Prosfic Spoilers - up for discussion again - with a shiny new idea...

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

ladymeander contacted me last night with what I think's a fabulous idea to help solve the issue of those-who-want-spoilers vs those-who-don't-want-spoilers, and I said I'd post about it today and see what other people thought. So...

What about setting up a Pros comm dedicated to spoilers for Prosfic? Prosficspoilers could be a place where anyone could go and find the spoiler information they needed. People who don't want spoiler information simply wouldn't go there! It could be used from CI5hq or any other comm, and even by people reading stories on the Circuit Archive, Hatstand, ProsLib or anywhere else that they worried didn't give them enough spoiler information.

People/contributors would simply post their spoiler information at the comm however they want to, and then tag the entry with the title of the story. The tags list would then show a long list of stories with spoiler information and simply clicking the title would bring that information up.

It would keep headers/trailers at all the Pros comms who wanted to use them nice and simple (no worrying about how to do coding of any kind):

Title:
Author:
Pairing: (the one piece of extra information that all but 2/c100 people polled said they wanted - and those 2 people didn't even care what fandom they were reading in *g*)
Story Information: Prosficspoilers [comm link]

And it could be used for new fic as well as reviews/recs, and also for stories where the authors/reccers don't believe in spoilers. For example, I'll never include spoiler information of any kind with one of my stories, but people who wanted that information could post it themselves over at Prosficspoilers and it could be found there.

What do you reckon? I can't believe no one's thought of it before! If people like the idea, then I could set up the comm with the appropriate settings, and then hand it over to anyone who volunteers to be a mod, and it'd be away - no muss, no fuss... *g*

Comments

[firlefanzine.livejournal.com]

'slightly-grumpy'... I'd say that was more than rude!

Any solutions around for the comm?

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Yes, and I would say that your behaviour was more than rude, so I don't think there's much point you and I talking about that. I'm still doing my best to find a compromise that will please you, and I expect that you will have the manners to do something similar with the side of the issue that I represent.

Now - what do you mean about "solutions for the comm"? Solutions to what?

[kiwisue.livejournal.com]

Any solutions around for the comm?

I'm guessing you're reiterating your comment from up the page that you wanted more opinions? I think that the overwhelming majority are for it, even allowing for people wondering if this or that might happen... in which case I'm with snailbones' "get it up and running to see if it works"... and a little nostalgia for the "good old days" of just the safehouse :)

Really, just get the boat in the water & let the shakedown cruise commence!

[firlefanzine.livejournal.com]

"I'm guessing you're reiterating your comment from up the page that you wanted more opinions?"
I just started to catch up with the answers because I came home late and after that I was busy a bit. Unfortunately I started at the bottom...
So I didn't wanted more options, more a summary. :-)

About your 'get the boat in the water...' - I've posted an example over at my LJ.
Please tell me what you think about it!