ci5hq | Prosfic Spoilers - up for discussion again

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*

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Good idea!
And I volunteer to be the mod. ;-)

Pro - I'd love to be able to check for more info about stories, not just because I want to avoid my own personal turn-offs but because I'd like to be able to actively search for turn-ons. Although whether or not that would be possible in practice would depend on how much "spoiler" info there was, of course. Would the new comm be searchable by category-of-warning/spoiler? (by clicking on tags, I suppose?) Do you think it would tend towards the rec/review, as well as main warnings? (just wondering what you think might happen; obviously that would depend on the individual contributor). Personally I suspect I'd probably just have a quick glance at the end to make sure they're both still alive .... *bg*

Con - adds a little extra bother to the act of posting a story (you have to post the story and the spoilers/warnings separately, and then create a link between the two?) and - for those who want to - to the act of checking up on a story before reading it (though not much, in this case - it would just be a click away, iiuc? Or would you click through to the new comm and then have to search for the specific fic within it, which would be a bit further to go)

agh, re-posted because I keep screwing up!

Sorry, I can't participate properly at the moment - I'm at work...
And I think I have to play a bit with the possibilities/limitations of a comm at LJ before I can say anything about it... :-o

Sounds like a great idea. I think it would be fun to write warnings/spoilers for many fics, like mini-recs.

It could be part of the routine for the Reading Room that a post goes on to that comm about a fic when it is first mentioned.

It's really taken off, hasn't it? It's great to know that the idea might actually work, and that it's getting so much support :)

byslantedlight, thank you so much for making the post, and for turning the idea into something tangible :)

I agree with you that prosficspoilers shouldn't be for reviews, it should only be for spoilers ... letting people know about any warnings there might be, but without giving the story and/or details away. In-depth reviews and discussions should stay at CI5hq.

I like the idea, though I think you'd probably have to get it up and running to see if it works, if that makes sense *g*

As long as it was easy and simple to use for both readers and writers, I can only see it doing good - it would take the worry away from authors that they're going to under-warn or over-spoil, and readers wouldn't have to risk being spoiled inadvertently. Sounds like all round win *g*

I'm willing to give it a try and see how it works. I hate to see more "dilution" taking place in Pros fandom on lj. (I even wish that ci5hq could be disbanded and everyone go back to posting at The Safehouse now that the distinct need for ci5hq no longer exists, but that's for another discussion.) If the posts to the Pros spoiler comm were kept to bare bones (story info/warnings only) it might be the way to go. It could be made clear in the comm header the type of info allowed in the posts and the mod could monitor to make sure people comply.

Over at my LJ I've made an example for a post in Prosficspoilers:

http://firlefanzine.livejournal.com/11339.html

How about that? :-)

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