- Albluerose:
- I'll join can I post an option? Like three different stories but used one at a time or just one story?
If we do it, users will only be allowed to post one story at a time and that story will go up on the My Mibba page. So it needs to just be one story, rather than a few choices.
* Once we start, I'll post a sign up thread (probably in the
News and Updates forum), where users can sign up.
- bellamy blake:
- @ Audrey T
I really love this idea, but I think there should also be a link/a set of rules outlining what constitutes as a decent comment, if that makes any sense?
- Michael Westen:
- @ Audrey T
I absolutely love this idea. I would love to see this get up and running, but I agree with @ bellamy blake about the guidelines for comments. It's nice to hear that your layout looks good, but that has very little to do with the actual story.
Probably we'll go with a very small set of basic guidelines (so that Mibbians won't feel like they're being overwhelmed with strict rules on commenting),
but I'll be going through all the comments left and only the ones that are substantial will count towards the comment limit. So, for example, if a story gets 7 comments on the day it's posted up, but only 2 of those comments focus on the actual content of the story, it'll stay up until it gets a 3rd substantial comments.
I want to do it that way just so we don't discourage people from commenting because they feel like their comment might not be 'enough'.
But we can definitely link some articles/blog posts on good commenting habits, commenting advice, etc.
- aubs:
- @ Audrey T
Maybe when listing the 10 or so stories for commenting, you could also have a description as to what it is including the rating and what type of story it is. For example: story here: PG-13, fanfiction or something like that so the commenters can choose what type of story they want to read without having to click through all of them, you know? I don't know.
Oh, and what if someone wants all of their stories commented on? When listing the stories to be commented on, those repeat authors need some space between their stories especially if they sign up all their stories at the same time. Maybe they can only request one story at a time?
But I really like this idea. I like the options of having choices on what to comment on unlike the comment swap feature that we have right now where it only gives up one option.
Since this is going to be on the
My Mibba page, we won't be able to include a ton of extra text (like descriptions/info for each individual story), but the users' story covers will link directly to the story's info page (rather than the story's first chapter/long summary page). That way when users click it, they'll be able to get a sense of it before they start reading.
The way it'll work is, you can only sign up one story at a time. So you sign up once, with whatever story you want commented, and you can't sign up again (and go back into the rotation) until that story has been featured. So no one's name/story should ever be on the list more than once at a time.
- sebastian.angel:
- Would you edit their posts to say "featured" so they know, if they don't check online every day?
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This was a question Nicole asked me in another thread, but I want to post the answer here in case anyone else is wondering.
When a story is posted up, I'll leave the user a profile comment, to let them know, and delete their sign up post from the sign up thread.
