Question to the community

[piksa.livejournal.com]

zippitgood posted a question about posting the next two prompts in a same post. I feel this is a question the community should get a say on. Of course this isn't a situation we are going to face often since after next week we go back to the normal situation where the prompt is posted in the weekend and there are no advance warnings of them. However, the poll is open until Friday evening/saturday morning. Give me your opinion.


[Poll #1040004]

Comments

[smwright.livejournal.com]

Just to be perfectly clear on this issue, for Hello, Darkness and St. Peter, which were posted less than a week apart by me, I wrote 6,673 words, and these were posted in two separate chapters. One was 1,663 words, and one was 5,010 words. I'm not certain how granting someone the exception to write a single story of 1000 words is in any way comparable to that or could be considered the same degree of "cheating" or that I (or someone else who took the opportunity to post twice within less than 7 days) is doing the same as what's being asked here.

I really don't want to sound harsh, and I know that zippitgood is a member of another comm where prompts are routinely combined. However, each comm has it's own rules, and as I said before, the point of the prompts here is to use each individually. I really don't think the "one week" rule is meant to be as limiting as it is meant to be sure we don't extend beyond the one week typically. For the winter holidays last year, we went longer (optionally); for summer, we had the option to go shorter. Either way, the point was to provide some flexibility, not to cheat or make it easier to get to the awards. I'm sorry that shadow_in_eden feels differently. That makes me kind of sad.