Allow precedents to be established by the earlier stories. Maybe we should set up some sort of wiki for this. Some way for the grammar squad to keep things legible, and diminish the criticality of any editors. Maybe toss a user rating system on there, who knows?!
Who the hell's gonna read it but us, anyway? I say process.
Who the fuck do you agree with, anyhow?
moving on.
Det, I have more faith in the community than that. If someone's incapable of sending one PM to me, they're probably not prepared to contribute to the project anyway. And someone who doesn't want to visit the blog is probably not going to visit the thread, either.
How the hell can you say that "the more contributors, the better" and then propose that we use the method that doesn't organize the story at all? In a blog, you can add tags to the post to signify what characters are involved or what plotline the post belongs in; if this grows above 10 contributors, that stuff is going to be necessary for writers AND readers. You click a tag, and you see all the posts relating to a particular character or plotline. In a single thread, people are going to struggle to find a place for their own posts, because they'll be intimidated by the prevalent plot thread in the linear-ass structure of the messageboard.
Of course, I don't know why I bother arguing with you. Had I come in and proposed that we put everything in a thread, you would have told me it was going to fail and we should use a communal blog. Because I have never, ever been right.
That said. The blog's going up shortly.