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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2011-11-09 08:20 pm
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It'd hit it/I ship it, take two.

Two things to keep in mind before you vote!

1) Shipping/hitting secrets are still allowed currently as long as there's something more to the secret than the single sentiments "I ship it" or "I'd hit it." The only hit/ship secrets that get put in the failbar are the ones that don't have any other content besides "I ship it" or "I'd hit it." This vote is about the latter category, not the former.

2) Realize that as soon as secrets like the above are allowed back in, we'll have trolls spamming the submissions post with dozens of images with only "I ship it" or "I'd hit it" on them (probably of completely random/unrelated characters). So, prepare for a ton of spam along with the genuine secrets, since something as simple as "I ship it" or "I'd hit it" gives me no context with which to judge whether it's a spam troll or not.

[Poll #1793780]


As a side note, 'this is my ___-spiration' are going to remain gone and that's final, as all that became was pretty much a contest to find the best pun that ends in '-spiration' (and it's not so much different to say 'this inspires me to ___' in the first place).

(Anonymous) 2011-11-10 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
If they end up staying in the failbar, can we please rename the category to "shitspiration"?

(Anonymous) 2011-11-10 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
I don't understand why people want to see hitship secrets when all they say is I ship it. Why? You might find a rare pairing you thought only you shipped one out of a hundred times but is it worth the other 99 and half of those are stupid or trolling or mainstream anyway? Somebody explain this to me

(Anonymous) 2011-11-10 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
Aw, but -spiration secrets were my punspiration.

(Anonymous) 2011-11-10 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
Plus it's not like you can't see the good ones when they're in the failbar. Just click the little numbers.

[identity profile] i-am-drunk-rn.livejournal.com 2011-11-10 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
oh man

(Anonymous) 2011-11-10 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
I think they're fun and sometimes I like asking people speculating on why people are keeping the mainstream/tame stuff such a secret. Sure a lot of them are stupid or trolling but so are a lot of the other secrets.

But I don't mind that people want to keep them off the comm either. It's fine with me.

+1

(Anonymous) 2011-11-10 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
this

(Anonymous) 2011-11-10 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
This. Just because it doesn't make the post doesn't mean it's not on the comm at all.

(Anonymous) 2011-11-10 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
I can't appreciate trolls that lack creativity. No! Make 'em work for my entertainment.

[identity profile] choffman.livejournal.com 2011-11-10 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
Most of the time it's like how is this in any fucking way a secret, anyway.

(Anonymous) 2011-11-10 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
maybe you could let them back in and when the rules change, make a special post for those kinds of secrets. you could make it like an ~"i ship it" event~ and that should take the brunt of the flood, then posting will resume mostly as normal?

(Anonymous) 2011-11-10 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
I like this idea.

[identity profile] landale.livejournal.com 2011-11-10 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
Unless your pairing is extremely odd, chances are you shipping it is not exactly a secret interesting enough to tell anybody.

[identity profile] relic-of-asgard.livejournal.com 2011-11-10 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
I like this idea too!

[identity profile] kryptoncat.livejournal.com 2011-11-10 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
Sounds like a party!

(Anonymous) 2011-11-10 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
i ain't gotta explain shit!

[identity profile] stunt-muppet.livejournal.com 2011-11-10 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
I still think it's a better idea to have a reason why the ship is a secret, even if it's just "this ship is very unpopular in fandom". That curbs the spam somewhat and makes the secret more interesting, especially for people who may not know the fandom.

[identity profile] fingalsanteater.livejournal.com 2011-11-10 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
Keep 'em in the failbar, for sure. How hard is it to say "I ship it because x, y and z. s!b: My ass would catch on fire from all the flaming. Fandom hates this pairing." So you ship Data/Picard (OTP!). So what? Tell us why this is such a secret.

[identity profile] fingalsanteater.livejournal.com 2011-11-10 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
I like the idea of having an event, but not letting the shipping secrets back in. Maybe a friendingmeme sort of thing? Kind of like a shippingmeme, where we all divulge our greatest shipping secrets and see who else is game and rec fic and discuss. A shipping slumber party! Sounds fun.

[identity profile] raichu100.livejournal.com 2011-11-10 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
I agree, this is a good idea.

[identity profile] supersyncspaz7.livejournal.com 2011-11-10 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
Of all the ideas in this thread, this is the one I like the most. Can we talk about our first OTPs and squee over our new ones and make silly fan art too?

[identity profile] rosehiptea.livejournal.com 2011-11-10 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
Now that is an excellent idea.

[identity profile] rocks-not-dead.livejournal.com 2011-11-10 06:36 am (UTC)(link)
To be honest, I'd be more for bringing back the -spiration secrets. I mean, a lot of them were actually legit. And I never got to make mine before they got banned. :(

[identity profile] sairei.livejournal.com 2011-11-10 08:09 am (UTC)(link)
Dear people who write "I ship it" secrets,

The internet ships everything. No one gives a shit about what a person ships. You are not a special snowflake just because your ship is uncommon.

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