Percyness quality guidelines.

[icarus]

Over 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?

[Poll #695887]

Comments

[cheshyre]

Honestly, that's one of the reasons why my Percy/Malfoy link list has been languishing*, because I've got to figure out some more reasonable standard for inclusion, given the true dreck in FFN.

Another option is what painless_j does with some of her lists; she includes everything, but uses marks to indicate the better ones.


*in addition to sheer laziness and lack of time on my part...

[painless-j.livejournal.com]

Hey, I don't include everything :) I reject the *uber*-incoherent fics and fics with *terribly* bad spelling :)