Questions & Answers

[bauble]

Claiming is now underway at all three claims posts. Hopefully, everyone has had a chance to swing by and put in their choices, but if not, there is still plenty of art left.

About the Claims Process:

• We (the mods) made three separate claims for the sake of organization, and also because there were simply too many claims to fit into one post. This is our first time running a challenge of this type (Reverse Bangs have only been done in two other fandoms to our knowledge), and with so many participants, so we ask for your patience and understanding as we are still figuring out how best to organize this as we go.


• We assigned claims in the order they appear in our LJ inbox, which is in the order they were posted overall. We did our best to ensure a speedy and fair process, but we are only human and there were over 150 prompts and at least as many writers. We understand if you are disappointed that you did not get precisely what you wanted, but there are still plenty of wonderful art prompts unclaimed as of yet, so we encourage you to review the posts to see if there's anything else you could possibly write for.


• We understand that some of the art prompts are quite popular. However, in the interest of fairness to all the artists involved, there will be no double-claiming of any particular prompt until all of the prompts have been claimed at least once. If, at the end of this round of claiming, there are any remaining art prompts, we will go through a second round of claims wherein authors may claim a second, previously unclaimed prompt to write for. This means that if there is any unclaimed art at the end of several rounds of claims, there will be no double claiming at all allowed in this entire round of the challenge.

To the Artists: If any of your prompts have been claimed already, you may feel free to PM or contact your writer. We will be sending out an official email notifying everyone of who they claimed/were claimed by, but that will likely take a few days for us to get through.

Questions: If anyone has any questions about the process, please comment in the appropriate thread below so that my gmail account will sort them correctly.

Withdraw: If you would like to drop out or withdraw from the challenge, please comment in the appropriate thread: Hi, just letting you know I'll be dropping out of the writing portion. There is no need to state a reason, unless you wish to.

-Bauble (one of the mods)

ETA: I (Bauble) will be available to reply immediately in the next hour, but after that, I, and all of the rest of the mods will be unavailable tonight. So if you do not receive an immediate response, please be patient--we will answer when we return.

Comments

QUESTIONS

[bauble]

Please comment with any questions to this thread.

WITHDRAWAL

[bauble]

Please comment with if you are withdrawing from the challenge in this thread.

You may C&P the following text: Hi, just letting you know I'll be dropping out of the writing portion.

[aythia.livejournal.com]

I just wanted to thank you for arranging this, the art was amazing and I'm really looking forward to write for it, the work this must have cause you is really...yeah.. wow.

So really, thank you!

Re: WITHDRAWAL

[innie_darling]

I'm very sorry for the late notice, but I just found out some RL stuff that means I'll have to drop out. The challenge looks great, though - I anticipate many happy hours of looking at art and reading fic.

[maichan.livejournal.com]

Just wanted to add my thanks to all of the mods for their hard work and patience.

[bauble]

The mod team thanks you for your kind words :D

And we are all looking forward to the wonderful art and fic that will come out of this!

Re: WITHDRAWAL

[bauble]

No problem at all. Thanks for letting us know.

Re: QUESTIONS

[princess-aleera.livejournal.com]

I don't really have a question, I'm just here to give you guys a pat on the shoulder. 'cause there's a lot of people who've been ranting about you doing a shitty job, and it's just. Not. True. You're doing a great job, really, and honestly? I couldn't have this. Like, at ALL. I ain't got the skills. So I think it's super of you to do it, and the less great parts are probably gonna be fixed until next time anyway.

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. *hoots*

P_A

[playthefool.livejournal.com]

I'm sending you all good thoughts. (:

Re: WITHDRAWAL

[annabeth.livejournal.com]

I doubt this is a surprise, but:

Hi, just letting you know I'll be dropping out of the writing portion.

[moragmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Another participant thanking you for all of your work.

[unreckless.livejournal.com]

I'd like to say again that I'm sorry for being a bitch in the claims post. You guys are doing a great job and I don't envy the work you're doing one bit. Keep up the good work!

My complaint about multiple posts could've been worded much better, and in a much less bitchy way. I don't trust LJ email notifications at all, so I never would've considered doing three separate posts rather than a single one which all three of the prompt pages point to.

[melanth0.livejournal.com]

Once again, thank you for putting this together! I can't even imagine the headaches you've had today, but I'm so grateful for the ability to participate.

Re: QUESTIONS

[playthefool.livejournal.com]

Hello! How is the second round going to work and when can we expect it up?

Re: QUESTIONS

[hunters-retreat.livejournal.com]

I've seen reference to a second round of claiming for un-claimed fics. Is there any ETA on this? Just because i'm greedy like that and there are so many great pieces of art left to pic from :P

And thank you for all your hard work on this!

[amor-remanet.livejournal.com]

Another participant chiming in to express gratitude for the mods. You guys took on running a difficult, complicated challenge and I think you're doing admirably with it. People are always going to be upset about things, it's how this stuff works, but I think most of us are just grateful that you're running things so well. ♥

Re: QUESTIONS

[bauble]

The second round of claiming will hopefully all be contained in one post. I think we're going to hold the current claims posts open for about another day for the people who didn't have the chance to claim yet.

I can't give you an exact date at the moment since we simply won't know how many unclaimed prompts are left until we close this round, but I think we'll aim for early next week.

Re: QUESTIONS

[bauble]

We're going to hold the current claims posts open for about another day for the people who didn't have the chance to claim yet.

I can't give you an exact date for the second round of claims at the moment since we simply won't know how many unclaimed prompts are left until we close this round, but I think we'll aim for early next week.

And thank you for your kind words :)

Re: QUESTIONS

[playthefool.livejournal.com]

Thank you. ^^

[kijikun.livejournal.com]

I never even saw the first claims post D:

[adrenalineshots.livejournal.com]

Kudos to a wonderful job. There is no way to please everybody all the time and in my book, the mods did a great job! Live and learn, I say, and this was a wonderful first time <3

Re: QUESTIONS

[hunters-retreat.livejournal.com]

LOL! Thank you! I saw that someone else posted my question while I was typing it up :P Sorry about that!

[bauble]

There are three claims posts: 2 for SPN prompts and 1 for RPF. If you go to the spn_reversebang recent entries, you can access all of them.

Re: QUESTIONS

[bauble]

Haha, no problem. I'm sure it's a question on a lot of people's minds :)

[chiiyo86.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the hard work! For a first experience you're doing good (I couldn't do it!), there is bound to be some mistakes because you're only human and LJ is... LJ. Keep it up! :)