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Site needs a Fan-Fic section

kain9primekain9prime Member Posts: 739 Arc User
edited September 2013 in Ten Forward
This part of the forum is supposed to be about topics pertaining to non-STO Star Trek and other sci-fi, fantasy, action, etc. movies and shows + life and anything else fitting within the TOU that's related to creating a non-game discussion.

And then it gets inundated with fan-fics.

Site admins should make a section for people who want to have a writing exhibition so the topics in here don't get cluttered with their stuff.


**Deposits 2 cents
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  • capnshadow27capnshadow27 Member Posts: 1,731 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    This section IS for fan-fics.....

    read the little nifty descriptor for the section that is the mighty ten forward. THIS is essentially the social zone for the STO forum....
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  • kain9primekain9prime Member Posts: 739 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    ^ Which is weird to me, because every other "franchise" forum that I'm on will have a section specifically for that kind of thing so as to not clutter the general chit-chat area with people's stories.
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  • capnshadow27capnshadow27 Member Posts: 1,731 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    General chit chat section is General Discussion....

    Seriously go through and read the little things below each section..
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    edited September 2013
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  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,966 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    I don't think it would be necessarily a bad idea to collect the site's fics in another subforum so you don't have to sort through the "forumites being silly" threads.
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  • philipclaybergphilipclayberg Member Posts: 1,680
    edited September 2013
    starswordc wrote: »
    "forumites being silly"

    Hey -- I resemble that remark.
  • ambassadormolariambassadormolari Member Posts: 709 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    Maybe what the forum needs is a megathread full of links to various people's fanfics. In fact, I think I may get around to that...
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  • bluegeekbluegeek Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    A brief explanation...

    First, yes, this is the correct forum for posting fan-fic.

    Consider the title. Ten Forward is a place where patrons can swap stories. In other words, fan-fic.

    It is also a place for the... less formal discussions that happen. You could even replace the words "less formal" with "strange" or "humorous" and probably not be too far off. Still, we generally expect the content here to be at least tangentally relevant to the STO community. Star Trek, science fiction, gaming, the community itself, etc.

    Star Trek Online General Discussion on the other hand is "strictly" for discussion about Star Trek Online that doesn't fit in a better forum. We can debate the definition of "strictly" and it may not be all that consistent, but that's what it's supposed to be for.

    There is a sub-forum underneath Ten Forward called the Captains' Table that is set aside for interactive roleplaying through the forums. You're welcome to suggest to the Community Manager that perhaps fan-fic belongs there as well.

    The Devs don't want too many forums and sub-forums. There are already a lot of them and you've got an uphill battle to convince BranFlakes to add more. Juggling them a bit, though, that might be doable.
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  • bluegeekbluegeek Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    ambassadormolari wrote: »
    Maybe what the forum needs is a megathread full of links to various people's fanfics. In fact, I think I may get around to that...

    And if you do that, and you're open to maintaining it, you could ask for a sticky thread and possibly get it.
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  • kain9primekain9prime Member Posts: 739 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    patrickngo wrote: »
    To Kain9prime:

    If you don't like it, you don't have to read it...
    Well aware of that option, however, on occasion there are "story" titles that give the impression they're potential subjects for discussion when they aren't. You realize it after you click and see the wall of text starting with "Captain's log" or "Captain So 'n' so walked to the window of his ready room."

    I've honestly never been on a site where discussion threads and fan-fics are in one forum.

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    bluegeek wrote: »
    And if you do that, and you're open to maintaining it, you could ask for a sticky thread and possibly get it.
    ^^ I think that's a perfect compromise.
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  • azniadeetazniadeet Member Posts: 1,871 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    I don't think it would be a terrible idea to divide up the ten-forward forum so that one is creative writing and the other is random "OMG LOLCAT YES" and such.
  • ambassadormolariambassadormolari Member Posts: 709 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    bluegeek wrote: »
    And if you do that, and you're open to maintaining it, you could ask for a sticky thread and possibly get it.

    I like that idea! I'll set up the thread, then. If people want, they can forward me the links to their fanfics by PM, and I'll post them.
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