OOC DISCUSSION.

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OOC DISCUSSION

This is an attempt to centralize TLH memes and, perhaps, even smut memes in general. So far, it's only a shaky experiment, but I would like to get feedback for future endeavors and how to proceed from this point.

IP logging is off, anon commenting is on. Talk to your heart's content!

Update: TLH mod and I are in contact. Hopefully, we will figure something out! I'm going to try and get in touch with the bakerstreet mod, as well. Also, I've just talked to some meme socks and they've told me they'll be willing to make exclusive content just for this meme. Lots of fun stuff in store.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

assuming people would stop linking them at bakerstreet, that would be great.

i can't browse bakerstreet at all when someone might swing by during the day because of either INCEST FROTTAGE WHATEVER or gifs. either i have the chance of someone looking over my shoulder or it's something that makes me uncomfortable and just because you put TW: PEOPLE FUCKING or whatever doesn't make it less uncomfortable.

tl;dr please

[(Anonymous)]

I think this is a great idea. I'd prefer if all smut memes were in one place. It makes them easier to find while at the same time allowing bakerstreet some breathing room.

+1

[(Anonymous)]

[(Anonymous)]

Didn't we try this already? The end result was everyone linked to bakerstreet anyway and then no one used it.

-1/+1

[(Anonymous)]

the problem is if you don't link to bakerstreet, you get no new blood. nobody comes to the tlh when there aren't memes, unless you count the usual gross group.

maybe there should be a round up post with just links?

[(Anonymous)]

does it hurt to try again?

[(Anonymous)]

who cares?

[(Anonymous)]

The memes are starting to really clog up TLH too, honestly. Smut memes are fun, but maybe a community for them specifically would be good. These are popular memes, so if people enjoy them they can go looking.

Just pop a link in on Bakerstreet with a SFW picture but clear NSFW tag / intentions with the link to the new comm so people can go looking if they want it and keep scrolling if they don't.

Though linking to TLH is nice too, because yeah, fresh meat is always nice.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah. If there /must/ be smut memes, can we at least put cuts around them so it doesn't look like we're looking at porn when we're trying to find this week's TFLN post?

[(Anonymous)]

i would say get officially affiliated with the love hotel and bakerstreet, but lmao expecting either of those shit mods to do anything

[(Anonymous)]

>if there must be smut memes

yes how very dare people

[(Anonymous)]

I'd rather see memes shifted back to TLH's OOC comm. Yet another meme comm sounds like a pain to follow.

[(Anonymous)]

no real horse in this race, but doubt it will work: 'gen' sums up a lot of different genres, whereas shipping/smut are essentially a (very popular) niche. most people who play in smut memes will also want to take a look at gen memes (which are usually open to shipping/smut options anyway) as well, and bakerstreet is a currently reliable and convenient way to get both gen and smut via the same community. so they'll keep only checking bakerstreet, and you'll end up having to link your individual memes to bakerstreet in order to get replies to them, which will not exactly solve the issue you are trying to address.

one thing i guess you might try - but would mean a bit of work on the mods' part - would be to post smut memes here and then to make a daily text/link-only compilation post that would get posted in the evening, in the vein of the sunday meme round-up. that would, in theory, both get your memes some traffic, advertise them to interested parties, and "spare" the virginal eyes of some bakerstreet goers.

speaking as someone who only plays gen, i don't really think there's a need for two communities, but that's just me and my 'scroll away' policy.

[(Anonymous)]

careful with all that pearl clutching, you'll ruin your dainty hands.

[(Anonymous)]

you like texts from last night

you void your ability to critique anyone on taste

[(Anonymous)]

it doesn't hurt, but it's going to end the same way as every other attempt at a dedicated smut meme comm: never used much during its short life before it gets forgotten a month later.

[(Anonymous)]

it's great that you want to try something new, but this won't work unless either bakerstreet or tlh banned smut memes altogether. people don't want to go to yet another place to look for memes and won't as long as it's convenient not to. people already despise tlh's mod for being a lazy shit who does nothing but show up to police how often memes are posted, and i don't even know if bakerstreet has a mod, so don't expect much of anything to happen.

+1

[(Anonymous)]

Remember risan? The mod gushed forever on anoncomms about how she's going to work long and hard and turn it into the new go-to place for smut events and memes, then abandoned it barely two weeks later because it didn't quickly become popular.

[(Anonymous)]

Personally, as long as the pictures are behind cuts so I can still browse at work without having to freak that someone is looking over my shoulder while I scroll, it doesn't really matter to me. I play them once in a while, but the main annoyance I have with them is the NSFW pictures all over the place.

[(Anonymous)]

you shouldn't be on bakerstreet at work anyway you dumbasses

[(Anonymous)]

only sith deal in absolutes

[(Anonymous)]

There's such a thing as breaks, you know?

[(Anonymous)]

"you shouldn't ____ at work anyway" is a deflection based on an intentionally overly literal interpretation of "not safe for work." setting aside the aforementioned concept of a break, people rp in a variety of situations where others might see their screens. many rpers live with families or roommates. some use public computers in a library or college lab. some rp on smartphones while riding public transportation. perhaps you spend all your free time alone in a locked room, but the rest of us sometimes use our computers in situations where there is another person around.

[(Anonymous)]

I go on during my breaks, personally, but it's still on a company computer in the break room where there's tons of people milling around.

[(Anonymous)]

This. I always feel weird getting on bakerstreet when I'm not home alone because of this and I'm hardly ever home alone. :( *speed scrolling* is like my only hope lol