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ratherastory) wrote2010-10-08 07:21 pm
ratherastory) wrote2010-10-08 07:21 pm
Cross-posting hell
I just cross-posted a fic for the first time in months. Cross-posting takes forever, and since I'm relatively prolific I'm always worried I'm spamming communities and that people are just rolling their eyes and going "Oh, God, not HER again!"
Yes, neurotic, I know.
It's also time-consuming, as I mentioned. Ten minutes on average per community, because they all have their own posting templates, even if I let myself play fast and loose with the ones that aren't as draconian about their guidelines. So given the number of communities I tend to post to, it can take up to an hour to cross-post everything.
Or else I try to cross-post over the course of a few days, and THEN I forget which comms I posted to and spend even more time double-checking to make sure I'm not posting to the same comm twice, and GAH.
I know some of you, dear flist, cross-post a good deal. Do you have a trick for it? Or do I just have to suck it up and deal?
In short, I hate cross-posting. Meow.
Yes, neurotic, I know.
It's also time-consuming, as I mentioned. Ten minutes on average per community, because they all have their own posting templates, even if I let myself play fast and loose with the ones that aren't as draconian about their guidelines. So given the number of communities I tend to post to, it can take up to an hour to cross-post everything.
Or else I try to cross-post over the course of a few days, and THEN I forget which comms I posted to and spend even more time double-checking to make sure I'm not posting to the same comm twice, and GAH.
I know some of you, dear flist, cross-post a good deal. Do you have a trick for it? Or do I just have to suck it up and deal?
In short, I hate cross-posting. Meow.
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Also I don't crosspost all at once, though that has its own drawbacks, one of which you mentioned in the forgetting which comms you've already posted to headache. Another of which is that, though crossposting all at once may take up a good bit of a friends page, at least they're all out there and a few days later the same people aren't seeing the same fic on a different comm and saying "Oh, god not her again." like I feel they might be doing for my fics. :)