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General / Question about the yaoi/shoune-ai genre listings
« on: November 08, 2005, 11:57:29 PM »
Danielle and I were never totally happy with the definition of shounen-ai that we chose to apply at TAFL (TFL, actually, at that time), but it was more a matter of practicality than anything else, as I recall. We looked at the definition at Aestheticism and elsewhere on the web, but at the time our biggest concern was having an alternative to YAOI that would be non-adult, or at least adult-neutral (if that makes sense), and easily recognizable by our visitors. We knew it wasn't perfect and made the choice with reservations.
One concern I have is that if the staff were to require the Shounen-Ai fanlisting to be about the genre Shounen-Ai (even if it wasn't currently being produced *at all*, it could still have fans), the owner of the new fanlisting would have tons and tons of members who think they are joining something else. I don't really know what an adequate solution would be, but I don't really see a way to make everybody happy.
As for BL being an acceptable genre . . . The staff would have to give that some discussion to see if the overlap with other FLs makes it redundant.
Eh, I still sound like a staffer. :ph34r:
One concern I have is that if the staff were to require the Shounen-Ai fanlisting to be about the genre Shounen-Ai (even if it wasn't currently being produced *at all*, it could still have fans), the owner of the new fanlisting would have tons and tons of members who think they are joining something else. I don't really know what an adequate solution would be, but I don't really see a way to make everybody happy.
As for BL being an acceptable genre . . . The staff would have to give that some discussion to see if the overlap with other FLs makes it redundant.
Eh, I still sound like a staffer. :ph34r: