Comment Amnesty and a Poll of Interest

[shusu]

It's Leap Day, so to celebrate this quirky occasion, I declare a Comment Amnesty for last year's John/Vala Thing-a-thon! I know I got ambushed by RL last year... Now's your weekend to lavish love on everyone's gifts. Here's the Master List and here's the community tagWhich brings us to this year's Thing-a-thon. Technology is finally on our side for

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[auburnnothenna]

Feel free to dismiss this as having exactly as much value as you're paying for it (none), but perhaps if the participatory numbers are low (I can think of one person from last year who seems to have left fandom, at least the writing of fanfic, since) a small fest with a list of prompts that the writers could choose from instead of an exchange would be easier. I do realize that writers tend to do a little better in completing assignments for exchanges (guilt is a wonderful motivator), but tailoring stories to prompts that didn't click for me is the hardest part of such things.

You could judge the level of interest in participating from a post gathering suggested prompts, too.

[shusu]

I've had a while to ponder this community as a whole, so yes, I've considered pretty much everything you're suggesting. This poll is just for the Thing-a-thon.

Not to be a downer in my own comm, but, well, not enough numbers = no Thing-a-thon. It wouldn't be mathematically doable.

[auburnnothenna]

Well, given a memorial day due date or somewhere around there, I'll take part, barring acts of God and unnatural disasters, if you do it.

(oh hey I have a mod icon!)

[shusu]

:D Yay!

I should say -- nothing has been ruled out. At all. But one thing at a time. The Thing-a-thon once again has a narrow window because of both Stargate schedules and my own, so ruling it in or out is time-sensitive.

It's up to all of you. I'm ready one way or another. I really want to switch gears so this community runs on its own legs, but a year later purveyors of this 'ship are still hard to find, so enthusiasts need to make their own noise.

Mostly it would be nice if last year's stories got their day in the sun again, so I'm very hopeful about that part.

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[auburnnothenna]

I've posted an entry mentioning the Thing-o-thon needs people to go forward again this year and directed them to this post. Hope that's all right. I figure what's the use of that ginormous flist of mine, other than something like this.

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[shusu]

Ginormous flists are so lovely... :) Thanks!

(Yes, I will be putting a stop to the post-flooding, if we go forward with it.)