I had a thought and have put it here for a discussion

[sealie]

Fandom Content Posting Strike… Break? A Fandom Experiment.

So I have seen A LOT of posts where it is pointed out if people want content they should ideally support and encourage content creators (writers, artists, viders etc etc).

Note, of course, that fandom content creators are also consumers.

To be fair you cannae make people comment/engage, and neither can you make folk create and post. And to be honest, folk still create and throw content into fannish spaces, so people don’t need to comment/engage to ensure content.

But folk don’t need to post. Folk post their content for a lot of reasons as a final hurdle, to engage with people….

Why not organise a fandom-wide posting break, a day, a weekend or even a week, where no new content is posted? Obvs. create to your heart’s content, but no posting. Consume old/previously posted stuff. This gives folk a break, for example, AO3 volunteers can take a breath, archive archivists can relax, hosting media can see how core fandom content is to their franchises.

Maybe we’ll learn something?





Although based on the recent ao3 maintenance, the results would be crying. *woes*

Comments

[ratcreature]

This doesn't seem workable because fandom as a group is too large and disparate and very few people are posting content daily. Meanwhile for others the specific day chosen may be when they can fit fandom in their schedule, and they aren't going to rearrange work shifts or school schedules.

Also many fans have a fanfic tbr pile, so any "supply fluctuations" are evened out, unless it's a very small fandom or rare pair, and then you are used to seeing new stuff only sporadically anyway.

Also I suspect negative reinforcement methods that basically scolds people for not commenting more works even less than the positive methods people are trying to encourage feedback (like feedback fests, feedback bingo cards to gamify feedback, days encouraging feedback in comms etc.)

Agreed, the result would be crying

[teridawn]

By creators and readers equally. The problem would likely be that you can't make creators and commenters participate in a content posting strike either. Although, I do get weary on occasion and accidently strike... would that count?

teri