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

[iluvroadrunner6]

I'm also going to +1 fickle_obsessed for weekend writing! It's not an issue for me right now, but I know that when I go back to work, having weekends to write would be a blessing, and I've had friends of mine who would like to participate but have no time during the week.

My one concern would be that if the voting is during the same time, people might write vs. vote. Maybe we could stagger the times a little differently so that the voting period is on a Thursday/Friday versus Saturday/Sunday and the new prompt goes up Friday night?

Otherwise, I'm really enjoying things here! I also know that I'm guilty of the lowercase titles, so I will try and be more mindful of that.

[darjeeling]

Not going to lie, that's my concern as well re: writing versus voting. Generally we have a very low voting turnout, although this last week was stellar! Playing with the schedule is definitely an option to give people weekend writing time, and there will probably be a poll once I've worked out a few possible options.