Feedback Fest Interest Poll

[wallwalker]

The more I think about it, the more I think that something like the Feedback Fest really does need its own community. I'm just afraid to make one, because I'm afraid to end up with yet another dead community. I would need help.

To that end, have an interest poll.

Poll #6722 Feedback Fest Interest Poll

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 5

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To what extent would you be interested in participating in a Feedback Fest community on DW? (Please check all that applies!)

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I'd be willing to help moderate the community and archive recs on any outside bookmarking program we choose to use.
0 (0.0%)

I'd be willing to guest-host a post from time to time.
4 (100.0%)

I could help create media (i.e. banners or custom icons) for users for possible special events and contests.
0 (0.0%)

I would post and advertise the community on various other communities, newsletters and reading circles.
3 (75.0%)

I would regularly participate in the fest by reviewing and linking to creative content.
3 (75.0%)

Something else, which I will elaborate on in the comments.
0 (0.0%)

Should it have a policy about the length/types of feedback? (Outright flames, of course, are right out.)

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Yes, it could encourage people to leave more than "I liked it!"
0 (0.0%)

No, that would be intimidating for people who have trouble leaving feedback.
0 (0.0%)

Maybe, or at certain times - have such a policy during contests, for instance - but not as a general rule.
5 (100.0%)

Other, which I will elaborate on in comments.
0 (0.0%)

Should there be prizes for participating in the community?

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Yes
0 (0.0%)

No
0 (0.0%)

For a contest once in a while, but not as a rule.
5 (100.0%)

Something else, which I will elaborate on.
0 (0.0%)

What sorts of feedback would you make to this community? (Feel free to choose from any sorts of amateur creative things, and not just fandom-based things. This is just to give me an idea of what to expect.)

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So, please feel free to send this to any newsletters/communities that you might be a part of. I'm basically thinking of something weekly or bi-weekly, and in format something similar to fic_promptly, in that someone makes a post calling for a specific genre/fandom/group of fandoms/theme, and other people show up and make links to things that they have left their own feedback on. That way, people can check them out and maybe leave feedback of their own. It's basically a rec post, on steroids.

At any rate, the reason that I'm thinking about this now is the fact that if I went ahead and made this - like, today, or in the next few days - I could have a special inaugural challenge to tie in with 3W4DW, a feedback festival for creative works posted here on the site. That would be a good way to do something fun for that event and to introduce it to lots of people, but I'm also unsure that I'd be able to handle the influx of users that such a move would bring in.

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On a side note, is anyone else having trouble with DW timing out a lot lately? I tried to make that post for hours this morning before it would finally go through. :/

Comments

[lassarina]

Yeah, DW is being cranky today. Per the Twitter they are looking into it.

[wallwalker]

I just saw a post on News about it. It said something about a comment loop in a single small community that was killing its software. I wonder how that's even possible?
Anyway, important part is that they're fixing it now.

[lassarina]

Oh, you'd be surprised what can kill software unexpectedly. XD I usually am, at work. It's like "wtf, why are you....? oh my God, seriously?!"

[dragovianknight]

As an anti-social dragon, I didn't check anything for the first question, because I don't really participate in communities and I feel weird essentially saying, "I'll post recs for fic in fandoms nobody else is in! :D"

[stealth_noodle]

I could potentially help mod this, but only after the summer. My plate does not have room on it right now, but this is something I'd be excited about helping with!

[seventhe]

I would love to help with this, but I don't want to commit to anything right now with DOINK still going on and my life in a general state of fail. But I am interested!