On Jun 13, 2006, at 9:01 PM, Jason Liao wrote:

Meh.  I was kind of hoping to delurk with a half-decent fic, not a
response...

If the FFML is "reincarnateed" into a web forum, then who'd join?   
ff.net
already exists and has more people.  I'd like to see a web  
interface to
help people find and use the FFML (and *searchable* archives.  a  
gzip file
by month isn't precisely the most friendly), but the way to really  
attract
people is to be different than ff.net, not to be the come-lately  
smaller
cousin.

Point.

That said, I think what some people deem to be the "unforgiving"   
quality
can be an attraction, if sold properly.  fanfic.net is fairly  
worthless
for good detailed commentary, so why not position the FFML to fill  
that
need?  In fact, this list was originally supposed to be for fine  
tuning
drafts before they went to the RAAC, right?  Why can't we do the  
same with
fanfic.net?  "Don't trust the reviewer who typed 'wat a goooood fic'?
Submit it to the FFML for some quality commentary."  Sure, those  
who don't
care about how to improve their writing won't want to join - but those
aren't the sort of people we'd necessarily want, anyway.

Which was my earlier point, but it means opening up to a wider range  
of fandoms and we're gonna be opening ourselves to some things like  
Spam and ad-bots. The idea that you can get balls to the wall no  
holds barred critique here is why I've stuck around here for so long.

Admittedly, I'd probably get more C&C if I handed it out, but I  
really don't know much about spelling and grammer and the mechanics  
to hand it out.

In any case, yeah. But whatever happens, the FFML does need to  
evolve. Somehow.

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