Poll time!

[inception_anon]

In preparation for Round 10, we have a little poll for everyone. As is obvious to most everyone, Inception fandom has slowed from its initial frenzy and rounds are taking longer to fill up, so the topic of prompt limits has come up once again.

Answers are viewable only to mods, so please give us your opinion if you can.

Poll pompt limitsAs this poll is going up

Comments

[anonymous]

I've heard a lot of people say they'd like to see the next post stay permanently open to prompts til the comment limit is reached. I think that is a good idea, personally, and it would make the meme feel more open and flexible to lots of us who've moved away.

[anonymous]

I second this :)

[anonymous]

I third this. :)

[inception_anon]

Oh yes, thanks for bringing this up, good point. Something like this would require some changes (plus, we'd have to look into what that would mean for the Delicious account) but the mods are willing to consider it. And I'll make sure this is an option in the next poll.

[safaiagem]

What about responding to prompts when they are filled though? If the comment max is made we can't do that.

[anonymous]

my thoughts exactly.

[inception_anon]

While we have overflow posts for this purpose, it is one of the things we'd have to consider. We've heard from a number of people who are bummed out/uncomfortable or feel left out when they have to post their fills in the overflow posts. We've also been told it's a downer to not be able to leave feedback on a fic in a post with the comment limit reached. So again, it's something to consider.

[moleskinned]

Why not have a regular post clean-up period, where you can a) go through and clean up stray comments and invite people who have posted on the old posts logged-in to go back and delete their old comments? You can have a goal of deleting, say, 300 comments per post, so that people can post fills to old prompts and also feedback old fills?

[inceptionsecret]

This is an interesting idea, sadly I can see a few difficulties with it, not least who would take care of the deletions (only the mods currently have that capacity and we, like td, are volunteers with limited time to offer the comm) and secondly where the line between fair deletions ("+1" and "want" comments)and those that are more borderline falls. The last thing any of us want is for anyone to feel that we're censoring or removing fair discussion.

[anonymous]

Perhaps you could delete "want" comments for a prompt that already has one or more fills? I know that I use these comments as a way to see how many people actually want to see an interesting prompt filled, and thus whether it's worth the time it would take me to write it.

But if a prompt already has a fill, then the nested comments asking for said fill would be rendered redundant, and thus safe to be deleted.

Just saying; the idea is an intriguing one, and worth puzzling out.

[renne]

Obv too late for the poll since time zones, but I like the idea in this post. If the prompt already has fills, the "want" people have gotten what THEY want, y'know?

[inceptionsecret]

I agree, it's got a lot of potiential. What might be possible is when the fill tag is added to a prompt on delicious, we could then go back and remove any extra 'want' comments appended to the prompt, that way ensuring that they're truly redundant.

[anonymous]

To this I must say, though, that at some point the comment limit will always be full. It's not something that can be avoided entirely.

[anonymous]

It was avoided starting after the 3rd round.... I'd much rather do more to avoid the comment limit, rather than wait to fill it up.

[celestineangel]

I also agree with this and wonder why I'm apparently the only one who chose other. :/

[laseuleange]

Agreed.