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D.J. (djin7) wrote in snarry_games,
@ 2008-01-10 20:25:00

Entry tags:

mod post, polls

The Future of the Snarry Games Poll, PT 2
Ok, then.

We have calculated the results of our poll(s), and the results are interesting.

Team Alternate Universe and Team Alternate Reality came out on top, with 37% of the total vote. Next closest was Team Romance and Team Angst at 24% of the vote. If we decide to go with AU vs. AR, rest assured that we will be using a clear definition for everyone.

We are still considering another option, which we are keeping under our hats, for now.

66% of you want the Champions to be identified or don't care either way.

Here comes the tricky bits. An overwhelming amount of you - 65%, want the Author and Artist Games kept separate, the same as 2006 and 2007.

However, there was a lot of interest for Art/Author collaboration - 83% would consider or be interested in a change of games to have both Author/Artist, especially if the mods assigned partners (75%).

Due to the extreme increase in fandom fests, and the overall lack of interest for them, if we do amalgamate the Games (have both Authors and Artists together) then the Games could run at an optimum time, when few others do.

Such as: July, for 40% of the vote.

So, before we announce or make any changes, we have one more small poll for you, to help the mods decide if we announce the 'Winter Author Games' this weekend for posting in the usual April/May, or if we hold off and announce a collaborative and/or mixed 'One Big Games' for the summer only.

Please let us know what you think, both as potential Champions as well as Spectators. Thank you!

Poll #827 The Final Countdown
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

Winter Games/Summer Games or One Big Games?

View Answers

Winter/Summer, Author/Artist, as always. It works, who cares about the other fests?
68 (53.5%)

One Big Games! Shake it up, and post in June/July, when no one else is!
59 (46.5%)

If there is One Big Games, I would want:

View Answers

Artist/Author Collaborations, both teams - assigned partners
72 (59.5%)

Team Artists Vs Team Authors
3 (2.5%)

3 teams: Artists Vs Authors Vs Collabs
22 (18.2%)

Single entry Relays, no collabs, two teams
24 (19.8%)

Comments, suggestions? Thank you all for your excellent comments and points on our poll posts, they were very helpful in our quest to find answers and see what the fans prefer. We appreciate it, and will respond to every one shortly.

Cheers!

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eeyore9990
2008-01-12 03:48 pm UTC (link)

Okay, I just read something on my flist that could impact the

snarry_games, as they'll be held on IJ this year.

Apparently, if an entry receives over 100 comments, all the comments are deleted. Does anyone know if this is a)true and b)

squeaky loves us all enough to "fix" this potential problem? Especially as there is no way to get email receipt of the comments to a post made by another user (the tagging feature still doesn't work, as far as I know).

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	eeyore9990 2008-01-12 03:51 pm UTC (link)
	Okay, sorry! False alarm. I'm not sure if this is only in personal journals that the problem arises, but I went over to merry_smutmas to see what the comment totals were over there and the most recent post had 160 comments, so it apparently won't affect asylums at the very least. Sorry for the moment of IJ-doubt! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	djin7 2008-01-12 05:54 pm UTC (link)
	Thanks for checking, Eey! Appreciated. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	accioslash 2008-01-14 05:20 pm UTC (link)
	Actually I'm not sure this is a false alarm. You probably already saw this, but just in case, former smutmas mod gmth is no longer posting on IJ because of lost comments and is concerned that smutmas comments will eventually be deleted as well. I'd hate to see the comments to the Snarry games be lost as well. (Reply to this) (Parent)

accioslash
2008-01-13 04:29 am UTC (link)

I wondered about this as well. Though do you suppose the comments disappear after a given amount of time? I don't believe I've ever lost any comments, but I've read that others on my flist have and that, in the cases I can recall, they were comments in response to fics which may have generated more than 100 comments.

Perhaps it wouldn't hurt to ask Squeaky directly. I wouldn't mind asking if I knew how to contact him. I'd rather not go through support since in my case it was a member of support who brought the concern up in their journal. I don't want to cause anyone any problems but would still like to have an answer directly from the source since this is certainly something I think most of us would like to know.

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	djin7 2008-01-15 08:26 am UTC (link)
	I'm told that it is a programming error, that will be fixed shortly. I'm certain it won't be a problem come April. I will keep a sharp eye on it. Thanks! (Reply to this) (Parent)

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