Percyness quality guidelines.
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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 07:34 pm (UTC)Like... Following categories are banned/by invitation only/more heavily moderated:
- Free-form poetry
- Script stories
- Characters do talkshow
- Original main character (or well, side interest)
- other things where quality is often questionable
And I definitely think that decently spelled and coherent is at least what we need. Otherwise, why even bother reading the stories, you can just auto-ok all kinds of crap