Hello 2017!
So, uh, hi! I guess we better figure out what to do with this community in 2017!
For the last couple of years, the themed posts helped a lot with keeping up interest and generating new prompts and fills, but now that flurry of activity seems to be dying down. It's hard to keep coming up with a bunch of new prompts with no new canon to work off of.
What are your thoughts on some ways to keep the community going? Should we drop down to a new prompt post every other month? Should we allow prompt reposting in every round? (I'm inclined to think that this might be a good idea, because there have been a number of prompts that looked really great to me, that I didn't have a chance to write for at the time, and then I never seem to go back to old posts and check for them when I DO have time. However, I'd hate to have it end up creating a cycle of endless reposted prompts that no one ever fills!) So far, we've been doing very general themes (e.g. AU, h/c) but should we try some months when we have a fairly specific theme, like fan-flashworks does, and see how that does?
I'm basically opening it up to the floor. Tell me what you like about this community, what you would like to see in the future, and what would be most likely to keep you engaged and interested.
For the last couple of years, the themed posts helped a lot with keeping up interest and generating new prompts and fills, but now that flurry of activity seems to be dying down. It's hard to keep coming up with a bunch of new prompts with no new canon to work off of.
What are your thoughts on some ways to keep the community going? Should we drop down to a new prompt post every other month? Should we allow prompt reposting in every round? (I'm inclined to think that this might be a good idea, because there have been a number of prompts that looked really great to me, that I didn't have a chance to write for at the time, and then I never seem to go back to old posts and check for them when I DO have time. However, I'd hate to have it end up creating a cycle of endless reposted prompts that no one ever fills!) So far, we've been doing very general themes (e.g. AU, h/c) but should we try some months when we have a fairly specific theme, like fan-flashworks does, and see how that does?
I'm basically opening it up to the floor. Tell me what you like about this community, what you would like to see in the future, and what would be most likely to keep you engaged and interested.