Mod Post: You have GOT to be kidding me
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stargateficrecI'm not sure you guys realize this, but, um, I don't have time to be doing three and four passes through the rec categories every month, scooping up late volunteers and adding them to the list. We're hitting the busiest time of year at work, I am doing NaNoWriMo, I have a dozen other fannish commitments as well.
I am in the process of doing this month's list. I just finished the character prompts. We have, at any point, 17 character categories.
Do you know how many have volunteers for November?
3
I'm hoping things will look better when I hit the pairing categories, but I'm not holding my breath.
Whatever I find in those categories for November is it.
I will make NO second, third, and fourth passes through the categories. Any late volunteers we get will be put off until December.
This should not be a stressful process for me, people, but it is. It's frustrating. I look at the number of people watching this comm versus the number of people actually participating and I want to throw up my hands.
As it stands, we will NOT be adding any Stargate Universe categories. We may even start deleting categories out. Some of them haven't had volunteers in a year or more. The numbers just aren't there to keep them going or to add any SGU ones. Why should we? So I can comb through ten or fifteen more categories with no volunteers in them?
Communities like this run on the backs of its participants. Without your participation, there is no comm.
I like to pretend I can do everything myself, but really? I just don't have that much in me.
So, as they say, ball's in your court. What you choose to do with it is up to you.
I am in the process of doing this month's list. I just finished the character prompts. We have, at any point, 17 character categories.
Do you know how many have volunteers for November?
3
I'm hoping things will look better when I hit the pairing categories, but I'm not holding my breath.
Whatever I find in those categories for November is it.
I will make NO second, third, and fourth passes through the categories. Any late volunteers we get will be put off until December.
This should not be a stressful process for me, people, but it is. It's frustrating. I look at the number of people watching this comm versus the number of people actually participating and I want to throw up my hands.
As it stands, we will NOT be adding any Stargate Universe categories. We may even start deleting categories out. Some of them haven't had volunteers in a year or more. The numbers just aren't there to keep them going or to add any SGU ones. Why should we? So I can comb through ten or fifteen more categories with no volunteers in them?
Communities like this run on the backs of its participants. Without your participation, there is no comm.
I like to pretend I can do everything myself, but really? I just don't have that much in me.
So, as they say, ball's in your court. What you choose to do with it is up to you.
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Date: 2009-11-08 04:10 am (UTC)We trim our categories, yes, but we do it on a yearly basis. In january, I think, people are going to be a bit shocked by just how much is going to be taken out.
We do have a blanket rare pairings category for each genre. The only time a pairing is moved out of that is when there's enough volunteer interest to warrant it. When there is no longer that interest to support it, we take it out as part of our january review.