Hm, I'm of two minds on limits to make sure people don't overcommit. On the one hand, you've got people who committed to a lot and were able to balance it pretty well (with perhaps some issues with the lack of a concrete deadline for some people). On the other, several people did comment toward the end that they'd overcommitted, and it would be good to have safeguards to prevent bidding 10k in the heat and excitement of the moment when you're only capable of a quarter of that, both for the sake of the people who will wind up pinch hitting and to be more fair to the other people bidding whose 5k they actually would have been able to manage. (These numbers pulled from the air for the sake of rhetoric. If it matches an actual example, I don't remember it.)
I think that if limits were implemented, it might be more useful to have sort of rolling limits? Like you can only claim X words to start (or maybe have full ownership of 2 assignments? Not sure how we'd handle people who only promise 100 words as part of a group bid if we're limiting assignments, though), which are freed up as you post assignments. A lot of the pinch hitters ended up being people who took on a lot overall, but finished sooner and had extra time on their hands, for example. For keeping track, maybe use roles (3k winner, 4k winner, etc. to mirror the x time winner role)? Though that requires mods to be paying attention and a lot of extra active mod work, which doesn't seem ideal, either.
Looking at the Author's Doom spreadsheet and who was done a week out from the start, it seems like lower commitments doesn't necessarily correlate with being finished sooner, so I'm not even sure whether hard limits will actually help with this or not. Though it's also kind of hard to tell when people actually finished if they picked up pinch hits right away (see, my line is not blue starting from the 19th, even though that's when I finished my first set of assignments).
Anyway, this is a rambling way of saying I'm not sure if it'll fix the problem, but it might be worth trying?
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Date: 2020-05-06 12:08 am (UTC)I think that if limits were implemented, it might be more useful to have sort of rolling limits? Like you can only claim X words to start (or maybe have full ownership of 2 assignments? Not sure how we'd handle people who only promise 100 words as part of a group bid if we're limiting assignments, though), which are freed up as you post assignments. A lot of the pinch hitters ended up being people who took on a lot overall, but finished sooner and had extra time on their hands, for example. For keeping track, maybe use roles (3k winner, 4k winner, etc. to mirror the x time winner role)? Though that requires mods to be paying attention and a lot of extra active mod work, which doesn't seem ideal, either.
Looking at the Author's Doom spreadsheet and who was done a week out from the start, it seems like lower commitments doesn't necessarily correlate with being finished sooner, so I'm not even sure whether hard limits will actually help with this or not. Though it's also kind of hard to tell when people actually finished if they picked up pinch hits right away (see, my line is not blue starting from the 19th, even though that's when I finished my first set of assignments).
Anyway, this is a rambling way of saying I'm not sure if it'll fix the problem, but it might be worth trying?