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[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub! | This is my favorite sub, and it's not too vulnerable to casual bullshit from the front page like 2 X Chromosomes is. So, I'm excited! | 2 | 0 | 1,413 | 42,400 |
[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub! | One one hand, it's cool that the quality of the sub is being recognized.
On the other hand, I can really only see this going badly. There's already an issue with spam, repetitive prompts, and content saturation. Even worse, being default means that there is a large quantity of readers who are stagnant - just voters - ... | 8 | 0 | 1,413 | 42,401 |
[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub! | Interesting effect. Great writing can't get bestof'd now. | 2 | 0 | 1,413 | 42,402 |
[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub! | I wish you had graciously declined the opportunity. | 5 | 0 | 1,413 | 42,403 |
[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub! | I just joined this sub-reddit...why see it burn so soon :( | 3 | 0 | 1,413 | 42,404 |
[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub! | congrats guys | 1 | 0 | 1,413 | 42,405 |
[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub! | This is excellent news; this has quickly become one of my favourite subs and I'm happy to see it get this recognition. Congratulations to the mods! | 3 | 0 | 1,413 | 42,406 |
[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub! | Noooooooooo | 2 | 0 | 1,413 | 42,407 |
[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub! | Hey, folks!
If you ever need anything, please use the 'message the moderator' just over there to our right. Please, *please* read the sidebar before posting, and reading the Wiki certainly will help your enjoyment and ease of use for this subreddit if you're new.
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[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub! | I've never even heard of this subreddit, and will never return, by I am sorry this happened to you guys. Eternal September strikes again. | 1 | 0 | 1,413 | 42,409 |
[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub! | I'm not a fan of the change, and in the short term something needs to be figured out in terms of how to limit the number of new prompts.
Before being default, there were plenty of prompts, but some would be ignored, while people gravitated together on certain ones.
Now there's a problem coming up in that the number ... | 2 | 0 | 1,413 | 42,410 |
[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub! | Well, I had fun here while it lasted! | 2 | 0 | 1,413 | 42,411 |
[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub! | Why is this a default sub? | 1 | 0 | 1,413 | 42,412 |
[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub! | What I think will solve any potential problems is rules similar to /r/redditgetsdrawn where any comment on the OP that isn't a prompt is removed, and users can flag offending comments for removal.
Seriously why were we defaulted... | 3 | 0 | 1,413 | 42,413 |
[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub! | One side of me thinks, "Oh fuck me sideways, the quality is going to suffer."
Another side of me thinks, "Might get some gems in here who never ever would've thought to check and see if this was a thing."
My feelings are most decidedly mixed. | 1 | 0 | 1,413 | 42,414 |
[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub! | It's cool and all, but I'm concerned it'll loose it's small community feeling in the process.
*crosses fingers | 1 | 0 | 1,413 | 42,415 |
[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub! | I've been on /r/writingprompts for a little over a year now. You guys have been my go to place for creativity, and I can easily say this is one of my favorite subs.
Being a subreddit will mean a lot more readers, and that means the community is gonna change. But really it's up to the mods to decide m what direction w... | 1 | 0 | 1,413 | 42,416 |
[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub! | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 1,413 | 42,417 |
[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub! | Have you considered enabling "make the traffic stats page available to everyone"?
I think we're all curious how this will affect traffic. | 1 | 0 | 1,413 | 42,418 |
[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub! | Oh no. Oh please no. Is there some way this can be vetoed? This is gonna drag this subreddit down *so* fast. | 1 | 0 | 1,413 | 42,419 |
[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub! | I posted my first story in WP yesterday, and now it's a default sub. Coincidence? Read the book. | 2 | 0 | 1,413 | 42,420 |
[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub! | Welp, I can certainly expect more "You are an all powerful god" or "The world is ending" themed prompts now I guess. | 2 | 0 | 1,413 | 42,421 |
[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub! | I only found out about this sub because it was made a default. I think it's pretty cool, and didn't even think to think of it. | 1 | 0 | 1,413 | 42,422 |
[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub! | As long as it doesn't lead to more Hitler WPs. | 2 | 0 | 1,413 | 42,423 |
[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub! | ELI5 went to utter shit (tbh, it was on irs way already) when it defaulted. I have a sinking felling that it will happen here too. | 1 | 0 | 1,413 | 42,424 |
[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub! | You know what? For all those who say that this sub is going to go down the shitter for being a default:
I feel like we have a capable team of mods who know what this sub is supposed to be about (whose job just got a bunch harder btw.. keep up the good work) and who are able to wield the banhammer liberally and properl... | 10 | 1 | 1,413 | 42,425 |
[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub! | This influx of fresh faces will help.
