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⌈ Secret Post #2677 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[The Scribbler]

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[bioshock infinite: burial at sea]

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[True Detective]

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[fire emblem/super smash bros]

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[World of Warcraft]

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12. [SPOILERS for Hannibal]

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13. [SPOILERS for Bioshock: Infinite]

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14. [SPOILERS for Game of Thrones]

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15. [WARNING for rape/abuse I'm assuming? Ramsay/Theon stuff]
http://i.imgur.com/Xo0GSkI.png

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16. [WARNING for mental illness/hospitals]

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17. [WARNING for depression]

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18. [WARNING for eating disorders]

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19. [WARNING for rape]

[Game of Thrones]

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I've seen, more than once, that when someone fills a prompt, instead of posting the first part and then posting all future parts in response to that first part, they respond directly to the prompt itself.

Why do they do that? Is there some super-secret formatting trick I'm missing or something? That always comes off as very rude to me because it's like you're "claiming" a prompt to yourself in situations where you don't/can't claim a prompt all to yourself. You are guaranteeing a mess if anyone else ever decides to fill that prompt before you're done posting all the parts (which isn't that unusual), because now the prompts will be all mixed up and hard to even link to, letalone read. So again, am I missing something here? I feel like I'm missing something.

In my case, I did it because it seemed neater; when somebody expanded the thread, they'd get the full story, plus comments, in one fell swoop. But the kink memes I responded to were small, so we could only dream of having the kind of problem where there'd be disorganized multiple responses to prompts. If I was on a huge meme, I'd do as you said, post multiples in response to my own comment.

...wouldn't it only expand the whole fill at once if it were like, smaller than a certain number of parts? Or is this a free account vs paid account difference? Because the other problem I have with is that I keep having to click 'expand' over and over again on fills which don't nest (granted, this problem would exist whether all the parts were in response to the prompt or the first part of the fill...). Do paid accounts on DW have a function allowing you to expand more at once? (I have a paid account on LJ and I know it doesn't work that way over there...at least I think it doesn't...)

The last time I posted on a kinkmeme was Livejournal, and from what I remember, yeah, if the replies are below a certain number, all the replies would expand at once. On a small kinkmeme, the replies to one prompt were always few enough for everything to expand, but if you replied to yourself, those would end up nested much sooner. It's been years, though, the format might have changed since.

When I posted a story to a Kink Meme I solved your problem with it by a) filling a very, very old prompt and b) having it all done before posting.

The reason I did it is because I absolutely hate with a burning passion that the comment area gets smaller and smaller the more you reply to your last update. Therefore it gets strung out, ugly, and awkward to read. (It works for comments. It does not work for fics.) If you keep going you're going to have to rereply to the base prompt anyway because at some point it just gets ridiculous how small your post is. So now that you've rereplied of part whatever it's even more confusing. People might not know you've updated. (I know I've given up on fic authors who have gone this route simply because I couldn't find all the pieces.)

Then again, I have never actually seen someone post and then rereply to their first post. I could get behind that. In fact, I like it more than what I did.

Then again, I have never actually seen someone post and then rereply to their first post. I could get behind that. In fact, I like it more than what I did.

Really? That used to be the common rule in kinkmemes, and I have been quite surprised that this no longer holds in the kinkmemes I visit now.

And I get why some people hate absolute nesting. I don't care that much because you can just use thread links every two dozen parts or so to 'reset' the fic and read from that point on wards, and I love partial nesting (where the first parts of new chapters are posted in response to the first part of the whole fic and then the rest of the chapter posted in response to the first part of the chapter - these are SO easy to link to and to read!). But either way - absolute nesting, partial nesting, or no nesting at all - all of these are contingent on responding to your own first part.

That's my biggest problem - you can't really link to a fill if it's all in response to the prompt, and in most of the memes I have been to, most fills aren't finished before they're posted, so it gets messy if more than one person starts filling something.

Yeah, I feel kinda weird that I haven't because it makes sense. I wish I had done that, now, with that thing I posted but, again, super old prompt and it was finished before I even posted the first part so there's no real harm done.

Yeah, absolute is okay with some fic but can get very confusing for me quickly. I might lose parts.

Hmm, I fixed the linking problem by linking to each part. But I can understand when it can become a real problem. You can get just as lost.

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