cannot dream this all away
Wow, Saturday is over. How did that happen?
I've spent the last eight hours or so updating the Remix FAQ and then watching as
astolat fixes problems with the signup form. Before it opens live (in a couple of weeks, hopefully), we'll be opening it up to testing, so you'll be hearing about that soonish - doing a dry run of signing up, I mean. So the AO3 folks can fix any issues before it goes live for real, and we can finetune the FAQ to handle any issues that come up in the test run. And also there are still some other issues that have to be resolved that are particular to Remix and its matching complications.
Remix has a very ... I don't know that it's complicated? I guess it's complicated and also exceptionally LONG for a FAQ and set of rules, but that is mainly because as things have come up over the years, we've added them in to clarify.
I know - I know this from my years of meeting planning if not from 7 years of running remix and various other challenges - people don't read. It doesn't matter how often you shove the instructions at them, they don't read. I've done it myself, to my embarrassment.
So we just keep adding stuff to the rules/FAQ, so even if people don't read it (and we know they don't), we can point to it and say, "Well, see here in the FAQ, it says no, you can't do that." It's the polite version of RTFF, I guess. Which I would suggest everyone do, but I know how futile that is.
This year I've done a 'bullet points' version for people who don't want to wade through the whole thing, and it's still ridiculously long, but I think it covers all the pertinent points. Especially as there are some changes this year.
One thing I would definitely recommend is watching remixers_lounge, or at least checking in fairly regularly, as it is where all Remix-related announcements will be made this year.
I'm really tired. I think PMS is doing a number on me this month - I think my fever the other night was totally PMS-related. It wouldn't be the first time it's given me a faux illness that disappeared as soon as my period showed up. Meh. I'm so glad I have Monday off.
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I've spent the last eight hours or so updating the Remix FAQ and then watching as
astolat fixes problems with the signup form. Before it opens live (in a couple of weeks, hopefully), we'll be opening it up to testing, so you'll be hearing about that soonish - doing a dry run of signing up, I mean. So the AO3 folks can fix any issues before it goes live for real, and we can finetune the FAQ to handle any issues that come up in the test run. And also there are still some other issues that have to be resolved that are particular to Remix and its matching complications.
Remix has a very ... I don't know that it's complicated? I guess it's complicated and also exceptionally LONG for a FAQ and set of rules, but that is mainly because as things have come up over the years, we've added them in to clarify.
I know - I know this from my years of meeting planning if not from 7 years of running remix and various other challenges - people don't read. It doesn't matter how often you shove the instructions at them, they don't read. I've done it myself, to my embarrassment.
So we just keep adding stuff to the rules/FAQ, so even if people don't read it (and we know they don't), we can point to it and say, "Well, see here in the FAQ, it says no, you can't do that." It's the polite version of RTFF, I guess. Which I would suggest everyone do, but I know how futile that is.
This year I've done a 'bullet points' version for people who don't want to wade through the whole thing, and it's still ridiculously long, but I think it covers all the pertinent points. Especially as there are some changes this year.
One thing I would definitely recommend is watching remixers_lounge, or at least checking in fairly regularly, as it is where all Remix-related announcements will be made this year.
I'm really tired. I think PMS is doing a number on me this month - I think my fever the other night was totally PMS-related. It wouldn't be the first time it's given me a faux illness that disappeared as soon as my period showed up. Meh. I'm so glad I have Monday off.
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This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/140523.html.
people have commented there.