Ooh, I love this idea! That sounds like a criterion where you might actually be able to identify something like "fannish sensibility".
And I think it fits well with the general purpose of OTW, too, because my definition of "commercially intentioned" is something like "involving the possibility of selling or making money from the copyright itself" (as opposed to just from selling physical copies.)
That goes back to authorial intent again though, blah. But it would at least be something you could put in the upload guidelines that would fill in most of the existing gray areas in terms of my unwillingness to make the call for my own stuff, at least.
(It would create new ones - oh, man, especially if AO3 became known as a source of good orig-fic slush and pro editors started recruiting there, which I can actually see happening, considering the increasing numbers of fanwriters who are getting pro careers based entirely on fan rep, and the fact that it seems like most of the *really bad* origfic writers really want to go pro, so wouldn't post to AO3.)
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And I think it fits well with the general purpose of OTW, too, because my definition of "commercially intentioned" is something like "involving the possibility of selling or making money from the copyright itself" (as opposed to just from selling physical copies.)
That goes back to authorial intent again though, blah. But it would at least be something you could put in the upload guidelines that would fill in most of the existing gray areas in terms of my unwillingness to make the call for my own stuff, at least.
(It would create new ones - oh, man, especially if AO3 became known as a source of good orig-fic slush and pro editors started recruiting there, which I can actually see happening, considering the increasing numbers of fanwriters who are getting pro careers based entirely on fan rep, and the fact that it seems like most of the *really bad* origfic writers really want to go pro, so wouldn't post to AO3.)