Cross-posting hell

[ratherastory]

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.

Comments

[phorenice.livejournal.com]

I don't get the bitching. Crossposting is about bringing a fic to the attention of readers who might be interested, right? People watch comms with themes they like to read. So if a fic pops up on a lot of comms you're watching it means it has a lot of things you like in it and that should be a reason to celebrate. If it makes your f-list explode use filters. Not everybody watches the same comms, which means some people might only see it once. Shouldn't they get the chance to read it too?

Of course it's annoying if you see a fic with a great summary, it turns out to be bad!fic and then it keeps popping up making you all excited until you realize it's that one again... But how often does that happen?

So if you want, keep posting and let the bitchy bitches bitch. Why should you care what they think.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Intellectually, what you are saying makes total sense. It's just that the bitching is paranoia-inducing.

I totally know what you mean, but it doesn't happen THAT often that I've noticed. This fandom has pretty good writers for the most part, and I've been around long enough that I can usually spot the bad!fic writers and avoid them now, unless I'm really in the mood for whatever they usually produce.

[phorenice.livejournal.com]

I think anonymous bitching is especially paranoia-inducing. I you knew who they are, maybe you could just hand-wave it. Now you probably feel like at least one of the anons might be someone whose opinion you care about, and they're talking about you specifically.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Exactly! That's why I banned myself from going to the anon meme. It's for my own sanity, really.