Feb 2020: bakerstreet discussion post

[thelongcon]

It has been some time since one of these last were up, and there are several things we'll like to bring up:

First, we would like to thank the people who have occasionally bought paid time for the community.

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Second, just a quick reminder of some rules:

• The comm runs on EST time, so take that into account when posting please.
• Do include the comm name you're linking to when making crossposts, as this makes it easier to see everything at a glance
• When posting multiple memes, the limit is two per post.
• The two weeks rule for posting counts by adding 14 days after the day posted. Say you posted on the 10^th, the next time the meme can go up would be the 24^th. The posting day does not count as one of the 14 days

*bull; ETA Keeping longer memes under a cut, and header images under 500 px wide as a courtesy to other players

For memes that break the rules, if there are few comments, we will likely just contact the poster and delete the post in question. Otherwise, we will just contact the poster know.

However since this has never been laid out explicitly before - we're thinking of fully implementing a consequence system that starts with warnings, before soft banning. Say 1 warning, then a 3 month ban. Repeated behaviour will result in longer bans afterwards.

ETA: From this point on

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Third, if anyone has input towards combination memes versus individual memes such some of the specific shipping memes (ie. Opposites attract vs cheerful/grumpy & light/dark individually), or some of the picture prompt memes that have been coming up. I know some of them have been combined, though we still have ones that are separated.

Input would be appreciated

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Fourth, meme ideas people want to see.

For example, there's the recent ship texts meme that seems to have come up for Valentine's day, would any of you enjoy other holiday memes?

Another suggestion that there be some kind of sexts from last night meme separate from the regular TFLN or Sexting meme

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And last, any other feedback, opinions or suggestions you'll like to bring up. [Thread]

Comments

[justformemes]

We do have an A/B/O meme and I occasionally post it, but every time I've gone to do so, the In Heat/In Rut or Werewolf Pack Romance AU Meme has just been posted and I feel it's too close to both of those to add to the litany of overdone themes and meme saturation. I've been planning on doing it soon, so if any of the other posters can hold off on doing either the in heat or werewolf meme for a week (since the in heat meme was recently put up), I'll happily put that one up.

same anon

[(Anonymous)]

Got it! I'm relatively new to the comm so I was unsure if it was a thing or not, so I'll keep my eyes open for it!

I agree those are similar ones, I guess I wish the heat/rut wasn't so blatantly 'this is not ABO' or maybe just offered prompts that ARE abo? Then people don't need to worry about another meme with similar-ish themes. But I digress.

Thanks for the information :)

Re: same anon

[justformemes]

For what it's worth, in memes like the in heat/rut meme, you can always just put in your prompt that you're interested in playing out a/b/o options. The main part of the meme is essentially for people that don't want to play a/b/o, but there's no reason you can't actually play in it, since it has some of the prompts for it and you can always just add in your comment that you'd like this, that, and also are open to other things.

Personally, I think it would help if people would be more willing to step outside the handful of prompts on a meme (that's why wildcard options are there in the first place) and that people tagging in would be willing to play that as well. I think a lot of people don't because they don't want to scare off people from tagging, but I see it as more of a wider net cast.

Still, hopefully I'll be able to get it up possibly closer to the end of the week, if nothing's put up in the way of it or someone else doesn't put it up first. :)

[(Anonymous)]

Playing something in a meme that fits the general theme but isn't covered under one of the prompts doesn't really work, though. I remember posting on a "Beauty and the Beast/Love will break the Curse" meme asking to play it non-shippy/platonically, and even got a few good-sized threads going, but people bitched about it behind my back to no end.

[justformemes]

Sorry to hear that, anon. That sounds more along the lines of whoever is complaining about it being catty and not really aware of the actual situation. If people were playing with you, then it was doing what it was designed to do; to let you play what you wanted to play with someone else who wanted to play it. Seems like a lot of the complaints come from people it isn't actually affecting and who just want to complain. As you can see in most of the discussion threads, someone's always going to complain about something.

As long as you and your rp partners are cool with it, then the lookie-loos are just making noise to make noise. I hope you keep playing how you feel works best for you, anon.