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winterlive) wrote2008-01-24 01:13 pm
winterlive) wrote2008-01-24 01:13 pm
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[ there's no home for you here ]
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*
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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. :)
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. :)
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it's like dancing. or singing. do it in the shower if you want, do it when nobody's watching. it's healthy, it's good for you, it's the most human of expressions.
some people are blessed to be better at it than other people, but that doesn't make people bad if they don't have the talent. and it sure as shit doesn't make somebody an elitist pig if they want to form a choir.
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Yes yes, I was thinking a lot about it last night, and I'm just like, well, art is "judged" every single day. It doesn't matter what you're calling art - dancing, visual art, singing, fiction (which is so art omg, so it goes here <333), movies, etc. - there is always a group of people (or separate groups of people) who, well, judge it, for one reason or another. And most of these places are respected for their ability to pick the talent, rather than being slapped with an elitist label. (Same thing with sports - some people do it for fun, some people do it to win. Sometimes those attitudes overlap, sometimes they don't, you know? Regardless, yeah, it comes down to the same thing.)