POLL: EVENT FORMAT

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Hello everyone! It's Tay mod. And you may be wondering 'But why isn't she logged into the mod journal'? That's because I wanted to use a paid-only feature today... a poll!

Our event is coming up on the 20th, and as we work on finalizing prompts, we wanted to see what the community thinks of the best/easiest format for events going forward. (This will not affect the TDM format, only events.)

Poll #24862 Event Style Preference

This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 36

How do you prefer event formats?

A. All top-levels are as replies to one prompt post. Separate post for OOC plotting posted a couple days ahead of in-game event start.
34 (94.4%)

B. Prompt post is a directory for top levels, but top levels should be posted in communities. Separate OOC plotting post at same time.
0 (0.0%)

Other suggestion (comment or reply if you are in favor of someone else's comment)
2 (5.6%)

Format samples:
A. Top-levels all in one spot from Empatheias
(Pros: all in one place, cons: potential overflow posts if the game gets big enough)

B. Directory-style from Prismatica
(Pros: easier to view top levels without using top level view mode, cons: lots of posts on communities make it easy to miss non-event posts)

We know this is short notice, so there are only a couple of days for this poll! This is entirely optional, but we would like your input by 10pm PST on November 19th if you have an opinion. If you don't care, don't worry about it. The event will go up either way.

Comments

[menphina]

Sup Tay-mod!

I used to make one catch-all with month headers and would post my event top levels under them and just link the relevant top level to the directory post for events (as suggested in B). It kept me from making a new monthly post on the logs community and adding to the clutter.

I know not everyone might want to do that since a single catch-all does tend to bloat if you have a lot of logs in one place, but it did work really well for me so. Offering that as a suggestion/option if majority goes with B! (I'm just a fan of catch-all's now heh)

Editing to add, people could still make individual logs if that's their preference, but I'm very in favour of catch-all log posts with monthly headers within! Or even just catch-alls made for a month, whatever works best. I think having the options available would be good regardless if you're worried about logs being missed on the comm should the game get too big!

[grylls]

I've seen a few people do that in games with directories! I think the overwhelming response for an all-in-one log has us leaning toward option A though, but thank you for your input!

[menphina]

Majority wins! In that case, since option A has the risk of hitting captcha, then I guess people could make catch-all/overflow posts or be encouraged to link those as well? Having the options could make it easy for players to organize their threads however they feel comfortable.

Thank you for your hard work and this poll too!