Discussion Post

[neurotoxia]

We'd like to put things up for discussion we received questions about in the last few days:

1) Do you consider the 250 fics rule (or 5% respectively) a fair way to judge character rarity? Should there be no rule at all and just leave it to the participants to nominate what they consider rare?Our personal thoughts on this matter are that a set

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[trobadora]

1) Do you consider the 250 fics rule (or 5% respectively) a fair way to judge character rarity?

I think this is a good rule. Rarity isn't really in the eye of the beholder. (Every year at Yuletide someone claims that the stories in their fandoms shouldn't "count" because they're bad, or on That Website, or something similar. Needless to say, I disagree.)

2) Do you think we should accept fandoms that only have one nominated character at the end of the nomination period?

Yes, I think that would be a great idea - there are fandoms where I'm really only interested in one character, and being able to nominate/request/offer those would be excellent. You wouldn't even have to change the challenge settings - requesters/offerers could just click "any".

3) How should we treat characters like 'XYZ's mother'? Should characters whose existence we can just conclude (like parents) be allowed? How should we treat quasi-OCs or 'fanon chracters'?

Personally I feel that a character who has not even an actual mention in canon should not be eligible - IMO, things like that better fit with the optional details ...