12.01.2014 23:00 мск: Чат с создателями Thirty Minute Ponies

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	Aurora	And sense of depravity.
	elctrnmcn	Here he is
	Dixdy	oh you...
	Listic	hi
	Aurora	OK, should we begin?
	Dixdy	Hi you there!
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	Aurora	lold
	Dixdy	Let`s start the paartyy!
	elctrnmcn	wat
	Aurora	Pinkie Pie gangbangs in!
	elctrnmcn	facepalms
	sullome	listen "Apples to the Core"
	Eakin	OOOOOOoooooOOOh! There ponies don't want to party, they want to Par-Tay!
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	sullome	Leaf is a God now...
	Aurora	Why
	sullome	'cause listic == leaf
	Aurora	я знаю
	Aurora	ок
	Dixdy	Apples to the core... same here
	Eakin	Such a good episode!
	Balthasar999	Seriously. It was what I was hoping the show would become when I first saw it.
	sullome	Too short, I think.
	Eakin	I love the episodes that focus on one or two of the Mane Six
	sullome	Same here
	Balthasar999	I liked the faster pacing a lot, too. Made it seem to flow more naturally, instead of jumping from topic to topic.
	Dixdy	Yeah... they looks more solid and less fragmented.
	test123	But what happend with PP in last 2 season she's kinda very stupid now -_-
	Aurora	This episode suddenly reminded me about "It Makes No Difference Who We Are" by Celldweller.
	Eakin	I do not love what they've done with Pinkie, I agree that she seems shallower than she was, say, in 'Party of One'
	Eakin	I was fine with her role in this episode though
	Dixdy	Pinkie not stupid... she just a lightminded.
	sullome	Pinkie is just a Pinkie. Not stupid, but strange.
	Balthasar999	Yeah, this episode wasn't really about her - She was sort of the MacGuffin the Apples were transporting.
	test123	too strange... more like crazy
	sullome	I think that she just... pretending...
	Dixdy	just random
	Balthasar999	That's sorta the impression I got, too - At the end she basically came out and said she knew about their fighting all along and didn't care
	Aurora	Well, she's either too stupid or sly.
	Balthasar999	They go overboard sometimes, but I do like the way they use Pinkie to play around with animation gags.
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	Eakin	My favorite Pinkie gag remains the Fluttershy Suit from S3E2
	test123	yep, last episode PP was fine))
	Aurora	Listic! Should we begin?
	Aurora	Hello?
	Dixdy	Pinkie Pie - just normal toon character. Overtoon maybe. She make hard situation a little brighter and more funny.
	Balthasar999	Hah, I was just thinking about that yesterday, in that context. It was good on its own, but what pushed it over the top was Fluttershy actually interacting with it.
	Listic	Aurora: yes, that would be great.
	Balthasar999	The show's always been pretty self-aware, though, so I think a lot of Pinkie's antics are pretty appropriate.
	Aurora	Then introduce our herd, for Celestia's beard.
	Listic	ok, I don't seem to know all of you but
	Eakin	I'm Eakin! You may know me as 'Eakin' on fimfic. I wrote Hard Reset and the whole Time Loop Trilogy
	Dixdy	Just start and ask others if you not.
	Listic	Great! I love your stories
	Eakin	We're doing inroductions now, I assume?
	Aurora	yep
	Listic	Dixdy, Feuerleiter and Veon are from the Russian brony site Tabun. Anyone else?
	Dixdy	Seems yes!
	Balthasar999	Hard Reset was an awesome idea
	Aurora	Me.
	elctrnmcn	me
	Eakin	I owe most of the credit to Skywriter
	Litho	Well, me
	sullome	me too from russian herd
	Listic	ok
	Listic	Who's from Thirty Minute Ponies?
	Listic	Noone came?
	Dixdy	I`m DxD2 from russian fimfiction site Stories.tabun - Author of Adventures of Dixdi, artefactor of Equestria and storyline of ancient race called Demicorns... totally original and canonical at same time stories.
	Dixdy	Seems noone from TMP here...
