The Posting of The Stories

[moonlettuce.livejournal.com]

Since there have been some concerns raised over the fact that the stories are now going to be posted to a website, I'd like to clarify some things.

The original intention was to post the stories to LJ via either Al, myself, or an admin account that Al and I would set up, in order to maintain the anonymity (damn, I had to think about spelling that *g*) of the authors.

Then we had 82 people sign up.

LJ would have been a lovely way to post the stories (and believe us we thought of everything, including setting up a completely different LJ to just post the stories in), but ultimately, it comes down to one simple fact. Posting 82 stories on the sga_santa community would absolutely flood people's friends lists.

We decided that the easiest way to get around this was to post them to a website and to post a link to the index page in the LJ.

When the reveal is done (and we're aiming for Jan 1st with this), I will remove the story of anyone who wishes it and include an external link to wherever they have posted the story.

If anyone still has issues with the way this is going to be done, then please let me know.

Comments

[amalthia]

Just because people think the anonymity won't last two minutes doesn't mean we shouldn't try to keep it. I don't plan on telling anyone which story is mine and considering I've never written for SGA I think I have a good shot of no one figuring me out. I'm probably not the only person who's never posted a fic for SGA or only posted one or two stories. I think there are very few authors people will recognize right away and even then...it could still be up in the air.

I guess to me LJ or website...as long as the story is readable it doesn't make that big a difference.

I think it also gives people not using LJ a chance to read the fics too. I don't think people should be obligated to get a LJ to enjoy the fandom or the fics, and it's slowly going that route. (anyway this is a separate issue all together)

I also don't think moonlettuce will remove warnings or screw up the formatting for the fics. and I'm probably not the only person that prefers their method to the one where everyone is unveiled before anyone has a chance to read the fics.

I'm sure there is probably an alternative solution...but keep in mind that some people actually like the idea of keeping things anonymous for at least a week. If it's only 3 or 4 people who don't like the idea of having their story posted on a website, thats not enough people to make global wide changes. I mean what about the 3 or 4 people who really like the idea of sharing their story via a website? maybe there's a way to do both?