Percyness quality guidelines.
Mar. 22nd, 2006 08:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icarusOver the last several months I've received stories at Percyness: The Percy Weasley Archive that were of questionable quality.
Many of them were completely unbeta'd and written with the care you'd put into sketching a fic on the back of a cocktail napkin. Some had formatting so strange the story was unreadable. I'm not speaking to the person who uploaded their story as a solid block of text.
I've struggled with some truly bad poetry. Other stories were borderline. They seemed to be beta'd, but consisted of minimalist verbal tags floating in a sea of nothing, or epithets overused to a point that it seemed dozens of people occupied the bed and not just two. There were excellent characterisations of Percy with all other characters as cardboard cut-outs dancing around him.
It has stretched my original policy of "accept everything if it's at least beta'd" to the breaking point.
I didn't want to be the arbiter of taste. But neither do I want to host an archive of stories no one would want to read. Where does one draw the line?
What do you think? What do you want in an archive?
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Many of them were completely unbeta'd and written with the care you'd put into sketching a fic on the back of a cocktail napkin. Some had formatting so strange the story was unreadable. I'm not speaking to the person who uploaded their story as a solid block of text.
I've struggled with some truly bad poetry. Other stories were borderline. They seemed to be beta'd, but consisted of minimalist verbal tags floating in a sea of nothing, or epithets overused to a point that it seemed dozens of people occupied the bed and not just two. There were excellent characterisations of Percy with all other characters as cardboard cut-outs dancing around him.
It has stretched my original policy of "accept everything if it's at least beta'd" to the breaking point.
I didn't want to be the arbiter of taste. But neither do I want to host an archive of stories no one would want to read. Where does one draw the line?
What do you think? What do you want in an archive?
[Poll #695887]
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Date: 2006-03-22 06:42 pm (UTC)Yes, I want an archive in which the stories have been beta'd and the formatting is decent and all, but I believe in a sort of a hands off policy.
Hmm...what if people had to be brought into the archive, sort of like skyehawke or the archive at the end of the universe? That way you'd at least have some sense that someone you trust had vetted them already.
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Date: 2006-03-22 07:05 pm (UTC)You begin to have dangerously sarcastic thoughts. "Gee, so to get accepted to this archive I needed to have: a) Hermione/Percy, and b) a scene where he gets on bended knee and begs her hand in marriage. And here I wasted all my time on an actual plot."
Hmm...what if people had to be brought into the archive, sort of like skyehawke or the archive at the end of the universe?
You can't really do that for a pairing archive. A lot of writers will only have one story that features Percy in their vast collection of Draco fics. :D
I hate rejecting stories. I shut my eyes, feel a moment of pain, and then click the button with the air of someone giving the signal to a firing squad.
Icarus