The Sin Bin

The Sin Bin is an anonymous Hockey RPF kink meme that ran on Dreamwidth. It also has an optional AO3 collection that is not anonymous.
As of June 2023, the Dreamwidth community has 18 posts; 21,509 comments; and 113 members., accessed 22 June 2023.
==Rules==
Warnings and content notes were optional. No underage prompts or fills were allowed. The only conduct requirement was not to be an asshole:
Various trolling incidents resulted in more rules added later:
*In November 2014, posting images in comments was banned, 2014-11-11. 
*In August 2015, prompts or fills about Patrick Kane were banned, thesinbin, 2015-04-20.
*In August 2021 prompts or fills about any player charged with domestic abuse or sexual assault were banned, 2014-06-20.
==Origins==
The Sin Bin was inspired by a discussion at the hockeyrpfanon anonmeme on LiveJournal., comment thread in hockeyrpfanon, 2014-05-21. One anon started the conversation with,
A few anons expressed the opinion that the proliferation of trigger warnings were to blame, comment thread in hockeyrpfanon, 2014-05-18., though one person suggested the cause was people not wanting to post kinky RPF in a more "public" venue like AO3, 2014-05-19., and another commented that "I've been in some super pro-warning fandom cultures where everyone is really enthusiastic and positive and telling everyone to ~write the rape fic of their dreams~, it's not like this. There's something specific to hockey fandom culture, I think, it's pretty frustrating.", comment in hockeyrpfanon, 2014-05-19.
The future sinbin mod then posted a new thread to say they were thinking of creating "an experimental warnings-free kink meme". A few commenters objected to the warnings-free proposal and said warnings were a basic courtesy. The mod commented,
==Challenge History==
At the time The Sin Bin started, there was no other active hockey RPF kinkmeme., comment in fail_fandomanon, 2014-06-19. The Sin Bin was very popular, and participants filled up four posts' worth of prompts and fills. The fifth post saw very little activity and even fewer fills, though it is technically still open as of 2023:
*First post 2014-06-20
*Second post 2015-04-20
*Third post 2015-08-29
*Fourth post 2016-05-01
*Fifth post 2021-08-01
An August 2014 fill for the prompt "sid/pk, interracial kink" generated controversy in the dreamwidth comm and elsewhere, and was later used as an example in discussions about AO3 and racism. See also AO3 Content Discussion (2016), OTW and AO3 Racism Discussion (2020), End OTW Racism (2023).
After the news that Patrick Kane was charged with rape in August 2015, the kinkmeme experienced trolling over prompts related to him until the mod instituted a ban on Patrick Kane prompts or fills. The mod also promised to get a comod.
In April 2016, fans criticized the handling of a prompt using racist language; the incident was discussed in the comments on the rules post. The mods then posted an apology. "In the future, we will learn from this situation by being more thoughtful in our application of the asshole rule to racist language.", post in thesinbin, 2016-04-10.
In October 2020, the kinkmeme was handed over to new mods., post by sinbinmod in thesinbin, 2020-10-28.
==References==
Category:Meme Journal Communities
Category:Hockey RPF
Category:2010s