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Oct. 23rd, 2009 10:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Can anyone instruct me on the generally accepted etiquette re: sequels in an anonymous comment fic meme? Like, if someone wrote something awesome in the meme, and someone else wants to request a sequel to it in the meme with a new request that said something like, "Hey, this over here was awesome, and I'd love to see where some of the other amazing writers here would take it. Please include boa constrictors" - is that ok? Or if someone wants to write their own full-length fic, posted inside or outside the meme, using something from the meme as a base or as inspiration, what then? I would say that in a normal, non-anonymous setting, good manners dictate that permission should be acquired from the original writer before the second writer creates a sequel. And obviously, the original fic should be linked and credited in the notes, and in this case, the meme as a whole and the thread containing the specific piece would be linked and credited. But what to you do about getting permission when it's an anonymous meme? I'm assuming that either the normal courtesy of asking permission is excused, or writing sequels is simply Not Done, since there is no real was to get permission. I have no idea which of those is considered normal or polite, and as far as I've seen the host/moderator of the meme in question has not posted any rules or preferences about this.
Thoughts, flist?
Can anyone instruct me on the generally accepted etiquette re: sequels in an anonymous comment fic meme? Like, if someone wrote something awesome in the meme, and someone else wants to request a sequel to it in the meme with a new request that said something like, "Hey, this over here was awesome, and I'd love to see where some of the other amazing writers here would take it. Please include boa constrictors" - is that ok? Or if someone wants to write their own full-length fic, posted inside or outside the meme, using something from the meme as a base or as inspiration, what then? I would say that in a normal, non-anonymous setting, good manners dictate that permission should be acquired from the original writer before the second writer creates a sequel. And obviously, the original fic should be linked and credited in the notes, and in this case, the meme as a whole and the thread containing the specific piece would be linked and credited. But what to you do about getting permission when it's an anonymous meme? I'm assuming that either the normal courtesy of asking permission is excused, or writing sequels is simply Not Done, since there is no real was to get permission. I have no idea which of those is considered normal or polite, and as far as I've seen the host/moderator of the meme in question has not posted any rules or preferences about this.
Thoughts, flist?
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Date: 2009-10-24 01:08 pm (UTC)It is anonymous, it's a fic meme, and it's a COMMENT fic meme. In my (limited) experience with them, people seem to invest a bit less in a comment fic than in a posted-separately-gajillionty-word-long fic. :)
I think you're safe, hun. ;)
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Date: 2009-10-25 02:21 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-10-30 06:22 am (UTC)