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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

[thexpuzzler.livejournal.com]

Replying to your last comment to the last comment before mine: brave enough probably quite a few people, including me. Some people just can't be itched by wank :P
The question is, who is brave enough, has got the time AND thinks of themselves as having good taste?

I mean, potentially, I would fit all three categories (I'm dead picky about my reading material, considering the irony that my own writing probably wouldn't be considered brill). The experience I have made, unfortunately (in other fandoms mostly) is that unless you have someone who's a 'BNF' or something at least vaguely close to it (I don't like the title, mind you) 'directing' the comm, most people won't bother checking it out. And having such a comm without having any people reading it would really be a waste of time.

[winterlive.livejournal.com]

first, i think that if so-called BNFs are being published on the site, that's enough to get people reading, especially if they make a point of saying that that's where they post. most people i know don't crosspost to comms at ALL, because they don't want to be affiliated with some of the crap that gets posted there.

second, i waffle between having a sock puppet lj account for the mods and just having mods listed outright. the anonymity would be nice for the moderators, but on the other hand i think i'd respect the venture more if the people doing this stuff had the stones to put their names to it. *weigh scale hands*