alt.startrek.creative.all-ages FAQ (revised)
Natalie Kim Bjorklund
At the risk of starting yet another flame war, here is the FAQ again.
Thank you to the people who wrote us and helped make it better and
clearer than it was.
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Frequently asked questions about alt.startrek.creative.all-ages:
This FAQ is was designed to make it easier for everyone to enjoy
alt.startrek.creative.all-ages. If you have any suggestions, please
email the FAQ Maintainer at umbj...@cc.umanitoba.ca.
Alt.Startrek.All-ages (ASCA) is a subgroup of Alt.Startrek.Creative (ASC)
for the posting of fan fiction stories from ASC that would also be
considered appropriate for older children and younger teens to read. This
is not a kiddie group. The material will be geared towards and be
suitable for adults so we do recommend parental guidance. However parents
can let their children read from this newsgroup without concern about
NC-17 material being present.
It is moderated and does not permit graphic sex, extreme violence, or
presentation of concepts (such as slash, bdsm, drug use, etc.) or
relationships in which the principle "canon" characters are shown to be
engaged in behaviour of an adult and/or controversial nature which
parents might feel is inappropriate to children.
We ask our writers as a courtesy to busy parents, to please provide a
short synopsis of about five lines to summarize the story inserted at the
beginning. This will allow readers (and parents) to quickly skim the
stories and to remove any they don't want from the postings.
Personal conversations, advertisements, binaries and the general
discussion of Star Trek is also not permitted here. While we encourage
reasoned discussion of stories, appeals, and policy, the moderators will
not post messages that are abusive, slanderous, contain foul language, or
include name calling. In other words, no flaming.
Some stories (such as slash, bdsm, drug use, etc.) which depict sexual
relationships between characters that in canon obviously are not in
sexual relationships nor will they ever be are not permitted ASCA. An
example of such a story would be a love story between Spock and Kirk,
Crusher and Troi, or Sisko and Keiko. Such stories often include
relationships that might be interpreted as violating commonly held sexual
harassment guidelines about things like doctor/patient relationships and
sexual relationships between superiors and subordinates. This type of
story also sometimes changes well established sexual mores of a canon
character. A Miles/Dax story would violate canon because Miles has
already been established in canon as monogamous in his marriage to Keiko.
Our reason for excluding Slash is that while such changes from the
established norm are fine for adult readers who can discern their intent,
they would potentially confuse older children/young teenagers about the
nature of adult sexual relationships, adult friendships, and adult
professional relationships. The exclusion of Slash is not intended as a
judgement value on what type of relationship is appropriate in real adult
life and should not be taken as such.
Even though Paramont has chosen to largely ignore the existence of gays
and lesbians, nonexplicit stories that include gays and lesbians but
conform to canon with regard to established characters are welcome here.
Because this group is moderated a bonus benefit is that there will be no
advertising, spamming, multiple cross posting of messages, or off topic
discussions permitted.
Moderation is being done by three unpaid volunteers. If two of three
moderators decide your story is fits our guidelines, it will be posted.
Since we moderators are not perfect, an appeal process has been set up to
allow you to appeal the moderators decisions if you disagree with them.
See the separate FAQ on appealing for details. We also remind you that
you are free to post your disputed story on alt.startrek.creative during
the appeal process.
This FAQ is located at : ??
Please try to make your subject headers confrom to the guidelines for ASC
as this will make cross posting and archiving simplier.
Again, All-ages (ASCA) is a subgroup of ASC for the posting of adult
oriented fan fiction stories from ASC that would also be considered
appropriate for older children and younger teens to read. It is moderated
and does not permit graphic sex, extreme violence, or presentation of
concepts (such as slash, bdsm, drug use, etc.) or relationships in which
the principle "canon" characters are shown to be engaged in behaviour of
an adult and/or controversial nature which parents might feel is
inappropriate to children.Personal conversations, flaming,
advertisements, binaries and the general discussion of Star Trek is also
not permitted here. There are other groups out there for that.
They are:
alt.startrek.creative: The parent group of ASCA, this newsgroup is the
place for the stories rejected by the moderators of ASCA. Also many
stories on ASCA will be crossposted on ASC as well.
arts.startrek.current: For the posting of current Star Trek news and
information, within the last FOUR MONTHS
rec.arts.startrek.tech: For the discussion of the techical aspects of
Star Trek
rec.arts.startrek.fandom: For the posting of fan related events. For
Sale, conventions, and the like
rec.arts.startrek.info (moderated):Star Trek Information
rec.arts.startrek.reviews (moderated): Star Trek Reviews
rec.arts.startrek.misc: Everything not covered elsewhere
For more information see Taki Kogoma's FAQ, An Introduction to the
rec.arts.startrek.* Hierarchy, which is posted monthly
There are also other creative newsgroups that your post may be more
appropriate for:
alt.prose: General Story Newsgroup
rec.arts.prose: General Story Newsgroup
rec.arts.poems: General Poetry Newsgroup
alt.startrek.creative.erotica: Star Trek erotica fiction, not available
in all areas, so ASC is still acceptable. NEWS ADMINS, add this group
ASAP
alt.horror.creative: For your Creative Horror Fiction
alt.doctorwho.creative: For Doctor Who Fan Fiction
alt.ql.creative: For Quantum Leap Fan Fiction
alt.x-files.creative: For X-Files Fan Fiction
rec.arts.anime.creative: For Anime (Japanesse Animation) Fan Fiction
alt.tv.due-south.creative: For Due South Fan Fiction
There is also 2 other creative Star Trek Groups:
alt.startrek.uss-amogosa: TNG-DS9 time frame stories on the USS Amogosa
or associated Universe.
alt.fan.q: for discussion and creative stories on Q from either Trek or Bond.
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| General Suggestions |
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First, please only post your work or work which you have obtained
permission to post.
Second, all stories that are posted here may make their way into the ASC
archive. If you do not what them in the archive, please note that in the
first 40 lines.
The authors of both ASC and ASCA group LOVE feedback. It's the reason we
post the stories (other than the fact we thought it was a good story) So
e-mail them, post a reply if you are more out going.
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| Where to get questions answered |
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Q1) I want to get a copy of story X? I want to ask an author something.
How do I obtain their e-mail address?
Check our archive at: ??
ACSA stories and those author's e-mail addresses that are also posted on
ASC can be found at ASC archive.
Check the FAQ Status of Stories Recently Posted on ASC
It is posted weekly.
You may also visit : http://www.cs.runet.edu/~sratliff/FAQs/Address.html
Note to parents: Please remember that the ASC archive is not moderated
and will definately contain many stories that do not fit our guidelines
and which some people may find offensive or inappropriate for children
and young teens.
Q3) I have questions about the newsgroup and it's associated services.
answer: contact the ASCA FAQ Maintainer at umbj...@cc.umanitoba.ca
The current contact list for the related newsgroups (especially ASC) is:
ASC Archive: arch...@mindspring.com Alara Rogers
ASC FAQs: srat...@runet.edu Stephen Ratliff
ASC Index: srat...@runet.edu Stephen Ratliff
ASCE FAQ eres...@cyberg8t.com Ruth Gifford
ASCE Summaries lemm...@interlog.com Carol Thomas
AFQ FAQ merc...@europa.com Mercutio
AFQ Archive merc...@europa.com Mercutio
Amagosa FAQ rjp...@patriot.net Richard Pugh
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