I'm not forgetting that at all. You're not the only one who posted in that thread, thus you're not the only one her post was directed at. QED.
Better find a way to save it, huh? Wow, that sounds threatening. The day I truly see something wrong with the community, I might heed your advice.
Look, my goal was never to make 100bullets the Magic Happy Fun Land of Only Fabulous Drabbles. Hell, I didn't even think about it for more than 30 seconds--Cadence, enabler that she is, said "Hey, why don't you make this?" and I said "Okay!"
All I want the comm to be is a place for people to post drabbles. Hopefully good ones, but you know, I'm not going to kick people out because I don't like their drabbles. Of course some are better than others. Duh. That's because this is the real world, not something out of Kurt Vonnegut's fucked-up imagination. I'm not worried about 100bullets becoming ffnet. Jesus, there's no way people could even fit the kind of crap they post their into 100 words, and if they tried, well, I imagine I'm a more active mod than Xing & co.
What would you have me DO, Shadsie? Seriously? Say I give you the benefit of the doubt and decide to work on ways to improve the comm. What do I do? Ban certain themes? As Char's challenge just proved, the theme has very little to do with the quality of the drabble. Should I then institute a "3 drabbles, you're out" program in which people can post three sub-par drabbles and then they're gone? Do I form a review board? Do I try and recruit good authors and boot out the bad ones? What would make you happy, Shadsie? The one thing I'll never do is say people must avoid certain themes and pairings because I think they lead to bad fic. That's bullshit and stifles creativity.
100bullets isn't trying to be a beacon of goodfic in the darkness. All it is is an outlet for people to post tiny spurts of inspiration. Whether they're good or not depends entirely on what people do with the outlet, and I'm pretty damn sure that it will be a lot better without people constantly bitching at each other.
And yet... I keep posting there. Even while it sucks, I keep trying and holding out for more, hoping that one day, it will surprise me and my years of optimism will pay off.
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Date: 2004-10-09 07:52 pm (UTC)Better find a way to save it, huh? Wow, that sounds threatening. The day I truly see something wrong with the community, I might heed your advice.
Look, my goal was never to make 100bullets the Magic Happy Fun Land of Only Fabulous Drabbles. Hell, I didn't even think about it for more than 30 seconds--Cadence, enabler that she is, said "Hey, why don't you make this?" and I said "Okay!"
All I want the comm to be is a place for people to post drabbles. Hopefully good ones, but you know, I'm not going to kick people out because I don't like their drabbles. Of course some are better than others. Duh. That's because this is the real world, not something out of Kurt Vonnegut's fucked-up imagination. I'm not worried about 100bullets becoming ffnet. Jesus, there's no way people could even fit the kind of crap they post their into 100 words, and if they tried, well, I imagine I'm a more active mod than Xing & co.
What would you have me DO, Shadsie? Seriously? Say I give you the benefit of the doubt and decide to work on ways to improve the comm. What do I do? Ban certain themes? As Char's challenge just proved, the theme has very little to do with the quality of the drabble. Should I then institute a "3 drabbles, you're out" program in which people can post three sub-par drabbles and then they're gone? Do I form a review board? Do I try and recruit good authors and boot out the bad ones? What would make you happy, Shadsie? The one thing I'll never do is say people must avoid certain themes and pairings because I think they lead to bad fic. That's bullshit and stifles creativity.
100bullets isn't trying to be a beacon of goodfic in the darkness. All it is is an outlet for people to post tiny spurts of inspiration. Whether they're good or not depends entirely on what people do with the outlet, and I'm pretty damn sure that it will be a lot better without people constantly bitching at each other.
from far into the future, Shaka retroactively comments here
Date: 2004-10-10 05:22 pm (UTC)The drop in quality that has broken, is breaking, or will in the future break the heart of every true fanfiction writer on the internet!
Wow. You should be *honored* by that comparison. I mean, that's a lot of angst right there.
Re: from far into the future, Shaka retroactively comments here
Date: 2004-10-10 06:28 pm (UTC)Re: from far into the future, Shaka retroactively comments here
Date: 2004-10-10 06:39 pm (UTC)Re: from far into the future, Shaka retroactively comments here
Date: 2004-10-10 07:04 pm (UTC)Re: from far into the future, Shaka retroactively comments here
Date: 2004-10-10 07:14 pm (UTC)And yet... I keep posting there. Even while it sucks, I keep trying and holding out for more, hoping that one day, it will surprise me and my years of optimism will pay off.
Re: from far into the future, Shaka retroactively comments here
Date: 2004-10-11 05:27 am (UTC)Re: from far into the future, Shaka retroactively comments here
Date: 2004-10-11 08:01 am (UTC)Re: from far into the future, Shaka retroactively comments here
Date: 2004-10-11 08:06 am (UTC)Re: from far into the future, Shaka retroactively comments here
Date: 2004-10-11 08:28 am (UTC)Of course, the trade-off was the amount of batshit crazy fans. Ah, XF, your time came too soon; you truly would have been the emperor of fandom wank.