I think the tag feed idea is good if it gets promoted--the Olympics one did not aggregate very many of the Olympics posts because no one was using the tag--especially not for fannish focus on the Olympics.
I really like the idea for comment fic because when talking about fannish activities, the comment length is the single most valuable asset DW has. It might be interesting if the comment fic memes end up in personal journals or comms around and about to make some kind of list of all the other ones that can go in the top post. That way the content is interlinked.
I do like the idea for non-fannish content to be included in a celebration, but surely one person/group does not need to organize all of this into one event. Kind of like how I think there are other New Year's Eve parties in New York than just the one in Times Square.
Further to the interlinked content idea, if existing comms need traffic then some kind of link hopping scheme where I post to a comm and then ask readers to post to another comm and link in comments--related content would be cool, or just a hey here's a post to read--and so on and so on. For a non-fanwork but still fannish spin on this I could post to the Leverage comm and analyze the way fans interact with the creators and actors of the show, then someone else posts on the same topic in the White Collar comm, and links in comments to that and etc. etc. This is the kind of content that does not need to take up a lot of time to make, but is largely absent from all fannish comms.
I think any attempt to frame this as an anti-Livejournal, rather than pro-Dreamwidth event is a very bad idea, and that's not at all how erda's idea reads as to me. This is about Dreamwidth being a fun place to hang out in, and creating things to share with anyone who happens by, and to show the people that are here how much we appreciate spending time with them. If we let the secondary purpose of promotion overwhelm the idea of having fun, all we'll do is piss people off.
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Date: 2010-03-07 11:38 pm (UTC)I really like the idea for comment fic because when talking about fannish activities, the comment length is the single most valuable asset DW has. It might be interesting if the comment fic memes end up in personal journals or comms around and about to make some kind of list of all the other ones that can go in the top post. That way the content is interlinked.
I do like the idea for non-fannish content to be included in a celebration, but surely one person/group does not need to organize all of this into one event. Kind of like how I think there are other New Year's Eve parties in New York than just the one in Times Square.
Further to the interlinked content idea, if existing comms need traffic then some kind of link hopping scheme where I post to a comm and then ask readers to post to another comm and link in comments--related content would be cool, or just a hey here's a post to read--and so on and so on. For a non-fanwork but still fannish spin on this I could post to the Leverage comm and analyze the way fans interact with the creators and actors of the show, then someone else posts on the same topic in the White Collar comm, and links in comments to that and etc. etc. This is the kind of content that does not need to take up a lot of time to make, but is largely absent from all fannish comms.
I think any attempt to frame this as an anti-Livejournal, rather than pro-Dreamwidth event is a very bad idea, and that's not at all how