State of the Archive - 6/25 - 7/1 + July's Review Hunt | Ad Astra

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2023-07-02 04:43:28 UTC

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Everything has been busy busy. Everything's going okay, though I would like to remind new folks to read the posting rules under the FAQs, because we're not AO3 and follow a different set of tagging rules. The June Review Hunt is over, with Gibraltar and David Falkayn as our winners. Congrats, fellas!

The July Review Hunt is now open. All you have to do to participate is sign your name/penname up for it, since largely it's automated. Reviews 15+ words count, with the same points modifiers as usual. IE, 100-199 being +10, 200-299 +20, etc, and then +50 for any first review on a story over twenty-five words and +25 for any second. So, if you want to join, let me know somewhere and I'll add you to the list.

No weekly challenge this week.

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Sharpest_Asp Mon 03 Jul 2023 01:36AM UTC

I want you to know I am very happy to have this option.

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1. admin-SLWalker Mon 03 Jul 2023 01:39AM UTC
  
  <33 Thank you. I have to admit, I've been feeling a little-- not taken for granted, I didn't build this archive for accolades. But-- idk. Ignored. Pathetic. IDK. But thank you for the encouragement.
  
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2. 1. Sharpest_Asp Mon 03 Jul 2023 03:23PM UTC
    
    I want you to know that I have not, will not, take it for granted this momentous thing you have done for us.
    
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  2. 1. admin-SLWalker Mon 03 Jul 2023 08:59PM UTC
      
      <3333
      
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  3. Account Deleted Tue 04 Jul 2023 12:29AM UTC
    
    You're definitely not pathetic - you did what a lot of folks talk about doing and few do: got an AO3-esque, single-fandom archive up and running. Getting community participation in fandom these days is like trying to pull teeth, especially with works so centralized on one archive and folks thinking of fanworks as "content."
    
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  4. 1. admin-SLWalker Tue 04 Jul 2023 12:40AM UTC
      
      I've definitely been trying to promote that interactivity, but you're right, it's hard these days. <3 People just kind of-- I don't know. Stay in their own areas and don't reach out too much. I try to read at least one story for every author on the site, and give people some love, but it's definitely changed since I created the original site back in 2009.
      Thank you. <3
      
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