I don't hate the idea, but how would you choose the panel? I mean, if you were one of them, it'd probably consist of you and two people on your f-list who you believe has good taste, or maybe someone not on your f-list but someone who's writing you admire. Which, you know, means it'd be limited to people who you know.
Also, if you're asking people to submit, I doubt there would be a lot of submissions, because there is the fear of getting rejected, people who have issues with someone on the panel won't want to submit because they'll figure that they'll be rejected or won't be properly considered, and you'd have to have some kind of actual guideline in place for what won't make it.
For instance, are you going to exclude a certain type of fic regardless of it's other merits: rapefic, John/Sam or John/Dean, REALLY underage Sam/Dean.
If there are grammatical errors but the fic is good, will writers be given the opportunity to clean it up and then resubmit? If so, how many are too many? Will everyone who gets rejected just get a "no" or will they get feedback as to why, and who will be doing the feedback?
Honestly, because the problem of the panel and who's on it, and the possible limitation due to similar taste, I'm not sure how much, in terms of numbers, good fic would even be on it. And, if you ask people for submissions, it makes the people on the panel responsible for reading all the fic put out there, doesn't it? I don't see how you would be able to create something large enough and comprehensive enough to be useful without covering massive quantities of produced fic.
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Date: 2008-01-24 11:32 pm (UTC)Also, if you're asking people to submit, I doubt there would be a lot of submissions, because there is the fear of getting rejected, people who have issues with someone on the panel won't want to submit because they'll figure that they'll be rejected or won't be properly considered, and you'd have to have some kind of actual guideline in place for what won't make it.
For instance, are you going to exclude a certain type of fic regardless of it's other merits: rapefic, John/Sam or John/Dean, REALLY underage Sam/Dean.
If there are grammatical errors but the fic is good, will writers be given the opportunity to clean it up and then resubmit? If so, how many are too many? Will everyone who gets rejected just get a "no" or will they get feedback as to why, and who will be doing the feedback?
Honestly, because the problem of the panel and who's on it, and the possible limitation due to similar taste, I'm not sure how much, in terms of numbers, good fic would even be on it. And, if you ask people for submissions, it makes the people on the panel responsible for reading all the fic put out there, doesn't it? I don't see how you would be able to create something large enough and comprehensive enough to be useful without covering massive quantities of produced fic.