Things I enjoyed: - The auctions! Bidding, being bid on, rubbernecking, all those aspects were really fun. - The general community atmosphere. :))) - The mods, who worked miracles. Y'all were amazing.
Suggestions for future rounds (especially if the rounds are intended to be less wdlf-y): - Have a firm deadline from the beginning. I know we were inventing the exchange as we went along this last time, but I think it actually made it harder for me to be productive, not knowing how much time I had.
- I think lowering the max bid might be a good idea. People can still go over the max bid, obviously, but I feel like it might help everyone rein their aspirations in a bit and also reduce the sense that some people are guaranteed to get way more fic/gifts than other people. I think 5-6k might be a good max bid? Or maybe let the max bid be larger IF the bid involves more than one creator? Although then you're still going to have some people receiving way bigger bids than others. Or maybe let the first round of auctions have a higher max bid, and then if everyone gets auctioned off twice, the second round has a much lower max bid? I got the feeling that everyone was feeling a little exhausted by the end of the last round of auctions.
- This is more a frustration than a useful suggestion, but it took me several days to win an auction, just because I didn't feel able to go nearly as high as a lot of people did (even when I teamed up with someone!). That was due to a combo of RL and other fannish things going on in my life, and in a different week I'd have been willing to bid higher, but I feel like maybe some kind of limit on number of assignments per person, at least until everyone has an assignment, might be a good idea? Of course that gives the mods even more to keep track of, and what if the only person willing to bid on a given assignment is someone who's already maxed out? IDK.
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Date: 2020-05-05 05:55 am (UTC)- The auctions! Bidding, being bid on, rubbernecking, all those aspects were really fun.
- The general community atmosphere. :)))
- The mods, who worked miracles. Y'all were amazing.
Suggestions for future rounds (especially if the rounds are intended to be less wdlf-y):
- Have a firm deadline from the beginning. I know we were inventing the exchange as we went along this last time, but I think it actually made it harder for me to be productive, not knowing how much time I had.
- I think lowering the max bid might be a good idea. People can still go over the max bid, obviously, but I feel like it might help everyone rein their aspirations in a bit and also reduce the sense that some people are guaranteed to get way more fic/gifts than other people. I think 5-6k might be a good max bid? Or maybe let the max bid be larger IF the bid involves more than one creator? Although then you're still going to have some people receiving way bigger bids than others. Or maybe let the first round of auctions have a higher max bid, and then if everyone gets auctioned off twice, the second round has a much lower max bid? I got the feeling that everyone was feeling a little exhausted by the end of the last round of auctions.
- This is more a frustration than a useful suggestion, but it took me several days to win an auction, just because I didn't feel able to go nearly as high as a lot of people did (even when I teamed up with someone!). That was due to a combo of RL and other fannish things going on in my life, and in a different week I'd have been willing to bid higher, but I feel like maybe some kind of limit on number of assignments per person, at least until everyone has an assignment, might be a good idea? Of course that gives the mods even more to keep track of, and what if the only person willing to bid on a given assignment is someone who's already maxed out? IDK.