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1000 Ways To Kill Nick Carter
Rose:
No what I mean is, like technically, for example, Hannah posted in there yesterday. I got the gist that would be her only contribution, so at the time I told her I'd not list her as a coauthor. And didn't till I learned we had to.
Now if she updated two stories today, and then after that, this one got updated, it'd be a bit unfair to have her get slammed for spamming. Cause she didn't update it, someone else did. And to a story that for arguments sake, she'll never add to again. That's not her spamming, that's someone else contributing. To me, that wasn't the purpose of the spamming rule. And I was a huge advocate of that rule in the first place.
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: mare on August 02, 2011, 02:54:32 PM ---Yup, same thing. If you write a short story for a challenge and then post two other stories on the same day, that's three stories in one day.
The only tricky thing about a red robin is you have no control over when it updates but if people who were about to update it took a second to see if any of the other authors already updated twice before they posted, there would be no problem. It's an extra step but also a courtesy. I do think it would be a good idea to put that disclaimer on there though. Woudn't hurt, I mean eventually it'll slow down and won't become an issue but right now Nick killing is the new trend of the moment. LOL
I'm not trying to be difficult but rules are rules, if we make an exception to this I can see people trying to abuse it. Remember it only takes one to ruin it for everyone else.
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This isn't an issue of courtesy (or lack thereof) among the co-writers. Twofaced was the last to update the round robin after updating two of her other stories on the same date, albeit hours apart. She did break the spamming rule, technically.
I feel kind of bad, though, because I added her name as a co-writer like Rose and I have been with everyone else who's contributed so they can edit if they need to and respond to their reviews, but unlike everyone else, I don't have her on Twitter, and she doesn't post here on the forum regularly, so she may not have known I was going to add her or that a round robin counted the same way as a collaboration or individual story. That part's not spelled out clearly in the rules on the site, so without seeing your post in this thread, I'm sure she didn't even realize she was breaking a rule.
If we keep it a round robin, it'll just have to be everyone's responsibility to only post one of their stories per day, simple as that. But we may need to look into other options to make it less limiting for people who want to join in.
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: mare on August 02, 2011, 02:58:03 PM ---Why don't you take away the red robin part of it and just ask people to email their chapters and then once a week update it with any chapters you get? This way you'd have control over when it's updated, everyone knows the date it will happen so they know that day to only post one chapter? Like okay Tuesdays are kill Nick days so I can only update once!
Just a thought
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That defeats the purpose of having the round robin feature on the script, though. That feature makes it easy for everyone to post on their own and get credit for their work.
Rose:
Honestly the reason why I don't wanna do emails is cause from my experience, that never gets any responses. It's a bit of a hassle, so people can't be bothered. That's why I thought round robin would be the best way to go. I had no idea this was where it would go LOL.
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on August 02, 2011, 03:03:04 PM ---That defeats the purpose of having the round robin feature on the script, though. That feature makes it easy for everyone to post on their own and get credit for their work.
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Right.
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: Rose on August 02, 2011, 02:59:01 PM ---No what I mean is, like technically, for example, Hannah posted in there yesterday. I got the gist that would be her only contribution, so at the time I told her I'd not list her as a coauthor. And didn't till I learned we had to.
Now if she updated two stories today, and then after that, this one got updated, it'd be a bit unfair to have her get slammed for spamming. Cause she didn't update it, someone else did. And to a story that for arguments sake, she'll never add to again. That's not her spamming, that's someone else contributing. To me, that wasn't the purpose of the spamming rule. And I was a huge advocate of that rule in the first place.
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I am all for the spamming rule, to prevent a single author from taking up most or all of the Most Recent page.
But like you said, with the way this is set-up, someone could get banned without having updated more than two of their own stories, just because of a one-shot they contributed days, weeks, months, years ago.
Like I said, you're essentially agreeing to limit yourself to only one story per day for the rest of your time on AC once you add a part to this story, and while that may be fine with some of us, I could see it being a deterrent for others who would have joined in otherwise.
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