Quick meta post

[mindcrack_love]

First, tell me which would you rather have:

* Post directly to the community every time you have a relevant observation/prompt, however small. This means a lot of "spam"/clutter - probably many posts a day, all of which will be very short - but everything will be taggable, and generally there won't be issues with expanding comments and such.

* A post once every week for prompts and observations, which centralizes discussion and means less community spam, but is harder to categorize and expanding comments is pretty much unavoidable

* A post once every day (or every other day) for prompts and observations, which is a compromise between the two

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Secondly, if you have written fanfiction in Mindcrack, please let me know if you own an account to the Archive of our Own. I'd like a concerted effort to get fanfic on there and begin preparation for organized participation in yuletide 2012.

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Thirdly, as the need arises, I will be making "mindcracker: x" tags for each member of the server, as well as "fanserver: y" and "other: z" tags. Do we need more tags than those? I'd prefer not to have pairing tags, instead letting people just search for multiple tags in combination.

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This is probably very poorly worded, but I don't care. Also, snarky yellow text is snarky and yellow

[mindcrack_love]

Yuletide is a very, very large fanfiction gift exchange run every November/December that is about "small fandoms", for some definition of "small". In an ideal world, it'd pair up the two people in the world who want, say, Math Girls fanfic together, for just that one month, to write all the Tetra/narrator/Miruka the world deserves. This moderator is clearly crazy. In reality, I'll probably get paired on Good Eats fanfic again. (Which is still rare, don't get me wrong, but still.)

It's run on the Archive of our Own aka AO3, which is a non-profit fanfic site. It's sort of reactionary to Livejournal acting terrible to fandom at times and fanfiction.net refusing RPF. It's not a perfect site, but it tries its hardest to be accomodating. The thing is, trying to be all things to all fandoms is a nightmare in terms of organizing said fandoms, and doubly so for Yuletide (which is when the AO3 gets way, waaaaaaaaay more traffic than usual). If we can get ahead of the curve and get our tags wrangled and in place before Yuletide, then things will be less of a headache later if any of us decide to ask for Mindcrack in the exchange itself.

The big reason we want to get into Yuletide, even if we don't get to write fics for each other, is because the exchange itself attracts a lot of attention from fanfic writers from all around. If even one of them is a Mindcrack fan but never discovered us and/or the subreddit, then that's a major victory, you know? And others like browsing through the nominated/prompted Yuletide fandoms to discover new things - which again, might mean more Mindcrack fans, never a bad thing.