	Listic	ok, I've invited the organizers of Thirty Minute Ponies, but seems like they didn't come, probably because I've invited them in the last moment, or the time isn't convenient for their time zone
	Dixdy	Sad to hear it.
	Balthasar999	I'm Balthasar999 on FiMFiction and DeviantArt. Working on two stories called P-Theory and The Elements of Truth, but I mostly draw so I have no idea what I'm doing.
	Dixdy	You are artist-fanfiker I think :))
	Dixdy	Same here...
	Listic	Great. I've read all of it
	sullome	Maybe you just a bard?
	Listic	Can't wait for more
	Listic	I wonder why you were so kind to 'Mary is a Mare'. I started reading it
	Listic	and can't wait for anything, just anything to start
	Balthasar999	I dunno, it tickled me just right. But yeah, it does take fucking forever to get going.
	Balthasar999	Uh, sorry Dixdy
	Eakin	So what are we supposed to be talking about, exactly?
	Dixdy	sorry for what?
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	Eakin	'Cause I'm pretty sure we're all making this up as we go
	Balthasar999	You said earlier you didn't like swearing, or something. I dunno, I'm kinda multitasking here.
	Listic	that must be one of those cases where art convinced me to start reading a story. The other one was Twilight, Revised and I'm not happy about that.
	Dixdy	oh.
	elctrnmcn	We were supposed to talt about Thirty Minutes Pony
	Listic	also I think it didn't have all three of the tags (Sad, Dark, Tragedy) when I first added it to the reading list
	Listic	sure we are
	Listic	so what do you think of 30 minutes time limit?
	Listic	everyone I talked to thought it's way too short
	Eakin	Yeah, I'd say too short
	Eakin	BUT
	elctrnmcn	It's a question of experience
	Aurora_Desktop	Yep. I'm so pleased to meet such big figures in fandom.
	Eakin	Testing yourself against an obstacle like that is good for an aspiring author, I think
	Balthasar999	I think it works. The stories will be really short, but as a writing prompt it's a good chunk of time to get you used to just putting words on the page.
	Listic	ok
	Eakin	I mean, you only have so much time to take out of 'real life' and write, make the most of it
	sullome	I think 30 minutes is Ok.
	Dixdy	Hmmm... seems legit... what kind of story?
	elctrnmcn	But wouldn't it result in something trashy?
	elctrnmcn	To just put words on page
	Dixdy	And how to calc spended time?
	Balthasar999	Timer + Honor system
	Dixdy	Oh-hoh... funny..
	Aurora_Desktop	Hopefully, time spent on writing(as on any deed) is better than time doing nothing.
	sullome	Imagine the story, then 30 minutes to just write it. Am I right?
	Eakin	Like how to value it or how to figure out how much you've sunk into miniture equine fiction?
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	Dixdy	I started small story... but now it nearly 180k words in it... strange to write small pieces of story.
	Dixdy	You never know where story stops...
	Dixdy	... or what the characters will do.
	Aurora_Desktop	A small samples of DNA makes a whale such a big creature, Dixdy.
	Aurora_Desktop	make*
	Eakin	Stories never stop, we just pick a place to stop telling them
	Dixdy	I like a never ending stories
	sullome	Hello, Doctor
	Listic	Dixdy, do you plan ahead?
	Dixdy	They like a tree with thousands branches.
	Eakin	That's called 'Life' Dix
	Aurora_Desktop	Disagree. Life will eventually end at someone's or time's will.
	Dixdy	Nope... I just sitting and watching what my characters do and want... what fell and where go.
	Eakin	Well, for you maybe
	Listic	I heard for some writers their characters just live in their minds and the writers don't know where the story will go
	Aurora_Desktop	No story can be endless, but zero should be forgotten.
	Dixdy	What feel... and how react... and - just write that
	Listic	I wonder how it is for the rest of you
	Listic	is this common or not
	Balthasar999	Yeah, that's a nice feeling, when things just fall into place naturally like that.
