Cori Lannam (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
corilannam) wrote2006-08-14 10:19 am
corilannam) wrote2006-08-14 10:19 am
A hypothetical question for you all....
Just 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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You can't order people to give feedback, either. If you tell everybody to SHUT UP UNLESS YOU WANT TO SAY SOMETHING NICE ABOUT SUZY Q's STORY, what you will get... is people shutting up. When a story doesn't deserve praise and a reader is too kind to express an unwanted criticism (it seems even concrit is now called "flaming," in many circles) you get a great staring silence, which is a kind of feedback in itself.
CREATIVITY CAN'T BE REGIMENTED. WTF is wrong with more than one post? When ideas spark, you get the hell out of the way.
I don't know what community you're talking about, and I'm glad.
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There's a fine line between requesting that people observe basic courtesy and politeness with each other and stifling all conversation because people are too afraid of giving offense to actually post anything.