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ds_ssdiscussionHello all!
The AO3 collection is open for submissions! Are you excited? We're excited!
Separate posts with detailed instructions about how to post fic / art / podfic / vids will be up soon.
Meanwhile, a couple of notes about submitting your giftwork to the collection:
1) The deadline for posting your giftwork is 11:59 p.m. Chicago time, December 14th. You can post any time between now and then.
If you are not going to be able to complete your giftwork, please let the mods know ASAP so we can find a pinch-hitter to make something for your recipient.
2) The collection is moderated, which means that your submitted giftwork will not appear in the collection until the mods approve it. We will send you an email letting you know that your submission has been approved or alerting you if there is something preventing us from approving it. You can also check the status of your work in AO3 by going to your "My Assignments" list.
3) You can continue editing your giftwork after it's been posted to the collection. However, we strongly encourage you to post an as-final-as-possible version: it makes it easier for the mods to review your submission, and you can rest easy knowing that the most you have to do is chase down those last few elusive typos!
If you prefer to post a rough draft and do your edits within AO3, please email the mods to let us know you're doing so, and we will defer looking at your submission until you tell us it's finalized. If you go this route, do please remember to email us again when you're ready for us to take a look! :)
4) We expect a high standard of quality, meaning that gifts should represent careful effort by the creators, and should be proofread for typos, spelling and similar "rough edges." If the mods consider your fanwork requires it, you may be asked to correct/revise your work before we can approve it.
5) Remember that ALL primary giftworks need to be beta-ed, including art/vids/podfic. (For treats, we strongly encourage betas, but do not require them.) If you still need to find a beta, check out the beta volunteer post on DW or or contact the mods at dsss.admin AT gmail DOT com for help.
Finished early? Extra-excited about gift-giving? Starting December 7th, requests will be made visible so that people can make Treats for participants, pinch-hitters or mods. Instructions about Treats will be posted then. (But make sure you finish your main gift before getting excited about making extra Treats!)
Works will go live in the evening of December 24th. Reveal Day is January 1st.
And if you have questions about posting, the posting information is here.
Cheering you all on! *\o/*
The AO3 collection is open for submissions! Are you excited? We're excited!
Separate posts with detailed instructions about how to post fic / art / podfic / vids will be up soon.
Meanwhile, a couple of notes about submitting your giftwork to the collection:
1) The deadline for posting your giftwork is 11:59 p.m. Chicago time, December 14th. You can post any time between now and then.
If you are not going to be able to complete your giftwork, please let the mods know ASAP so we can find a pinch-hitter to make something for your recipient.
2) The collection is moderated, which means that your submitted giftwork will not appear in the collection until the mods approve it. We will send you an email letting you know that your submission has been approved or alerting you if there is something preventing us from approving it. You can also check the status of your work in AO3 by going to your "My Assignments" list.
3) You can continue editing your giftwork after it's been posted to the collection. However, we strongly encourage you to post an as-final-as-possible version: it makes it easier for the mods to review your submission, and you can rest easy knowing that the most you have to do is chase down those last few elusive typos!
If you prefer to post a rough draft and do your edits within AO3, please email the mods to let us know you're doing so, and we will defer looking at your submission until you tell us it's finalized. If you go this route, do please remember to email us again when you're ready for us to take a look! :)
4) We expect a high standard of quality, meaning that gifts should represent careful effort by the creators, and should be proofread for typos, spelling and similar "rough edges." If the mods consider your fanwork requires it, you may be asked to correct/revise your work before we can approve it.
5) Remember that ALL primary giftworks need to be beta-ed, including art/vids/podfic. (For treats, we strongly encourage betas, but do not require them.) If you still need to find a beta, check out the beta volunteer post on DW or or contact the mods at dsss.admin AT gmail DOT com for help.
Finished early? Extra-excited about gift-giving? Starting December 7th, requests will be made visible so that people can make Treats for participants, pinch-hitters or mods. Instructions about Treats will be posted then. (But make sure you finish your main gift before getting excited about making extra Treats!)
Works will go live in the evening of December 24th. Reveal Day is January 1st.
And if you have questions about posting, the posting information is here.
