Would you be open to reconsidering? From a moderator perspective, there's implementation complexity, width of challenge and broadcasting of changes to weight in, but since this is the very beginning of your fest it seems like now or never to suggest it.
I, personnally, think it would benefit your fest to include other types of fanworks than fanfiction. At least other types of written works. My reasoning is:
Considering podficcers are often the "not everyone likes it so we aren't allowing them in our challenge" fan-works;
Considering the popularity of not!fics read by podficcers and the latest steep rise of oral!not!fics on Ao3 and conventions;
Considering this challenge seems worried it might not get a high podficcer/writer ratio, to the point of having already considered maxing out the number of podficcer participants to make sure everyone could get matched;
Considering the apparent love for meta and experimental fanworks in my podfic circle (of course not representative of the whole fandom, but perhaps indicative of some trends);
Considering the sign-ups are not yet open for anyone, so adding an opt-in change now won't blindside anyone;
I think it would serve and represent podficcers better to permit other types of fanworks to be welcomed and treated as equally desirable outcomes. It will certainly opens the fest to more participants and allows the fic-writers more remixing options. If "what types of remix would you like to be made of your work?" is presented in the sign-ups, no one who doesn't want that type of remix would get matched on it. (Here I am working on a basis that even people who do prefer fics over meta might prefer meta to not being matched to anyone because of lack of writer). Last but not least, allowing meta/poetry/rewriting/not!fics and other written works should, hopefully, not add a sudden load of extra work on the mods since everything but some wording can remain the same.
And all that said, since I cannot speak for anyone but myself, and this is your fest and your spoons and your reasons are valid: if you are wiling to reconsider this, what I am really asking is if you could please run a poll about it and see the reception the concept gets?
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Date: 2019-02-14 12:54 am (UTC)I, personnally, think it would benefit your fest to include other types of fanworks than fanfiction. At least other types of written works. My reasoning is:
Considering podficcers are often the "not everyone likes it so we aren't allowing them in our challenge" fan-works;
Considering the popularity of not!fics read by podficcers and the latest steep rise of oral!not!fics on Ao3 and conventions;
Considering this challenge seems worried it might not get a high podficcer/writer ratio, to the point of having already considered maxing out the number of podficcer participants to make sure everyone could get matched;
Considering the apparent love for meta and experimental fanworks in my podfic circle (of course not representative of the whole fandom, but perhaps indicative of some trends);
Considering the sign-ups are not yet open for anyone, so adding an opt-in change now won't blindside anyone;
I think it would serve and represent podficcers better to permit other types of fanworks to be welcomed and treated as equally desirable outcomes. It will certainly opens the fest to more participants and allows the fic-writers more remixing options. If "what types of remix would you like to be made of your work?" is presented in the sign-ups, no one who doesn't want that type of remix would get matched on it. (Here I am working on a basis that even people who do prefer fics over meta might prefer meta to not being matched to anyone because of lack of writer). Last but not least, allowing meta/poetry/rewriting/not!fics and other written works should, hopefully, not add a sudden load of extra work on the mods since everything but some wording can remain the same.
And all that said, since I cannot speak for anyone but myself, and this is your fest and your spoons and your reasons are valid: if you are wiling to reconsider this, what I am really asking is if you could please run a poll about it and see the reception the concept gets?