ADMIN: Mission Report Clarification (aka "Running Challenges Is Harrrrd")

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Whoa, whoa--okay, okay! We hear you! While we remain philosophically committed to the idea that people have the right to make art based on other art provided that due credit is given the original artist, this is supposed to be fun, not a referendum on the nature of derivative works.

Also, we'd like this to be less work for us.

So here's what we're gonna do. DO ask permission if you want to try option C in the Mission Report challenge. In order to make it easier for this to happen, I'm going to make two other posts--a global opt-in and a global opt-out (to spare people who don't want to be bothered asking or refusing individuals.)

If you opted out already--and opted out without exception, because a number of you said "just ask for permission" which is now the default--so if you opted out without exception, I'll put your name on the global opt-out post, so don't worry; you're covered.

If you would like to opt-in globally, please drop a comment on the opt-in post.

If you're not sure, do nothing! Wait for someone to contact you, or not! (I actually personally think we're not going to get many option c)'s in general, because I think they're going to be hard to write--but I'd love to be surprised.)

While I'm here, another couple of points of clarification:

1) I suppose I'm to blame for using the word "remix"; please note that this is NOT a conventional remix, but a mission report. The idea of c) is to tell the same story, differently--in mission report form--not to change the original story in a radical way; if something really weird happened on mission, how might that come across in the formal report?

2) We were surprised by how many people feared having gen stories or other-pairing stories mixed into McShep. That was certainly not the intention of the challenge--again, this was supposed to be a mission report challenge, so it's supposed to reflect (distort, embellish, conceal) what actually happened on the mission, the original story being the mission.

3) corinna_5 asked a great question: "Can ONLY stories in mission-report format can be submitted? Or is it that the idea of the "mission report" can be played with in the way, say "documentation" was in that challenge? " Answer: No, you can write stories about or that feature mission reports as key plot points; we continue to preach latitude in the hope that we get as many good stories as possible.

If you have any other questions or comments or DO want to keep debating the nature of derivative art, please comment here. If you are GLOBALLY OPTING IN or OUT, please comment in one of the two next posts!!

Out for now--

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I don't see why not! (Though survey says: ask the artist! *g*)