Ah, okay -- yes, I was even more of a lurker back before the English version of the source came out (which was also pretty much pre-"LJ as fandom central"), so if the wankery was going on back then, no wonder I missed it. Thankfully, I guess, since I was a real newbie back then -- it was one of my first fandoms, so I might have been less fireproof then... :D
I think it works there because ST:XI is too huge and too new to really have cliques.
That was my main hypothesis. :D Note to newbies: choose large, new fandoms for your first forays into fannishness!
even though this meme would be all anon, I'm sort of looking forward to filling some prompts if any ever get posted
I have been thinking up ways to get around the bits of this meme that irk me most, and I think there ought to be a method whereby a filler could archive the fic elsewhere, give the mods the archive link, and then post anonymously "This fic has been archived offsite; contact the mods for a link".
Given I have no idea how many mods there are or how obstinately welded to the current setup they are, I haven't actually suggested this anywhere, but I'm vaguely thinking about it...
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I think it works there because ST:XI is too huge and too new to really have cliques.
That was my main hypothesis. :D Note to newbies: choose large, new fandoms for your first forays into fannishness!
even though this meme would be all anon, I'm sort of looking forward to filling some prompts if any ever get posted
I have been thinking up ways to get around the bits of this meme that irk me most, and I think there ought to be a method whereby a filler could archive the fic elsewhere, give the mods the archive link, and then post anonymously "This fic has been archived offsite; contact the mods for a link".
Given I have no idea how many mods there are or how obstinately welded to the current setup they are, I haven't actually suggested this anywhere, but I'm vaguely thinking about it...