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What Worked and What Didn't
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This exchange went amazing well, which is really a testament to everyone participating <3 That said, there's things I know we can improve on for next year, and I'm sure there's plenty of things that I'm not even aware of which need improved on!
We don't plan on making any big changes (the format is staying the same, the billion mediums are staying, matching will stay the same, ect) but if there are any little changes you want, or anything here you want to give input on, now is the time!
Things we will definitely be changing
The Medium Page
- The mediums page needs to be a lot easier for people to digest and understand! What we're planning to do is come up with very basic guidelines which most of the mediums will follow (we don't need every art form listed separately if most of them have the same minimum of 1 finished drawn image), and then we'll have a page where we go into specifics for things like Logic Puzzles which really need their own specific breakdown.
- We're also hoping to have a page set up with details about each and examples and stuff (not on DW), but we'll see how that actually shakes out. We are looking at it though!
Mediums/Medium Equivalents
The following equivalents will definitely be changing:
- The Theater mediums will be specified as scripts in the tag
- Audio Not!fic will be separated into Oral Not!fic and Audio of a Not!fic
- Shakespearean style script: This will be by poetry rules
- Board/Card game: These need to be split into reskins and new games
Non-Fic Matching
- In order to get around the lack of medium matching, we offered to hand match artists/podifccers/vidders/puzzle makers/ect. so that they could be guaranteed to get a recipient who wanted the medium they wanted to work in!
- We're going to have a google form that people can use to request this next time, just to make it a little more comfortable than having to email us! Emailing will still be an option if you prefer that to google forms.
Pinch Hitter Requests
- Next year a treat for these will count towards your assignment minimum
Requests Search
- I meant to have a fancy search sheet (in addition to the requests sheets we did have) but with everything going on I didn't have time to make it! I want to get this done for next year.
Nominations
- Everyone will be required to submit their nominations in the correct format or they will be rejected. Up until the last day of nominations we'll give you 24hrs to correct them, but we will not ever correct them for you.
- The main method of nominating will be a google form so that we can display instructions on the actual nominations page (unless we find an even nicer way before then; then it'll be whatever that is.) If your reaction to that was a horrified recoil, don't worry, you'll still be able to nominate normally on AO3.
Things we want input on but will be changing unless there's good arguments against it
Defaulting before the Deadline
- I want to change the rules slightly so that defaulting before the initial deadline (e.g. October 18th this round) won't prevent you from going out for PH. My general thinking for this is that it will hopefully spread some of the post-deadline PHs out a bit, because people will know there aren't any consequences for lightening their load a bit before the date that their 10k would have been due anyways.
Mediums/Medium Equivalents
- Some complicated mediums which were on the edge of 'not in the scope of the exchange' and not created this time will be removed (Animatics, Translation notes, ect). This doesn't mean they cannot be nominated and discussed again next year! They just won't be part of the initial tagset.
Things we need input on or we probably won't be changing
Mediums/Medium Equivalents
- If there are any mediums that are confusing, too broad to be useful, not actually reflective of what the medium is, ect, we need to know about it!
- If there were any medium equivalents which were way too low, we also need to know about those! Please keep in mind that equivalents must be set so that they work with the average effort versions of that medium without being too far out of range of the most simplistic. The equivalents also need to be both objective and very quick and easy to equate. We cannot and will not even try to judge for quality or effort, so the equivalents need to be things like word count, seconds, number of images, ect.
- If there were any medium equivalents which you looked at and went "The person who set this clearly isn't familiar with this medium", chances are I set it and you're right. Please let me know how to fix it!
- In-Universe Documents: We're thinking this one needs to have a way to give credit for people who use complicated CSS. The easiest way to do this would be to give a flat wordcount credit (probably 500) if a creator lets us know in the author's note that they custom made the CSS for the document. No credit would be given otherwise since there are so many existing workskins.
- Board or Card Game: My instinct is that new games (and possibly reskins) need to be a higher base equivalent, but I'm not familiar with either of these enough to know how (or if) they need to be changed. New games should probably stay at 2k to take into account very simplistic sets of rules, but we could maybe adjust it into tiers
- For the mediums that can be completed multiple ways, did they work how they did (with one tag and multiple equivalents options) or would it be better to split them with an umbrella tag and specific options under that umbrella tag? E.g. Bestiary is currently one tag which can be written, drawn, or a mix.
