Kink Meme Etiquette?

[cruiscin_lan]

I was going to make another massive kink meme rec post, but when I jumped back into it I found a few things popping up that kept bugging me.

What is the proper etiquette on a kink meme? I mean, is it one fic per prompt? What about claiming - is claiming okay? And if there's a claim on a prompt, can you post a fic you wrote even though it's been claimed? If there's multiple fics allowed per prompt, then what is the point of claiming in the first place?

To me, claiming is just as annoying as seconding a prompt.

I may be showing off my newbishness here (yeah, I still have fandom baby-fat), but whatevs.

Comments

[aurilly.livejournal.com]

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*

[perdiccas.livejournal.com]

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...

[aurilly.livejournal.com]

There are unfinished fics? Wow. That's so odd to me, because I feel like fics for the meme aren't usually longer than 3000words MAX. It's like an exercise in forced brevity. :)

I like what you did yesterday, where you started something, and then it kind of got out of control, so you just posted it as a regular fic.