This Prompt Meme May Self-Destruct

[kalloway]

I think most people utilizing AO3's challenge features are more familiar with the exchange tool than the prompt meme function.

This is possibly because the prompt meme function is kind of broken. It is certainly less-developed than its sibling.

I made This Prompt Meme May Self-Destruct as a testing ground in case anyone else would like to play around with prompt meme functionality.

All fandoms, relationships, characters, etc. are welcome. However, because there's no attached tagset, the meme is limited by AO3.

Be as creative as you want to work around that. ^_^

And, if you'd like, I'd like your thoughts on the whole thing. I'm not a coder; I can't fix anything. I'm just curious what other people think and maybe if someone sees compiled data, they might take suggestions into account.

(Note: Anything created for the prompt meme is in no danger of deletion even if the prompt meme vanishes in a puff of 0's and 1's as dawn comes on June 1.)

Comments

[lea_hazel]

Honestly, my desire for prompt writing and/or claiming mainly revolves around saying "nobody's ever written this pairing and I think it might be fun, anyone wanna give it a whirl?" And the AO3 format doesn't really support that, does it? Prompts on Tumblr and DW anon prompt memes still work okay for me, although it depends a lot on the culture of the specific fandom. I don't know what causes certain tropes or plots to take off in certain fandoms, but it's affected my fandom participation probably more than anything.

[kalloway]

There are two options with an AO3 prompt meme-

1. Use AO3's canonicals, which is what I did for this. Probably super-useful for a big fandom, single-pairing event, etc.

2. Use a tagset, which requires users to nominate the tags they want to use, the mod needs to approve them and constantly mind the tagset/approvals, and the once the tag is approved, user needs to select it to leave the prompt. Time consuming and no immediate gratification for anyone.

So basically they can both be good or both bad depending.