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

[ser_pounce_alot]

i totally understand, just an idea that would help me (not necessarily everyone else lol). i have trouble voting because i usually don't know the fandoms and i feel like i can't judge writing in fandoms that i don't know. again, not sure there is a way to fix this or anything, but i feel bad voting without knowledge of what's going on haha. :) i really love the idea of doing something small each week, and it's helping me out in getting back to writing again, so thank you for taking the time to run this! the weekends thing would only marginally help me, as i am in a much different timezone than the other participants and my days are already 14 hours ahead, so my participation will not be dependent on extending the writing time. :)

[badly_knitted]

I don't know most of the fandoms either, but I read everything and treat the unknown fandoms as original fiction. My votes are based on the quality of writing and how much the story engages me, so I don't automatically vote for fics in familiar fandoms. Most of the unfamiliar fandoms are things I'm never going to watch/read anyway, and fanfiction by its very nature means that writers don't have to stick to canon anyway, so I set any concerns about the source material aside and vote based on each story's merits as a piece of fiction. It seems the fairest wsy. =)

[ser_pounce_alot]

that's an excellent way to look at it. :)

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[badly_knitted]

It seems to be working for me so far =D