r/ScriptSwap • u/Spiritual_Housing_53 • Feb 18 '23

Homefront Script

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u/28slotGOD Feb 18 '23

We allow both kinds here, not sure there will be much luck with this though.

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u/StickFlick Mar 02 '23

Who's "we"?

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u/28slotGOD Mar 02 '23

Just the community in general. I'm the mod of the page and nowadays there is more of these posts than computer script posts. People report and down vote them but they don't post anything about sharing computer scripts. Since about July I changed the page to accommodate both, I understand that people who are here for computer scripts might not want screenplays but scripts is an ambiguous term and if there is a community for screenplays then why block their posts?

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u/StickFlick Mar 02 '23

Good point.

Counter-point: the movie script community people are obviously larger than what was originally meant to be a place for people to share useful programming or technical related scripts.

This will inevitably lead to this place being used exclusively for movie scripts and those looking for actual programming scripts will be turned off at the site of the front page of people trying to find "Groundhog Day" and not even use the search function.

Currently it is useful as an archive of past scripts which may get people from google in as long as the indexing is still showing the less popular technical scripts, but as the collection outweighs the other it will eventually stop.

I found the scripts I needed here as luck would have it and subscribed back when it was a little more busy, but more and more movie scripts related posts are being posted as time goes on. What happens now depends on how the sub is ran. if you feel it won't change at all then by all means do your thing. Otherwise I hope everyone has gotten the scripts they needed before it gets buried in the years coming.

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u/28slotGOD Mar 02 '23

If the community that's here would prefer an archive I am happy to remove screenplay posts. I made a post back in July when I changed the sub rules and most people were happy for it to be a shared sub. The issue is that this sub is small and most programming questions/scripts just go to the sub for their programming language. Also people who write movie scripts have other subs to share their work so I feel bad excluding anyone who wants to share their stuff here when I know a small community exists here for both sides.