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[winterlive]

not for the first time, i wonder: why is it impossible to have a community that outright focuses on good fic? anthologies of selected works of fiction are published every damn year; what's so wrong with doing it for fanfic?

what if it were moderated by a small panel of people, maybe three people, whose job it was to allow or disallow what was posted there? it'd be unpopular at first, because some people would scream elitist bitchery and most people would listen to that, so it wouldn't even be all that much work. the moderators would obviously have to be people of brass and class, but i wouldn't even care if they were sockpuppets so long as they had good taste in fic.

how easy would it be to, when somebody new gets into SPN, just point them to the community? you want good fic, there it is, fly and be free.

there's only one thing i would want, and that's the ability of posters to delete or edit their own stuff. i considered yuletide for all of ten seconds before i found out that they won't take your stuff down later, even if you ask them. whoo, unacceptable, at least to lil ol me.

is that so undoable? bah. i'm sure it is. god knows we'd all rather open a vein than offend someone, even if the offense taken is totally unreasonable. *hands*


ETA: since this posting, maygra has decided to formulate a project. the parameters of this project are radically different from my little whine session here, and i assure you that she is taking every opportunity to consider the impact of her structure, process and presentation. her guidelines will be available soon for public review, so please withhold judgement on that project until you see them - things have really changed quite a bit. :)

Comments

[nomelon.livejournal.com]

It would probably cause huge amounts of bickering and wank so the class and brass levels would have to be off the charts! It's a good idea in theory and I'm all for being pointed towards the good fic, but there's no accounting for tastes and isn't what you're suggesting just a rec comm with a much smaller spectrum of input?

[winterlive.livejournal.com]

off the damn charts, no lie.

self-nominating is easy, man, especially when denials aren't public. there's relatively little risk, if the moderators of the comm aren't huge bitches - and of course, as class is one of the requirements, they couldn't be. so the spectrum of input actually ought to be widened, as anybody could put their fic forward for review. in theory, in the ideal, it ought to CUT DOWN on cronyism - people wind up having to read more than just their flists, they give other authors a chance, maybe discover somebody new.

[nomelon.livejournal.com]

and of course, as class is one of the requirements, they couldn't be.

Hee! But of course.

That submission & review system might just work, especially if it's not public. Might be nice for the authors to get a little honest, no holes barred feedback too, even if it's only, yes, you're in, or no, you're not there yet. Though it also might put a lot of people off from submitting anything, either from not thinking it good enough, or going back to that whole "elist bitch" assumption. And you raise a valid point about the mods expanding on their usual reading habits. Hmm. It's a ponderer. *strokes chin thoughtfully*

[winterlive.livejournal.com]

mods AND readers.

and people love to be judged if they think it's confidential. hell, even if they don't - people put their names and fic in for those "tell me what you really think of me" memes all the time.

please, take this as the joke it is intended to be...

[traveller.livejournal.com]

no holes barred feedback too

no holes barred feedback too

no holds barred feedback, too.

-ed.

Re: please, take this as the joke it is intended to be...

[nomelon.livejournal.com]

HA! Freudian typo?

Re: please, take this as the joke it is intended to be...

[traveller.livejournal.com]

hee hee.