Misc announcements

[bridgetmkennitt]

I started my grad program yesterday, so please give me some time to answer emails and comments. I gave a quick lookthrough of fics and didn't find obvious placeholders. Yay! There were a few formatting/no space issues in a few fics I found, and plenty who were tagless (tags aren't mandatory, but highly recommended), but there's still time for that.

If you have a draft in the collection, please post it. Drafts can't be read by anyone but you and they do not count as fulfilling your assignment.

Treats over 1k can be placed in the Not Prime Time 2016 collection while treats under 1k and non-fic works can be placed in the Prime Time Madness 2016 collection.

If you are having some difficulty in coming up with tags for your story, here are some questions that might be helpful.

What kind of story is it? (Fluffy, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Character Study, etc)
Is it an AU? (There are several different type of Alternate Universe canonical tags)
Did you write about a threesome? (Specific types of threesome are canonical tags as well as just the regular Threesome tag)
Did you write porn? (There are plenty of canonical tags for various sexual acts)
What kind of relationship do your characters have with each other? (Friendship, Rivals, Siblings, Developing Relationship, etc)
What do your characters do? (There are plenty of canonical tags for events/situations)

If none of these sound like they could fit your story, there is always the option of refreshing the Random Tags page to see what pops up.

Useful Links
Not Prime Time 2016 (with schedule) | Prime Time Madness 2016
Frequently Asked Questions | AO3 exchange faq for participants | Pinch Hitting faq
2016 tag set
Dear Prime Time Player on LJ | on DW
Requests in a txt file | Requests on AO3
How to upload (and default) (2015 examples)

Comments

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[bridgetmkennitt]

It is the author's choice, thus the reason why it's not mandatory. However, it is highly recommended to give people more information or entice more people to want to click on a fic. Some people don't finish adding their tags until later, or have a difficult time figuring out what to use as tags, which is why I offered some advice.

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[roseveare]

I don't think it's appropriate to position plastering a fic in tags as something recommended or as some kind of default approach to tagging, when there are different approaches to tagging out there. Plenty of us would rather not know everything about a fic from the tags before we read it, or tell readers everything about our own fic.

The issue shouldn't have anything to do with the fic exchange, and bringing it up there uses the role of admin to push your opinion and standard as though it's the norm, and that's not cool.

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[(Anonymous)]

Yo. Chill. No one is making you tag.

And maybe pick an icon that doesn't have 'bitch' plastered all over it. Your aggro overreaction is what's not cool here.

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[roseveare]

I'm not here to be lectured on the right way to do something that's totally subjective, and I'm commenting to offer an alternate opinion than that the only possible thing anyone could want to do is cover the fic in every tag available.

I've the backbone to put my name to my comments, and honestly? Didn't think twice about the icon; it's my default, I rarely bother to select.

EDIT: Might I also point out that I haven't insulted anyone, and I stand by my analysis of how the 'how to tag properly!' content functions, which is all that the above comment is. I'm not even saying that was the deliberate intention of the admin.

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[bridgetmkennitt]

the only possible thing anyone could want to do is cover the fic in every tag available.

I actually never mentioned that whatsoever. If you want my honest non-mod opinion, I actually think over 10 tags is too much on a fic. 5-10 is the sweet spot, maybe, depending on the type of fic. Could be less, could be more. Who knows? But if someone wants to use 20+ tags on a NPT fic, they are perfectly within the right to do so. Tagging isn't mandatory and, on the flip side, the amount people tag isn't regulated by me either.

Anonymous commenting is allowed in the NPT comms. I purposely don't have IP tracking to make people feel comfortable if they want to do so. That has nothing to do with backbones.

I'm going to freeze this thread now.

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[bridgetmkennitt]

Hi! By the way, I have no problems that you're commenting anonymously. That's why I have IP tracking off on the comms.

Thank you for trying to defend me, but it's okay. I don't mind people having differing opinions than me. I also don't care about the icon.

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[bridgetmkennitt]

I'm of the opinion that knowledge is good, and people can take it or leave it since this isn't mandatory. It's up to the person, just as long as they know. I mention these things, along with forward dating like I will in a couple of days, because I want people to have as many eyeballs on their fics as possible and both tags and forward dating are highly recommended from me because it gives people a higher chance of getting said eyeballs from people who aren't following this exchange, especially since these are medium sized fandoms that may have grown rapidly to mega sized and by the time the collection opens, their fic is pages back on the fandom page. Does anyone have to do these things? No, of course not. But I will mention them, recommend them, and leave it up to the writer whether or not to do anything.

Some people want to tag to entice more people, but don't know how. That's fine and the suggestions above are for them. Some people want to tag, and know how to tag their fic/already tagged their fic. That's fine and they can disregard the suggestions above. Some people don't care about tagging their fic and that's fine too because they can disregard the suggestions above. Whoever found the post useful, used it. Those who didn't, didn't.

I understand that's how you feel, and that's perfectly fine, but as this is my exchange, I will continue bringing up things that might interest people, not because everyone should do it, but because it might help some people and I rather do that (and have other people ignore the thing because it doesn't refer to them), instead of not mentioning it at all.