tfa_kink | DISCUSSION/OFF-TOPIC POST

I only posted a couple. One got no response, the other got wank that was about the prompt subject matter. The mod deleted the wank. I felt my writing effort was unwelcome, so I stopped filling here. Normally I don't care and I still write tons on other memes, but this meme just doesn't seem to welcome fillers.

For what it's worth, this meme is infected with trolls at the moment. Hopeful that won't last. I hope you come back later and try again.

Trolls doesn't explain why the first one got zero response.

It was probably shitty but not shitty enough to bother trolling.

This meme moves fast. Very fast. Yesterday, the current prompt post had 600 comments. Now it has more than twice as many. Fills get lost in the rush on memes sometimes.

That's what the fill post is for, yet fills linked there are having the same level of response

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I've never messed with fill posts all that much. Some of the ones on other memes I've been on are ridiculously clunky, so I stopped. As a result I haven't look at this one yet, so I don't know what it's like. But perhaps I'm not alone?

I also think right now there's a lo of enthusiasm for prompting and, well, for chasing the next sensation and getting the next idea out for everyone to exclaim over, if that makes any sense. So maybe there's less focus on filling atm. Perhaps more frequent prompt freezes would help?

*lot of enthusiasm

Fills that HAVE been linked on the fills post are also getting minimal response. It's not that people aren't using it, it's that using it makes no difference. People are on this meme to prompt and second, and are not that bothered to read or respond to fills. It's just another long thing to scroll past so they can post another prompt.

Well, yes, I agree with you about the focus on prompting. But what I meant about the fills post is that I as a reader don't often check them to see if new prompts have been filled. I tend to have rather slapdash approach to looking for fills, I'll admit. But I may not be the only one. :) But really, I think the focus right now is on prompting and little else and that has to change somehow.

Where are you seeing this? A lot of the fills I've read have responses from the OP and other anons.

If you're upset that one fill has 10 responses and another has 2, that's just how it goes. Not every fill is going to get a lot of responses and it might be because non-OP readers don't like that pairing or kink, not for any malicious intent.

To be honest, if ten is considered a lot, then this meme is not doing well.

I just used ten as an example, but that seems to be the average number of replies.

Really, though, I think it's just that the fandom is so large that there are multiple places for people to get prompts so this kink meme isn't considered the go-to place. I don't know how highly publicized the meme was in the first place. I only found it because I'm old school and always look for prompt memes when I get into a new fandom.

Re: How do authors deal with feeling discouraged?

(Anonymous) - 2016-01-17 02:12 (UTC) - Expand

More like one fill has 5 responses and ten others have none.

the tens are mostly on troll-fills and purposeful badfic.

Re: How do authors deal with feeling discouraged?

(Anonymous) - 2016-01-17 01:40 (UTC) - Expand

So OP's are too busy prompting more prompts and not checking their old prompts for fills. I see almost no OP response to fills here. If the OP's don't care enough about their prompts to check for fills, what's the point?

THIS. Why are you even prompting if you don't care about seeing someone fill it? Just put your random idea on your tumblr or write the story yourself instead of wasting other people's effort.

I wonder (this is just conjecture) if the point for a lot of prompters is to have somewhere to share their ideas and story outlines, either to get validation or just to get them out there, and they don't much care how or even if random strangers interpret them themselves?

I mean, it might explain why there were so many long, detailed story outlines disguised as prompts being posted until the mod put a stop to it. It's a way of sharing what the prompter presumably thinks is an "amazing" idea for a story that they came up with, without having to go to the effort of actually writing it as a proper story. Basically, it's more about sharing an idea with the fandom than about getting a fill.

Just some thoughts...

DA upthread agrees with you.

Same anon, just to add, if that is the case for some prompters, I don't think it is a good thing at all. It makes a lot of people unhappy. Just thought I should make that clear.

Agreed. There's no point in filling here.

Oh please don't say that!

I'm working on some fills myself but there are some prompts I really want to see filled

I don't think it's quite that. Being more interested in prompting /= no point in writing fills. It just means it's time for a shift so that the focus falls on filling for a while. In other words, prompt freezes.

I don't think that's necessarily true; I've been posting an ongoing fill and have been getting lots of good responses, and I know that I'm always careful to comment on anything I read and enjoyed, even if it's just a quick response. Sometimes kinkmemes go through periods of 'prompt prompt prompt!!!' and other times there's more focus on the fills; it doesn't mean there's no point in writing fills!

How long are people waiting for replies, though? I don't check the meme or fill post every day because I don't have time, so there have been occasions where I've replied to a fill days or a week after the fact.