[Mod Post] Reshuffle and Poll

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

Hi, Shiritoreers! So it's finally spring here and we are probably due for a team shuffle, to the extent that any of you want to do that, lol. It usually takes us a couple weeks to sort this out anyway, so keep taking your turns as usual, but meanwhile comment here if you intend to keep playing, if you are/still want to be a team captain, if you want to join, etc. Feel free to link and send new people to this post!

also put in your comment if you have any special requests about which team, want to be on the same team as someone else, need a particular person to poke you, prefer Twitter or LJ pm or whatever, you know, whatever. If you aren't comfortable posting your request publicly, you can either DM me on twitter or email me at gmail (mousapelli) both places. If you would prefer to stay with your current captain, mention that too, it's totally fine. Honestly if your whole team wants to stay as is, greato, it's not like i'm mixing things up just to cause a drama.

I'm going to change the Sonic rules just slightly: anybody can post to Shiritori Sonic, so you don't have to sign up. But if you are interested in being a restarter, somebody who throws down a new Sonic starter when they notice it's gone dead, put that in your comment. I think having at least 3-4 of those would be good, and none of them should be me.

I also want to ask what you guys want to do about staying on LJ, in case some of you were deleting or thinking about quitting for that reason. To be real, I'm not deleting my own LJ, but I'm not opposed to finding out what you guys think or plan to do. I'll be backing up the comm to DW regardless anyway, in case you are worried about it being deleted suddenly. The way I see it there are several options:

1. Stay on LJ, nothing changes. This is my personal preference because I'm LJ permanent and am not going anywhere.
2. Move to DW entirely. I'm not opposed to this since it would work the same. After backing up the comm, we'd just start posting over there instead. I have no intention of deleting the LJ comm either way, I'd just let it sit here.
3. If people's feelings are strong and evenly split, some could stay on LJ and keep going, and some could make new teams on the DW comm instead, starting from the backup. The two comms would diverge at that point and be two different comms.

If we did #3, just to say, we'd need a new mod to take over on DW. There's no earthly way I can mod two separate comms when I'm barely managing this one.



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Comments

[harujongin.livejournal.com]

i'm staying, since otherwise i'd probably not write much and i need to keep up the practice for when i really want to pick up writing seriously again once i'm less busy! i'm fine with both staying in my team or being shuffled to another, so in case you do need to shuffle but don't know who, you can throw me into another group, that's fine. i won't be able to manage a group though, so i'm not up for the position of team captain.

and like before, a poke on twitter @kaiohtic would be nice, tho it's not necessary if we stay on LJ since i usually get the notification.

PS: did you think about moving to AO3? AO3 is popular than DW these days, and organizing shiritori on there could work, too. you can simply manage each time in a subcollection of the shiritori parent collection, and as for notifying ppl of the next person's turn, twitter or other sns could be used? for skipping etc. as well.

i'd definitely prefer AO3 over DW.

[hunhunya.livejournal.com]

just chiming in to say i'd vote for AO3 too! i find it much easier than DW.

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

I'd be interested in a couple people piloting what shiritori could look like on Ao3, but I don't really want to experiment with it myself, or have the time or whatnot. like I can see how it could be useful, since a bunch of us repost there anyway, but I can also see we'd need to change some of the procedures since 'collections' and 'communities' aren't much like the same thing.

I'll definitely keep you in tthe loop!

[harujongin.livejournal.com]

you could have one team trying out the shiritori thing on AO3 as pilot project then? with the team leader being the manager and they report back at how you it works?

tho i think if ppl just stick to the plan, it'll definitely work out.

the cons about using ao3 would be the inability to post "skip" posts, but i think that can be easily done on twitter, as long as the people in a team remember to each other? i think most ppl here do have twitter, right? a team could also have a group dm to notify each other of the next person's turn, skipping, hiatuses etc.

i would definitely be more interested in posting on AO3. in the long run, i do think all fandoms are moving away from LJ. i don't like the idea of supporting LJ after all they've done to the website by using it further :/

[bluedreaming]

Just wanted to let you know that we'll likely post something about this in the next week, but if there's enough interest we'll likely run a test pilot ^^