[ SECRET POST #3133 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #3133 ⌋

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

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02.
[The Guild]


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03.
[Harvest Moon: (More) Friends of Mineral Town]


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04.
[Gump, from Legend]


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05.
(Agent Carter)


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06.
[Jeeves and Wooster]


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07.
[Lupin III]


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08.
[Courtney Love & Kurt Cobain]


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09.
(SPN)


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10.
[Kasumi Goto, Mass Effect]











Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 057 secrets from Secret Submission Post #448.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

How come you never put any of the good secrets up at the weekend? I know we get the post up at a respectable time, but there is no point in that if all there is is the dregs and fringe-fandom crap. It isn't worth participating at all. Can you put some of the usual midweek fair, with the larger fandoms into the weekend and move some of this stuff to mid week, please?

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[(Anonymous)]

shut up

[(Anonymous)]

Pretty sure it is fairly random anon.

[(Anonymous)]

don't like don't read

alternatively you are really pushing your luck here legal!anon

[case]

It's not intentional or anything. I don't plan out posts beforehand (besides spoiler/trigger marked stuff being left for Friday), so I have no idea whether there's larger fandom type stuff TO post or not yet.

[(Anonymous)]

Could you put the spoiler/trigger stuff on the weekend then, please? They are more likely to have something interesting in them. And can you ignore all the people calling me a troll please. Not trolling, and I don't think it is fair that anyone who asks for a change ought to be called one, can you take some sort of moderator action on that too please.

[case]

I don't see a compelling reason to switch to weekends, or why them being on weekends is any better or worse than them being on Friday. (Wouldn't you then say Friday is boring? If not, why not?)

I am ignoring them! I'd advise you to do it too. "Fairness" is not really a measure I'm going to take action on, but I'll stop it if it gets too wanky.

[ketita]

As I can never be online on Friday afternoon/evening, tbh I wouldn't mind if the wanky stuff was moved to Sat/Sun XD
Then again, as I can't usually be online unless the post is relatively early, I'd hardly expect things to be changed for me.

/selfish post

[case]

But Friday isn't actually "the wank secrets" or anything, it's just spoiler/trigger ones. The biggest difference would be you get spoilers on weekends.

[ketita]

It's true. I do think sometimes the triggers tend to get more drama, but not always - you can't really know either way, I guess.

[(Anonymous)]

They are the ones that tend to have some meat to them though. It might not be the intention of them being deliberately wanky, but they do have that as a by-product.

[case]

No, not really. Last Friday had that one OUAT secret, but the secret about autistic headcanons midweek that wasn't marked for Friday caused way more wank than the OUAT one if I recall right.

[(Anonymous)]

That is kind of the point. Just law of averages says that something that is wank worthy is more likely to crop up midweek on its own, and Friday is the day with secrets that are also likely to provoke discussion. It is all for the people who can come online late. Shifting the ones that are more likely to be provocative to the weekend would be giving the weekenders a fighting chance. I know there are no guarantees on anything, but five to two is going to favour the fives, so one little thing to give a chance to the twos isn't too much, surely?

[case]

I don't know which are going to be wanky, though. That autistic headcanon secret I sure wasn't expecting that much random anger about, and wouldn't have moved to the weekend if I were trying to predict fallout anyway.

[diet_poison]

This doesn't actually make any sense. On average, every day of the week is going to have an equal number of boring and interesting secrets by any individual standards. The weekend isn't treated any differently. Aside from triggers/spoilers, approximately 2 out of 7 times, the Big Wanker of the week, so to speak, will be on a weekend. (Maybe even a little more, since Friday has a smaller number of regular secrets. I personally don't think the trigger/spoiler secrets are actually any more exciting than the others on average.)

[(Anonymous)]

The weekday posts are all up too late for me to participate in, so I would like at least one day in which I could join in the active threads. That has to be one of the weekend ones. The odds are better that the five weekdays will have something interesting in them anyway, but the weekend ones attract a different audience, who often cannot participate in the week, and it would be nice if those days could have at least a fighting chance of making sure there was something discussion worthy. It is two days versus five, and the odds mean that most of the discussion will be on those five days. It is just tilting the odds a little so that the weekenders can have a chance of something indepth too.

As for modding, I would suggest that this whole section be just for talking to yourself. Keep the peanut gallery to the GC, there is no real need for any thread in this section have anyone except yourself, Case, and the person who contacted you. It would ensure a clearer line of communication.

[case]

Like I keep saying though, Fridays aren't necessarily "wanky." Half the time there's one or two secrets about something potentially triggering, and the rest are just spoilers. Moving it wouldn't actually solve anything, and I can't predict which secrets are going to cause wank or which are going to be ignored. Wank spawns from secrets you don't expect to be wanky at all.

I think I'll start adding a note to not chime in with troll-calling, yeah. But sometimes people do step in with relevant or helpful stuff, so I'm not going to say nobody ever.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you for the bit about stepping on the troll-calling, I think that will make a difference in fostering some community cohesiveness and ending the anon hate. Thank you.

I respectfully disagree on the Friday secrets not being the wank ones. They may not intentionally be so, but they have a greater chance of being just for the sheer value of having either challenging or spoileriffic content. It would be nice to boost the chance for those of us who can only participate on weekends having something to really provoke discussion.

And on that note, I would like to apologise for having my first post seem so confrontational. It is just that it is frustrating not being able to participate in the active discussion phase of the weekday posts and then these last two nights to have been the weakest of the secrets, again. It just seems to be every weekend they are a bit bland and I miss out, so I was frustrated. I just think that shifting the posts that have a higher chance of being discussion worthy to the weekends would be good for those who always miss out during the week. Again, sorry for being so confrontational.

[case]

No problem, no offense taken!

I do get where you're coming from, I'm just not sure of a way to resolve it (and I genuinely don't think front loading spoilers is the answer, for other reasons too - more people are here on weekends and avoiding spoilers is that much harder). Plus I don't know which secrets are going to be wanky - sometimes one secret that mention a topic passes by without any notice, and another that mentions the same one explodes. A lot depends on who's around that that day and what their opinions are.

Case in point, someone stating they definitely believe Courtney Love killed Kurt Cobain could explode in wank. It might also not. It's definitely a strong opinion, just one that (presumably?) doesn't interest you. Even the top/bottom wank is a classic one that has been wanked about before but again (presumably?) doesn't interest you. How am I supposed to decide this, and by whose scale, and how do I know you'll like it?

ETA: Maybe some kind of middle ground? I don't want to cherry-pick for weekends, but if stuff like "I ship this" comes up, I can shuffle it back in for later, since I don't think people would mind (1-2 out of ~60 is a lot less than 1-2 out of ~20). It won't necessarily mean the weekends end up with the wanky secrets, though.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you. I'm not sure if you are completely getting my point, but I don't see much point trying to belabour it. I think any effort might help though, so thank you for shifting the I ship it and the obscure fandoms back out to midweek.

[(Anonymous)]

But what counts as the "weakest of the secrets" is completely subjective. You're asking him to just know somehow which secrets are going to cause discussion, and, on top of that, which secrets are going to interest YOU personally.

[diet_poison]

I think you're being ridiculous. You're literally asking him to cater to you in the way he structures this comm.

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[dethtoll]

0/0

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[(Anonymous)]

Could the midweek fair also come with cotton candy and a ferris wheel? Ooh! And a funhouse ride!

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[case]

We don't have the budget!