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Update on Kittens and Spitefic
Oct. 9th, 2022 09:50 pm(Tentative name is tentative.)
As I said in my second update on yesterday's post, turns out the person I got in contact with was not actually the comm's owner/creator! They did tell me that the comm's creator is pretty much vanished from LJ—and also that said creator got caught sending anon hate. So for both of those reasons, I am not at all concerned with getting in contact with the comm's actual creator to get their permission/blessing/what-have-you, and will be going ahead with mine regardless. I am currently unsure how, or even if, I should address the issue of my comm's inspiration; I'm leaning slightly towards a note at the bottom of the comm's profile just to cover my ass, mentioning both the original comm and the comm owner's bad behavior without naming names, but I'm open to suggestions.
Up next is one of the harder parts of running a comm, for me: Coming up with the rules! I want "prompts" to be open to most stuff, but this means that some "prompts" have the potential to be, uh. Stressful.
For example, if I want to "prompt" for trans interpretations of characters, I might post a fake rant about trans headcanons being "bad"/"not canon"/etc, which is, uh. Well, it might be unfun for a lot of people to read! And yeah, that sort of thing definitely fuels spite decisions in headcanons and fic writing and so forth, but even when the prompt itself is done ironically(?), that still has the potential to be a bad surprise for someone scrolling through their reading page.
So I think I'm going to have a rule that says people need to put anything micro/macro-aggression-ish under a cut tag, at minimum, put the aggression that it is in the cut text (for example, transphobia), and then tag the entry with "bigotry in the prompt" or something? Does that sound reasonable?
And then after that, I need to figure out what content I won't allow. "Nothing pro-Nazi" is, as far as I'm concerned, a given, but it's somewhat easier to weed that out/prevent it than, say, "Nothing Radfem", which a lot of people have more trouble recognizing. I want to disallow racism as well, but I'm not entirely sure I'd always be able to recognize it when it comes up, either.
Anyway, yeah. Coming up with rules for this stuff trips me up and gets me tangled in my own thoughts a bit. Aside from that, though, I am pretty jazzed about the positive reaction folks have had to the comm idea 😃 There is much potential fun to be had...
Edit: Still working on other rules, but I'm going to start with having all rant/prompt posts go under cuts, not just stuff that is potentially sensitive. The potentially sensitive stuff should still get a warning in the cut text, just to be safe, but more general "I hate your favorite character" rants are also not necessarily a fun surprise on your reading page, even if they are written with Opposite Day rules.
As I said in my second update on yesterday's post, turns out the person I got in contact with was not actually the comm's owner/creator! They did tell me that the comm's creator is pretty much vanished from LJ—and also that said creator got caught sending anon hate. So for both of those reasons, I am not at all concerned with getting in contact with the comm's actual creator to get their permission/blessing/what-have-you, and will be going ahead with mine regardless. I am currently unsure how, or even if, I should address the issue of my comm's inspiration; I'm leaning slightly towards a note at the bottom of the comm's profile just to cover my ass, mentioning both the original comm and the comm owner's bad behavior without naming names, but I'm open to suggestions.
Up next is one of the harder parts of running a comm, for me: Coming up with the rules! I want "prompts" to be open to most stuff, but this means that some "prompts" have the potential to be, uh. Stressful.
For example, if I want to "prompt" for trans interpretations of characters, I might post a fake rant about trans headcanons being "bad"/"not canon"/etc, which is, uh. Well, it might be unfun for a lot of people to read! And yeah, that sort of thing definitely fuels spite decisions in headcanons and fic writing and so forth, but even when the prompt itself is done ironically(?), that still has the potential to be a bad surprise for someone scrolling through their reading page.
So I think I'm going to have a rule that says people need to put anything micro/macro-aggression-ish under a cut tag, at minimum, put the aggression that it is in the cut text (for example, transphobia), and then tag the entry with "bigotry in the prompt" or something? Does that sound reasonable?
And then after that, I need to figure out what content I won't allow. "Nothing pro-Nazi" is, as far as I'm concerned, a given, but it's somewhat easier to weed that out/prevent it than, say, "Nothing Radfem", which a lot of people have more trouble recognizing. I want to disallow racism as well, but I'm not entirely sure I'd always be able to recognize it when it comes up, either.
Anyway, yeah. Coming up with rules for this stuff trips me up and gets me tangled in my own thoughts a bit. Aside from that, though, I am pretty jazzed about the positive reaction folks have had to the comm idea 😃 There is much potential fun to be had...
Edit: Still working on other rules, but I'm going to start with having all rant/prompt posts go under cuts, not just stuff that is potentially sensitive. The potentially sensitive stuff should still get a warning in the cut text, just to be safe, but more general "I hate your favorite character" rants are also not necessarily a fun surprise on your reading page, even if they are written with Opposite Day rules.
