People should feel free to write whatever they're inspired to write. That can be a lonely prompt, an already filled prompt, or even just a plot-bunny you get that you prompt yourself and then write. The ONLY purpose of the meme is to generate lots of porn for public consumption. There is no etiquette. People are currently pissing me off.

I would PM the mod and ask her to please delete the dibs bullshit stuff and make a new rule, but I already PM'ed her about something else a few days ago when I posted something incorrectly and needed to ask her to delete it for me. Maybe someone else (or a group of someone's) can PM her? I'm sure she'll make a new rule.

Claiming is MORE annoying than seconding, because at least seconding is just showing support and excitement about the idea and makes it seem more pressing to write the story. The claiming thing makes people who might have written shy about writing. And honestly, if I leave a prompt, I don't care to know that you're working on it. Either write and post the story or don't. *angry*