Cordelia ,'Lessons'
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
My reflex is that the recommended fanfiction should point to rec pages or to archives. I mean, ask Dana and Shrift -- recs are a job in and of themselves.
For now, I'm leaving the articles. I've combined the music, and I'm wondering if anyone has the scoop on the transcript site -- it's down now. Is it expected to stay that way?
I think Joerg said he was having technical difficulties but that it should be back up.
It was up last night.
My reflex is that the recommended fanfiction should point to rec pages or to archives.
Wrod.
Y'know, I could maintain a (edit: separate) recs page if we wanted to have one.
So long as it's just grunt work and no actual thinking is involved.
I do like that idea. A whole-Buffista recs site, that we could update ourselves by sending emails to PMM, hmm? I know that I've got a few pages of recs written out and stored on my hard drive-- I'm not sure what I wanted to do with them, but they're there.
I think we'd want to have a "recc'd by Rebecca Lizard", "recced by PMM" , recced by Susan W. sort of thing, because, while we all usually like well-written fanfic, we like divergent fanfic. Or, I guess it could be recced by couple. (says the person who reads only buffista produced fanfic, or Buffy/Spike)
I think we'd want to have a "recc'd by Rebecca Lizard", "recced by PMM" , recced by Susan W. sort of thing, because, while we all usually like well-written fanfic, we like divergent fanfic.
Oh yes. I was thinking in terms of also having written a tiny blurb about the piece-- you know, also mentioning the time/place it was set, the pairings unless it's considered a spoiler for the piece, any reservations you may have ("This is one of the best Spike-with-a-soul pieces I've seen in ages-- but the Willow voice almost made me close the window"). That sort of thing.
I do like the idea of a "recommended by (Buffista)" blurb along with a little bit about why the recommender recommended that piece. I would find that a lot more useful than just a link that leads off into the unknown.
Our current links page does do that -- it says who added the link, and there is a blurb. I mean, I guess if people want to do an extensive fanfiction recs page, that could go somewhere different...I dunno.
I just don't want to put the recs on the links page, since it could quickly overwhelm the page (see BBaBB).