Questions for the list

[kellifer]

2 things that I have been wondering about... considering I'm never particularly up with the online etiquette and value opinions...

1. For the writers - do you post stories to multiple communities? I usually pick one and my journal or just my journal and that's it but I'm seriously considering cutting back the number of communities I'm a member of because it seems lately I'm scrolling through five or six entries of the same story over and over again... I have a non-community filter but I *like* finding new authors to read but this is just defeating me...

2. Why do people put for their story summaries like - "I would summarise but it will spoil the story" *or* "I suck at summaries. Just read." I'm paraphrasing... ;) I put an excerpt because that's what I like to see, but sometime it's like, help me out and give me an idea of what your story is. Otherwise, I just skip right over it.

What's people's preferred method?

Comments

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

if you wait a few hours of even a few days between posting to different comms.

See, that kind of weirds me out too... I keep seeing stories posted, and then a few days later they turn up again... and then another day and they turn up again. They confuse me because I usually read backwards from the most recent entries until I hit something familiar (I know, it's probably an odd way to read your friends list) and I'll hit one of these stories and think "Hmm, seen that before so I can stop paging back" but then the entries underneath it I haven't seen.

That's probably just me. I'd love if there was a way to tag the most recent entry on your friends list, so when you come back to livejournal a day or two days later you can go back to that tagged entry and start reading from there...

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

Each to their own I guess. It's what they keep recommending on sga_noticeboard and so that's what I do. I generally don't click too far back on my friends list or check it that often (except for the real people), so it's never bothered me much.