What Does This Mean?
A story written collaboratively in turns: each participant adds a section and passes it on to the next. In fan and forum communities a round robin is a shared story, and the general word comes from a circulated letter or petition.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
""We're doing a round robin on the forum: each person writes one paragraph, then tags the next.""
LORE & ORIGIN
Wiktionary lists a sense of "round robin" as a letter or piece of writing circulated among a group, each person adding a contribution, with the undated example "a round-robin novel"; its dated quotations (1724 to 1911) concern petitions. Neither Wiktionary nor Wikipedia's Fan fiction page documents the fandom or forum sense with dates, and Fanlore returned HTTP 403. This is therefore a mostly generic term with a plausible but unsourced community use.
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