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alyse in sga_santa

Admin: Tag, you're it!

Sep 28, 2010 20:23

Okay, people! Listen up! (I am totally channelling Ty McQueen here - bonus points if you get the ref ::g::)

Since it's highly likely that we'll be running Santa Madness this year on account of the fact that moonlettuce and I obviously lose our minds at some point during the festive season ::g::, it occurred to me last night that it might be helpful if as ( Read more... )

requests: need new tag, admin

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Great idea! taste_is_sweet September 28 2010, 19:56:51 UTC

Thank you very much for doing this. May I make a suggestion to streamline some of the categories a bit more, especially since some categories like mckay/sheppard or sheppard/ronon will likely be very big.

Would you consider adding some genre tags like 'action/adventure' or 'character study' or 'domestic'? That way if a writer would love to write a McShep fic for someone that involves them buying a house together, they won't have to read through several requests for adventure stories to get there. What do you think?

EDITED TO ADD: I also wanted to thank you very much for going and tagging all the entries! I really hadn't expected you to do that, so it was a really nice surprise.

All the best,

Leah

Re: Great idea! alyse September 28 2010, 22:20:37 UTC

I did briefly consider it before deciding that was far too complicated for what was needed and a hierarchy of tags too far. :)

The AU and crossover tags are only there because in the first instance sga_santa does love its AUs and our experience is that some people like writing AUs and don't care as much about the pairing as the concept :), and in the second because it will help people who write SG:A and SG-1 find prompts they may like. I can't really say the same argument holds for other genres of fic as well.

We have 20 posts per page, and around 100 signs ups last year, of which maybe 50% would be tagged mckay/sheppard because it was one of their requests and fewer dex/sheppard. So in terms of skimming for prompts you might like once you've selected a tag, you're talking two, three pages at most and I don't think that's unmanageable. But thanks for the suggestion :)

Re: Great idea! taste_is_sweet September 28 2010, 22:40:00 UTC

Yes, I would say that three pages is definitely manageable. :) Thank you very much for the discussion.

stella_pegasi September 28 2010, 20:06:51 UTC

I loved Ty McQueen...

Took me a second to get to rest of the post...sounds like a great idea...

alyse September 28 2010, 22:09:12 UTC

S:AAB fans represent!

(S:AAB was my first proper online fandom. I feel so old.)

shetiger September 28 2010, 21:59:08 UTC

Have you had anybody tell you lately how fabulous you are? Because you are. :)

alyse September 28 2010, 22:09:37 UTC

Not lately, no ::g::

shetiger September 28 2010, 22:19:23 UTC

A serious (or really, not terribly serious, but I do make an effort) question this time. Should I add the additional pairing tags on my Santa letter, like John/Lorne? Or should I just leave it with the main one I requested (John/Teyla). I suppose it doesn't matter too much, either way, but my brain keeps dithering over which is best.

alyse September 28 2010, 22:26:28 UTC

I interpreted your request as 'really want John/Teyla and love OT4 but will settle for these other things if you can't do that' and so tagged it John/Teyla and OT4, as that seemed - to me - to be what you really hoped for.

If you would be just as happy with John/Lorne as with John/Teyla and OT4, then by all means add the additional tags :) I know some people offer alternatives so that their assigned writer as as wide a number of things to play with as possible, and we can match you as widely as possible, but I see the Santa Madness as more a 'I can do an extra little thing that this person really wants and make their day' option, so I tended to just tag posts with whatever the recipient had at the top of their Christmas list :)

Maybe you'll have been very, very good and get a stocking stuffer or two ::g::

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Tagging for particular characters/pairings... squeakyoflight September 30 2010, 02:32:11 UTC

Firstly, thanks SO much for tagging all our posts! That must have taken a lot of time (because damn, we all write a lot!) It is much appreciated. :)

Secondly... I think I may have misunderstood so I'm asking... are we meant to request which prompt we want? Is that what the tags are for? Because that would be so cool!

Did I get that right?

Thanks Mod-made-of-awesomesauce!

Squeaky

Re: Tagging for particular characters/pairings... alyse September 30 2010, 07:51:36 UTC

No, you don't request the prompt you get as part of the exchange :) This is solely for Santa Madness where - once you've written your assigned prompt - all prompts are thrown open so that you can write little gift fics over and above the main exchange.

We are probably going to do what we did last year, namely throw them open after we've posted all of the main stories, which normally finishes on 24th December, and then give you the week between Christmas and New Year to go mad :)