Ditto to all of this. The dibs thing makes the meme less fun because it'll put people off who might happily write a second fic for that prompt and then there's less porn for *me* to read and when people stand between me and my porn, I tend towards cutting a bitch.
Plus, I dislike how people have gone through a claimed dibs on stuff mere minutes after the prompts have been posted, promising a fic "later that afternoon" and then not delivering. Way to make an ass of yourself, dibs caller.
And if I may highjack your etiquette question, what's the etiquette on people posting unfinished fics and leaving them languishing for days? I've always been of the "write the whole thing and then post it" persuasion because there are fics still unfinished from the memes I hosted, and it's annoying to think "YAY! My prompt has been filled!" but when you get there you've only got 500 word and it stops mid sex scene. BUUUT! if it wasn't allowed, we'd never have gotten the awesomeness of things like 'Leap of Faith' by roo2. Tis a quandry...
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Plus, I dislike how people have gone through a claimed dibs on stuff mere minutes after the prompts have been posted, promising a fic "later that afternoon" and then not delivering. Way to make an ass of yourself, dibs caller.
And if I may highjack your etiquette question, what's the etiquette on people posting unfinished fics and leaving them languishing for days? I've always been of the "write the whole thing and then post it" persuasion because there are fics still unfinished from the memes I hosted, and it's annoying to think "YAY! My prompt has been filled!" but when you get there you've only got 500 word and it stops mid sex scene. BUUUT! if it wasn't allowed, we'd never have gotten the awesomeness of things like 'Leap of Faith' by