Gauging Interest in a D/Hr Fic Exchange on AO3

[boundbooks]

I'm seriously thinking about running a fic exchange for Dramione this year from January - March 2012. I know that's the old dmhgficexchange slot, but it's really a great slot because it's right after Yuletide and other RL holiday ridiculousness, and most of the 'random fun' fests/exchanges (dramione_duet, deflower_draco, samhain_smut, kink_bingo, etc) seem to happen from late spring - early fall.

I don't want to look like I'm corpse-camping dmhgficexchange, but on the other hand I totally want there to be another fic exchange that fills the same set of criteria that it did. Namely, a fic exchange that's a few months long, with potential matches between all participants, and with no limit on wordcount. dmhgficexchange was so great that I don't want to see that kind of event vanish from D/Hr fandom.

I'd totally volunteer to run this thing, but I would only run it on AO3. Quite frankly, the level of work that AO3's infrastructure takes off of mods' backs is staggering. AO3 takes care of formatting issues, hand-posting work, excel-style tracking, does rudimentary matching, has a button set up to default with, and quite frankly automates a ton of the work.

Mostly, I'm kind of worried that people might be all 'what right do you have to take over the calendar slot for dmhgficexchange' or otherwise be upset that someone's doing this. I have only been around the Dramione fandom for a few months, and I don't want to step on anyone's toes.

What do people think?

Poll #7923 Running a D/Hr Fic Exchange on AO3

This poll is anonymous.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 5

What do you think about an AO3 D/Hr Fic Exchange?

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I'd totally participate!
3 (60.0%)

I think people would be interested.
3 (60.0%)

I am neutral.
0 (0.0%)

I don't think people want another fic exchange.
0 (0.0%)

I have some other opinion I will explain in the comments.
0 (0.0%)

edit - Didn't realize anonymous commenting and OpenIDs were disabled for this comm, so I'm going to mirror this post over at dramione. Sorry for spamming dramione, musyc! D:

Cross-posted to dramione: Gauging Interest in a D/Hr Fic Exchange on AO3

Comments

[boundbooks]

I like your suggestion of hitting up the various dramione communities and flat out inquiring. I think what I'll do is put a bit of my intro over on those, and then link this poll. I definitely want to get a feel for what people would think before I totally accidentally shove my foot in my mouth. XD

Definitely agreed with you that there's interest! I should totally have phrased the first question as 'I'd totally write!', because I wanted to know how many people would be writing, just because then I'd know if I only had to look for zero to one other co-mod or an entire fleet of 'em. The more writers, the more co-mods, I'm betting. XD

I'm going to take your suggestion about spreading the word and also email the daily_snitch. :)

Oh, I don't know if you've thought of this/done this already, but both the daily_snitch and potterfests (http://potterfests.livejournal.com/) would probably be interested in the fact that deflower_draco is currently posting. I'm going to promo deflower_draco as posting on fandomcalendar this weekend, as well. :)

[eevilalice]

You know, I'd have to say I'm confused about the Daily Snitch because I thought once you emailed about your comm they kind of kept track, but I did notice that they hadn't mentioned we'd begun posting, so maybe I'll bug them. I think I initially pimped the fest on potterfests, but I can do so again.

Thanks for fandomcalendar!