As a WDLF event, I had a great time! But I think there are a few things I'd hope would be different (and some I'd hope would stay the same) if it were a general event.
The biggest thing for me is that I think it would be good to have a set default date announced from the start to give people a better idea of what their limits are and so people can, I'd hope, default sooner if they need to and give pinch hitters longer. I also think it would be good in a non-WDLF event with auctions to have the exact auction dates and times set up ahead of time, so people can schedule their time online accordingly.
I liked the max bid thing (though I wouldn't mind one way or another if it were higher) and I liked that people could go in on group bids. I also loved that we could split our word counts over multiple stories, which enabled me to bid higher than I otherwise would have been comfortable doing, but if that changed, I would just change my own personal max bid, so this wouldn't affect whether I'd participate, just how.
I appreciated that finished auctions were (after the first set) set to be public in a different category so that active auctions were most easily seen, but we could still check things like a) what exactly we bid on, b) how much we bid, and c) non-sign-up info disclosed from the person we were bidding on during the course of the auction, like additional fandoms, ships, etc.
Thank you so much to the mods for all your hard work!
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Date: 2020-05-05 01:27 am (UTC)The biggest thing for me is that I think it would be good to have a set default date announced from the start to give people a better idea of what their limits are and so people can, I'd hope, default sooner if they need to and give pinch hitters longer. I also think it would be good in a non-WDLF event with auctions to have the exact auction dates and times set up ahead of time, so people can schedule their time online accordingly.
I liked the max bid thing (though I wouldn't mind one way or another if it were higher) and I liked that people could go in on group bids. I also loved that we could split our word counts over multiple stories, which enabled me to bid higher than I otherwise would have been comfortable doing, but if that changed, I would just change my own personal max bid, so this wouldn't affect whether I'd participate, just how.
I appreciated that finished auctions were (after the first set) set to be public in a different category so that active auctions were most easily seen, but we could still check things like a) what exactly we bid on, b) how much we bid, and c) non-sign-up info disclosed from the person we were bidding on during the course of the auction, like additional fandoms, ships, etc.
Thank you so much to the mods for all your hard work!