Feedback post & poll

[linndechir.livejournal.com]

That's it,  the exchange is over, everything has been posted. A masterlist has been compiled [Poll #1796008][Poll #1796009][Poll #1796010]

Since this is the first time I've organised an exchange, some feedback about what you liked or disliked would be nice. Did you dislike anything about the organisation? About the sign-up form? About the posting schedule? About the way I generally ran things? Just let me know. I'm not saying that I will agree with every suggestion, but I definitely want to hear and think about them. ^^ Feel also free to leave any other sort of feedback on the exchange, if it made you discover new pairings, if you want to tell people about your favourite fic/art, whatever.

Oh, and one last question: depending on how much time will pass until the next exchange, would you be interested in participating in a kinkmeme or commentfics or writing challenges here on this comm to tide us over until the next exchange? I'm just asking because I wouldn't mind organising something, but there's no point to it if nobody wants to participate anyway.

Comments

[luvscharlie.livejournal.com]

The only suggestions I would make is that if we didn't know who wrote for us right away, it might be a little more fun with the guessing of who the culprit might be and then the big reveal at the end is always fun.

And maybe not allowing people to cross post until the fest was over would keep your comment count up. I know I saw some of these appear in other communities before the fest was over and some of the comments may have ended up there rather than here.

Also, I'm sorry that you had people continuing to reassure you that they were still contributing only to disappear. That makes modding insanely hard because you want to believe that people will come through, so you give them every chance to turn in, and then when they don't it sends you scrambling to find a pinch hitter and a pinch hitter scrambling to churn something out quickly so that no one gets left without a gift. RL things happen, but stringing a mod along in such a manner is so frustrating.

The only thing I would add to the sign up form for the next round is a slot so we can tell you who we wrote for this time, so we'll get someone new the second time--although I'll request that my gifter not be allowed to do that so that she can be stuck with me again because my gift was lovely! *wink*

This was my first exchange in this fandom and it could not have been a more welcoming and lovely experience. ♥

[linndechir.livejournal.com]

Mhm, I see the point of the guessing, but anonymous posting is one of my biggest pet peeves. I just really, really hate it. ;) It's just so frustrating when someone comments on your fics, and you can't reply properly or have a proper discussion with other people because you have to be so careful that you don't tell anyone you write that fic. It's annoying. Also, in the past exchanges that I have been in, I felt like anonymous posting made people comment even less, because they just saw the fic without thinking about the person who wrote it.

I could ask people not to crosspost before the entire exchange is over, that's a good idea. But of course I have no way of keeping them from doing it, and if posting isn't anonymous, they probably do whatever they want anyway.

Yep, I was so ridiculously angry about that. I wrote a huge angry rant on my personal LJ because I didn't want to ruin the mood here on the exchange comm, but I was so angry. It's okay to drop out, I don't blame anybody for having more important things to do in their lives. But stringing me along like that and then not even having the decency to reply to my emails, that's just disgusting behaviour. It's why I'm so incredibly grateful to the pinch hitters.

I don't think I have to add that to the sign-up form because I know about it anyway. ;) I'll try to have some variety next time, but at least people who want rare pairings may end up together again. I don't have that many Greyjoy and Bolton fans to choose from. But I promise I'll take it into consideration when I assign the prompts next time.

Thank you. :D I'm so glad you enjoyed yourself, and I'm very grateful for your feedback.

[keeper-of-stars.livejournal.com]

I just have to say that I don't like the idea of not allowing cross-posting. At all. If I've written soemthing and I've waited for it to be posted to a fest, I want to be able to post it to my fic community ASAP. It's not like I'm trying to steal your reviews or anything like that. But I can't help it, I want to get it out there!

Also, I know when I cross-post things for fests I ALWAYS link back to where the fic was originally posted on said fest. I also make sure to include a link to the community. So that's a little advertising for you.

[linndechir.livejournal.com]

I understand, I'm pretty much the same. As soon as I've finished the fic I just want to post it everywhere, so I thought that allowing people to crosspost once their fic has been posted here would be a good compromise. But if the result is that people only read this stuff elsewhere and nobody comments here, well, that's not really the point either. :/ I'm not sure what to do.

Advertising is always good, I appreciate that. ^^

[keeper-of-stars.livejournal.com]

I totally get what you're saying. But what it comes down to is that the work is ours. I mean, I'll happily wait until reveals are made (in the cases of anon exchanges) or until something has been officially posted (like this one was). But to sign up for a fest and be told I can't post elsewhere until the whole fest is over, and having no idea when that will be... Well that just doesn't sit so well with me.

I'm not trying to cause problems. But there's a limit, you know?

[linndechir.livejournal.com]

I understand, really, I'm actually a lot like you in this regard. When I've finished something, I want to post it everywhere.

So I think the official policy will remain the same: no reposting anywhere before it hasn't been posted anywhere else. I don't think that's too much to ask, pretty much every exchange in the world has a rule like that.
And if people want to repost their fic right away once it has been posted here, there's nothing really I can do about. Unless I change to anonymous posting and i don't want to do that.

That okay?