SASO 2016: Talkback

[referees]

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The mods still plan to reply to the topics listed at the bottom of the post.

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This is not the final wrap-up results/etc. post—that's coming in a couple of days. But while the mods tabulate final scores and create prize graphics, now's a good time to look back and reflect on your SASO 2016 experience.

Please leave comments giving us feedback on the event this year! What did you like? What did you dislike or find frustrating? What can we improve for next year, and how can we improve it? What was your favorite part of the event? Least favorite? Would you participate next year or not? Why? If you could mention your team when making your comment, we'd appreciate it.

If you would prefer to submit your comments in private, you can e-mail us at anime.espn@gmail.com or send us a Dreamwidth PM. We would prefer it if you'd put "Talkback" in the subject line.

Here's what the mod team plans to improve for next year:

• Voting program reliability. We'd like to apologize again for all of the server dowtnime, and definitely plan to make it much more stable for next year. The voting system in general, though, will remain the same.


• Bonus round program reliability. We think we got most of the kinks out during this year, but want to keep it stable for next year too.


• Dreamwidth capability for NSFW cross-posting. We didn't have time to implement it this year, but next year it should be ready to go.


• Clarifying the rules, especially on what "popular culture media" is acceptable to include in SASO work.

We also wanted to thank you again for being patient with us this year. We had a lot of technical hiccups, and you were all so kind while our heroic codermods worked out the kinks. We really appreciated your support.

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Mod Replies: (updated 12:55PM EDT 8/28/16)

Please note that inclusion of a topic on this list indicates that we're going to address it, not that we've made any decisions on judging/implementing or not implementing it.

Voting:

The preliminary vote system

Triggers in a participant's assigned vote pool

Juried panel (having the mods decide which entries were the best)

Voting mechanics

Bonus Rounds:

Promptless rounds

One day break between bonus rounds

Bonus round prompt and fill tracking/filtering

Recs round work count

Image size limit

Remix round

Remix/rec round timing

Rec round

Quality control (both prompts and fills)

What is allowed as a fill (tags and ratings)

Unscreening bonus rounds

Fairness to small teams

Comment screening

Main Rounds:

The anonymity policy

Professionalism:

Twitter tone

What information gets posted where

Considering a dreamwidth announcement community

Mod participation in the event

Comments

(frozen comment) Team Kuroo Tetsurou/Tsukishima Kei

[prillalar]

Mods, thank you SO much for all your hard work in running such a great event! I had a really fantastic time, met a bunch of awesome people, and will definitely participate again.

My main frustration was I wanted to read and comment more in the bonus rounds but it was hard to find fills to read without going through all the prompts pages again and again. It would be great to have a fills post for each BR, like a kinkmeme, where people could optionally post their fills for more exposure.

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[catlarks]

FWIW, I would also love a post on the main comm for cross-posting bonus round fills. IMO it shouldn't be difficult to maintain, because it's entirely optional, doesn't need to be carded through in any way for points/scoring, and could be used across every single bonus round. And it WOULD make it so easy to just see content and not unfilled prompts: top level comments is your best friend here.

(also, encouraging people to use kink-meme-esque subject lines since it's not for points! It would be sooooo much easier to find ships and themes you like that way.)

(frozen comment) Re: Team Kuroo Tetsurou/Tsukishima Kei

[platina]

+1 for optional kink meme style fill list

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[kazuyas]

fourthing!

EDIT: added a suggestion abt how to archive fills below in my own comment