questions of fandom etiquette

[badbastion]

Under the cut is a poll on a few parts on fandom etiquette, regarding fandom fest art and comments. Also a poll because I'm wondering why the comment section has not been as robust as it used to be.



Feel free to click as many boxes as you want! Comments are welcome.

Edit: Please ignore the first question. In the spirit of the rule "Do not post anywhere before your assigned posting date," I won't be livestreaming, because it would feel like trying to get around that rule. It honestly kind of slipped my mind, oops!

I know already that reversebang art is meant to be absolutely private until reveals are up.

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Thanks for taking the time to answer!

Comments

[dephigravity.livejournal.com]

I have been horrible at having anything to do with fandom lately, and unfortunately LJ is just not that active of a platform. So I wouldn't take the lesser amount of comments too seriously, because we are all having that issue. It has nothing to do with the quality of your work, trust me.

As for livestreaming, I don't personally consider that posting unless you leave an archive of the video. I would avoid doing it for Reverse Bangs and other anonymous fests since those are supposed to be anonymous art, though. As for other BB's, I think it would be courteous to ask your author, but not necessarily required. One of the main reasons why RBB tweaked and reiterated that rule is because during the spn_masquerade meme, someone reposted art onto tumblr before the artist was even able to claim it as their own or post to their own blog. That type of thing should be an obvious case of DON'T DO IT, but apparently artists and comms now have to spell out common sense to some people.

[badbastion.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Lj activity has fallen off, and I'm really getting that through these comments. It's jus tthat there was such a big difference from when i was last posting in February and then when i start posting again in August, and it was really obvious instead of a gradual slowing down, so it sort of startled me! lol

Ah, I've decided against livestreaming, as that would go against the spirit of the rules, even if it's not explicitly stated in the rules. Even if it was ok in the rules, I'd still want to ask my author because as someone else pointed out, they wouldn't want to have others see artwork for a story they'd not yet posted. I think that makes sense :)

Oh man, that's dumb! Tumblr can be a dumb place, lol. People probably still won't care about that rule.