Prompts have been stale lately, many have been thinly veiled summaries of Simpson's episodes. Or god satan prompts.
New writers will be nice as well. | 2 | 0 | 1,413 | 42,426 |
[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub! | What? You mean our elitist group will now be overrun by the boring majority? What fresh sacrilege is this?
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[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub! | Oh man, /r/nosleep is a default. The poor, POOR people. | 1 | 0 | 1,413 | 42,428 |
[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub! | Welp was nice knowing you r/writingprompts | 1 | 0 | 1,413 | 42,429 |
[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub! | *Oh, fuck no.*
I mean this with no offense to the moderation team, but it's a law that a quality of a community decreases as it's popularity increases. It's not even a rule of thumb, it's pretty much universal.
Long-form friendly subreddit like this will only suffer, I'm afraid. Users want quick gratification, not to... | 1 | 0 | 1,413 | 42,430 |
[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub! | This is one of my top favorite subs, hope everything goes well with the new defaults.
From my point of view, Admins are trying to change the mentality of reddit, for a more open, inclusive and OC community. Hope it goes well. Really, if the default status screws over the quality of this (and a few other subs) I wound... | 1 | 0 | 1,413 | 42,431 |
[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub! | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 1,413 | 42,432 |
[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub! | Painful writing lies ahead of us | 1 | 0 | 1,413 | 42,433 |
[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub! | 24 hours from now, top of /r/WritingPrompts :
"this pokemon game isnt like the 1 my gf texted me.......!!!!" | 1 | 0 | 1,413 | 42,434 |
[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub! | Someone should crosspost to Dataisbeautiful the ratio of posts that do not contain the word 'feels' to ones that do changing over time.
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[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub! | no more /r/bestof i guess | 1 | 0 | 1,413 | 42,436 |
[OT] Writing Prompts is now a default sub! | I was writing prompts before it was cool! | 1 | 0 | 1,413 | 42,437 |
[WP] Being the creator of the universe is nice and all, but it doesn't pay the bills. | [deleted] | 0 | 0 | 30 | 42,438 |
[WP] Being the creator of the universe is nice and all, but it doesn't pay the bills. | [deleted] | 0 | 0 | 30 | 42,439 |
[WP] Being the creator of the universe is nice and all, but it doesn't pay the bills. | "And this atom here and... Ok, yes, this looks great." I nodded. In reality, I wasn't entirely happy with it, but for now, it had to do. I stepped out of my creation and went outside, closing the door tight behind me.
After catching up on paperwork, I stepped in through the door. I did a quick scan. "Point-three life ... | 21 | 0 | 30 | 42,440 |
[WP] Being the creator of the universe is nice and all, but it doesn't pay the bills. | He used his breath and his hands to craft the small, mostly translucent sphere. Like a combination of glass blowing and pottery. Inside were flecks, imperfections that made it more desirable. This one was reasonably beautiful. It shone from inside and if you watched it long enough you could see the patterns change, the... | 5 | 0 | 30 | 42,441 |
[WP] Being the creator of the universe is nice and all, but it doesn't pay the bills. | Derek trudged through the lonely street. His long hair was unkempt, and he hadn't shaved in ages. He didn't even have a razor--he almost had a chance once, but the hobo by him had seen it first amongst the litter and snatched it from the trash he had been rummaging through. The hobo had smugly smirked and walked off. D... | 8 | 0 | 30 | 42,442 |
[WP] Being the creator of the universe is nice and all, but it doesn't pay the bills. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 30 | 42,443 |
[WP] Being the creator of the universe is nice and all, but it doesn't pay the bills. | Sometimes, you know, I just think, wouldn't it be easier if I just torpedoed a planet-size rock into that orbiting ball of water, earth and shit, and ended it all?
I'm everywhere. All the time. Do you know how exhausting that is?
