Oh, just thought of something else that would be helpful -- for me at least, but I'm sure there are others. If there were an option to manually pay the $9.00 workshop fee rather than have it automatically charge your account. I'm a poor college student worried about overdraft fees, so the control would be nice.
We discussed the inclusion of a chatroom, the truth is, they tend to not get used frequently enough to make it actually worthwhile. So it's not likely that we'll run our own. However, if it turns into the sort of thing a lot of people want, we might look into a 3rd party option first, to gage it's popularity. It takes a lot of resources to run a chat room so I really need to be convinced.
If you guys opt to use IRC for now, I will gladly promote that.
If there were an option to manually pay the $9.00 workshop fee rather than have it automatically charge your account.
Pro-tip: You can technically just sign up for a month, then cancel your membership immediately after if you so choose.
More achievements... Maybe reward points for a few of the achievements.
Working on more, but it is unlikely that we will award points for achievements. Doing so gives people a tanglible reason to try to exploit the system.
I set up a quick and dirty #LitReactor channel on irc.synirc.net.
Webchat link is here: http://cgiirc.synirc.net. Pick a name and put in #LitReactor as the channel name. Any desktop IRC application will work, too.
Wait, Chat Roulette isn't the official Litreactor chat room? Then what the hell was that dude talking about last night? Wait? Am I the little bitch?
I'd love to be able to sort through submissions by rating at well as by number of reviews. Sometimes you just want to read something really good, sometimes you want to help out someone whose piece may have been ignored or overlooked.
If possible, I'd also prefer it if, when you responded to comments on your own piece, it wouldn't get added into the number of total reviews. A back and forth conversation with one person can end up looking like everyone on the site has already given their two cents which might discourage someone from commenting.
If possible, I'd also prefer it if, when you responded to comments on your own piece, it wouldn't get added into the number of total reviews. A back and forth conversation with one person can end up looking like everyone on the site has already given their two cents which might discourage someone from commenting.
- Totally agree. I just replied to the three people that reviewed my story, now it reads as if six people have reviewed it.
What I'd love to see is in October 2012, we have a weekend retreat at some sweet, all inclusive resort for the LitReactor one year anniversary. @aliensoul77 can bring a leatherbound trapper keeper with all the pix aquired of nude members. And we can host seminars about writing and shit. Some place warm. Yeah. Save me a hammock.
I think that a lot of them would end up with something like -nkwilczy got stoned and forgot he downloaded this story three times already, because when I go through my downloads folder to clean it out recently I usually have 3 or 4 copies of stories I read most of or read once before I got distracted and usually a couple more of stories I actually reviewed, it doesn't really mean that those stories weren't compelling or were less compelling than the stories I actually reviewed, I just didn't get around to breaking them down properly in a timely fashion and moved on. Because there are a lot of stories in there.
So I feel like that might cultivate unnecesarry tension in, what I assume would be, a group of people more than ready to freak out about whether their story "hits." I could totally see me beating myself up about a completely meaningless number like that, any meaningless number that pertains to my writing becomes this existential judgement, and that is not an emotion cycle that is productive, do you know what I mean? Obviously, I may well be a freak case here, so don't mind me if most people want to see download numbers, I just wanted to list the cons.
Not to break the Secretary minithread we got going on here, but what if there was a way of showing people what we are still actively working/ still looking for reviews on? It seems like they kind of top out around 8... I know I generally pass over highly reviewed pieces just because I'm not all that sure that I've got THAT much different to say, but if there was some way of designating it as Active or something, I'd be more likely to hit it up.
I know this is probably a pain in the ass to code but I figured I'd throw it out there.
Ok, end of rant.
Well, touche Jacks_Username, great point.
I'm thinking more along the lines of suggestions to an issue. Bryanhowie came in big with my 'battle' story with a comment that really pulled the whole thing together. So I guess it wouldn't be so much for detailed reviews.
And it wouldn't have to be anything huge--just an icon or something to put in the header, or a searchable category maybe?--again, not sure how much other users would find this useful and/or how hard it is to code, but figured I'd throw it out there.
@David - I think that's a good idea. I mean, if you, as a reviewer, don't feel you have anything more you can add, then by all means don't review it. But I think everyone picks up on different things.
...thinking....I mean, would it be easier if we just deleted stories we were no longer looking for reviews on? Can we do that?
You do the give aways, I'll handle the nude pictures!
The problem right now is that 8 reviews sometimes are 3 reviews and then 3 comments and 2 followups. As soon as the coding gets put in to show only reviews in the number of reviews, it'll really change the number of reviews a piece gets.
And I don't read other people's reviews before I post mine. So there's always something to say, even if it's been said before. If it's repeated, then it's a problem everyone sees, I figure.
I always read the other reviews and try to craft my review in a different way (you have 7 LBL's and no real discussion of character/plot mechanics...)
But, yes, right now I am scared to reply and give proper thanks/seek clarification until I think that I've gotten all of the reviews I can get, just because I don't want my replies to inflate my review numbers.
Not a surefire scheme though, I still end up going early a lot of the time if I need some clarification.