Cheering you all on! *\o/*
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Date: 2019-12-07 08:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-12-07 02:47 pm (UTC)Well, I was going to say "hold off on that" but... As it happens, there seem to be only 2 ways to fix the rearrangement of recipients, which are greatly and fairly undesirable, respectively. Plus now that folks are already posting their works, I think I've cut off the path to one fix (at least without making it way too difficult for participants, who we don't want to irritate, to keep people willing to participate for future dSSSes)...
But I had not considered the simple solution you've suggested! (Which seems so obvious I'm embarrassed I didn't think of it already. Duh...) You must run some other challenges, lol! :-)
Anyway, would you be willing to be an experimental subject, lol? Would you consider doing what you just described, as an experiment, & I'll see how it looks on our end?
If it looks like it came out wrong or weird on our side, we can always delete it. If not, we can tell other people to do what you did! :-) Although I guess we wouldn't really know until the collection opens Dec. 24 at 23:59...
Here's the complete back story... The two ways of doing this are:
1 was "purge ALL dSSS assignments (saving a record of the originals first,
of course, so everyone else can be reassigned there original recipient) and reassign manually." But I can't do that now because people have already submitted works... So already-submitted works will be deleted too, requiring them to re-upload. And tbh that option seemed pretty nuclear & scared the crap out of me (of screwing up)... Hence my procrastinating it. Sigh. Anyway it now appears to be moot.
2 is "default originally assigned creators, and reassign volunteers as
pinch hitters." But as I understand it, that means the originally assigned creator then forever has a defaulted assignment listed in their AO3 assignments. Which kind of sucks & doesn't seem quite right -- plus, actually, everyone who volunteered to be reassigned actually did us a HUGE favor. So they least deserve the defaulted listing (not that anyone who didn't default does; they don't).
So. That's the story.
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Date: 2019-12-07 05:49 pm (UTC)I suspect if people do as I suggested, AO3 won't count it as a "fulfil" and will go ahead and default them automatically on their original assignment at the deadline, so they'll still have a default listed. But it'll only be visible to them and they'll know it's not "real"...
Okay, I've submitted a test by hitting "fulfil" on my assignments page and then unticking the "does this fulfil a challenge assignment" box and manually entering a recipient's name in the "gift this work to" box. Let me know if it looks okay at your end!
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Date: 2019-12-07 06:02 pm (UTC)Will do, thanks for being an experimental subject, lol!
Sorry so late to respond -- super busy
Date: 2019-12-10 08:08 pm (UTC)Thanks to you, though, I think we now have a viable option for the other swapped-recipient participants to post their works to the dSSS 2019 collection without being marked defaulted from their original recipients' gifts, yet getting their fic to the right recipient (and not having a defaulted assignment listed in the AO3).
I am SO GRATEFUL to you for being a 'test subject'! I will totally work on getting you some dSSS 2019 treats when I get a chance, specifically for agreeing to be our/my guinea pig.
I'll also have to write up a tutorial for the other two volunteers, so it's not too onerous/confusing from the posting method they already know. (And also for our records... in case this ever happens again, d'oh!)
But that's another thing for after midnight tonight. I'll also ask the other mods to look at your fic in the not-yet-approved queue.
Thank you so very much for your assistance with this.
Re: Sorry so late to respond -- super busy
Date: 2019-12-12 04:05 pm (UTC)Re: Sorry so late to respond -- super busy
Date: 2019-12-12 05:58 pm (UTC)Well, fortunately, today I have the whole day free, so I will be able to go through and then approve your gift. Then we can see what happens... whether you'll still have an 'assignment' listed or not. Or, if you do, if there is a way (maybe after everything is open and creators are revealed) to quietly kill your assignment without the end result listing your assignment as 'default'. I have some stuff to beta but I'm going to get on yours first since you've been patiently waiting the longest. My apologies. It has just been one of those Murphy's Law weeks. Sigh.
Approved
Date: 2019-12-13 11:03 am (UTC)I did PM you about one thing I noticed - otherwise you're all set.
And thank you very, very much for being the experimental subject! Even if it doesn't work perfectly, your solution sounds about 1000x easier than what we were contemplating before it became impossible because people started posting.
oh, btw...
Date: 2019-12-10 09:01 pm (UTC)I'll see if we can fix that on our end by marking yours (and the others') assignments as Fulfilled. If we can, we will. But I don't think we can figure that out until your post is in the Approved part of the collection, ready for the opening of the collection 11:59pm 12/24/19 (really 12:00 am 12/25/19).
I'll keep you posted too.