Subject: (One-word subject lines tend to sound the most miffed off (from past experience elsewhere).) (nm)
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Posted on: 2022-05-25 19:58:51 UTC
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Bad fanfiction wiki by
on 2022-05-25 17:57:38 UTC
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Should I create a wiki for bad fanfiction? Not necessarily in a PPC capacity, but does anyone think that'd be a good idea?
—Ls, weirdly put out, for some reason.
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I think I get the point... by
on 2022-05-25 23:11:19 UTC
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As kA said, “No”.
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Sorry for the dogpile! It wasn't my intention. I was backing up kA. (nm) by
on 2022-05-25 23:32:27 UTC
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It's also against Fandom rules by
on 2022-05-25 23:08:35 UTC
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There's a rule against creating wikis that are mostly or fully negative.
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Seconding kA: please don't. by
on 2022-05-25 22:18:51 UTC
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You'd basically just end up replicating GAFF with even more wank because other people can freely edit, plus someone is bound to get you reported to the wiki site for harassment or something. People with less scruples about attacking fic authors will absolutely use it as another tool in their arsenal.
Speaking as an oldbie who's also been in non-PPC-related fandom and who once had her fic blacklisted/called "sh*t" by some wank-starting teenagers because they didn't like one of the ships she tagged for... just please don't.
Also, as hS probably pointed out to you, starting a new thread with each question that you have pushes other pages off the front, which is frustrating because it raises the likelihood that someone isn't going to see something they needed to see. This question and the question just below it could have been nested in one of your other front-page conversations about badfic. While we're all happy to see the Board get more activity, please be cognisant of others and try not to treat the front page as a personal social media account.
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Thirding. Doing that would just cause problems/be a heck of a lot more trouble than it's worth. (nm) by
on 2022-05-25 22:33:50 UTC
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No. by
on 2022-05-25 18:10:44 UTC
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Not trying to seem mad or anything, but I think that's a bad idea.
You see, when we note badfic, we don't try and be obvious about it, if that makes sense. We're a badfic-sporking organization, so we have to keep records, but we also try not to call attention to all badfic.
A wiki to list badfic would (and could and probably will) lead to author-bashing, or (at the very least) some sort of flame war between authors and the Wiki. The Horrible section on Fanfic on TvTropes had to be taken down because of Flame and Edit wars, if I recall correctly.
Also, it would lead to a lot of feelings being hurt. It would lead to some people putting up pages just to attack the author of the fanfic. It's just a bad idea, really. Besides, what would really define badfic that would be on a "bad fanfiction wiki?" Here, we typically list in Unclaimed Badfic the type of badfic that can be missioned, with a little blurb on the badness. With a wiki, I'd assue that there would be pages dedicated to the badfic listed (which, I mean, we do, but only those in the Legendary Badfic or Bleepfic catogories, and it's not the sole thing we do), which will cause feelings being hurt, flame wars, and authors attacking, among other things.
I really don't think it's a good idea.
TL;DR: It's a bad idea because it would cause authors to feel hurt and attack the Wiki for being listed, as well as cause flame and edit wars and possibly some other nasty things.
-kA
(Also, if any oldbie can weigh in, I'd appreciate. Just to make sure I'm not crossing over any boundaries or anything.)
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Actually, by
on 2022-05-25 23:00:33 UTC
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The Horrible section was gone because it was full of NSFW stuff, which was against site rules. Also, there already is a badfic wiki, and I'm too lazy to find the link right now.
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Yeah, that’s true. by
on 2022-05-25 19:16:21 UTC
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There’d have to be some way to prevent those issues, and honestly? It’d pretty hard. Maybe possible, but (channeling Metalbeard here) really hard!
(Why do you think that sounds mad?)
—Ls
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(One-word subject lines tend to sound the most miffed off (from past experience elsewhere).) (nm) by
on 2022-05-25 19:58:51 UTC
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