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1000 Ways To Kill Nick Carter
mare:
It's really no different then co-writing with someone plus having your own stories as well. Before you post up your own update you usually check and make sure your co-authored story hasn't been updated. That was an issue of spamming earlier on as well if you remember. The only difference is you don't know who your co-authors are but if you choose to keep it a red robin, it should be that person's responsibility to take a second and check the site to see who has contributed and if they have updated.
That's why I think you should jut take away the red robin part of it. Be in charge of the chapters. It'll be easier that way. In a disclaimer just have them PM you a chapter or something.
mare:
hold on a second i'm checking something. lol
RokofAges75:
The difference is that, with a collaboration, it's the same people writing the story all the way through. I absolutely agree that traditional collaborations should count in the no spamming rule.
With a round robin like this, though, someone could contribute once at the beginning and then never again, while others keep the story going for weeks/months/years... but that same someone can never update more than one of their stories per day again without risking being banned because someone decided to add to the round robin.
I think it's unreasonable to expect someone who wants to contribute to go back through every other author that contributed and make sure none of them have already updated two stories that day before they post. Even if we asked people to do that, you know it wouldn't happen.
Unfortunately, it's taken the fun and simplicity out of the round robin feature and made it unnecessarily complicated.
mare:
okay, why don't we say this...
Since the date the story is updated is posted when you update, if you aren't the author who updated it you aren't spamming.. Red Robins only.
That doesn't save you Karin lol
but that might help everyone else. So if you update two of your stories and then add a chapter onto this or any other red robin, it's spamming.
Again Red Robin's ONLY because then I can see this opening up a whole new can of worms with co-authored stories, but because red robins are out of your control I think this would be fair.
twofaced:
I honestly don't think it's fair. This is an unusual story and should not have the same consequences tied to it. I've been trying to refresh my memories about the rules and so on since I got the email that my account had been locked, so I've been dealing with this for about an hour or so now. The longer I deal with this, the more upset it gets me, the more I want to delete my death, and the less willing I am to come up with another chapter for it. I had so much fun reading everyones deaths, and writing mine, but now that I know the consequences of this "fun" little story, the less thrilled I am to work on it in the future.
I did not know about this forum area until after I was banned, and in my mind, I had updated my stories last night before I went to sleep, then this one when I woke up, which to me is 2 days.
I'm trying to not get too upset, especially seeing as I am fairly new to the site, definitely new to the story, and just trying to find my way, but yeah, I am upset.
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