	Eakin	I'm like that. My characters talk to one another in my head and I just write it down
	Listic	As for me, this seems crazy: what if the story will just stall and there will be nowhere to go from there
	Aurora_Desktop	It must be easy to write with a mind like that.
	Listic	This happens sometimes, right
	Dixdy	Just finger snap... and world will opens for you in any place and any time - see - and make it on paper on in letters line.
	Listic	I mean you can write yourself into the corner
	Eakin	Not really, because they do the same scene over and over and I have to pick the one I want to use, or merge several of them together
	Balthasar999	If it stalls, just start writing garbage and let it inspire you to clean it up into something presentable later. Or get drunk and just go at it.
	Dixdy	If you have whole world - story never stops...
	Eakin	alcohol is an essential tool in the author's kit
	Listic	Dixdy, I must read what you write
	Eakin	also caffeine
	Aurora_Desktop	Not really.
	Dixdy	Cofee... must have.
	sullome	This is... roleplaying.
	Listic	So, did any of you actually write for a prompt?
	Dixdy	To avoid story corner - just make a freedom for characters to act like they want.
	Eakin	Two beers, two glasses of soda, two AM. The magic combination. For me, at least
	Dixdy	I'll start writing right now... but - where to post it?
	Listic	I dunno, it can't be that easy, Dixdy. Of course the character can always do something, but not everything is worth writing about.
	Dixdy	Some kind a place to post it in comments right after others maybe?
	Eakin	There's a saying that whenever you're you're at an impasse, have somebody burst into the room and start shooting
	Dixdy	make your character alive... that a secret.
	Balthasar999	If you're seriously in a corner, I find it helps to write down events on notecards and then move them around on the floor so you can actually see how the story is laid out.
	Dixdy	Why so complicated...
	Aurora_Desktop	That's not complicated.
	Listic	because human memory capacity is limited.
	Listic	we need all the help we can get
	Aurora_Desktop	Compicated is a way to steal concepts, merge them and then do MAGIK with it to make the Frankenstein alive.
	Aurora_Desktop	Human memory capacity is not limited, I promise.
	Eakin	Yeah. Steal. Steal brazenly and shamelessly
	Dixdy	you get world? Make it work! Character don't know what to do? Whole world before him! That... fascinating! How could nothing to happens in whole world if it not a decoration.
	sullome	Кто-нибудь, объясните мне, что сейчас происходит. Мы же вроде должны говорить не о том, как писать рассказы, а про 30-минутные зарисовки и организационную часть, разве нет?
	Dixdy	Yeah...
	Dixdy	ou right.
	Aurora_Desktop	Да вообще все равно. Начнем скоро. Дай поговорить с иностранцами людям.
	Aurora_Desktop	Это же, считай, зоопарк.
	sullome	Такие же люди, как и мы.
	Dixdy	I understand you perfectly...Aurora.
	sullome	С такими же мыслями и проблемами. У них трава не зеленее.
	Aurora_Desktop	"brazenly and shamelessly". But when anybody will reach the crime scene - MACAVITY NOT THERE.
	Aurora_Desktop	(Goddamn Cats musical, so magnifying)
	Dixdy	Nope... grass as green as anywhere else... just money looks deferent.
	Aurora_Desktop	"I understand you perfectly..." Well there, no offense, but I'm much more materialistic than any of you.
	Dixdy	In which aspect?
	Eakin	Well, I'm not saying you should get caught
	Aurora_Desktop	In every. No offense, but we're here to discuss writing process\prompts, not me.
	Eakin	I feel like my 'process' should be more complicated
	Eakin	I just get ideas, sit down, and slam them out
	Aurora_Desktop	Well, if anybody will get caught, welcome to copyright protection system, welcome to emptying your wallets and pass away with shame.
	Eakin	Fair Use is a very broad umbrella
	Aurora_Desktop	And that's your big luck to receive this present from mother nature.
	Aurora_Desktop	Imagination.
	Eakin	A blessing and a curse. It doesn't come with an off switch.
