Not sure how much use it will be for the non-writer crowd.
Yep, I hear you -- and that's why we're toying with it as only a once-a-week option right now, with all other days being just standard/general questions. Could go to less frequently, of course, or if there's no actual interest in it, we might not do it at all. :)
Oh yeah -- we definitely want to have a more standardized review of questions to try to avoid situations like that one. Make sure all potential questions are reviewed by several people, not publish a question until that has happened, etc.
It would also be good if questions were looked at to see if they were relevant to more than the US. To me as a non-American, many of them gave the impression that the default LJ user lived in the US, with the rest of us only being allowed to use the site and whoever made up the questions not being aware of our existence.
I remember ones about how one celebrated specific US holidays (in the case of Independence Day, that at least applied to some other countries as well, but I suspect that was a happy accident). At least acknowledging that there are non-Americans by adding "if you live in the US" would have been nice in many cases.
The one that stuck in my mind longest was "now the election's over..." when there were at least two elections happening in the EU in the next few days. But apparently only the US election counts!
Also: which team are you rooting for in the Superbowl. My answer of Accrington Stanley amused the older Brits and confused everyone else. (1980s cultural references FTW.)
I love this idea. I got more use of it via the community, which popped up on my friends list. I usually just copied the question and made a new post on my journal. Sometimes I did just post a comment to the community.
I pretty much never enter LJ through the homepage (unless I'm somehow logged out, which is rare). I always enter through my friends list, because that's what I come here to read. That's what I have bookmarked. So I never used the homepage module.
Same here. I'm usually interested in prompts, but rarely saw the old one--and thus never really used it--because I go straight to my friends page. So I'd like the community so I could add it.
I was one who used it mainly from the Homepage on my personal journal. I love the idea of it inspiring more creative writing than straightforward question-answer format.
What about having weekends as days when people can answer again, differently or go back and answer ones that had been missed/ignored during the week? (A la comment-fic's Lonely Prompts archive)
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I used it from the old homepage, to start a new post. Occasionally, I would dig into the comm, itself, when looking at previous prompts.
The Friday plan is cool.. for ~writers~ Not sure how much use it will be for the non-writer crowd. But I'm game.
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Yep, I hear you -- and that's why we're toying with it as only a once-a-week option right now, with all other days being just standard/general questions. Could go to less frequently, of course, or if there's no actual interest in it, we might not do it at all. :)
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Thanks! :)
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I remember ones about how one celebrated specific US holidays (in the case of Independence Day, that at least applied to some other countries as well, but I suspect that was a happy accident). At least acknowledging that there are non-Americans by adding "if you live in the US" would have been nice in many cases.
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Also: which team are you rooting for in the Superbowl. My answer of Accrington Stanley amused the older Brits and confused everyone else. (1980s cultural references FTW.)
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I never went through the community, I used the module, and scrolled down through various past questions and answers.
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I pretty much never enter LJ through the homepage (unless I'm somehow logged out, which is rare). I always enter through my friends list, because that's what I come here to read. That's what I have bookmarked. So I never used the homepage module.
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I was one who used it mainly from the Homepage on my personal journal. I love the idea of it inspiring more creative writing than straightforward question-answer format.
What about having weekends as days when people can answer again, differently or go back and answer ones that had been missed/ignored during the week? (A la comment-fic's Lonely Prompts archive)
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