I'm pretending I got lots of helpful comments on my last post in this category (let's pretend BlogSpot has categories).
Fics should have:
- time frame — one of: (too AU/irrelevant, Founders era, Older character's youth (say, young Albus or Tom), Grindelwalds war, MWPP/First Voldemort War, a few years before Book1, Book 1...7 (starting with the summer), immediately post-Hogwarts, a few years after VWII, distant future).
- Belongs to fanon — other fic. This can be used to say some author wrote a fic that fits a certain universe, but is not necessarily a part of the series that built said universe. Authors often play in others' sandboxes, a kind of fan fiction on fan fiction.
- crossover with — should probably have a list of popular cross-over targets such as: LoTR, BtVS, Bond, LMB's Vorkosigan saga, SW, Trek, teen flicks, manga, etc.
- IC/OOC meter — numeric scale (?). Very difficult to implement well, as is subjective and decided by readership rather than author. Should probably be votable.
All data should be cast in one of these categories:
- Objective:
- Immediate — easy things to determine, given by author. e.g. author, title, rating (more problematic. Can be FFDB disagrees with author's definition of "PG-13")
- Latent — Stuff that requires reading or at least seeing the fic. Level of English in such a thing. Word count can be, unless properly automated. This can be filled later, not required to enter fic in FFDB.
- Subjective:
- by Staff — voted by staff members/mods. Meaningful only if mods fairly represent entire fandom (like TLC editors).
- by Collegiate — voted by users who claimed ownership of at least one fic i.e. known authors.
- by Readership — general (registered?) public.
All of those can lead to bloody holy wars. The FFDB shall not be a scene for
HP BNF Deathmatch.
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