I hear their prayers, their cries for help, their last-minute repentances, and it bores... | 1 | 0 | 30 | 42,444 |
[WP] Being the creator of the universe is nice and all, but it doesn't pay the bills. | She rested languidly upon a lone cloud, drifting lazily through the heavens she wove with a wave of her hand. The sky became a vast blanket of midnight velvet, the stars a pattern sewn along its seems. "Hmm," she murmured as she began to arrange them in to shapes, small treasures for her creations to revel in. "If only... | 1 | 0 | 30 | 42,445 |
[WP] Being the creator of the universe is nice and all, but it doesn't pay the bills. | Miles rolled off of his slim mattress, his back aching, both from his sleeping quarters, and from a slight, but painful, case of scoliosis. He rummaged around on the floor, trying to find a jumpsuit that smelled bareble. Picking one up, he sniffed it, it smelled similar to a musty old attic. Shrugging, he tossed it on... | 1 | 0 | 30 | 42,446 |
[MODPOST] BIG NEWS! Plus... some changes! | Got mixed feelings about it... hopefully all works out | 50 | 0 | 107 | 42,447 |
[MODPOST] BIG NEWS! Plus... some changes! | This is amazing! Go write prompts! | 3 | 0 | 107 | 42,448 |
[MODPOST] BIG NEWS! Plus... some changes! | Mixed feelings about this.. Hopefully this is a positive change for the subreddit, but sometimes being a default subreddit isn't so wonderful.
I hope we are not spammed with terrible prompts and trolls :( | 18 | 0 | 107 | 42,449 |
[MODPOST] BIG NEWS! Plus... some changes! | We could use a few new writers. I'm all for this if you're able to moderate everything as effectively as you have been. | 2 | 0 | 107 | 42,450 |
[MODPOST] BIG NEWS! Plus... some changes! | Congratulations guys! Becoming a default sub is both an awesome and scary thing! I wish you all the best of luck. The transition will be tough at first. It always is. However, having clear and enforced rules will help a lot with the growing pains.
Just stay positive and keep up the good work. | 2 | 0 | 107 | 42,451 |
[MODPOST] BIG NEWS! Plus... some changes! | [deleted] | 4 | 0 | 107 | 42,452 |
[MODPOST] BIG NEWS! Plus... some changes! | Hmm, this does seem a little scary. But exciting!
One thing I hope we will do is heavily enforce tags...
I don't know how many times (even with tags, lol) I've read a prompt and thought it was a headline instead! | 1 | 0 | 107 | 42,453 |
[MODPOST] BIG NEWS! Plus... some changes! | Man, I really hope the content of this subreddit doesn't go down hill too much. This is by far my favorite subreddit, and is one of the key sources for my inspiration in writing.
I'll definitely be sticking around, though, and continue to be spamming that "report" button when something's out of place! | 10 | 0 | 107 | 42,454 |
[MODPOST] BIG NEWS! Plus... some changes! | Hmm. Don't know how I feel about this. Defaults tend to make people go for quick karma, which means faster posting. Are people going to spend as much time writing out a long response or are they going to just go for quick hitting, emotional responses? | 14 | 0 | 107 | 42,455 |
[MODPOST] BIG NEWS! Plus... some changes! | Congrats,I discovered this sub today from blog announcement.
Why is downvoting CSS disabled? | 1 | 0 | 107 | 42,456 |
[MODPOST] BIG NEWS! Plus... some changes! | >Q. I have a third question not answered here!
Out of curiosity, did you mods received information about this before the official announcement, or were you as surprised as we? | 3 | 0 | 107 | 42,457 |
[MODPOST] BIG NEWS! Plus... some changes! | Just found this place because of the admin announcement. I'll be sure to share it with some aspiring writers. It looks pretty awesome.
I'm sure the mods can maintain the quality. Good luck! | 8 | 0 | 107 | 42,458 |
[MODPOST] BIG NEWS! Plus... some changes! | *Psshhh. I was here before here was cool. Plebs.*
I'm not at all surprised that this sub was picked up as a default. Really well moderated with lots of quality original content. This should be fun.
Jim blog: www.drowningdream.wordpress.com/jim | 10 | 0 | 107 | 42,459 |
[MODPOST] BIG NEWS! Plus... some changes! | Nothing but godspeed! You will need it.... | 1 | 0 | 107 | 42,460 |
[MODPOST] BIG NEWS! Plus... some changes! | Can we undefault? | 6 | 0 | 107 | 42,461 |
[MODPOST] BIG NEWS! Plus... some changes! | Speaking as someone who has never seen or heard of this sub before, it might be wise to include a synopsis of the theme of this subreddit at the top of the sidebar.
