Remix/Redux V: Changes and new rules and tentative timeline

[remixredux]

There are going to be some changes this year, which will hopefully make things easier on me, which makes it more fun for everyone! Or something.

Anyway, change number one is that there will be an increase in the number of stories per fandom one needs to participate - as of this year, to participate, one will need five (5) stories of at least 500

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[penknife]

The one logistical problem I see is that you can only have 50 posts in the moderation queue for a community at one time; after that, it'll start throwing an error message whenever anyone tries to make a new post. Since Remix has historically been a lot bigger than that, that may be a problem.

[musesfool]

Ah, I did not know that. That is a problem.

I will have to think about staggering the opening of the archive then.

[penknife]

I only know this because I used to be an LJ support volunteer, and one of the common communities questions we got was "Bzuh? It says 'Moderation queue full'" (to which the answer was "Go ask the mods to clean out the ginormous backlog of posts they haven't either approved or rejected, and then you'll be able to post.")

Staggering the opening could work. I totally understand not wanting to deal with coding and uploading that many stories yourself. Fandom ought not make your head explode.

[musesfool]

I totally understand not wanting to deal with coding and uploading that many stories yourself. Fandom ought not make your head explode.

If I knew how to install efiction, I might consider that, but I don't, and while this is less searchable - though I can set up tags and such for people to use - than the current database, it addresses the feedback issues, which I think are more important to the participants.

But yes, I am trying to keep head esplodey to a minimum this year.

[ranalore]

Can you post to the "Private" lock on a community, so only those with that assigned username will see the post? That might be a solution.

[musesfool]

Well, you can't privatize posts in a comm, all you can do is make the comm friends only until it's time to go public, so that's probably the way to go.