daredevilkink | Discussion/Off-Topic Post #1

You know what might be a better idea, based on the other comment on this about how people who abandoned fics wouldn't be around to see that there's a challenge...

What about something like a "Continue an abandoned fill" type of challenge? Where people are encouraged to review abandoned fills and see if there's any they would like to reach out to the author about or attempt to pick and up and continue?

I've been the one running the couple of challenges, so it might be something maybe better suited for the New Year, once the Secret Santa challenge is done... but we could always open up a post on the Challenges post here and call it Abandoned Fills and just start having people post the ones they'd like to see continued, just to remind people they exist and there are people who loved them?

dif anon;

If something like this is implemented we'd need to have a set of guidelines or something for how to continue the fill and how best to reach out to the anon authors.

Because I know i have a couple of fills which I've left for a bit and probably look like they've been abandoned, but I wouldn't want them part of the challenge because I want to continue them.

Maybe some sort of post where people can list the prompts/fills they want opted out of the challenge, so then no one can touch them?

There's actually a question about this over on the Mod post:

http://daredevilkink.dreamwidth.org/386.html?thread=10100610#cmt10100610

1. Ask the author if it's okay for you to continue their story. Wait a week before doing anything else. Check to see if they've replied. If they say yes, great! Continue to step two. If they say no, do not continue to step two. If they don't reply (which is the most likely option, if it is really abandoned), continue to step two.

2. Make a new prompt, (briefly) encompassing the original prompt and the story so far. You can link to the prompt/fill to make it 100% clear what your inspiration is. Post your continuation of the fill in response to this prompt, so it's as clear as possible that you are not the same author.

NA

so, if I'm afk for a couple of weeks, I might come back and find someone has started a continuation of my story? I'm... not sure how I feel about that, but it isn't great.

Maybe we set a limit of abandoned for a month or more on fics people can re-post or prompt for a continuation of there, and make it a requirement as outlined elsewhere that you must make a good faith attempt to contact the author before you continue it?

SA - Or even a limit of three months?

Yeah, that would suck. Could a buffer maybe help here? Prompts from the latest prompt post can't be considered abandoned until that post is closed and has gone through a freeze OR, in the case of fills that started in a freeze, it's been over a month since there's been any kind of update from the author. (a brief, 'hey this is still on my radar', would count, wouldn't have to be a story update.)

SA

though honestly, i'm much more in favor of figuring out a way to encourage the original authors to continue again. i don't want to do something that will leave a bad taste in people's mouths, for whatever reason.

Let's be real: there are fills on here that haven't been updated since June that are never going to be finished.

Yeah, a week is really short.

Option 2 is personally cool with me though. I don't know about making it an official fest but if there's any fill people are really really really desperate to read more of, that seems the best option, because you're using the WIP as an inspiration and not explicitly taking over the fill.

HISSSS.

Oh my god, same. There's one thing I've been working on filling for several months now. I have the first bit up on the kinkmeme but it never got any attention so I've been toiling away at the rest of it without posting. And to come back and find that someone else has continued off of my chapter one would make me fucking livid. It's great to have a heads up that now instead of periodically checking up on things I want to get filled I also have to check up on things I am filling from keeping someone else from putting words in my mouth.

This is totally different from multiple fills just happening and it doesn't seem like a good idea.

What is I see the question in two and a half weeks and I say, 'no' and the person is already done updating my story? Or what if I see it in that time and it's already posted? This just seems like a terrible idea and now I'm paranoid there are things which I think are done but which someone else doesn't and will write a prologue for.

IDK I just really reject this idea.

OP

Yeah, that's why I originally prompted a Fill Fest that would encourage the original authors to take a look at their old fills and maybe provide some support/cheerleading for getting them done.

Could even be a competition, actually. Who can finish the most WIPs, ready set go. XD

You should really tell this to the mod, anon. There was no push-back from anyone when it was first okay'd by the mod.

Which fic, nonny? :>

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