Rules post/FAQ/Page-A-Mod
Since LJ seems to have finally capitulated to the Russian government and is now subject to Russian anti-obscenity laws, I'm not going to take a chance on sudden deletions. The Les Mis kinkmeme now lives at https://lesmiskinkmeme.dreamwidth.org/. (Rules post here.) Everything has been backed up there. The LJ kinkmeme will stay up, but is now closed
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What I see now is people happily crediting the original "authors" of those headcanons on tumblr. Making those kind of prompts suddenly a problem is not going to continue encouraging that behaviour but is probably going to have the exact opposite effect in which people don't link to tumblr, paraphrase the headcanons and so steal people's ideas.
Another reason why this method of prompting these things here, instead of keeping them on tumblr is so popular, might be that tumblr itself really provides very little opportunity to create a tumblr-based meme. It just doesn't provide an appropriate posting or submission format.
And on a personal note (and I am a completely different anon to the one you've been telling off): I don't see the problem. As long as people DO credit the original source and maybe we put a rule in place that if people don't want their headcanons used as prompts they can cobntact the mods and ask them to take it down, why is this such an issue? Surely even if only ONE person posts such a prompt there will be enough others who might be interested as well.
But yeah. I think suddenly coming down on this is probably going to cause more problems and not solve... whatever problem you think there is.
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The person who got a tetchy mod comment (a) was responsible for almost all the prompts reposted from Tumblr, (b) never seemed to prompt anything besides reposts, and (c) went on a spammy binge with multiple reposts on every page, then resorted to subterfuge when asked to stop. That's "in excess." The "delete first, ask questions later" approach applies only to prompts from this one person; everyone else can still go by "okay, but not in excess."
(On a side note, no, I don't know who any of you are, but mods can (roughly) tell people apart based on IP address; this round of Tumblr spam was similar enough that I suspected it was all one person before I confirmed that it all came from the same IP. Generally mods don't look at IPs at all unless someone is already being a nuisance. So yes, IP logging is on, but no, we really don't care if you want to fill your own prompt or be harmlessly silly and stealthily reply to yourself, and we're not matching your IP address to your kinks or anything.)
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