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.

Comments

[crystalllized]

I like lots of posts and I like tags. I feel as though stuff will get lost in a daily post, and conversations will continue on in those daily posts for days and days and eventually lead to expanding, which sucks. Making a new post when you have something interesting to say or discuss I think works pretty well, and it allows us to then tag it for the appropriate person, something that even posts like Sunday's are woefully lacking. If we start getting too many posts I guess we can revisit it, but it doesn't seem to be that way for now - not that I can really think of a point of 'too many posts', coming from Bandom and Doctor Who livejournal communities that often have new posts every hour or so at the slowest :P

Tags - use them lots! The meta tag, for instance, belongs on the rules post, the list posts, etc, and the fanfiction tag certainly belongs on the fanfiction list. As for individual people tags, I think a tag for each person is fine. But meta-type tags are always incredibly useful to have a lot of - fic, video, art (someone get Six in here if she isn't one of you guys :P), etc.

Edit: Yeah, I'm on AO3. Find me there as amethyst__angel currently. I knew I should have stuck with that name when I signed up for Dreamwidth; this is the first fic/shipping community I've gotten involved with in ages using my other name. Silly me.

[placeblocks]

I have no problem with expanding posts, or searching through a community post like the Sunday one, but if there is opposition to that, I'm fine, too. I think perhaps a combination of both would be a good idea. Having a once-a-week discussion post could be really nice, but there should be nothing against making a new post about other observations as well. There are only five of us, so I don't forsee it becoming too cluttered any time soon. I just know that for myself personally, I'm more on the kurtjmac spectrum of not wanting to bother people, so I'd be more likely to put a comment to a discussion post vs. making a whole new post if all I want to say is some small observation (i.e. "This quote from this episode is shippy, heee~!" vs. "Here is a long thought-out meta post about the Death Games" or something, which I would feel more comfortable posting about separately.)

[guiltyshirts]

I pretty much concur with this. I'm fine either way. :)

[mindcrack_love]

I've made a decision; I'll announce it with the next set of Mashed Potatoes.

But meanwhile, since you've written fic for us: do you have an AO3 account?

[guiltyshirts]

I technically do, but I only made it to archive a small clutch of fics from various authors I used to have on a Geocities site. So not anything I can use for this. I don't mind if someone else wants to add my stuff to AO3 though.

[mindcrack_love]

You could make a new pseud for it, or post it then orphan it? Or I guess I could make a "From the archives of Mindcrack Love" type pseud and post on your behalf, but that feels a bit awkward to me.

[guiltyshirts]

Fair enough, I'm up for making a new pseud for it. Let me know what to use for catagories/tags/things. :)

[damnreddit]

I don't have an account at AO3 and know nothing about Yuletide, so all of that is baffling to me.

[mindcrack_love]

Looking at the AO3 for the first time since Yuletide, and here's what I think would be best:

Fandom: Mindcrack (hey, if Yogscast can be their own thing, why not, right?) categorized under "Other Media" [EDIT: and you can also include Fandom: Minecraft, which is under "Video Games"], full Youtube usernames for every Mindcracker involved, and then the rest is up to you.

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.