	Aurora_Desktop	90% of fandom(Russian on my statistics) are imagining " And then John were a zombie"-alike ideas.
	Dixdy	Okay! Let's check some points... 30 minutes, story... text... where to post final result? Where topic with comments for stories? When to post them? If all today - maybe need some thread or something? Public googledock?
	Eakin	But mostly blessing. I can't even remember what being bored feels like
	Dixdy	Aurora, you are so...
	Eakin	Dix, I'd publish an anthology fic, and add each 30-minute fic as a chapter if I were you
	Balthasar999	Just the existential kind, in my case. Imagination makes ordinary life intolerably narrow most of the time.
	Listic	I like tumblr because a) scheduled posts and b) "submit story" feature, but it lacks discussion.
	Listic	Yes. Sounds right
	Dixdy	one chapter takes nearly 7-9hours... so - no...
	Aurora_Desktop	Whom I am, then?
	Listic	no, these chapters will take 30 minutes, or an hour, or two
	Listic	the idea is to assemble all short stories from a prompt and publish them together
	Listic	e.g. on stories.everypony.ru
	Aurora_Desktop	Tumblr is best idea, but there's a problem.
	Dixdy	Sketchup stories... oh... what a decision? Should we start or someone already started?
	Aurora_Desktop	How will authors insert their stories in a post?
	Dixdy	In description...
	Dixdy	haha
	Aurora_Desktop	Some kind of "submit" form can be only done on external platform.
	Aurora_Desktop	Well, it's good "comments" - but!
	Aurora_Desktop	There are always "but"s.
	Listic	my idea is they submit stories to Tumblr, and then Tumblr maintainder may paste them to Tabun and Stories when finished.
	Aurora_Desktop	Spamming scholars never could evaporate out of any public page,
	Aurora_Desktop	do you like Ctrl-F-gp ahead and waste time to find?
	Dixdy	Eww
	Listic	I guess I should start that Tumblr, and a Tabun blog too, maybe?
	Listic	I wonder what kind of discussion do we want, if any
	Aurora_Desktop	I guess some sort of external "insert" form is good.
	Listic	TMP does fine without one
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	elctrnmcn	tabun has all the instruments you need for submitting, commenting and stuff
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	Veon	...it just needs registration.
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	Dixdy	But... all of us have there account?
	Dixdy	indeed
	elctrnmcn	Uhmm... nope
	Dixdy	that a problem...
	elctrnmcn	Stories @ EP is broken too
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	Dixdy	If all have google mail - we can open public dock and add our stories there.
	Listic	what's wrong with tumblr as primary place and everything else as secondary?
	Dixdy	Also - commenting works perfectly
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	Veon	emails work perfectly
	Dixdy	tumbrl also needs a registration... right?
	elctrnmcn	right
	Veon	everyone has one
	elctrnmcn	But at least it's free
	Dixdy	Oh....
	Listic	you can submit anonymously if you like
	Listic	the registration is easy
	Dixdy	oh?
	Aurora_Desktop	I think of https://www.box.com
	Dixdy	I have one..
	Listic	it's just a dropbox clone. why it is good for this?
	Dixdy	tumbrl...
	Aurora_Desktop	Dropbox = zero sharing.
	elctrnmcn	What tumblr lacks? Lets go from this point
	Aurora_Desktop	Tumblr lacks only one point.
	Aurora_Desktop	Comments could be overspammed.
	Aurora_Desktop	How many idiots are on Tabun?
	Aurora_Desktop	I think, we've got enough to make commenting only for authors with links comfortly impossible.
	elctrnmcn	About 5 thousands?
	Aurora_Desktop	Nope.
	Aurora_Desktop	About 2k.
	Balthasar999	brb
	elctrnmcn	see you
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	Aurora_Desktop	30% are interested in fanfiction.
	Dixdy	35%...
	Aurora_Desktop	45% of them are always on-air in discussion.
	Aurora_Desktop	That makes round 270 unique commentators potentially on Tumblr,
	Aurora_Desktop	And if even 2 are foolish enough to get where they shouldn't be, welcome to overflooded theme.
