(Admin) the time is almost upon us

[laurificus]

Yes, indeed. Remix reveals are almost upon us, but a few things

Comments

[p_zeitgeist]

I am not thinking of harassing you by email or otherwise, I promise. You guys have done an awesome job, and I'm sure I speak for about 200+ people when I say I'm grateful that you've brought the exchange back to life.

But if there's any chance that you can tell us that it will not go live before some specific time -- say, not before 8 pm EST, or whatever, depending on pinch-hitters' estimates -- I may not be the only writer who would be grateful to know that we had a few guaranteed hours to proofread and fix our typos.

[dustyasymptotes]

*raises hand* I would really appreciate this too!

[laurificus]

Pasting the answer to the original question:

I'm hesitant to guarantee a time it won't happen by, because as soon as the stories are all in, we'll go live. I do think you've got at least a couple hours left. But it could easily be 3 or 4, you know? Could be 8, really. There's only so much we can do at this stage.

I'm sorry I can't be more specific, but I hope that helps a bit.!

[dustyasymptotes]

thanks!!

[laurificus]

I'm hesitant to guarantee a time it won't happen by, because as soon as the stories are all in, we'll go live. I do think you've got at least a couple hours left. But it could easily be 3 or 4, you know? Could be 8, really. There's only so much we can do at this stage.

I'm sorry I can't be more specific, but I hope that helps a bit.!

[p_zeitgeist]

Thanks. That's more than fair, and I felt a little guilty about even asking the question.

[laurificus]

Not at all! It's a perfectly fair question. It's only the emails demanding that we do things we object to. :)

[kinetikatrue]

Could we get a 15-30 minutes heads-up, maybe? Just a last chance before we go live sort of thing...

Thanks regardless, though!

[laurificus]

Yeah, I was thinking that would be an idea, too. If I can manage it, maybe even a bit longer.

And you're very welcome! <3

[lady_ganesh]

I think that 'you have X more minutes' is really helpful to authors.

Thanks for all your hard work and the other people hard at work pinch hitting, etc.

[laurificus]

Also cutting and pasting the previous answer (it's out of laziness, I promise!).

I'm hesitant to guarantee a time it won't happen by, because as soon as the stories are all in, we'll go live. I do think you've got at least a couple hours left. But it could easily be 3 or 4, you know? Could be 8, really. There's only so much we can do at this stage.

I'm sorry I can't be more specific, but I hope that helps a bit.! If you think you can write a Madness story in a few hours, I'd certainly give it a shot.

[laurificus]

Fair? What is this fair you speak of? Arbitrary and capricious! That is the goal here!

I am, of course, kidding. People can keep posting if the challenge opens earlier, but I doubt there's going to be a lot of difference at this point. (We did discuss it and we couldn't figure out why we'd made the 2012 Madness deadline the day after. This possibly explains it!)

[thinkatory]

Seconding this! I would really like to know if the timeframe on Madness is right, and I'm cool if it is, but, yeah!

[angelgazing]

Nothing goes live until it all does. You've still got time to get down with the madness.