fail_fandomanon does what it does pretty well, but it has SO MUCH cultural stuff you need to figure out before you jump in that it is not very welcoming. I've read stuff about how lots of unspoken community norms is actually a useful way of moderating a tough-to-moderate space (like an anon comm) by keeping out people who aren't already deeply invested, but it makes it tough to draw people in. (And, you know, one of the good things about DW is it's got moderation tools! You don't have to depend on a community self-modding using social pressure!)
And being anon makes it tough to do things like promote your own work. Or, you know, make new namespace friends. So I think a community like this would end up doing different things than f_fa. And that DW's current community, at least, is self-selecting enough that it could work.
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fail_fandomanon does what it does pretty well, but it has SO MUCH cultural stuff you need to figure out before you jump in that it is not very welcoming. I've read stuff about how lots of unspoken community norms is actually a useful way of moderating a tough-to-moderate space (like an anon comm) by keeping out people who aren't already deeply invested, but it makes it tough to draw people in. (And, you know, one of the good things about DW is it's got moderation tools! You don't have to depend on a community self-modding using social pressure!)
And being anon makes it tough to do things like promote your own work. Or, you know, make new namespace friends. So I think a community like this would end up doing different things than f_fa. And that DW's current community, at least, is self-selecting enough that it could work.