Responding to this post way late, this is exactly what frustrates me about this particular fest too. If there's a fandom that has one podfic, then what's the point? It really (irrationally?) ticked me off when someone recorded a tiny not really a crossover podfic for a rare fandom right before I had the chance to finish editing my actually part of the fandom 20 minute fic.
It just feels a little skewed to me, because I honestly don't mind crossovers counting, but it also means that they're making it harder for people who want to record something rare they found if there's already a recording for it.
I think that I'm honestly irritated enough that the rare fandom fics I do really want to record are not going to be posted anywhere near those dates. :/
*nods* And a lot of them are very short too. I'm not saying that people can't record whatever they want regardless of length; I'm just saying that the only time I go looking for fics in rare fandoms (that I want to read fanfic for (which isn't very many in the first place)) is during amplificathon, and if there is already a podfic for that fandom then I won't bother. I can just record something from one of my mid-sized fandoms and get the same points.
I think it defeats the purpose of promoting more podfics in smaller fandoms because there's no incentive to podfic something in a fandom with one podfic vs one that isn't one of the big 5 fandoms. They score exactly the same.
Oh well. Anything that produces more podfic is a good thing in my book *shrug*
That is a great way to phrase it - it defeats the purpose of wanting more podfics in tiny or rare fandoms, because that's not how the points are set up.
*shrugs* At the end of the day, it's so much hassle both times I've played that I think I'm burned out. Especially since it falls awkwardly in the calendar. I'll be honest, anticipating Amplificathon changed the way I thought about recording podfic, and not in a good way, because I found myself reading fic and then "saving it" for the fest. It makes podfics stressful, especially since my last couple of auction podfics were in tiny tiny unpopular fandoms.
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It just feels a little skewed to me, because I honestly don't mind crossovers counting, but it also means that they're making it harder for people who want to record something rare they found if there's already a recording for it.
I think that I'm honestly irritated enough that the rare fandom fics I do really want to record are not going to be posted anywhere near those dates. :/
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And a lot of them are very short too. I'm not saying that people can't record whatever they want regardless of length; I'm just saying that the only time I go looking for fics in rare fandoms (that I want to read fanfic for (which isn't very many in the first place)) is during amplificathon, and if there is already a podfic for that fandom then I won't bother. I can just record something from one of my mid-sized fandoms and get the same points.
I think it defeats the purpose of promoting more podfics in smaller fandoms because there's no incentive to podfic something in a fandom with one podfic vs one that isn't one of the big 5 fandoms. They score exactly the same.
Oh well. Anything that produces more podfic is a good thing in my book *shrug*
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That is a great way to phrase it - it defeats the purpose of wanting more podfics in tiny or rare fandoms, because that's not how the points are set up.
*shrugs* At the end of the day, it's so much hassle both times I've played that I think I'm burned out. Especially since it falls awkwardly in the calendar. I'll be honest, anticipating Amplificathon changed the way I thought about recording podfic, and not in a good way, because I found myself reading fic and then "saving it" for the fest. It makes podfics stressful, especially since my last couple of auction podfics were in tiny tiny unpopular fandoms.
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