Etiquette Question

[anneline]

I have an etiquette question for you my wise and wonderful flist. It has to do with cross-posting. As I understand it x-posting means you publish a story or journal entry to several communities at one time. I've noticed when people do this they often apologize ("sorry for the x-posting") or list everywhere else they've x-posted. So, is it rude to x

Comments

[anneline]

Good to know since I'm about to go on a x-posting spree. I'm actually thinking of x-posting my remix story at slash_slash since it has a little bitty bit of femmeslash and lots of the other kind of slash.

[ion_bond]

Personally, I don't cross-post much, because I don't want to look desperate for feedback. Although *shhh,* I actually am.
(I tend to just post in xmmff because I figure a lot of people read it, and to oldfriend because sometimes I'm afraid no one wants to read Charles/Erik unless they're a member of the community.)

I don't know the etiquitte, but as a reader, I don't have a problem when other people cross-post. You raise a good point -- if they're members of all those communities, they deserve it!

[ion_bond]

Oops. oldfriends, that is. Hee, I just put in a tag for some random person's journal.

[anneline]

Omigod, I just uploaded thirty graphic Charles/Erik porn stories to that random person's journal and it's all your fault. No, wait. I didn't do that.

[ion_bond]

Damn!
I was looking forward to going and reading them.

[laurel_tx]

I would say it's always ok. I don't understand what the problem is, and if I see a fic posted at more than one community, I never think any bad thoughts about the writer. There is NOTHING WRONG with wanting good feedback, IMHO--feedback just makes you a better writer.