	Listic	there are comments on Tumblr?
	elctrnmcn	Kind of. Commenting on tumblr - real pain in the... at least for me
	Listic	I don't use them and don't see them
	Dixdy	think yes... but... not really useful. Depends on theme I think.
	Aurora_Desktop	I think finest choice is to set up Tumblr and try to avoid flooders and trolls for first time.
	Aurora_Desktop	Because online storages are not a pinnacle of cloud filekeeping.
	elctrnmcn	There won't be any, I think
	Aurora_Desktop	So is not Tumblr, but it is much more familiar.
	Listic	I use tumblr since way back then but I'm ignorant about its features: are flooders and trolls even possible there? I think not
	Listic	my tumblr where I scribble stuff for myself is http://nickolai.tumblr.com
	Feuerleiter	And, finaly, we always can try. If there would be any problems with Tumblr, than we'll just find another option.
	Aurora_Desktop	The ideal solution is to set up an external server and set up form to store content via SSL, which allows size-gates and prevents flooding with files. But without a proper server this will be useless. So I think we should try Tumblr.
	Listic	I made http://rpwp.tumblr.com/
	sullome	Вот.
	sullome	Наконец-то.
	sullome	Минусы есть ВСЕГДА, идеала не найти.
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	Eakin	I have literally zero interest in Tumblr. It puzzles and mystifies me. I'm perfectly happy sticking with Fimfic for publishing my content
	elctrnmcn	your tumblr broke my eyes
	sullome	Я предлагаю хотя бы попробовать начать с Тумблера.
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	sullome	Потом уже посмотреть, как пойдёт.
	Dixdy	That nice... and how to post here something?
	Aurora_Desktop	Eakin, we are trying to find some solution about this mystery,which consists of proper publishing platform.
	Listic	Eakin: I understand. I started using Tumblr way back when it was this newfangled unknown hipster thingy and I liked the fact that it's 'like blog, but easier'
	Dixdy	I have best evening... err... midnight ever..
	Eakin	What's wrong with just using google docs? You can even adjust permissions so others can add to it
	Dixdy	not all have gmail i think...
	Listic	Eakin: as far as I understand, with these writing prompts the main idea is to make you churn out fiction as fast as possible and tumblr makes it easy for several different authors to do (they just "Submit")
	Aurora_Desktop	That is not.
	Aurora_Desktop	Problem is different.
	Aurora_Desktop	Look.
	Listic	Well, you can write in whatever editor you like and then paste to tumblr
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	Listic	oh, hi Obselescence!
	Obselescence	Hello!
	Aurora_Desktop	Setting up something in Russia will lead you to SAFETY AND MORE SAFETY NEEDED.
	sullome	Гуглдоки не нужны вообще. Неудобно, слежка гугла, да ещё неразбериха с тем, кто куда что писать будет.
	Eakin	Ah, I suppose that works then. But I don't go to tumblr unless the content is amazing. It's an obstacle in my eyes
	Obselescence	Sorry if I'm late, I heard you guys wanted to talk?
	Obselescence	Also Hi Eakin
	Eakin	Hey Obs!
	Aurora_Desktop	Hello Obselescence!
	Dixdy	Hi you too!
	Listic	Well, Obselescence, it would be interesting to know about your experience with Thirty Minute Pony Stories
	Dixdy	We discussing now - how to post our works and where... before start...
	Obselescence	Sure.
	Obselescence	Anything in particular you'd like to ask about?
	Dixdy	Yeah! In details
	Aurora_Desktop	So Eakin, there's a problem always.
	Eakin	So, would you say say I've neglected our third coop story, or TOTALLY neglected our third coop story
	Aurora_Desktop	U know 4chan?
	Listic	works here meanng very fast fics fro a prompt
	Obselescence	I'd say I have no idea, but I'd be happy to work on it if you are, Eakin. :V
	Listic	so, what about 4chan? I heard they do prompts there too
	Dixdy	Obselescence - yes... how all that was organized... where authors post their works.. how was constructed whole process of 30m story writing... and so on.
