MOD: Request + Feedback + Amnesty Week Upcoming!

[darjeeling]

Just a quick request if I could, I notice some people submit their entries with the titles in the subject line and Title section all in lower case. I know it's a stylistic thing that online has adopted, but it takes me a bit longer to convert it over to title case so the Voting post and Memories are uniform, so if it's just something you can keep in mind, I'd appreciate it!

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Also, I might as well double-up on post purpose, please consider this a catch-all for feedback on the community so far! We're 8 challenges in, we've had a variety of themes (some hard, some easy), and we've had big round and small rounds. So any thoughts from members would be great!

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ALSO ALSO, we will be having our first Amnesty Week coming up after Challenge #010, so it will fall on the week of April 10-16. You'll be able to submit any fic from the previous 10 challenges, so don't throw away any partially finished ones, and stockpile story ideas that you had but didn't find time to write :)

There is no voting relating to Amnesty Week entries, and it runs the full 7 days Sunday to Sunday, 9PM EST when regular challenges will resume. Please keep in mind that any story submitted for Amnesty Week still needs to follow the fic guidelines (1000 words or less, etc).

And we'll have an Amnesty Week after every 10 challenges, so you'll see another one after Challenge #020.

Comments

[alobear]

I'm really enjoying this so far - and, unexpectedly, it's prompting to write in fandoms I've never written for before (eight entries, eight different fandoms so far - maybe a little tricky to keep that up!).

I love the variety of all the different fandoms people are picking, and the community already seems very supportive in comments.

My only concern is the voting getting onerous if the number of entries rises. It's fine at the moment, but we presumably want the community to grow, and I don't feel I can vote fairly unless I've read all the entries.

[badly_knitted]

Same here, I want to read all the entries before casting my vote.

[darjeeling]

You are a brave soul for tackling that level of variety!!

That's definitely an ongoing concern, and it's pretty standard for any fic community that does voting, that people tend to vote for fandoms they're familiar with. (That said, we've had a very high ratio of original universe stories win already, which is awesome!) It's one of the reasons of like to see voting turnout increase, to help spread that aspect out a bit more.