Hope Deferred Makes The Heart Sick

[kerravonsen]

Poll #771 Feedback

Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 7

There were only two entrants this time. Should we vote on the entries, or is it pointless?

No, two entrants is too few
0 (0.0%)

No, give me more time to enter!
1 (14.3%)

Yes, put up the poll already!
4 (57.1%)

Ticky box
3 (42.9%)

What would encourage you to participate? Finish this sentence: "I would participate if..."

it wasn't summer in the Northern Hemisphere
0 (0.0%)

the challenges were easier
0 (0.0%)

the challenges were harder
0 (0.0%)

the challenges were more frequent
1 (14.3%)

the challenges were less frequent
1 (14.3%)

someone nagged me
3 (42.9%)

there wasn't so much nagging, so I wouldn't feel guilty
0 (0.0%)

the challenges were on LJ instead of Dreamwidth
0 (0.0%)

I were running them instead of kerravonsen
0 (0.0%)

there was no voting (no winners or losers)
0 (0.0%)

there was more incentive for winning (such as winning banners)
0 (0.0%)

there were no deadlines (and thus no pressure)
0 (0.0%)

there were shorter deadlines (and thus more pressure to get started)
0 (0.0%)

nothing you can do will encourage me to participate
0 (0.0%)

I refuse to answer on the grounds that it will incriminate me
1 (14.3%)

other (explain in comments)
0 (0.0%)

I just want to tick a ticky box.
4 (57.1%)

If the participation rate continues this low, I'm not sure I want to keep running this community. What should I do?

Don't be so impatient; it will take time.
5 (71.4%)

Pack up on Dreamwidth and go back to LJ
0 (0.0%)

Take six months off
2 (28.6%)

Give up and pack it in.
0 (0.0%)

I volunteer to run it for you!
0 (0.0%)

I volunteer to co-run it with you!
1 (14.3%)

I have another brilliant idea which I will explain in comments.
0 (0.0%)

Ticky box!
4 (57.1%)

Comments

[kerravonsen]

More frequent deadlines might help; I noticed in school that any project I was given ample time to do was hurried out in the last two days, whereas if I had only a week I'd do it immediately.
You have a point.
I made it two weeks because I found that one-week challenges were too difficult for me to complete, since I work full-time and can only really do icon-making on the weekends, whereas a lot of these challenge communities seem oriented towards students who have tons of spare time.

Do you think it would work if I posted the challenges on a Friday, and had the deadline on the Sunday nine days later? That would give people most of two weekends to work on their icons, but still be closer to "a week" than "two weeks".

[ilthit]

Hee, tons of procrastination time, more like; nothing breeds icons like procrastination! :D

That sounds good, actually! I don't know if it'll work on masse but it sounds like it would work on me.