	Eakin	I'm actually in the middle of turning Taste of the Good Life into a for-real-for-money published book, so I don't think I'll have a ton of time before your vacation ends
	Obselescence	Ah, 'kay.
	Obselescence	Dixdy, that's a lot of questions. Let's see...
	Eakin	Sorry.
	Dixdy	Sorry
	Obselescence	The organization work was done mostly like so:
	Eakin	The Star Swirl thing was a really good idea though
	Obselescence	-For each day of the week, one person was assigned to run the prompt.
	Obselescence	-That person would be responsible for organizing the warnings for that day, commenting on the stories, and making sure the prompt ran smoothly for that day.
	Obselescence	-If the person needed help, or wasn't able to run the prompt for that assigned day, another person was asked if they could help out or switch days for that week.
	Dixdy	Oh! that how...
	Obselescence	Authors submitted their stories either through email, or by using Tumblr's submit post function.
	Listic	Ah! That's how you maintain the schedule
	Dixdy	And story started after some theme post... and accepted to publish in strict time gape... i'm right?
	Aurora_Desktop	About 4chan - imagine a 4chan which got a HUGE influence over all the social networks, including pony-orientated sites.
	Obselescence	We organized three different posts to start the prompt:
	Obselescence	a three hour warning, a one hour warning, and the prompt post
	Eakin	Honestly, I don't feel like people do their best work under the thirty-minute time limit. I'm not saying there's no place for flash fics, but I wouldn't commit to writing them regularly
	Dixdy	Great.
	Obselescence	we accepted stories for about six hours, usually, and at that point posted a "Prompt Closed" announcement
	Aurora_Desktop	Amount of vandals which will want to ruin any event is just excellent, that's why we've got Internetpolizei as much as we could recruit.
	Dixdy	soo... 3 warning post... start shoot - and six hours after that to get a work...
	Obselescence	Yes.
	elctrnmcn	So, time limit is all about trust?
	Dixdy	Sooo... time limit can be whole six hours... to be honest
	Aurora_Desktop	So apart from fun out of making stories, wee need some safe platform to run it all.
	Obselescence	Technically. We had two things that kept people honest, though:
	Obselescence	You could not submit a story over 2000 words, because it would take too long to read through and we assumed people would not be able to write more than 2000 words in thirty minutes.
	Obselescence	We allowed people to add a line indicating where they hit the thirty minute time limit to their story, so that they could finish the story if they needed just a couple extra minutes.
	Aurora_Desktop	Well, Obselescence, that is an interesting rule.
	Obselescence	But we generally did not allow stories where about half the story came after the time limit line.
	Dixdy	Hmm... I write comments about 2.5-3.5k words in 25-30 minutes... or near it.
	Aurora_Desktop	But in Russian, your 2000 words are easily metamorphosed to 7k words.
	Dixdy	nope...
	Veon	objection!
	sullome	nope
	Obselescence	Well, you could adjust your word limit to whatever is reasonable in Russian.
	Listic	I believe 2k in Russian can be max 2.5k in English, honestly
	Dixdy	english 2000k = 3.7-4k
	Obselescence	2000 is just what we used.
	Listic	Well it's reasonable, usually people write less anyway
	Aurora_Desktop	Yes, but that is not about amount of words, that is about amount of time spent.
	Dixdy	Russian words sometimes longer...
	Listic	Did you advertise? Do you have many non-regulars?
	Aurora_Desktop	And, finally, the question - how much in average events are described in one story like this?
	Dixdy	seems gape between 2000 - 3000 words ok.
	sullome	Да какая нафиг разница с этими словами. Ставим ограничение в две тысячи и потом смотрим, что пришлют. Если многие будут говорить, что за полчаса и больше могут написать, то ОК.
	Obselescence	We advertised three ways:
	Listic	sullome: норм
	Obselescence	-The mods advertised through their own venues.
	Aurora_Desktop	Есть. Я задал вопрос о другом. Лучше узнать о событийности происходящего.
