Re:Ask HN: Feedback Please - Lit
by unalone on Monday April 06, 2009 @04:32PM
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Advice (my first writer's start-up, which shut down a few years ago, tried a similar tack): ranking writers encourages people to write easily-digestible fluff and ascend in the ranks by essentially not playing fair. You can't remove the factor of individual taste from a writing site. In fact, the best models (which is what I'm working on now) encourage such individuality.
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Re:Ask HN: Feedback Please - Lit
by madmanslitany on Monday April 06, 2009 @08:11PM
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I would second this; I don't have any experience with writing startups, but I used to post to fanfiction.net when I was younger. I quickly noticed that the stories with the most reviews and attention weren't really "stories." They were written in script form and frequently revolved anachronistic popular humor being injected into the original work.