Changes for Next Year:

[acequeenking]

Mod K and I have finally gotten together and been able to go over all your good comments and criticism from our feedback survey.

Here's what we'll be taking away from it, in addition to the changes we mentioned earlier:

NOT CHANGING:

-  The minimum word count will remain at 1K, and the writing period will remain six weeks. Those looking to get longer fic may want to check out the Mass Effect Big Bang or Fandom5K.

- We won't police tag usage among authors. Authors can and should feel comfortable using Choose Not to Warn. Authors can and should either use Choose Not to Warn OR tags that accurately reflect the content of their fic.

GENERAL HOUSEKEEPING:

- we will have the countdown clocks better run next year. Mea culpa.

BINGOS:

- We are definitively keeping comment bingo, and may well expand it next year to have more options for commenting.
- For both writing and commenting bingo Cards, we will publish a full list of potential draws and will allow some things to be opted out of next year. We will publish the full list of potential prompts and you will be able to opt out of several so people won't worry about being "trapped" into writing something they're uncomfortable with.

Both of these will also be coming to Black Emporium, our sister exchange, this summer.

COMMUNITY/DISCORD:

- We have now promoted bioticfox into mod capacity on the discord; she'll be handling any questions/concerns that pop up while Mod A and K are sleeping. Please show her the same respect you show us.

- We will be doing weekend writing/sprinting/drawing paries, group events/challenges/games over the weekends next year, ideally to hit evening time zones in at least a couple continents.

- We may be cleaning out or moving things around on the Discord channel, depending on how we decide to implement certain changes for next round. If there's something on there you want to save, save it now.

TUMBLR/DREAMWIDTH:

- If you ask a question in Discord that you feel is not adequately explained on our Tumblr/DW, please tell us so we can put it on Tumblr.

- We will continue to try to keep the DW up-to-date with news, but we got a lot of comments that people do not use the DW. We don't plan on abandoning it, but will try to advertise it more if Mod A can figure out how.