[Suggestion] Changes over fan fiction section. Important issue.

[Byron123]

Hello guys, this is a thread which is important only for those who write fan fiction themselves. Today, I got an infraction for "spamming" since I had posted my fan fic to manga section as well. This had as a result the deleting of all my fan fics that I had written there (luckily I have written them here as well). The point of this thread is to let you understand how much your work is downgraded in comparison to how much more your work would have been credited if you were to write in the manga section. In the manga section, my fan fic had almost always more than 2000 views with first one reaching 3500 while in the manga section none of them managed to get over 100! Also, before you jump into conclusions by saying that the views don't make the difference, I have to tell that you're wrong. Because while, in the manga section were passing with ease the 20-30 answers or even more, in the first I got around 60, here for the first one that I got 60 answers and 3500 views plus a lot of reputation at the manga section, here I got 13 answers, 87 views and no reputation.

I'm here to talk with examples. So far, I have written 5 fan fic chapters and I had posted them in both sections. Now, make the comparison.

Do you see the paradox?

Fan fiction is supposed to be the section for those who like reading fan fics but at the end of the day, it's in the manga section that you get credit for your work.A prime example of this is Michael 92 whose chapter 1 which was made 3 years ago has only 2000 views while mine 3500 in just 2-3 months and it didn't have only the views, it had numerous positive comments as well.

Conclusion

The reason why the current system is wrong is because we, the creators don't get acknowledged at all compared to how much we would if we were allowed to post our work in the manga section as well. People in the manga section don't mean that they don't enjoy a fan fic, quite the contrary.

It's all a matter of marketing: The whole labeling of our work is what it destroys it. A lot of people, don't come in this section because to put it simply they don't think "Fan fiction, oh I like that". It's not that they don't like it, it simply doesn't trigger their interest to go search for it. However, when they for example mines at the manga section, the chances of having my work read is extremely higher. I think that the statistics I posted above make it quite obvious.

In case you don't believe make a simple experiment: Post a fan fic that you wrote, only its first chapter and then compare the reactions from the readers to the ones that you had in this section. I'm 110% sure that the results will prove me correct.

Suggestions

I definetely don't say that we don't need a fan section. We need it because it provides order for the fan fiction lovers who wants to read fictional stories. What I'm suggesting is that we have the right to post our fan fics to the manga section as well without being considered off-topic or spamming.

The reasons for that?

Manga section as its title stands for, is for those who read the manga. However, have yu ever seen all the threads that exist there? Many threads are about evaluating a character, others for *****ing, other for theories and others for many other things. So my point is this. Aren't these kind of threads off-topic or aren't they considered spamming since many are about *****ing?

However, none of them is considered like that. So why shouldn't we have the right to post our own work there while it takes us so much time to write them? I don't know about you but I spend 2 hours for each chapter and I don't do it only for my work to be read 5-10 people.

In addition, have you ever thought what huge change this could bring to the fan fic competitions?
I checked last month's result, 44 people voted, only 44! Have you any idea how few is that considering all the effort we spent writting it. I firmly believe that the votes if the competition was to be heald in the manga section would be at least double.


To sum up, I truly believe that we have the right to post our work in the manga section and that we have to claim it.
For this reason I post this poll in which I want all of you to vote and tell me what you think.

Should we or should we not?

 

[Edo Odin]

You can't take a hint, can you? If this thread has already been deleted twice, the third time will not change anything either.

You want your threads to get more attention, so you want to post them in the Manga section, but have you taken into account that almost everyone wants their threads to get attention? What about VS Threads? Top Tens? Pairings? Everyone that posts threads concerning these things wants it to get attention, but since there's already a place for these things, whether it be a Section or a Sticky, they should not be posted in the Manga section, and I doubt that will change in the near future.

 

[ziggyZ]

Your posts bear so much truth bro!!

 

[Parrish]

Your thread got deleted the first 2 times, so why make a third? Posting Advertisements in the Wrong section is breaking a rule anyway. Go to Fanfiction.net and put it there if it means that much to you.

 

[Avani]

You spammed the section with multiple threads and polls and you got advantage of the views only because you tricked them whether you realize it or not- the people clicking on your thread half the time were expecting spoilers or predictions or discussion on latest chapters.


This is stats of your fiction you made 4 threads about.

Replies: 24
Views: 1,051

13 of these replies are your own posts, rest were generic replies. I hardly find that very helpful.

Not only that- you got that advantage because other fanfiction writers and poets were not doing the same thing as you- that is making a minimum of three threads per fiction and posting it in user submitted prediction and latest manga section. That's cheating not marketing. If we allow everyone to do that- we will have to allow multiple thread on the same topic from other users too as well as other writers. What we get is a garbage dump and hotch potch forum where no one can find anything properly.

Please keep in mind that there is a reason we have different sections and forums for everyone. People asked for a separate section for poetry - you do not want a story and a poetry in the same section but you want discussions and new manga sections be ridden with your "marketing" threads? How considerate and selfless of you!!

Pick one- either you are writing a prediction - then keep in prediction section. Or you are writing a fiction- if a fiction use proper format of a story and post in fanfiction section. Do not recycle it both ways. And do not post it among theories at all( that's main manga section).

Those who want to discuss manga and characters as Kishi writes them, have an equal right to do what they want to without having their threads pushed down with your marketing threads.

So the answer is no. I won't be reversing the infraction next time around so keep the forum rules in mind.

^ this.

I am not repeating things to you. Making a third thread after you got a reply in first is not helping your case.