Introduction post for the challenge.

[dodificus]

Just a short post giving you an idea what you can expect from the challenge and how it's going to work. This is also a great place to ask any questions and hopefully we'll have an answer for you:)


I think most podficcers are of the mind that any feedback is better than no feedback! So, while you might feel like you ought to write a multi-paragraph ode to someone's accent/style/technical genius, sometimes all you really have to say is that you enjoyed it. And that's ok! Challenge yourself to leave some kind of feedback for every podfic that you listen to during April and hopefully you'll be inspired by the mini challenges that pop up through the month to stretch your feedbacking skills even further.

If you're not sure what to say in your comments, check out klb's Podfic Feedback Toolbox: 5 ways to give great podfic feedback or hear it read aloud by knight_tracer. It has a nice variety of examples and is just generally an overall interesting post on feedback in podfic fandom.


Points

For each piece of feedback that you give we're scoring as follows:

Leave basic feedback: 3 points
Example: Great job, I had fun listening to this!

Leave feedback with specifics about what you enjoyed: 4 points
Example: It was a treat listening to this while I was out walking today. I could hear the affection for the characters in your voice, and I loved the song you added at the end.

Leave feedback with specifics about what you enjoyed PLUS rec it somewhere accessible to fandom at large: 5 points


We will have a post each Saturday where you can log your points and a mini challenge posted each Sunday. And if you complete the weekly mini challenges then you have a chance to earn even MORE points! At the end of the month we will tally it up and see who has been the most awesome at letting podficcers know how much they're appreciated. The winner (or winners) will be able to request a podfic from one of our volunteer readers.

Comments

[crinklysolution]

I joined! Because this is a great idea, good for you for taking the initiative...

[dodificus]

It's a thing that we keep talking about, how to change the culture of feedback in podfic fandom, so hopefully this goes a tiny way towards doing that.

And I'm glad you're going to join in<3

[fire_juggler]

I'm so excited and pleased about this! I struggle so hard with leaving feedback, especially with podfic, and have been trying to be better about it. Hopefully, this will be just what I need to launch :D Awesome idea!

[dodificus]

It never hurts to have some support and encouragement when trying to get into a new habit, it'll be fun doing it with the rest of us. Plus, you're a podficcer so you might actually get some feedback yourself:)

[josieb1]

Thanks for taking the initiative and setting up this challenge. I won't be joining even though I love poetic as I am currently half way through a 24 hour audiobook, the QB Verse recorded by Chemm80. I was looking at your points system and you might want to consider awarding points for long podfics, otherwise people who listen to really short ones, and leave feedback will score far more points that someone (like me) who spends a few weeks working through a really long podfic. Just an idea.

[dodificus]

24 hours, go you:D I can't remember the last time I listened to one *that* long.

otherwise people who listen to really short ones, and leave feedback will score far more points that someone (like me) who spends a few weeks working through a really long podfic.

Ahhh but that's where the mini challenges are going to come in. A couple of them don't actually rely on commenting to podfic that you're currently listening to, so you can still rack up the points that way.

But even so, I understand if this isn't the right time, podficwise, for you to join in. Maybe next year?

[josieb1]

Thanks for your reply, and sorry for the 'poetic' instead of podfic, using a mobile!

Yes hopefully next year as I have added you to my Dreamwidth circle. I am now going to track down Chemm80's LJ to leave her feedback even though I haven't finished the QB Verse yet as its very good (highly recommended) so at least seeing your challenge has reminded me to go forth and leave feedback....

[dodificus]

I understand the perils of autocorrect:D

so at least seeing your challenge has reminded me to go forth and leave feedback....

And that's all we really want, so it's great that at the very least we reminded you this once:) And if the com is in your circle then, even if you're not officially joining in, you still might be inspired along the way:)

[yue_ix]

Would we get points if we leave feedback to or about a podfic cover specifically? Often the reader makes the cover too, but I'm thinking of the podfic big bangs where it can be a very separate thing, and how that would fit within this challenge.

[dodificus]

Leaving feedback for a cover artist is actually going to be one of the specific mini-challenges. So, I'd say wait for that to pop up in the next couple of weeks and get your points then:)

[knight_tracer]

I am working on a long podfic rec post, which is going to follow on from this rec post I did a few months ago and will probably be on similar length. How might this fan work be calculated for points? It is a rec that is 'accessible to fandom at large' but it isn't explicitly 'feedback'?

[dodificus]

Judging from the link you're going to earn approximately eleventybillion points:D

I would say that you would still get the 5 points for each rec but *only* if you'd also left feedback on the original podfic post as well. Recs are awesome (That's how *I* roll, after all) but we're trying to encourage people to interact directly with the podficcers in addition to pimping out their work:)

I'll check with my co-mod and see what her thoughts are.

[knight_tracer]

That sounds perfectly reasonable, would the 5 points still apply if the actual feedback is old, but the rec is new?

[dodificus]

I'd already anticipated this question and have been thinking about it:)

I'm going to say yes. I'd originally planned to have recs be their own mini-challenge but then we incorporated it into the basic points system. So, yeah, I say you get the points.

I have a feeling you're going to be the person to beat in this:D

[busaikko]

I'm trying to keep track of and rec all the podfic I listen to this month, but my journal is flocked. Do you know any comms for podfic recs where I could crosspost? I'm listening in multiple fandoms.

[dodificus]

I've posted rec sets to amplificathon before and podficpool is also another place where rec sets are welcome. Both are multifandom and although the latter hasn't seen much action I'm sure the mod would be happy to see that change:)