dekedangle_rpfanon | #23 — Brown Goes Down

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You're the kind of person that clicks through to catch up on what you've missed, though. A lot of people don't. I'm not in favor of changing dates multiple times, if that really happened, but there's obvious reasons for it.

ayrt

I guess I still don't understand the obvious reason for it (honestly).

To me at least it reads as some misguided belief that people are ~so anxious~ to read something by a particular author that their story deserves a higher profile than anyone else's. And that's not fair to the rest of the authors who play roulette and accept where their story shows up in the list. Without needing to manipulate the system.

The obvious reason to change the date is to get more kudos and comments. It has nothing to do with thinking that people are anxious for a particular author? That doesn't even make sense. It's to get more kudos and comments, because more people see your story.

In this case, I don't even think you can call it manipulating the system yet. Nobody's played "roulette" here. Some people turned in their stories early and some people right at the deadline, and there's nothing wrong with changing your fic date to when the stories were due versus when you originally uploaded your draft. Now if she changed it again tomorrow, that would be manipulating things, but I have the same gripe with people who don't backdate old fic that they are just now adding to AO3, and nobody finds the reason for that mysterious.

da

Old fic is a different story. Here, she was a handful of stories down when I looked last night, and right at the top in the morning. It's not like it was a huge ficathon that flooded the tag, either. She just wanted to make dead cert hers was the first thing people saw, which is definitely gaming the system. I understand it with an anon exchange where early finishers would get penalized because their stories show up a week earlier, but if she was so anxious about getting eyeballs, wait and post it in the morning? It's not like the fandom police were going to come after her for posting slightly late to the exchange.

It's just tacky. Nobody else who posted around the same time as her adjusted their dates, as far as I can tell, so she's basically just stepping on them to make sure she gets hits. That's why people complain.

It's people trying to position their fic to maximize their hits. It's the exact same story.

It's obviously a matter of degree. If I post a 7 year old story to a popular tag, no one will ever see it. Posting at night and then fiddling with the date to move your story up a handful of spots in the morning is ridiculous.

na

I mean, it probably is ridiculous but I don't get why people are so upset about it. People checking the tag often enough to notice a story moving a few spots weren't going to miss anything new that got posted anyway. So you have to see the summary twice, big deal.

I just added a bunch of (non hockey) stuff to AO3 and TBH I was not going to go back and look at the exact date I posted each fic. Instead I just added a "originally posted in" note in the summary.

I guess I understand backdating if you're about to flood the tag otherwise, but honestly I'd rather the 'originally posted in' note in general - otherwise I'm likely to miss it completely, and there's no guarantee that I'll have seen it on the original platform.

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