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ladynero (
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Porn Battles is now Closed...
... And I'm not sure it won't be permanently.
Despite all the time we gave everyone and all the prompts, only
THREE
prompts were submitted.
Is the community dying? Is it dead? What can we do to keep it alive and not just on life support?
I'm not sure it's worth posting a master list for three stories......
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mllesatine
2011-02-15 06:28 pm UTC
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I'm afraid it's dead. Thanks for all the hard work,
ladynero
. I'm sure it's not your or the other mod's fault. Oxoniensis' porn battle on LJ and DW just ended and people contributed there? I don't know.
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dogmatix
2011-02-15 07:34 pm UTC
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;_; awww. I know I didn't contribute because I just have no time, but I really enjoyed it when I could. (plus actual smut is hard to draw/write, and finding a place that'll ~host~ nc-17 gay smex is, uh, difficult. Unless possibly you have a y-gallery, which I don't =/ )
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k8bnimble
2011-02-16 01:34 am UTC
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Speaking for myself - I just found this community in the August round and wrote for the last 2 rounds in which I got 1 comment in total for the two things I wrote. Then when the Masterlists for both rounds didn't get put up for an extraordinarily long time, it felt like no one was participating so when RL kicked my ass the past two months and I had to give up a few things I had planned to do - this was one of them that went as I felt no one cared if I wrote anything or not. I gave up a few other fests too so don't feel too singled out.
One thing I noticed is it seems there's a lot of focus on Final Fantasy. I get that's a popular fandom but it's overwhelming when the majority of prompts are for that fandom - as are most of the stories and comments. It makes me almost not want to write the others as I know they probably won't be read.
Maybe you could only accept the first five prompts of any particular fandom (1st come first serve) to offer a wider variety (but fewer overall prompts maybe)or make the fests more narrowed in focus - like one month it's a slash fest, the next a het, or it's an anime porn fest...or only a few prompts but any fandom. Or have special nights of one fandom with several little prompts and have a contest/poll voting for favorites (anonymous entries of course!). My favorite little fest was one where we were all given one line to work into a story - all for the same fandom. It was amazing the creativity that came out of that.
I do, though, love the idea of this community but it feels like I came a little too late to the party. I'd love to see it get revitalized and I am sorry I've been in such a slump. I haven't even been able to read all that much. Honestly this is as much as I've written in two months! Stupid Real Life crap...
Good luck. I do hope it continues and I hope I am in a better position to participate next time.
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junkiecosmonaut
2011-02-16 02:05 am UTC
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Maybe make a mirror comm on lj or dw? I don't use ij that much anymore.
Perhaps you could extend this round a bit too, since there was just another major porn battle at the same time. Finally, maybe post to other comms to advertise. If that still doesn't bring in entries, then maybe people have lost interest :(
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shiegra
2011-02-16 06:57 am UTC
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I think a lot of people that participated here moved to DW; I've mostly moved to dreamwidth, and while I did want to participate in recent Porn Battles there wasn't really anything in my fandoms and other things got in the way. All the same, I'd hate to see this place die.
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(Anonymous)
2011-02-20 08:21 pm UTC
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I think it's more that people don't want to write most of what other people prompt, and for some people like me, that leads to us not wanting to write anything either. It's dead because nobody wants to write any of the prompts other people give.
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inoru_no_hoshi
2011-03-13 08:56 pm UTC
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I didn't do this past round on account I forgot to check back. *cough* Also, I, too, have largely moved to DW, although if you compare my masterlists on here and there you are more than welcome to snicker at that claim. :D
I would love to do more - I've done some nice fic for porn battle, IMO. :) (A mirror comm on DW would be awesome though. Just saying.)
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debirlfan
2011-03-18 02:41 am UTC
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Hi - just happened to see this. I think it's a combination of things.
First, IJ doesn't have the following that DW or LJ have, so many people probably don't even know about it.
Second, the last battle ran essentially concurrently with another similar one that WAS on DW and LJ. Staggering the fests and maybe a move to a more popular journal (or even an archive somewhere like AO3 might help.
Third, at least 90 percent of the prompts were for fandoms I don't know at all - which no only rules out writing them, but pretty much rules out reading the stories as well. I assume others have the same problem. Perhaps require prompters to prompt at least 10 different fandoms, so there's more variety?
I hate to see the fest disappear - but maybe it needs a little tweaking?
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