fandomsecrets | (no subject)

Lots of people have been bringing this up: what do you think about having the secret makers put the fandom in the image itself, rather than the name-the-fandom thread? Like a note at the bottom of the image (eta: or a note in the comment itself) that says:

fandom: Dr. Who, or fandom: House, or fandom: fanfiction/fanart/rp, or fandom: Pokemon/Twilight Crossover with a Bella the Bellsprout and her sparkly vampire virgin pikachu boyfriend

I'd go into effect starting with the next subs post (so everything submitted this week is fine, don't worry). The first comment would still be there for repeats and stuff like that.

[Poll #1272473]

What if the fandom is so small, spilling it would reveal the maker's identity?
If they didn't want to name the fandom, they probably wouldn't name characters or anything, right? So if it were like "I ship this one character with this other one, but no one else does and I feel alone, but this fandom is so small everyone would know it's me // fandom: character shipping"? That could work.

Does the fandom tag have to be on the image itself?
On second thought, probably not. You could just include it in the comment you put the link in, and that would work, too!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

I agree with those saying 'don't make it a rule, but encourage the practice of putting the fandom on the secret.'

It's when the secret isn't really a secret anymore that sort of... I dunno, violates the spirit of the community--and what happens when the secret doesn't HAVE a fandom per se, or the fandom is an actor who's really fucking obvious? Or when someone lists eighty million fandoms and says 'I loved all of these but now I finally have an OTP in THIS fandom?' That's a lot of pixel real estate to be taking up.

ps. I'm assuming that when the fandom is on the graphic, the text is unnecessary? Y/Y?

If it isn't a rule, then it's pointless.

Encouragement doesn't go too far on the internet. The "name-the-fandom" thread is a good example. It started off well when it first began but now anyone rarely ever posts anything other than listing the repeats. People are lazy. In then end, the only secrets that get named would be the obvious ones if any.

I say, force people to name the fandom, however keep the list separate. And then using either tabs or a separate comment or post have the names randomly listed without telling which secret they go to. That way those who truly want to know the fandom can do their research using the internet. And those who don't care can ignore. And the secret-maker doesn't have to be compromised.

Isn't that, ultimately, more work for the moderator? I don't see the benefit of requiring it (especially in cases like I mentioned, where it's tangentially fandom, but references a lot of them, or a fandom trend) in the way you suggest, really. That's a lot more compiling (it's a daily post, and even with random generation, that's more gathering and copypastaing than is really necessary, in 95% of the cases) than it is right now, and for what? the sake of curiosity? Why bother with all that work?

I guess I'm saying it's kind of pointless anyway, in most cases, because the big fandoms are the ones that we all know about already, and the smaller fandoms are the ones whose secret-makers are made the most vulnerable by this.

technophile seems to be willing to work with this else he wouldn't have brought it up. And if the poll is any indication it looks like it's going to happen anyways. I'm just providing an alternative other than listing the series under the secret so that there isn't as much butthurt but still allows a person to find out the series (through his/her own research).

And it's more than for the sake of curiosity. A secret can be the door to a brand new series to get involved in. If it hadn't been for one secret, I might have never gotten into Princess Tutu, which is one of my favorite series ever now.