Green Room - Week 7 - Day 6
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therealljidolThe poll is happening right now therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1158072.html
and as I've been saying for awhile, I hope that everyone gets out and reads, comments and votes for their favorites.
But there was a comment the other day that dovetailed into a question that's been on my mind. So I'll address both at once.
Someone brought up a writing contest that they participate in, and linked to it. I probably wouldn't have thought too much of it other than (after checking it out) noticing how long they had been around and that it was definitely something completely different to what we do here. But because I've been going back into the archives that struck me because I used to have a rule about posting links, specifically to stop that kind of thing. Why? Because, as I said, you don't go into a Wendy's and hand out coupons to McDonald's. These days I wouldn't be in either of those places, but you get the gist.
I was also very much aware of other groups I'd been in where people decided to form their own offshoots and used the founder's work gathering the people and fostering a community as their private recruiting pool. Having seen it destroy other communities, I tried to keep an eye on that sort of thing... and sure enough, it did happen a few times in Idol history where people tried just that, to varying degrees of success.
So those two principles were why the rule was in place, but over the years we kind of got lax about it, I think especially when people were talking about places where people could get paid for their work or further workshop... but again only in places where Idol wasn't being used as a funnel.
I'm not sure what we'd have to funnel these days anyway. :) But hopefully you get what I'm meandering on about. This particular link very much fit the exception, so like I said, it was fine. No harm. No foul. Just using it as a mental jumping off point to where my brain went NEXT...
The "read, comment and vote" has a follow up to it. TELL OTHER people. Some mention it on Facebook or tell their personal friends - and word of mouth has always been very kind.
But that (above) thought process got me thinking do people go into OTHER writing spaces and promote Idol the same way they mention those places here? If not, why not?
There's not a lot holding long form social media together these days. It needs all the promotion it can get. If you're counting on someone else to do it for you, that probably isn't going to happen.
and as I've been saying for awhile, I hope that everyone gets out and reads, comments and votes for their favorites.
But there was a comment the other day that dovetailed into a question that's been on my mind. So I'll address both at once.
Someone brought up a writing contest that they participate in, and linked to it. I probably wouldn't have thought too much of it other than (after checking it out) noticing how long they had been around and that it was definitely something completely different to what we do here. But because I've been going back into the archives that struck me because I used to have a rule about posting links, specifically to stop that kind of thing. Why? Because, as I said, you don't go into a Wendy's and hand out coupons to McDonald's. These days I wouldn't be in either of those places, but you get the gist.
I was also very much aware of other groups I'd been in where people decided to form their own offshoots and used the founder's work gathering the people and fostering a community as their private recruiting pool. Having seen it destroy other communities, I tried to keep an eye on that sort of thing... and sure enough, it did happen a few times in Idol history where people tried just that, to varying degrees of success.
So those two principles were why the rule was in place, but over the years we kind of got lax about it, I think especially when people were talking about places where people could get paid for their work or further workshop... but again only in places where Idol wasn't being used as a funnel.
I'm not sure what we'd have to funnel these days anyway. :) But hopefully you get what I'm meandering on about. This particular link very much fit the exception, so like I said, it was fine. No harm. No foul. Just using it as a mental jumping off point to where my brain went NEXT...
The "read, comment and vote" has a follow up to it. TELL OTHER people. Some mention it on Facebook or tell their personal friends - and word of mouth has always been very kind.
But that (above) thought process got me thinking do people go into OTHER writing spaces and promote Idol the same way they mention those places here? If not, why not?
There's not a lot holding long form social media together these days. It needs all the promotion it can get. If you're counting on someone else to do it for you, that probably isn't going to happen.
