Mmm, then I really would wish it would be one theme for a whole week, not just three times a week. I tend to check my reading page once a day at the most and anything with too tight of a response schedule feels a bit stressful. Then we'd have time to *find* the fics in question that would match the theme. (I created a database to help me with that but I don't have quite 1000 fics in there yet and only most of my tiny fandoms, so it's only a little helpful so far.)
I guess I have a different perspective than a lot of people! If it's a post of a theme I like, I *would* check the comments multiple times or use Ctrl+F to find fandoms I know are in there. And I'm far more likely to post comments to a post than I am to post a post all on its own. If I only have one or two recs for the theme, I won't post a post for it. It's just too few for me. Even if you say it's fine, it won't feel right to me. I *would* post the same recs in comments to a theme post. The reason I haven't posted a post on its own yet is I haven't had the time to properly curate to put together a post (I put comments in the recs post of just the best of whatever I read in the past week that I've rec'd to friends - I have a few friends who've asked me to rec all the Leverage fic I read that I liked), and I'm not likely to any time soon. So if it's a case of I'd have to post a set of recs to the comm directly in order to participate in the themed recs, I probably wouldn't end up participating at all, or at least VERY little.
…Just had an idea then - what if you had an introductory post for the theme where people could post just one or two recs if they didn't want to make a separate post? Won't help your goal of getting people to make separate posts, but hey, those take time, and they can feel more stressful to people. That's precisely why I haven't.
I do recognize that the tagging is proving a lot of work (I noticed the last couple community recs posts weren't tagged with the fandoms), so I understand why you don't want to encourage more of that.
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Date: 2020-08-31 05:41 pm (UTC)I guess I have a different perspective than a lot of people! If it's a post of a theme I like, I *would* check the comments multiple times or use Ctrl+F to find fandoms I know are in there. And I'm far more likely to post comments to a post than I am to post a post all on its own. If I only have one or two recs for the theme, I won't post a post for it. It's just too few for me. Even if you say it's fine, it won't feel right to me. I *would* post the same recs in comments to a theme post. The reason I haven't posted a post on its own yet is I haven't had the time to properly curate to put together a post (I put comments in the recs post of just the best of whatever I read in the past week that I've rec'd to friends - I have a few friends who've asked me to rec all the Leverage fic I read that I liked), and I'm not likely to any time soon. So if it's a case of I'd have to post a set of recs to the comm directly in order to participate in the themed recs, I probably wouldn't end up participating at all, or at least VERY little.
…Just had an idea then - what if you had an introductory post for the theme where people could post just one or two recs if they didn't want to make a separate post? Won't help your goal of getting people to make separate posts, but hey, those take time, and they can feel more stressful to people. That's precisely why I haven't.
I do recognize that the tagging is proving a lot of work (I noticed the last couple community recs posts weren't tagged with the fandoms), so I understand why you don't want to encourage more of that.