	Obselescence	-We encouraged participants to spread the word about the blog.
	Obselescence	-We made sure the posts on tumblr were tagged properly, so people searching those tags would be able to find them.
	Obselescence	So if a story had Twilight Sparkle and Rarity in it, we made sure the post was tagged with #Twilight Sparkle and #Rarity
	elctrnmcn	Well, what happens after all works submitted?
	Dixdy	Oh oh... what about own characters? Ob backstage pony? Or other original creatures in alternate Equestria?
	Dixdy	Make it any difference in judging?
	Obselescence	When the prompt ended, we posted a Closing post and queue'd all the stories we'd commented on using Tumblr's queue function.
	Obselescence	So that they'd all be posted, spaced out by about five or ten minutes.
	Obselescence	Background ponies usually got their own tags. Original characters or creatures were either tagged something like #oc or went untagged.
	Listic	Dixdy: there's no judging, silly
	elctrnmcn	Isn't it too... spammy for feed?
	Obselescence	We never received any complaints about spamming the feed.
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	Dixdy	You know about what I am
	Listic	how many followers have you got?
	Obselescence	At current, 716 followers.
	Listic	Dixdy: actually, I don't
	Dixdy	Oh.
	Obselescence	For Thirty Minute Ponies.
	elctrnmcn	How many participants you have in average day?
	Listic	nice to know
	Obselescence	It depends a lot on the prompt, the day, and chance.
	Obselescence	Sometimes we receive as few as one or two stories.
	Obselescence	Other times we can get up to about twelve.
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	Obselescence	Though that's rare.
	Dixdy	I mean perception of story of course. Something already good because of well known character
	elctrnmcn	It's not about winning, it's a about... completing, I guess
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	Listic	I didn't notice if you answer to this: are there lot of non-regulars?
	Obselescence	I'd estimate about six or seven stories submitted daily, on average.
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	Eakin	Gotta run! Thanks, everypony!
	Obselescence	But I suspect that number will vary a lot.
	Obselescence	Seeya, Eakin.
	Eakin	Bye!
	elctrnmcn	See ya!
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	Dixdy	elctrnmcn	I know... but anywayWe write not fo write only - but to be read also...
	elctrnmcn	It's like eith any other regular fanfictionNoone likes alicorn OC, for an ex
	elctrnmcn	*with
	Dixdy	And not create something trashy - but interesting for us and everyoune else
	elctrnmcn	Ahem, Obselescence, what abou regular participants and casuals?
	Dixdy	Alicorns OC cool.. but you need to know how to write.
	Obselescence	What do you mean?
	elctrnmcn	Dixdy, you need to know when to stop, I'd say
	Dixdy	That like tnt... you blow story to pieces...Eh...
	elctrnmcn	Are there many regular participants and what about those who writing for a first time?
	Listic	I mean there are more or less the same participants each time, but do you have some new people too>
	Obselescence	We have a number of regular participants. Sometimes they will leave, and sometimes we get new regulars.
	Listic	,
	elctrnmcn	that ^
	elctrnmcn	Yeah, I've got it
	Obselescence	Most of the stories will be by regulars, usually, but sometimes there will be new submitters.
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	elctrnmcn	Like any other community
	Obselescence	We're usually nicer to them, if it's their first time, to encourage them to come back next time.
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	elctrnmcn	Big question... What you'd say about *quality* of stories? Do you read them, personally?
	elctrnmcn	Листик! Ты лог пишешь? Я потерял кусок с начала разговора.
	Obselescence	The person running the prompt for that day usually reads the stories and adds a little comment on at the end.
	Obselescence	We do not usually judge quality, but on Tuesdays NorsePony runs the prompt as a writing clinic, where he critiques the stories in his comments.
	Obselescence	But most of the time, the comments will mention the things that the mod liked about the story, and won't focus much on the flaws.
	Obselescence	Since it was only written in thirty minutes.
	Obselescence	The goal is more encouraging people to write more often, than to produce the highest quality work.
