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

[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]

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.

[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.

[jumpuphigh]

... but that tends to be how I do friending memes anyway!

I kind of do them this way as well but when they appear too social, like everyone is commenting when they friend, I tend to just back away slowly and go do something else.

[trascendenza]

+1!

[sophinisba]

Neat!

[krait]

Really? Huh.

I like friending memes because I'm NOT socially ept, and it's so much more straighforward/easier to me to just Go Here And Write Something About My Interests, Then Look For Interesting People In The List than it is to, uh, whatever normal people do to find and then assess friend potential in people over long timespans. :D