BAKERSTREET: PROBLEMS

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PROBLEMS OR CONCERNS

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PROBLEMS AND CONCERNS

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This entry replaced the one in kostinaya's journal.*


Please let me know if there are any issues of spam, harassment, or general asshattery going on at bakerstreet.

Provide evidence if you're speaking against another player. This is not a venue for anonymous bashing just for the fun of it. Such comments will be deleted.


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*Mainly because kostinaya is not an active mod anymore and I felt it's better to have a post that I could edit if necessary.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

this might be splitting hairs question: would it cause posting schedule problems or any kind of problems for the mods if the tuesday texting meme were ever changed back to the format that offered both smut/ship and gen options? is "sexting on tuesday, gen texting on sunday" hard and fast like "tfln on friday" is, or is it more up to the community/poster based on what they want to offer?

thanks for your time!

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I believe there's a big enough group of players who want to keep smut memes separate from everything else.

I agree there's an abundance of texting memes atm, but if all of them are combined, then players are forced to always state preferences in their top levels. Not that it's an arduous job but I know some shy away from smut memes completely (at least for some of their characters).

So it's not so much about problems for mods or the schedule, but for players. That is the impression I've got.

Then again, as texting memes don't have images, there shouldn't be anything that really jumps at people's faces even if they were tagging in a public place. If the name of the meme was kept neutral enough (no bold text screaming SMUT OPTION AVAILABLE), possibly people would not mind so much. I don't know. What is the general opinion of this matter at the moment?

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt here though others are welcome to weigh in!

the reason i'm asking, myself, is a discussion i got into with some players when the gen text meme originally went up last week and was taken down. a gen-preferring player was discouraged by the wait; it was posited to recombine the two memes in the fashion of the forgotten text meme: http://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/2864023.html, encouraging people to specify if they'd prefer only one type of interaction. if that's something that the mods don't mind trying, i don't mind posting it; i'm not one to keep hammering away at a failed idea so if it fails, too, that's fine by me! if it ultimately sounds pointless, you can shoot it down too and i'll go put the sexting one up (unless another sock or meme poster gets there first. i'm pretty shocked they haven't already). i just didn't want to step on any toes or seem like i'm trying to make a stand out of it haha

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Give it a try then.

[(Anonymous)]

there was a gen meme on sunday. the tuesday one is pretty much standardly for sexting, and it generally gets a lot of play because a lot of people look forward to a weekly sexting meme. you can do what you feel like, obviously, but as the mod did mention and it's been brought up before, there are plenty of reasons to keep smut memes separate from shipping/gen ones.

i tag into a sexting meme because i want sexting threads. i don't want to tag into a basic meme and go looking for chars and oops, well, they don't want this and they don't want that and okay well, fuck this meme. smut is for smut and gen is for gen for a reason, because people have preferences. if someone's in a smutty mood, they're not going to want to scroll through possibly pages of gen to find a smut player. just like people shouldn't feel like they have to scroll through pages of smut to find a shippy or gen player.

they're scheduled for a reason and co-opting it because one or two people want what the masses don't feels pretty rude, imo. keep gen on sunday and smut on tuesday. it's already a set pattern and people know what to expect.

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ayrt

like i said, if it's not to peoples' tastes, i'm not going to keep doing it. if it catches on, great, if not, i'm fine with that too. i'm not trying to take anything away from anyone. if i have any intention i suppose it's to lessen the sense of division between smut and gen that results in PA behavior in meme posting. i wanted the option out there for everyone to get along together and be able to find what they're looking for in one place. so on the need to scroll, we have different viewpoints, but i can see where you're coming from.

all that said, i have no plan to post any texting meme next tuesday (or sunday) or to prevent anyone else from doing the same. everyone has a chance to post what they want and play what they want. i think of a combination meme as a place where they can do that but if i'm alone in that, i can admit failure.

sa

[(Anonymous)]

subject line was supposed to be "also in reply to anon below" i could just log onto memepasta but whatever

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Valid points, thank you. We will take them into consideration.

[(Anonymous)]

it's been discussed elsewhere, but another reason to keep smut separate from gen/shippy/fluff, is purely because of content. if you go into a multi meme, you have no idea what might crop up on your screen. at least if you go into a smut meme, you know what you're setting yourself up for. and for people that have others around them or are in a public place, it's good to know that you can open a meme and not see a giant cock or something nsfw. this is extremely relevant for the picture prompt memes, but it can also extend to the sexting/texting memes, since some of the sexts start out with dirty pictures, or really explicit language.

it's not fair to gen only or fluff only people to see some of the really extreme things that can happen in a smut meme (can happen, not always), and it's not fair for smutty players to have to scroll through a meme to find one or two chars that are looking for what they are and potentially get brought up on wg or something for 'posting smut to a non-smut specific meme'. yeah, yeah, wg, who cares, but still. separating it helps keep the bitching to a minimum for all parties.

[(Anonymous)]

thanks for sniping one of my favorite memes