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While I can't promise consistent activity if I check it out (real life is pretty busy at the moment), this seems interesting. I guess I'd be up for trying it if you need an extra head?

Discworld is near and dear to my heart also. I hope you have fun here!

/Ekwy

Game design sounds like a fun plan! What types of games would you be interested in designing?

/Ekwy, who lives with a game designer and has been known to dabble in designs of real-life escape games

There's also the issue about sharing the emails with each other. I don't feel particularly comfortable with having my personal email shared with up to twelve other people, and I know myself well enough that a burner email would end up being forgotten about almost as soon as it was created. I dunno, is there a specific objection you have to creating a Discord account, Linstar? It's fine if there is, but I think it would be easiest if we used a Discord server for communications, rather than dealing with a tangled web of emails. Alternatively, if everyone has Gmail (and, if not, is comfortable with Google reading through communications posted from a burner address), we could use the Google group system? Although, that just goes back to the issues of sharing emails.

Honestly, not that big of a deal if I have to share my personal email address or commit to using a new one; just think it would be easier and faster to communicate with Discord.

I feel that, having to ask a author for permission to criticize their work, is antithetical to the concept of criticism to begin with. Especially given that the work being riffed is, by default, a publicly available work, and is therefore free game as far as criticism is concerned.

It's perfectly OK to avoid swearing in your riffs, which is why I said "at the riffer's discretion" not "swearing is mandatory". I think the only rules I care to implement for riffing (in no particular order of import) are:

1. No badmouthing the authors. At the end of the day, the only thing laid out for riffing is their poor-quality work. Providing details about their history online is permitted, but only if it is to provide context for something about the work (e.g. "Squirrelking is well-known for writing some bizarre badfics, and this story is an example thereof." rather than "Dear God, Squirrelking is so horrible for writing this, how can anyone with x braincells condone writing this!").

2. No bigotry, humorless political discussion (again, unless used for context), or degrading or defamatory language.

3. Untagged spoilers are allowed due to Wordpress's poor implementation of spoiler formatting, but try to avoid spoiling things that aren't old enough or well known enough to justify it. We're not out to ruin someone's fun about a particular work, even if it's in the name of fannish enthusiasm.

4. No doxxing or revealing of sensitive information. If you don't have permission to share it, then don't bloody share it.

5. Remember, it's all for fun and the task of constructive criticism. So have fun, but remember that the goal is to criticise, not to solely lambast.

I don’t have Discord, or Reddit, or Facebook...

Yeah, I don't know what would be the best option.

—Ls

I'm planning to give all of the project members posting, moderation, and limited editing access to my site, so everyone will need a Wordpress account for those purposes. If you're cagey about Wordpress's admittedly...colourful...cybersecurity history, then creating a email address specifically for signing up (so you don't have your email address pwned in the next example of Wordpress being lax with their cybersec) might be a good idea.

I'm going to wait for another few yays from either here or other places I've put out a recruitment call, but once I have five or six people who can definitely spare the time to join the cast, I'll put together a chat group of some variety so we can discuss auditioning and basic ground rules for the project. I know Linstar doesn't have a Discord (or, at the very least, is not on the PPC discord), so I'm not sure whether that would be the best place. That's a discussion once there's a solid block of potential Wardens though.

And swearing is only discouraged on the Board (and probably Discord but IDK), it is consider okay if you warn readers on missions. (For example, David Null and the Aviator are both pretty foul-mouthed.)

I do recall SC mentioning angry authors as a reason why the Library was inactive; that’s why I’d suggest the Asylum also adopt the PPC’s “don’t tell the author you’ve sporked their fic” policy. I can tell you that I’ll abide by that.

—Ls doesn’t swear himself

To start off with, yeah, I'd be the first to say that the Library was fairly harsh on certain authors, and in some cases was unnecessarily aggressive. I'm guilty of this to a certain degree (I certainly didn't avoid the "Eclipse Pheonix bad" sentiment in my riff of his rewrite of Trapped, and in one case, played it for laughs), so I'm probably being fairly hypocritical by agreeing that the badmouthing was not called for necessarily.

At the same time, I feel that the Library didn't really 'badmouth' authors out of spite, or in any sort of accusatory or defamatory way. Generally, the authors who got the brunt of the badmouthing were ones who had proven that they were incapable of responding well to criticism.

Saying that, I do think it is prudent that this iteration of the Library's concept try to avoid making the same mistakes as the Library did.

So, yeah, while I personally would debate the badmouthing as being necessarily such (while also agreeing it was rather uncalled for in general), I think it's a good idea to try not to sink to the level of the people who The Asylum will potentially be riffing.

However, I do have to say that, as an Australian, and possessing a fairly foul mouth, that swearing- minus certain words that not even the foul-mouthed will permit themselves to say- will be permitted at the riffer's discretion, which is something the PPC tries to avoid to my knowledge.

Do I need one?

And I think it would’ve been better phrased as “my proudest spork”.

—Ls admires your writing

I may need to make an actual Wordpress account, but I’ll gladly help you make fun of weird fanfic and categorize the results!

Are you planning to change that at all in your iteration? 'Cause people here might want to consider that when deciding whether they want to get on board.

~Neshomeh

(Edit: typo.)

is of a deeply questionable anime. The spork cannot be linked here due to NSFW content, but you can find it under "spork type: anime/manga" tag.

We have pizza. Virtual pizza, anyway.

I'm looking to get at least six yays before I start the auditioning process. I have to think about going to sleep now (it's 11PM, and I have two coding assignments to get done for uni before Sunday), but I'll check back in in the morning. Hopefully we'll have a few other interested parties before the 'morn.

...I’d like to join! There are a few fics I’d like to riff that have already been PPC’d, or are unPPC-able. Besides, this just sounds fun.

—Ls

Including your stuff. I really liked the legolas by laura one.

—Ls

So nice to have another newbie so soon!

Have a squiggle! It’s very squiggly.

—Ls

The Library had a unique approach to riffing bad fanfiction, and I'd like to try and bring that style back to the internet. Das Sporking would probably take me in, but it would never be the same. This isn't the same thing either, but I feel the Library needs a worthy successor.

I'd also like to try and build a community that might grow and thrive in its own way, distinct from other communities on the net. There are precious few riffing sites out there, it won't hurt for another to come into existence to fill the gap left by another.