I figured it out quickly enough, but I'm not sure everyone else will. | 2 | 0 | 107 | 42,462 |
[MODPOST] BIG NEWS! Plus... some changes! | Would CC be the tag to use to post a short story of ~4000 words? I would love some feedback, but don't want to misplace the post. | 2 | 0 | 107 | 42,463 |
[MODPOST] BIG NEWS! Plus... some changes! | Considering this sub may well grow significantly now, have you thought about making flair easier to change? | 2 | 0 | 107 | 42,464 |
[MODPOST] BIG NEWS! Plus... some changes! | Thanks for reinstating the downvote button for prompts! I love all the writing here but I felt that without (easy) downvotes for the prompts that the cream was not always rising to the top.
Best of Luck Mods | 4 | 0 | 107 | 42,465 |
[MODPOST] BIG NEWS! Plus... some changes! | The soldiers woke to the boom of repetitive prompts and one-liner responses. Without warning, the masses were upon them. Their secret base had been found.
There would be no lack of valor in the following weeks, but this was a war of attrition.
In the distant future, old warriors could occasionally be heard musing ... | 2 | 0 | 107 | 42,466 |
[MODPOST] BIG NEWS! Plus... some changes! | I rarely post here but I love this sub. While I am hesitant about it becoming a default, from what I've seen of the mod team here, you guys really care about what you're doing and I believe the quality of the sub will not suffer. Best of luck to you guys, and congratulations! | 3 | 0 | 107 | 42,467 |
[MODPOST] BIG NEWS! Plus... some changes! | **PLEASE CHECK OUT THE WIKI!**
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[MODPOST] BIG NEWS! Plus... some changes! | I am actually looking forwards to this. I want to see people read my stuff, and maybe, just maybe, they'll want to buy my book when I publish.
Tee-hee.
Also, it's exciting to get that kind of exposure as a writer. Love it.
Downside could be things mentioned by other people already. But, oh well!
E x p o s u r e. | 2 | 0 | 107 | 42,469 |
[MODPOST] BIG NEWS! Plus... some changes! | Kind of unrelated, but on the topic of downvoting, is it possible to disable the hot-key? | 1 | 0 | 107 | 42,470 |
[MODPOST] BIG NEWS! Plus... some changes! | I have a bad feeling about this. | 3 | 0 | 107 | 42,471 |
[MODPOST] BIG NEWS! Plus... some changes! | Hi, CSS mod here. I wanted to talk a little about the small changes to the CSS that are coming up. I recently had a chat to a graphic design professor at the University of Queensland, and asked for some advice about the design. The changes are my implementation of his advice.
Mainly the changes have been about removin... | 3 | 0 | 107 | 42,472 |
[MODPOST] BIG NEWS! Plus... some changes! | >Downvotes will be coming back, but just for submissions and replies to stories - not for stories themselves.
I always thought submissions meant the stories that we submit to the prompt. Does it mean the prompt itself? | 2 | 0 | 107 | 42,473 |
[MODPOST] BIG NEWS! Plus... some changes! | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 107 | 42,474 |
[MODPOST] BIG NEWS! Plus... some changes! | Would you folks be needing extra mods to deal with the extra workload? | 1 | 0 | 107 | 42,475 |
[MODPOST] BIG NEWS! Plus... some changes! | What about making submissions and comments only doable if you're subscribed, so people may have at least a little to the k about before doing things to get banned from here? | 1 | 0 | 107 | 42,476 |
[MODPOST] BIG NEWS! Plus... some changes! | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 107 | 42,477 |
[MODPOST] BIG NEWS! Plus... some changes! | As a person who writes mostly for "the desk", this scares the shit out of me. ;___; | 1 | 0 | 107 | 42,478 |
[MODPOST] BIG NEWS! Plus... some changes! | > The Continuing Story [CS] tag has been eliminated. People rarely used it, when it was used people rarely replied...
By design, reddit isn't suitable for Continuing stories because stories that gets continued do not get bumped up to the top for others to see. So its very difficult for CS to get the visibility it n... | 1 | 0 | 107 | 42,479 |
[MODPOST] BIG NEWS! Plus... some changes! | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 107 | 42,480 |
[WP] [SciFi] Alien looks at our world via a special "telescope". They can see us, but cannot hear us. What kind of inaccuracies do they get? | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 3 | 42,481 |
[WP] [SciFi] Alien looks at our world via a special "telescope". They can see us, but cannot hear us. What kind of inaccuracies do they get? | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 3 | 42,482 |
Once upon a time there was ___. Every day, ___. One day ___. Because of that, ___. Because of that, ___. Until finally ___. |
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[EU] Explain the life of a High School teacher... if they teached in the 'Idiocracy' universe. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 8 | 42,484 |
[EU] Explain the life of a High School teacher... if they teached in the 'Idiocracy' universe. | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 8 | 42,485 |
[EU] Explain the life of a High School teacher... if they teached in the 'Idiocracy' universe. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 8 | 42,486 |
[EU] Explain the life of a High School teacher... if they teached in the 'Idiocracy' universe. | largefries wake up.large fries confused. large fries teacher. large fries good teacher maybe?????????????????????????????????????????????????????!!!!???? large fries teach 'Ass' huhhahhehahehaehueahueuheuh
[30 minutes of laughing later]
uheheueu. Large Fries like 'Owmy balls!!!' euhhueuheueeueuhaeeauhe
[another 30 m... | 3 | 0 | 8 | 42,487 |
[WP] Siamese Twins are sentenced to death. One is guilty, the other is not. | "I don't want this..." The tears were already streaming down Sophia's face, and her stare threatened to bore a hole through the dreary linoleum of the hospital floor. "It's not right Em... I- I want to come with you."
