Questions Post

[infinimato]

Have questions about the rules? Or something else? Ask them here!

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[infinimato]

Sounds good!

[alexseanchai]

\o/

[cantarina]

Aside from extremely vague phrasing, how should I handle spoilery prompts? Should I skip them altogether?

[infinimato]

Oh. That's a very good question we did not consider.

We shall discuss and get back to you as quickly as possible.

[infinimato]

Spoilery prompt decision: Please email the prompts to dw.gen.battle@gmail.com. Specify what the spoiler is specifically and we'll include it with a cut tag.

Thanks!

[xans]

Okay, I appear to have only just discovered this and totally missed the prompt gathering while away on my honeymoon. There are going to be more of these, though, right? And I can wait for the next one to list any prompts I have?

[infinimato]

A honeymoon? How dare you get married before prompt gathering started!

:-)

Seriously, though: Congratulations! We hope you and your spouse have a long and happy life together.

There will almost certainly be more of these, but we have not discussed what kind of schedule we'd like to do.

[xans]

Ahaha, oops for having a real life lol. But thanks, we have every intention of continuing on as happily as we are. :)

But I was just thinking yesterday of a prompt/idea for a crossover fic but couldn't think of an appropriate forum to plant the idea out there. So I was kicking myself to find I'd missed out on prompting here. So I hope these become a semi-regular thing.

correction of fandom name

[eliyes]

I tried to fix this by replying to my prompt comment (as per the "don't edit prompt comments" rule) --

In the crossover prompts, "Batgirl (comics, 2009-2011)/Magnificent 7 (TV show)" should be "Batgirl (comics, 2009-2011)/The Magnificent Seven (TV show)".

I got the tv show's name wrong when I posted the prompts (because I'm so used to the fandom's shortcut of using the numeral instead of the word for the number).

Re: correction of fandom name

[infinimato]

Whoops! Sorry we missed your correction, it's now fixed in the Crossover prompts. Thanks for catching it and calling us out on it! :-)

Re: correction of fandom name

[tptigger]

If that's the worst of our mistakes, we got off extremely lucky. :)

[eliyes]

King of Fighters: King, license, [any]

Erm... [any] seems to be appended whenever there are no optional prompt words after the characters. Just to be clear, here, King is a character in King of Fighters (and also in Art of Fighting), and license was the optional extra bit.

Re: correction of fandom name

[eliyes]

Awesome, thanks. :Dd

Re: correction of fandom name

[eliyes]

I imagine it was a little hard on the eyes to bring all together! You seem to have done a good job, in all. :3

[infinimato]

Whoops squared.

Confirmed yours is the only King of Fighters prompt for the character King. I'll fix that.

(this is all Tigger's fault for jinxing us. :-P)

[eliyes]

XD It's okay.

[tptigger]

Sorry. I'll sit on my hands from now on.

[ozqueen]

So if we write a fill, instead of posting it as a comment to the prompts post, we post it as a whole new post to the community? I just want to be sure before I do anything.

Edit: Never mind, I somehow skimmed over the dot point that explicitly says this.

Haha, I think it's time to unsubscribe before everyone starts posting fills :P

[her_own_faiths]

I have a correction for a name, I replied to my comment in the prompts post but I guess it was too late for you to see. I mixed up character & actress names, so the single Raging Phoenix prompt should be:

Raging Phoenix: Deu & Pai, rebuilding shattered lives & hearts

Also, may I ask why you chose the filling method to be in new posts rather than in comments to the prompts post? I don't necessarily object, it's just rather surprising for someone who's used to the porn battle method of filling in the comments.

[infinimato]

Sorry about the prompt. I've fixed it.

As for why the separate posts: The porn battle is run in someone's private space, and they have a website where the fills are categorized and linked.

We don't have a website for this, so if we want people to be able to find works later we can use tags. It's a lot less work -- coding up the pages for the porn battle website is time consuming!

[her_own_faiths]

There was a porn battle comm on insanejournal, a different porn battle not run by oxoniensis, which used the fill-in-comments method and posted masterlists at the end of each round. For example:
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/porn_battle/21639.html#cutid1
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/porn_battle/23051.html#cutid1
which is just putting links in a normal post, not having to code whole website pages. So the fill-in-comments method can work even without a separate website.

I mention this because I personally kinda prefer using comments and I sort of think other people might prefer it too, if only because it's familiar/what people are used to and comfortable with, but hey, it's your battle, your comm, your rules, so I'll abide by them.

[her_own_faiths]

Oh, and sorry I forgot to say, thanks a lot for fixing the prompt!

[bring_me_sugar]

Hello! I've posted my first fill and tried to tag my fic, but I'm not allowed to add tags. Just alerting you!

[infinimato]

Yep, that's why the rules don't tell you to tag your fic :-). (Mostly it's because we don't want to get into Fandom Naming Wars. We recognize that some people have name preferences but we can only have one thousand tags!:-)

Thanks for the heads up! [scurries off to read what you wrote.]

[bring_me_sugar]

Ahh, didn't catch that in the rules! Thank you!