Call for posts!

[melannen]

So as you may have noticed, this community has been more active lately - for the past five weeks, I've been making an effort to put up some kind of open discussion or recs post every day.

I am happy to keep doing this (and unless y'all start telling me it's annoying, I'm probably going to do it for at least the next five weeks, because it's nice to have discussions happening). But I am starting to kind of scrape the barrel some nights, and I wanted to make it clear that other people are very welcome, indeed actively invited, to put up discussion posts or recs calls too!

There's nothing formal about this, everyone is and always has been welcome to make any sorts of fandom-y posts here, and there's no reason we can't have more than one a day, either (though if I notice someone else has put a discussion post up I'll probably take the day off.)

We had a couple of other people posting last month and they made some really great posts, and I'd love to see more of that.

For mine, I have been doing a really lazy version of the principles I outlined in my How To Make Discussion post, but the short version is: post about a fandom-related topic that pretty much everyone will feel like they can contribute to (so: not fandom-specific, no specialist knowledge, no hard work required) and then invite them to contribute. That's about it!

If you're having trouble thinking about how to be not-fandom-specific, the simplest way is to think about something you find interesting in your fandom, and then ask other people how it applies to theirs.

Also it helps a lot to build discussion and community if you reply at least once to all the comments you get but sometimes that just seems too hard, so I haven't always managed it either.

Poll #23875

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 74

Opinion.

You should keep doing daily posts.
67 (90.5%)

You should stop.
1 (1.4%)

I am totally going to try making one soon!
33 (44.6%)