Admin Post: Nominations are open!

[pocketmouse]

Hey, everyone! Nominations for the tagset are now open.

Tagset is here.

ETA 2: A couple of people have asked about this, so a quick note: you can ignore the character fields, those won't be involved for matching. I think they got added when I was fixing something else, and I don't want to edit it again in case something blows up. If you've submitted with characters don't worry about it, but if you haven't submitted yet no need to put them in.

Rules are the same as last time, but just in case, I've got the collection set up here.

Major dates are as follows:

Nominations open: Sept 24
Nominations close: Oct 12

Signups open: Oct 15
Signups close: Nov 7

Assignments go out: Nov 11
Assignments due: Jan 11 EOD

Pinch hits close: Jan 14 EOD
Collection opens: Jan 15 EOD
Reveal: Jan 19th EOD

EOD stands for End of Day - technically midnight that night, but with wiggle room (all Eastern Time). Please let me know if these dates work or if people might want more time for one or the other (nominations, signups, especially, but I'm not participating in any exchanges so I don't know what other deadlines are out there).

ETA: OK, looks like there are no objections to the dates above, so please go ahead and add the tumblr post to the reblog list.

Comments

[evilmuffins]

I think something may have gone funny, because I'm seeing
'
Fandoms:
0
Characters:
0
Relationships:
0
Freeforms:
0'
Meaning, it's not letting me nominate anything.

[pocketmouse]

Try it now?

[evilmuffins]

Working now :)

[(Anonymous)]

What time zone are you using? End of the day could be any hour in the day, depending on where you live. Thanks for not to use 12.00 am/pm though: that gets very confusing for many people.

[pocketmouse]

Eastern time - it's specified in the collection info, but I guess it wasn't in what I copied and pasted here.

[kerithwyn]

Oh, man--I've been bowing out of exchanges this year for various reasons, but this is due AFTER Yuletide and is technically for next year...it'd be a good start for the year, right? I do love the poly fic.

[pocketmouse]

I do try to make sure it doesn't conflict with Yuletide. *tempts*

[trobadora]

I still feel awful for having to drop out last time. Is it okay if I sign up again this year?

[pocketmouse]

Of course! We don't track whether you dropped out in previous years.

[trobadora]

Thank you! Count me in, then. :)

[(Anonymous)]

I think there might be a problem with the nominations form - we can input characters as well as relationships, but isn't matching on relationships only?

[pocketmouse]

Don't worry about it, just ignore it. I don't know why it's doing that, and I don't want to risk breaking or invalidating already submitted entires trying to fix it. It won't matter for matching, you're right, so leaving it as is wont hurt anything.

[zvi]

First time I'm doing holly polly and I'm not quite sure I understand the nominations, are we nominating both fandoms and the particular thruplings we'd like to read about, or are we just nominating the fandoms?

[pocketmouse]

Nominate the fandom if it's not there already (the fandoms basically have to be required because of how tag sets work, I think), and the relationships you want. The nominations will also offer to let you nominate characters, but that can be ignored.

[(Anonymous)]

Some fandoms in the tagset are showing up without any characters or relationships. Can you make sure that's correct? I know I nominated characters and ships in Sense8, just for one example.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm a different anon, and I'm having the same issue with quite a few of noms. (the fandom name only going through, without my nominated ships)

[pocketmouse]

See my reply above; I'll take a look and see what's waiting in the queue.

[pocketmouse]

It's possible that I just haven't had time to approve it yet, but I think also sometimes the server hiccups and doesn't approve everything I tell it to. I'll take a look, and there will also be a couple days before nominations ending and assignments going out for people to verify that everything is correct.