COMMUNITY VOTE - Reposting Prompts

[ddk_mod]

How do you feel about prompts being reposted? Should it be banned entirely, or only allowed after a certain number of rounds have passed, or something else? Similar prompts will always be allowed, because it would be ridiculous to try to ban those, but prompts that are copied word for word from previous rounds are up for debate.

We do have most of the prompts from post #1 and about half of post #2 up on the Delicious account, so old prompts don't just disappear into the ether.

Mod will have the final say, but I'm all about the path of least resistance.


ETA: Okay! So, tentative new rules:

We'll have a week long prompt freeze/fill fest once prompt post #3 is finished. If that goes well, we'll have one at the end of every round.

Reposting prompts will only be allowed after one round has passed - i.e., prompts from post #2 won't be allowed to be reposted until post #4, and can only be reposted once per post. You must provide a link to where it's been previously posted (mainly because it makes it a lot easier for us managing the delicious account, but also because previous discussion on a prompt can be very inspiring).

If a prompt has been filled, you can't repost it. Prompt something else.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

first anon and i totally agree with the 'promising prompts getting lost' even with a young kink meme like this it's possible, and id like a chance for old prompts (my own included lol) to see the light again in the future.

I forgot about the 'golden oldies' concept! I think that was the merlin kink meme?
A couple of kink memes (particularly the ones that have high traffic) have 'fill fests' where they close down prompting for a period of time and the community focuses on filling old prompts.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah it was the Merlin kink meme haha I think it's quite a fun concept, and fill fests are a good idea as well

[(Anonymous)]

Closing down and just filling for a while was really helpful in a few communities and did wonders. :D Also helps you to keep up.

As for the whole reprompting thing... It would a) be super cool if there was a request (not really rule) up by the rules to at least take a cursory look at previous posts to see if this has been prompted already and b) to let at least a round or two pass before allowing reprompts. I don't mind THAT they happen, that's totes cool, but the frequency is super annoying.