Poll: Posting Dates

[sinfulslasher]

Hello everyone!

I'm Gaby, the new co-mod. *waves*

One of the things Jessica and I were discussing was the actual posting process of the next round.

Up until now, we've had a certain time frame (say, two weeks) and everyone could post during this time whenever they wanted. A lot of folks posted on the first day, happy to finally be able to share the goodies, which resulted in a huge wave of new fics and then the rest of the stories trickling in afterwards.

Since I've seen ficathons in other fandoms where everyone had their own specific posting date, we were wondering if folks here would like to give it a try as well. The posting dates are not assigned; the author picks the date on a first come, first serve basis. Schedule tweaking is always allowed, of course. ;-) So, say, during the time frame of two weeks, everyone gets to pick a date, and the stories are posted over the course of these two weeks.

Both Jessica and I will be happy to organize whichever option most participants prefer, so we'd like to ask everyone who's interested in signing up for the next round to please vote below! (Here's hoping the LJ poll thingy works. LJ's been wonky lately... *glares at tech gremlins*)

ETA: Of course the poll didn't work correctly. *grumbles* There was supposed to be a third option, namely that you have another idea and will share it in the comments. So...feel free to comment and discuss! :-)

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Comments

[rose-malmaison.livejournal.com]

How about shortening the window of posting dates? Otherwise isn't this likely to give you a lot of extra work, what with people wanting to change dates, lots of emailing, yada Yada....

[sinfulslasher]

The window of posting dates would, of course, depend on the number of participants. The two weeks was just an example. :)

If, for example, we have 14 participants, then we could either go for one story per day (2 weeks) or 2 stories per day (1 week).

In my experience, people are happy with the date and usually also post on that date because they get to pick it themselves. :) If something happens, there's always ways to solve a problem. If someone comes late to the party and none of the available dates work for them, I'm sure there's someone willing to swap. I mean, I've organized the Tibbs yuletide a few years now, and the dates were assigned (not picked by authors/artists) and it worked 99 percent of the time. :)

[punch.livejournal.com]

I think either way is fine, although it depends how many participants there are... you don't really want a massive influx of people posting on the first day because I always feel like some really good fics get lost in the madness when that happens :(

Either way is cool by me, I'm just glad to see this ficathon running again!