themodawakens ([personal profile] themodawakens) wrote in [community profile] tfa_kink2015-12-19 05:07 pm

DISCUSSION/OFF-TOPIC POST

Use this post for things that are neither prompts nor questions for the mod.

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probably silly question

(Anonymous) 2016-04-18 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
What is a 'misfire'? I see it everywhere but I can't find a definition on the internet no matter how hard I look.

Re: probably silly question

(Anonymous) 2016-04-18 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
"Misfires" are comments that are accidently made either on the wrong post (i.e. prompt made in the fills/discussion post), or more commonly, reply comments that accidently end up as their own thread by hitting “post a new comment” instead of “reply to this”.

It is a reasonably common practice on kinkmemes to treat these misfires as genuine prompts and write fills for them. This partially for humour purposes and partially as a fun/challenging creative exercise.

As someone who has had to anon-ask about acronyms on kinkmemes, more than once, I can assure you there are no silly questions.

Re: probably silly question

(Anonymous) 2016-04-18 12:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you for the great answer!

Re: probably silly question

(Anonymous) 2016-04-21 01:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Adding to what the other anon said: This tendency of misfires to get fills themselves sometimes result in people posting "misfire" comments on purpose to get fills for them.