Thank you for the feedback. This is definitely being tweaked this year. We'd been considering 30 minutes ahead of claims but you make a valid point as to be fair to all time zones.
No real complaints, but I like velvetmouse's idea. I've had this problem, as an artist not an author, where the claiming is taking place at a time that I don't have good web access and I haven't had any opportunity to plan ahead. It can be really hard for people who aren't in an ideal timezone, too. Knowing what your faves are early enough to ask for them, as well as having a backup plan, is pretty important for a good BB experience, I think.
Also, not positive that I'll be able to participate since I'm modding my own Big Bang at roughly the same time (our posting is mid-May)... maybe if we moved the due dates a litle further into summer?
I'm afraid our dates are co-ordinated to not run into the star trek big bang. We're extending initial artist submission time, but posting will start on the 15th of May since ST Bigbang starts signups in May. I hope you'll be able to participate anyway.
The claiming bothered me as well -- it was a free-for-all, which resulted in a lot of split-second decision-making on the claims, and I for one wound up claiming an artwork which I was ultimately unable to write for because of the first-come-first-serve basis of the claims. I also dislike the one-author-per-artist policy, because it limits the total number of authors who can participate and fandom collectively has a larger number of authors than it does artists.
So, I'd like to see first-come-first-served get chucked out the window in favor of something like: every artist who submits a finished work will receive at least one story. Once every artist has been claimed, any author can write for any artwork. (So ... some artists may receive more than one story. No one receives less than one story.)
This takes away the favoritism for people in the comm admins' timezone, as well as evening the playing field for people who for whatever reason (school, work, health, deployment, other travel, whatever) cannot be around when claims go
Valid points all especially in regards to claiming and the time zone favoritism.
I have a concern about the multiple authors per artists. I know in the last round some artists found it a bit difficult to juggle multiple authors when they submitted multiple art pieces and if we did implement what you're suggesting that problem would only increase. Do you have any suggestions on how we'd overcome that?
Do you think there would be a problem with having multiple stories for the same piece of art? That way the artist would only be committed to one piece, but multiple authors could have completely different takes on that one piece. I think that might be kind of fun, actually. *shrug*
Aside from not every artist getting the same number of additional stories, some artists might want it to be more of a collaborative process and wouldn't want to juggle multiple authors writing different ideas.
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Also, not positive that I'll be able to participate since I'm modding my own Big Bang at roughly the same time (our posting is mid-May)... maybe if we moved the due dates a litle further into summer?
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So, I'd like to see first-come-first-served get chucked out the window in favor of something like: every artist who submits a finished work will receive at least one story. Once every artist has been claimed, any author can write for any artwork. (So ... some artists may receive more than one story. No one receives less than one story.)
This takes away the favoritism for people in the comm admins' timezone, as well as evening the playing field for people who for whatever reason (school, work, health, deployment, other travel, whatever) cannot be around when claims go
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I have a concern about the multiple authors per artists. I know in the last round some artists found it a bit difficult to juggle multiple authors when they submitted multiple art pieces and if we did implement what you're suggesting that problem would only increase. Do you have any suggestions on how we'd overcome that?
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