It's time to start planning for 3wfdw

[erda]

Hey everybody! Our Anniversary Fest will be starting Monday April 25th, and it's time to start thinking about what we want to do this year.

I'm not sure about putting up posts about communities like I did last year, since those posts are still available, and I feel like I would be treading a lot of the same ground. But I'm not sure what to replace that with if I don't do it.

It seems like I cannot keep up with my reading circle anymore, things have grown so much, but because of our overall smaller user base, community participation could use a boost, as well as just general commenting, so I was rolling around the idea of some small challenges in those areas. I would love to have some graphics that people could post to their journals for completing these small challenges, but I am not skilled in that area. Would anyone out there be able to help make us some graphics?

How do you all feel about friending memes this year? Would you prefer general ones, or themed ones, or something else? What about comment fic memes?

Feel free to add your own ideas, hopes and dreams (lol) in comments, but I make no promises.

As before I will be asking people to keep fest posts Dreamwidth only until the fest is over. This year I will be closing the comm after the fest, as it became very inactive over the past year, and I think sometimes less is more. I hope to open it every year around our open beta anniversary date, which charmingly is also my birthday, so that we can celebrate amongst ourselves every year.

And, of course, please signal boost the hell out of this post if you can.

ETA: I have a ton of ideas at this point that I think will be loads of fun!

Comments

[northern]

themed friending memes sounds fun!

[inkstone]

I'm always up for friending memes, general or themed. I was planning on hosting the small fandoms friending/subscription meme again this year.

[nanila]

I like the idea of non-fandom general (or themed, perhaps around interests like crafting, knitting, science, painting, photography) friending memes.

[erda]

Any particular categories you would like to see?

[erda]

That would be awesome!

[erda]

Yes, those are great suggestions!

[northern]

Interests like writing, cooking, computer gaming, embroidery... :D

[erda]

Sounds good!

*starts list*

[holyschist]

I also feel like I can barely keep up with my circle, but I would love anything that boosts community participation.

[littlebutfierce]

Yaaaaaaay!

Friending memes, yes. I'm psyched that inkstone is going to be doing the small fandoms one again, too, but will be excited to see what non-fannish ones might be around too. & comment fic memes would be awesome, too. I bet fic_promptly would be allllll over doing something for the fest.

I really like the idea of challenges for posting in comms--hopefully it won't just lead to crappy spammy posts, hahaha. I saw on my network a few weeks ago someone talking about a... fandom appreciation challenge week, or something? Like Monday the challenge would be to leave comments on 3 fics by people you don't know, Tuesday would be to do a rec post, etc. Of course now I can't find the post (I must've misremembered the phrasing they used), but I wonder if something like that might be adapted to posting in comms generally or something?

[rydra_wong]

Maybe people could volunteer ahead of time to start and help promote friending memes on particular topics?

[nan]

I definitely love the idea of a fandom appreciation challenge week! :D

[amalnahurriyeh]

This is a really cool idea. Either the fandom version or a more general post-to-comms-a-thon.

[tyger]

I'm planning on running, well... something, over at kingdomhearts again - probably a commentfic fest of awesome like last year, but I will make a poll and see what people want. Will signal boost this when I do.

I'm not so sure about friending memes - I've never really done any, and they seem kind of terrifying, in that designed-for-very-social-people kind of way - but community challenges seem awesome! I kind of fail at community anything, other than last years 3 weeks commentfic fest, so a reminder of oh hey, I can actually do that and not die in a fire of not-qualified would probably be a good thing. ^^

[erda]

I'm certainly not going to argue with that.

[erda]

Yes, the inactivity in my communities makes me sad.

[erda]

That sounds like a really cool idea. Maybe we could make something like that for one of our challenges.

[erda]

Hee, I think friending memes are scary too, but lots of people seem to enjoy them. Maybe we should have a friending meme for people who are afraid of social things.

[tyger]

This is very true!
XD That would either work brilliantly or flop, but I have no idea which. *laughs*

[sid]

*nods* It makes me sad when I'm practically the only person commenting on posts. And then of course I feel guilty when I have nothing to say/am incapable of saying anything and don't comment.

[sid]

Maybe a 'silent' friending meme, where if you see a comment from someone you think you'd like you just go ahead and subscribe to them without asking permission/chit-chatting about why the two of you should be soulmates. And then the person you've subscribed to can just check out your profile, etc., and decide whether or not to get mutual.

Less stress all around. It would just require that the people leaving comments are signed up to receive notifications when someone new subscribes to them so that they can follow up.

[terabient]

seconding the themed friending meme requests. For what it's worth, I'd love to see a video gaming meme - I love adding new people to my online players lists :) A music meme would be nice too.

[red_eft]

I like this idea!

[jumpuphigh]

+1,000,000

[littlebutfierce]

... but that tends to be how I do friending memes anyway! Hahahaha. I mean, I'll post a comment about myself, but lots of times I just add people to my circle w/o interacting w/them actually in the context of the meme--& I've had other people add me the same way.

Still, that option could certainly be made official, which might make the memes less intimidating.