Chatter post

[trashmod]

For all your discussion needs.

Ground rules:
- Try to keep it loosely trash party related, or at least Cap fandom related.
- Disagreement is fine, nastiness is not.
- Being offended is not carte blanche for nastiness.
- Trashmeme ground rules apply. Read at your own risk, no romanticizing your noncon garbage, no wank about the moral acceptability of noncon kink.
- Body shots, sniper shots, and tetanus shots are all available at the open bar. Party like it's 2014, kids.

Comments

Re: what's actually on topic

[trashmod]

Body horror is HTP-adjacent--closely related in spirit even if it's distinct from the core premise--and it's usually a welcome and well-loved guest at the party. Not completely incapable of wearing out its welcome, if it shows up at a time of rampant off-topic prompting and dismal signal-to-noise ratio with seventeen prompts in a row that get increasingly explicit about not wanting anything to do with HTP's main schtick. But it's a classic trash variation. Tossing some nonsexual body horror into the prompt mix here and there is fine, within reason.

The issue is that "within reason" gets a whole lot narrower whenever the trashmeme's being deluged with "HTP-adjacent" prompts that have lost all contact with what they're supposedly adjacent to. If you inadvertently pile onto the mess and your prompt ends up in a giant wall of off-topic, it's liable to get frozen, so use your best judgement on when's a bad time.

In summary: OK to prompt now and again, not OK to spam or flood the meme with it, prompting it in the midst of off-topic spam from other anons is not the best plan.

Fills, BTW, are never off-topic, short of dropping a fluffy coffee shop AU down in the middle of the trashmeme. It's about the signal-to-noise ratio, and fanworks are all signal.

Re: what's actually on topic

[(Anonymous)]

I think one issue is that whether or not visitors decide when it is good time to prompt something is when the mod is available to freeze the off-topic prompts. There was a point during the day when a lot of the prompts later determined off-topic were being well-received and had not been frozen yet (totally understandable because mods can't be everywhere, but it does complicate things).

Re: what's actually on topic

[(Anonymous)]

Whoops, that should say "depends on when the mod is available".

Re: what's actually on topic

[(Anonymous)]

I'm gonna be completely honest, I read a lot of those prompts before trashmod froze them and maybe I was just reading into things, but I found it kind of suspicious that every single prompt had at least one comment of support shortly after being posted, and the prompts and comments sounded very much in a similar voice/style, AND they were all written one after another after another, which...to be perfectly frank, was not really happening around here lately. Not to get all conspiracy theory, but my kneejerk reaction was "wow someone sure decided to throw up a bunch of questionable prompts and comment on them all to validate themselves." Maybe I'm totally off-base, but that's why the "well-received" thing was a bit questionable from my POV.

Re: what's actually on topic

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, Some of the prompts sounded same-y, some didn't. I'm sure there was at least one person who posted more then once, but I don't think it's fair to guess what their intentions were without their input. There's really no point in trying to assign blame now.