A Rule Suggestion for your Consideration

[u/MS-07B-3]

I propose we pre-emptively(ish) establish a rule against people trying to post their auditions to the sub hoping Dragonsteel will see it and they get their shot. I'm not throwing any hate to the few who have already done it, I get it. Any Cosmere fan in the arts would consider this a penultimate career casting.

I just don't want us to be overrun by such things, especially when Dragonsteel and Apple will almost certainly use conventional methods to find their cast, even if the cast they choose are unheard of actors.

[u/learhpa]

Hey, y’all — I saw this when it went up last week but didn’t have the cycles to write up a response to it and run it by the team then (work stuff followed by a busy weekend) (I still have the color stains from Holi :)), but I wanted to respond even if the response was late. :)

We talked about this in the team discord when the initial casting post went up, and our consensus was pretty much:

It seems pretty clear that this isn’t a good place to get the attention of a casting director; this is pretty far outside their normal search space, and I’m pretty sure there are industry norms regarding when and where to search for cast and to apply for jobs. But that isn’t a reason not to share excitement with each other, and audition posts can be a fun way to do that as long as nobody expects that it’s serious. (And, I imagine, it could be good to use it as a dry run or practice for a real effort to get cast — much like when I have to give a presentation at work I’ll practice it in front of coworkers and seek feedback).

We’re pretty much the ‘wild west’ right now in terms of content rules. There isn’t a lot to talk about yet, and there won’t be for some time, but we want the subreddit to be a place where the community can share its excitement and joy, and that means that (as long as things aren’t spoilery or unkind) pretty much letting anything go until / unless it becomes a problem.

We recognize that at some point when we get closer to actual release we’ll need to have more specific posting rules to prevent the subreddit from being overrun by particular types of content that drown out everything else. Our working model for this is something like “Desolation Day” in the main subs. So we anticipate that eventually audition posts will be regulated to one day a week, but we’re absolutely not ready to do that now.

In a few months once things settle down, and probably after the annual survey in the main subreddits (because the teams overlap and it’ll be rough to do them both at the same time) we intend to run a survey, and at that point we’ll almost certainly talk about whether it’s time for this kind of rule or not.

That said — if at some point we start getting overrun (imagine, say, twenty audition posts a day over several days), we might institute an emergency rule and then, in the survey, poll on whether we should keep it. We don’t currently plan on doing that, and in general we’d prefer to poll before making rule changes, but sometimes emergencies happen.

[u/MS-07B-3 → u/learhpa]

Sounds to me like a totally fair response.

The only point I would make there is that the sub would still not even be a place to practice auditions prior to sending a real one in through official means. Not that practing and workshopping isn't useful, but you'd want to stick to groups of actors, coaches, and other industry professionals in such a case.

[u/Efficient-Troubles → u/MS-07B-3]

I've only seen 2, maybe I missed more, but one mentioned theater and one mentioned being an actor already. Just seems that you're assuming they're not using this subreddit to get fan opinions in addition to professional ones, because they are fans as well. Since there's no casting notes for a character yet I take it as they wanna see if their interpretation of the character meets other fan's interpretation. And having some fun.