Mod!Post -- Lonely Prompts Issues

[ravensword]

If you've spent any amount of time here on comment_fic, you know we have a few issues in the area of Lonely Prompts. For any given day we have lots of prompts that go unwritten and end up in our Lonely Prompts index

Comments

[takhallus]

I think limiting the number of prompts would be best, even to one or two prompts because surely 6 a week is enough?!

[ravensword]

Obviously not, if the way things look on any given day is a clue, LOL.

Thus the reason to talk about it.

[aurilly]

I really like the idea of incentivizing people to write more (ie., you get to leave more than three prompts only if you write things---maybe one more for each prompt you fill). I think that'll help to generate more fic than just the rule of three.

The fun is also in reading all the stories, and in seeing crossovers and rare pairs get written where they never would have otherwise (so much fic for my random OTP has come through, as well as awesome crossovers).

[ravensword]

More writing is always good. I agree. I just want to make sure we're getting more in a way that makes sense to most people.

[antares04a]

What is your favorite part of participating here?
Leaving prompts for my favourite fandoms and pairings but not for specific writers. *g*

[charlies_dragon]

Only keep Lonely Prompts for the month in which they were posted, then purge

Basically, I think this one should be done, seems easiest and cheapest. Only thing that I can think of, is maybe having a one-off challenge for people to write as many old prompts as possible in a day/weekend before this is put into action with a couple of small prizes/banners for those writing the most overall, in one fandom etc. thus reducing the amount of prompts that are just abandoned.

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[flariariia]

Second.

Maybe if I knew they would be gone forever I'd move my lazy arse to do something about a choice few I just stare at day after day.

[dergerm]

I'm behind this idea. Seems reasonable to me.

[lilyleia78]

This is a great idea. I'd be motivated if I knew it was my last chance. And it would give us a last look so we could re-prompt if there were no responses the first time.

[galor5]

I agree about pimping the comm to a wider audience. While I can't fault some for being more popular, I think there could be more participation if some of the smaller fandoms (or ones that are fairly large) were tapped into to generate more activity.

[ravensword]

As I said below, we encourage pimping, both within your own journals and in comms (that allow it) that we, your mods and code monkeys/llama don't know about.

A part about this comm that tickles me no end is the number of new/unusual fandoms/pairings I've found.

[merihn]

I agree, it needs to be pimped out more. What fandoms/pairings do you like? You can fill your own prompts, you know. It's hard that there's so much for Leverage and Leverage RPS and ANY RPS, cos I'm not in either of those fandoms either, so I make do with Merlin and SPN.

Ooh, the idea about limiting prompts to fandom is even better.

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