[ SECRET POST #2233 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2233 ⌋

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I run a small fandom community and I'm not sure what to do.

[(Anonymous)]

The fandom is based off real people...kind of.

It's not this, but imagine this: you have a group of people who all play an eSport. They make a great team together and regularly livestream/upload their practice runs and their games and sometimes even other content. In those streams and videos, sometimes they go "in character" of the character on the screen, and sometimes they don't. We know real life details of some of these folks and for others we know nothing.

Naturally, the regular watchers are a small but existent fandom. There's a subreddit for the group, and the actual content makers are active members of that place, as well as livestream chat rooms and video comments. And just as naturally, a small subset of those regular watchers ships...the people? The characters they play, as represented by those people? Something like that. Or, you know, just wants a place to talk about these people without the people themselves watching.

I created first a kink meme then a full fledged community for this side of the fandom. It's small, with maybe a dozen regular posters, but there's new stuff almost every day, from "did you see that moment in that livestream?" posts to fanfics and fanart. We're a small, tight-knit community, and we like it that way. The community is open viewing and requires a DW account to post. Most of the fanfic is pretty strictly persona only - not the real people with their real relationships and families, but in-game characterizations, settings, and yes sometimes shippy relationships and erotica.

Sometimes - and lately more and more often - someone from the subreddit finds out about this community then posts about it on said subreddit, with various responses, and often those responses are quite negative, including some negative responses from the people themselves.

I don't want to shut down the community, that's for sure. I don't like the idea of making it completely invite-only or something, because I personally believe that fannish works should be freely out there for people to have. And luckily the negative nancies have yet to actually comment in the community itself. But damnit, it's getting intimidating, and the negative reactions from the "official" community is going to do nothing but scare fanwork makers away.

What's a moderator to do?

Re: I run a small fandom community and I'm not sure what to do.

[(Anonymous)]

either friends-lock, or just try to keep the drama off-site as much as you can

there's not much you can do, beyond keeping the peace inside the comm