A thought to be pondered

[pensnest]

Firstly, thank you buddleia!

Secondly, I understand some people are having trouble sending feedback to D-Day Challenge authors. Sorry about that - obviously my 'websites for dummies' program is not as useful as it ought to be. You are welcome to send your email to me (use the lj address, or my pensnest one if you know it), and I will make sure it is forwarded appropriately.

Thirdly, a thought. How about a popslash discussion community? I don't *think* there is a community at present which provides what I'm pondering, which is, a place to discuss popslash challenges, meta and what-have-you. For instance, a little while ago there were at least three users who talked in our own LJs about the Remix challenge: there were lots of interesting points of view, and it's a topic that I think would bear more discussion. So it seems to me it'd be nice to have a community specifically for that kind of thing.

I'm not really talking about discussing individual stories, although that could possibly be done. More about the ideas behind stories, trends in storytelling, the influence of RL happenings and where they leave us, and so on.

Is there such a community already, which I have forgotten about? If so, is it actually used? If there isn't... would you like one? Or are we better off staying within our personal journals for these discussions?

Comments

[withdiamonds.livejournal.com]

Ah, the troubles with feedback might explain why, when I answered one of the comments I got-from the person who beta'd the story, so I didn't think I was giving anything away-it ended up being forwarded to you instead.

I don't think there's a community like what you're talking about. I think it would be fun, I love to talk about that kind of stuff.

[pensnest]

I can't do anonymous emailing with my program, so I set up the feedback to be delivered to pensnest.co.uk, and then forward it to the appropriate author - so your feedback will have come via me, and I suppose the Reply address on the email ended up being mine.

Ah well. If I do this next year, I'll be using a Proper program for the job.

I'm definitely edging towards creating such a community - I like that kind of discussion, too.

[withdiamonds.livejournal.com]

Well, after I hit "send" I did think to myself, oops. I wonder where that's really going? :)

But hey, no complaints here. A slight glitch in a fabulous challenge. I should have paid better attention to the email address.

[sori1773.livejournal.com]

I've sent a couple of fb emails (routed through your email, I think) and they haven't bounced so...I'm assuming it worked out pretty well. :)

your discussion idea community? I think that'd be interesting -- I love talking about trends in storytelling (and trends that kind of define certain fandoms) and I think popslash has a ton of possible discussion topics out there. very cool idea!

[pensnest]

To both parts of your comment - Good!

[rikes]

I'd love a pop discussion community, because sometimes I feel uncomfortable commenting in non-friends journals.

Creating a new one might be a good idea, because even if a community already existed for that, I wouldn't want to be stepping on the maintainers toes. :)

[pensnest]

It's a shame, too, if there's an interesting discussion going on but it's somewhere you don't find out about! Also, I think that in one's own LJ, the discussion has a strong tendency to be Original Poster having individual conversations with commenters - I'm hoping that in a community, it might feel more comfortable to have between-commenters discussions.

I don't *think* there is a discussion community around - if there is, it's surely moribund because *someone* would have told me about it by now!

[turloughishere.livejournal.com]

I think a pop discussion comm sounds like a great idea!

Sometimes when I read discussions linked from metafandom I get ideas and thoughts about popfic that I would like to talk about, but it's very seldom that those discussions are good places to articulate those thoughts. They often require far too much explanation to be comprehensible to someone in another fandom for one thing. Usually I also have problems articulating some of the tings I'm thinking about and discussing these things with people who already know where one's coming from would be much easier I imagine.

In the posts people make about their own stories the discussion naturally centers on the specifics of that story and talking about more abstract or general stuff feels a bit out of place.

Of course, I have no idea how many popslash people are actually interested in this kind of comm or if there are enough of us to keep it alive, but you never know until you try :-)

[pensnest]

Yes, I also find that sometimes I want to respond, but the overall expectation of such discussions is that they'll be in one FPF setting or another, and as you say, there's too much explanation needed before you can get started. It's more fun to have the discussion in a place where everyone already understands the set-up.

I... suspect I'll have to start up a community, and see who cares.

[turps33.livejournal.com]

I thought your feedback system was quite nifty. I'm sorry it's messing up on you. I must finish reading and feeding the stories. I totally planned to do so before the reveal.

I think that's a cool idea for a community. I hope you do start one up.

[bubbleforest.livejournal.com]

Adding a vote for you to set up a pop discussion comm! Sounds like a great idea.

[ephemera.livejournal.com]

(I read and fed most of the stories, and I think I got one 'mesage delayed 4 hours' thing but all else went smoothly - thank you for the opportunity to send anon fb.)

I think the discussion community could be cool. I don't remember seeing anything dedicated to general discussion, rather than specifics.