ADMIN POST: The Mission Report Challenge

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

Okay, this comes from an idea by nudaydreamer and it's like, three--three!--cool challenges in one! As she puts it:

I'd love to see a Mission Report Challenge. We all know some crazy shit happens on those other worlds, and authors could choose to a) write a (pornalicious?) Report That Will Never Actually Be Filed Because Elizabeth Would Freak Out And Such, b) write a euphemistically suggestive report that leaves those of us with dirty minds quite clear on what happened, without being explicit, or possibly c) take another author's story and write a report of type a or b for it.

Everybody got that? See, it's kind of a Document Challenge and it's kind of a Remix and it's kind of Classified and Porny--or not; it's a festival, really. Now to clarify about option c)--if you choose to write a mission report of somebody else's story, we'll ask you to credit them, but we won't require you to ask their permission Edited to add: and get their permission, or check the links below. HOWEVER, if you want to opt OUT of option c)--i.e. tell people that they can't write a mission report of your story or stories, even with credit--please leave a comment in this post ASAP. Edited to add: link to new opt-out post below! We WILL ask challenge respondents to check before posting that the writer hasn't opted out of the challenge. Edited to add: Merryish reminds me to say that it is, of course, perfectly acceptable to write a mission report on one of your own stories!

It's August 21st; stories will be due on Monday, September 4th, Labor Day, at midnight.


Edited to add: Freezing comments here: click here for a policy clarification, opt-in, and opt-out posts are above.

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[hth-the-first.livejournal.com]

Either way, Ces doesn't have the authority to open season on anyone's fic.

No, but she has the absolute authority to decide what may and may not be posted on sga_flashfic Whether or not people have a moral and ethical right to tinker with someone else's story, the simple truth is there isn't actually a fandom police and we can't stop them. What we can do, if we wish, is bar them from publishing it in certain venues to show our disapproval. That's at the discretion of community/list/archive moderators.

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[seperis.livejournal.com]

That's true. The only point being made was permission to remix can't be given by any but the author in question as the only one with any actual--ownership is not the right word here. Signficiant interest? I agree, the community manager can only give permission to post the fic in the community. That's the objection, I suppose, in a nutshell. Fanpersons can't necessarily be stopped, but whether or not it's condoned.

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[miera-c.livejournal.com]

No, but she has the absolute authority to decide what may and may not be posted on sga_flashfic

Yes, she does. I'm curious why the mods didn't confine the available pool for this challenge to the fic from this community only. I have a strong suspicion that had the challenge been confined only to either previously published fic from this community or from authors who are members here, at least some of the stress going on might have been avoided. Authors who are members here would have gotten a heads up and authors who are not would not need to feel any concern.