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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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I know that my flist are all awesome people who wouldn't bitch about something as trivial as this, especially when I myself don't mind simply scrolling past multiple entries, and yet I manage to convince myself that it's somehow completely different when I start cross-posting.
I have forbidden myself to go anywhere near the anon meme, because it brings out the worst aspects of my paranoia.