tfa_kink | DISCUSSION/OFF-TOPIC POST

It becomes totally dead and nobody comments on fills.

Every post is good enough, I think. Every 2500 comments is too quickly, people will lose interest.

OH FUCK NO.

This is a perfect amount of prompt freezes! We had fewer before, it was fucking hell on earth. 2500 and 5000 is not bad at all and it gives the authors who actually fill things a chance to actually read the prompts and post things that don't get drowned in the flood. This one's only slowed down today because it's the day the freeze is supposed to come off.

Speaking personally I'm hanging back from posting any new parts of fic or commenting on anything in fear of the imminent deluge of prompting. I tend to stay away from the current prompt post entirely in the first 24 hours after a freeze ends because it's just a giant wave of prompts posted without the OP looking at them again, and half of those are samey or thinly veiled reprompts anyway.

Were you even reading the Prompt Post during this past freeze? It's been great fills and lots of comments, and almost zero wank! The halfway point prompt freeze is a great idea, and is working fantastically!

If no one's commenting on your fills, try linking them in the fills post or reposting to AO3.

I did. Maybe my latest fill just sucked, but every other fill I've made has gotten more comments than this one did- this is the first one I've posted during a prompt freeze.

I can sympathise anon. I wrote a fill for a round 1 prompt during the freeze and... yeah, this. It's probably not the freeze per se, as I've posted other things during freezes that got better reception. If it's from an earlier round, that will impact it, if it's one of the less popular pairings, that will impact it too. I think even length may effect this? Often my minifills get more attention than longer ones.

Anyway, it probably isn't very helpful of me to say it, but that's the way of the kinkmeme. But maybe now that the freeze is over, more people will be paying more attention to the fills that have just happened. I've once had people here comment more than a week after posting, so there's always a chance.

But man, it's disheartening when OP doesn't stop by.

It just didn't catch the zeitgeist. It happens to everyone now and then and has little to do with the prompt freeze.

It's also spring break in many parts of US/North America, so some memers may be away on holiday or travelling home or have other things going on right now. The fandom is also several months old and the mayfly fans have started dropping off for other distractions and overall response could be starting to fall..

Everyone writes duds now and then. Own it, walk it off, keep writing.

It might not even be a dud. I think some fills are going to be loved by everyone generate tons of comments and others appeal to a much smaller group. It could still good, but maybe it's just something that isn't everyone's cup of tea?

Either way, it's not the fault of a prompt freeze.

Is it a WIP? There are so many abandoned WIPs here I've given up on reading anything until it's complete.

People only lose interest if their sole reason for being on the meme is to post prompts. People who fill and comment stick around.

Nah, I'm here to fill prompts and I don't bother with the meme when there's a freeze. There's no reason to check in if no one's prompting anything new that might catch my eye.

All the hundreds of pre-existing prompts in four prompt posts just stop existing for you if they've been posted longer than a day?

Nope, and I don't have to keep checking to make sure they exist either. Not to worry, I'm sure you'll reach that developmental milestone someday too.

I'm sorry you have the attention span of a concussed goldfish. Please accept my apologies.

Stop talking to yourself. It's creepy.

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(Anonymous) - 2016-03-13 06:02 (UTC) - Expand

I think I understand now why your fill didn't get many comments.

The AYRT isn't me, I was the one whose fill didn't get comments.

Really, it's not a big deal, but everything else I filled got at least three comments, except for this one.

That's not even a statistical anomaly. What are you even worried about?

I guess I just don't want the meme to die because people lose interest. A week is a long time online and if there's nothing new to look at people might stop caring.

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Re: I wish we had less frequent prompt freezes

(Anonymous) - 2016-03-13 19:20 (UTC) - Expand

Approx 450 comments and/or fills in 6 days really is not dead.

+1

I don't mind the number of prompt freezes, but do they have to last so goddamn long? A day or two ought to be enough.

A day or two is not even worth calling a freeze. You can't go back looking through the prompts that flew past to fast to see and it's really hard to get anything substantial written in one or two days. One or two days is nothing. I've been on memes where they're two weeks every time, and that gets long. This is a great length of time, it's only dragging a bit right now since the mods aren't on yet to lift it.