Feedback Drive. (mini challenge. with INCENTIVE + REWARD)
Okay so I know we're already in the middle of prep for the Halloween Challenge (and you should absolutely continue to leave / talk to one another about your prompt ideas here) but something that's become quite topical lately is feedback in hockey rpf fandom and the relative lack of it. One idea to encourage a more proactive attitude toward feedback
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If you read the entry, you get far more reward for comments - you get 500 words of fic for only 500 characters of commented feedback.
(We're not trying to solve the problem. We're just doing our best to 1) make people in this fandom realize how valuable their feedback is to writers, because it's been said time and time again that readers don't think their comments make a difference when that's not the case at all, and it's a crappy way for readers to feel and 2) do SOMETHING. Maybe you're satisfied with a situation in which readers don't feel like their contribution is valued, and where as a writer you just get used to the idea that only 10% of the readers will ever even acknowledge that you wrote something, even if they loved it, but some people aren't. Maybe this challenge won't make a difference and maybe nothing ever will, but I personally had several people say to me in the last week that they'd be excited to take part in this kind of challenge, and the purpose of this community is to give people the opportunity to get involved. We're not trying to fix anything, we're just trying to keep this fandom active.)
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No, you say that if someone leaves only comments and no kudos, they get no incentives at all.
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If you do not want to leave kudos but do want to leave feedback, you forgo the chance to offer a prompt. The author will choose, but you still get to pick a pairing from their list and you'll still get a fic with a word count matching the characters of feedback you've compiled.
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