:38 pm (UTC)And I definitely think that the same people will comment or not that were going to do it anyway. So what's the point in making us wait to do so?