A change is in the air...

[phantisma.livejournal.com]

As promised, here are the first of the upcoming changes. There may also be more to come, but these are definite.



Weekly Schedule

We will continue to have Guest Hosts, who will host Monday through Friday. However, Wednesday with be Re-Run day. The guest host will be responsible for posting the Re-Run post per a script we will establish. The schedule will be:

Monday: Guest Host Theme day
Tuesday: Guest Host Theme day
Wednesday: Re-Run day
Thursday: Guest Host Theme day
Friday: Guest Host Theme day
Saturday: Free For All day
Sunday: Standard Lonely Prompt day

Contests

We will be moving strictly to a once per quarter contest. The theme of the contest will be announced at the beginning of the quarter. To participate, each member will have to keep track of their own fills that count toward the theme. The last week of the quarter there will be a post up for members to comment on with their submissions.

We will also have a member awarded prize, where comm members can nominate a person for their performance to the theme. Graphics will be awarded for both of these prizes.


Comment Tree

We want to try out the suggestion made during a previous poll and implement comment trees to help people navigate the days. Each host will be required to make a series of primary comments, covering the major fandoms and then several small fandom categories (crime, sci fi, comedy, drama, etc). We will be providing a list.



Now, it may be that we move to only archiving the lonely prompts, to try to keep the volume down. If that is the case, you, of course, are welcome and encouraged to archive your own prompt fills (as I know some of you are).

I will be contacting those of you who said you were interested in helping out next week (after I get back from Vegas). We will be looking to add a couple of new mods with specific duties, as well as new Code Monkeys and Graphics Monkeys.

If you're interested in any of these, but haven't answered the most recent poll, get on over there and answer at least that question so I know.

Thanks everyone!

Comments

Two questions

[rattyjol.livejournal.com]

Would re-run day be posted by the guest host or a mod?

Also, re: comment tree, where would crossovers go?

Re: Two questions

[phantisma.livejournal.com]

As stated in the first paragraph under "Schedule", the guest hosts will post the Re-Run day post.

As to the crossover question, there will be a comment in the tree specifically for crossovers.

[strongwriter.livejournal.com]

I don't have anything necessarily to say about this post specifically, but I just wanted to thank you guys for running such a great comm. We appreciate and respect your all the hard work and time you put into this. You're doing a great job! Thank you!

[kindness_says]

silly:

What's a re-run?

[havenward.livejournal.com]

There was a test run of the idea over the weekend, but basically it's a day for people to promote lonely prompts that they'd like to see answered. :)

[kindness_says]

Ugh, sorry for being so remiss. Yuletide has EATEN ME D:

[tigriswolf]

At some point, one of y'all will go into more details about comment trees, right? Because I have no idea what that is.

[jaune-chat.livejournal.com]

I believe it would be like so:

Guest Host posts the theme, then posts the following comments: Supernatural, Stargate, Criminal Minds, etc, each fandom with their own comment. Then those people with a Supernatural prompt post as a reply to the Supernatural comment, which helps keeps things sorted.

[havenward.livejournal.com]

You are correct. We're hoping that this will make smaller fandoms etc more visible, as people can view the threads of fandoms they wish to see, instead of being spread out and scattered amongst the pages of comments.

Don't worry, tigriswolf, when we're getting ready to transition, mods will be handling at least the first theme week so members can get their bearings.

[devylish.livejournal.com]

comment tree.... brilliant idea....
'beams'!

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

LOVE the idea of a regular re-run day and splitting up the guest-hosting!

[weesta.livejournal.com]

I really love the idea of the comment trees!

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

Seconded. I rarely look past the 1st page of comments before getting distracted by other LJ stuff; comment trees will make prompts & fills for specific fandoms easier to find.

[idleleaves.livejournal.com]

Me, too. ♥ My favourite fandoms are small and appear rarely; prompts are hard to find amidst the many, many prompts for bigger fandoms.

[ruric.livejournal.com]

I like the idea of re-run days and comment trees very much!

[mahmfic.livejournal.com]

what is a comment tree??

[measuringlife.livejournal.com]

A good visual example of a comment tree in action would be saying_yes_2010, and porn_tree (http://www.dreamwidth.org/~porn_tree) @ DW.


Now, it may be that we move to only archiving the lonely prompts, to try to keep the volume down. If that is the case, you, of course, are welcome and encouraged to archive your own prompt fills (as I know some of you are).

I can understand why, as the codemonkeys must be stretched very thin, but it makes me sad to see filled prompts go unarchived now. :( I don't always regularly follow the posts, so I tend to rely on the archives for things like that.

[kentucka]

I agree, actually I never go to specific days' posts, I only ever search for filled prompts on the archive.