	Dixdy	Quantity to quality...
	elctrnmcn	So, writers motivated by challenge AND possible feedback from moder AND readers?
	Obselescence	Yes.
	elctrnmcn	ow, who pick themes for prompt?
	elctrnmcn	And how do you do it?
	Dixdy	We can use a dices...
	Obselescence	We have one theme week a month, usually, where the prompts are focused on a certain theme
	Dixdy	1-30 position - dice and result is theme
	elctrnmcn	no we shouldn't...
	Obselescence	which we decide amongst ourselves.
	Obselescence	The rest of the time, the prompt is chosen by whoever is running the prompt for that day
	elctrnmcn	I see, last one was about new episode
	elctrnmcn	And there's two entries?
	Obselescence	Entries?
	elctrnmcn	Uhm, sorry. Two stories.
	elctrnmcn	Nvm
	Listic	I see 4 here http://thirtyminuteponies.tumblr.com/tagged/Prompt-546
	Obselescence	The last prompt received some stories, but the mod running it for that day had some delays, so they have not been posted yet.
	Listic	o no, ther's 4 announcement posts
	elctrnmcn	Oh, I see.
	Listic	How did you came to idea that 30 minutes is enough?
	Obselescence	I'm not sure. I wasn't a founding member.
	Dixdy	from speed art... I think
	Obselescence	I was brought in about a month or two after it began.
	elctrnmcn	Can you please name some well-known authors participated, if there's any?
	elctrnmcn	Интервью какое-то получается. Есть ещё технические вопросы?
	Dixdy	yeah... what about nsfw content... how you block or filter it?
	elctrnmcn	Uhm, nsfw not allowed, that's the rule
	Obselescence	NSFW content is simply not posted, if submitted.
	Dixdy	great.
	Obselescence	Well known authors... Not many participate regularly, though we get one every now and then.
	Dixdy	I like it :))
	Obselescence	Maybe the most well known regular participant is Donny's Boy.
	Dixdy	I like that idea!! Definitely I'll try to do something for... Sound great and quite - motivating
	Dixdy	Also short story can be used for more longer novels as bases... mmm niiiceee...
	Dixdy	When we start?
	elctrnmcn	Today's the day, Cutie Mark Crusaders!
	BadHorse	(Sorry for not contributing. I've never been able to write anything to a prompt in half an hour, so I've never participated.)
	Dixdy	heh!
	Dixdy	Lets see... each saturday would be nice...
	Listic	What about the timeframe for submission and time limit? Do we really want to try 30 min.?
	elctrnmcn	So, if there's no more questions?
	elctrnmcn	Ehem, you kinda missed that point in our conversation earlier
	elctrnmcn	And I can't PM because not registered
	Listic	I'd like to ask a technical question: are all of you set up as moderators for thirtyminuteponies? I don't see a place to add multiple moderators.
	Listic	elctrnmcn: not registered on tumblr?
	elctrnmcn	Not registered on IRC
	BadHorse	"all of you" = Obs?
	BadHorse	I have nothing to do with thirty minute ponies. I think I may have been invited by mistake, so I'm just gonna idle.
	Listic	BadHorse, yes, Obs represents all of 30 min ponies here
	elctrnmcn	I think, I can see, how that's done
	Listic	BadHorse: no, you certainly weren't invited by mistake: we wanted to chat about 30 min ponies and writing in general and whatever
	Obselescence	If the blog you have on tumblr isn't your primary blog
	Obselescence	you can add multiple members from the sidebar
	Obselescence	It will be in the tab marked "Members"
	Listic	Obselescence: oh, so do you recommend making it a non-primary blog? I've made a new primary blog just for that, I guess I was wrong.
	Obselescence	You cannot add other people to manage a primary blog.
	Obselescence	So I would not recommend making it a primary blog.
	Obselescence	Anyhow, I must depart. Hope I was helpful.
	elctrnmcn	Just what I wanted
	elctrnmcn	Thank you for the answers
	Obselescence	Great. Goodbye, then!