Spec Recs Feedback Update

[acequeenking]

You told us, we listened! Folks, we had a great time this year and we hope you did too. We might have closed the collection this year, but we’ll be back next year in early 2018. See you back in February, unless you’re planning on joining us in black_emporium ​ in which case, see you ...tomorrow. ;) 

Below, here’s what we’re implementing: 

Things we will definitely be keeping for next year:

• The Discord. The Discord is actually open year-round for rare pair love, but we're definitively going to keep the room for next year. In general, we had a lot of positive feedback about it.
• Treats will continue to have no word limits or art restrictions.
• Treatless list, spreadsheet on nominations, and trophies will come back.
• We will be running in early spring of 2018, similar to the first year we ran. 

Things we will change for next year:

• I am no longer solo mod! @keita52​,a long term helper from the last two years, has agreed to sign on on co-mod both here and in Black Emporium, which is opening tomorrow! Please welcome and cheer on Mod K!
• Trophies will get their own tag on tumblr and Dreamwidth, specrecstrophies. Blacklist early if you'd prefer it not be on your dash! Questions will be tagged with specrecsquestions if you want to white/blacklist the tag.
• We will promote Dreamwidth more, posting a link to it on the sidebar and on posts. We'll also be trying to highlight posts on both communities by doing daily digests of posts on the other. This will be short.
• Important posts will have "specrecsannouncements" as a tag to ensure a way for people to very quickly go through posts on the most important topics (schedule, important deadlines, etc).
• We will have more links on the sidebar for various official documents.
• We are going to try to space this out next year so that it does not overlap with the MEBB. Unfortunately we were unable to do that this year, but next year I will try contacting Azzy early and seeing if we can make sure we don't intersect for next year.

Things we cannot change but want to address:

• If anyone is making you uncomfortable in chat, please let us know in the moment. It's very hard for us to act on anything months down the line based on vagueblogging complaints.
• If you notice spec recs isn't on a list and want it to be, please do ask the creators of the list or tell us about it so we can get the word out.

We’ll be announcing the schedule for next year in February. We hope you’ll all join us then and there. <3