OTW - love and frustration

[skaredykat]

I continue to love the Organization for Transformative Works.

The AO3 keeps providing me with entertaining things to read. I keep wanting to draw sparkly hearts around various parts of Fanlore and Fanlore editors.

Despite my feeling that if an author purposely and consciously tries to remove a fanwork from the interwebs -- though I wish they

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[esteefee]

very thought-provoking post.

bringing in volunteers for minimal time commitments, well--I don't want to discourage, because I think you would be invaluable, skaredykat, both for your communications ability and also for your librarian-mind. at the same time, I can't speak for volcom, but there is definitely overhead attached to bringing in new volunteers and exiting old ones, in terms of training, of course, but also for volcom and Systems and everything that has to be put into place for a new volunteer so they have access to what they need to be productive. you get into a situation of diminishing returns, or maybe it's more a chicken-and-egg thing: if you could bring in enough minimal-engagement volunteers, they could definitely make up the cost, but I know right now Systems is kinda swamped.

>Also, if you ever need a break, there's a button on your volunteering dashboard that says 'click here to let your team/committee know you won't be able to volunteer for a whileonce someone is actively in the system, it's just not cool to

[skaredykat]

Thanks for commenting!

The balance between cost and benefit is always really hard, and it often seems impossible to step back and say "to get the greater long-term benefit, we need to stop spending all our time on The Most Urgent problems and need to all commit to always spending 10-25% of our time on The Less Urgent But Long-Term Important Problems That Will Bite Us In The Ass Later If They Keep Being Not Attended To."

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