"I won't let you. I did it for us; he's gone and you're getting a new life. A happier life! Remem... | 2 | 0 | 7 | 42,488 |
[WP] Siamese Twins are sentenced to death. One is guilty, the other is not. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 7 | 42,489 |
[WP] Siamese Twins are sentenced to death. One is guilty, the other is not. | Lauren was shaking, the vibrations passed through the mass of flesh attaching her to her sister, Megan. She knew she shouldn't have but she deserved it she did it for both of them. Megan protested and tried to grab the gun from her. Megan wasn't fast enough and her mothers inside had moved to the outside.
"Megan," Murm... | 2 | 0 | 7 | 42,490 |
[OT] Meta: /r/WritingPrompts is now a default subreddit. | we got a [user post](http://redd.it/24ys3a) and [modpost](http://redd.it/24yset) on this already, so i'm gonna have to take this one down. feel free to let us know if you have any concerns. | 2 | 0 | 3 | 42,491 |
[WP] Character finds a briefcase full of money. A lot of it. What now? | Dad, what the hell did you do for a living?
Going through your things hasn't been easy, but you didn't have to pull a Jason Borne on me. This is ridiculous, and I don't feel like dealing with ridiculous.
Okay, so we haven't been close in a long time. I was surprised you even had a will, or that you even left me a lot... | 2 | 0 | 0 | 42,492 |
[WP] Disney Characters in the Zombie Apocalypse | They thought I was the villain. They never thought about those I was trying to protect; they never thought about why I did the things that I did. All I saw was a tyrant who had kidnapped a princess... MY princess. Still, now that the world is crumbling around us, I know she will be back. She will run to me with open ar... | 6 | 0 | 6 | 42,493 |
[WP] Disney Characters in the Zombie Apocalypse | Of all the places to end up, it had to be with them. I'd almost rather sink back to the bottom of the ocean and let those...creatures, get me. Yet here I am; stuck on this god forsaken ship with Eric and that tart of a child bride of his who can't seem to comprehend how to shut one's mouth.
"Ursula!" Eric bellowed fro... | 2 | 0 | 6 | 42,494 |
[WP] Disney Characters in the Zombie Apocalypse | Looking back, it probably should have been raining outside. Not “misting” or “sprinkling”, but full on deluge; tell-Noah-to-pull-that-last-animal-in-*pouring*. There should have been thunder and lightning. There should have been gale-force winds and terrified families huddled deep inside their homes: clutching to ca... | 3 | 0 | 6 | 42,495 |
[WP] Once upon a time there was ___. Every day, ___. One day ___. Because of that, ___. Because of that, ___. Until finally ___. | Nicholas was a dedicated student of Northwestern University who spent all of his free time working diligently in his little house at his little desk in the corner of his little room under his little light. On the last day of his last year of school, as he was writing the last paragraph of his last paper for his last co... | 3 | 0 | 0 | 42,496 |
[WP] Once upon a time there was ___. Every day, ___. One day ___. Because of that, ___. Because of that, ___. Until finally ___. | Once upon a time there were humans.
Every day, they fought, foraged, and looked for sustenance and shelter.
One day a human put two and two together. They realized this was all they every did with their lives. They began to think hard about how to make their lives easier.
Because of that, they learned they coul... | 3 | 0 | 0 | 42,497 |
[WP] Once upon a time there was ___. Every day, ___. One day ___. Because of that, ___. Because of that, ___. Until finally ___. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 0 | 42,498 |
[WP] Once upon a time there was ___. Every day, ___. One day ___. Because of that, ___. Because of that, ___. Until finally ___. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 0 | 42,499 |
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