Mod Post: Happier Times Remembered - Old School in the Here and Now

[seagull2eagle.livejournal.com]

{waves hi to everybody}

Smallville might be on it's 10th and final season on tv, but to many of us, the first few seasons were really the best. Clark was young and learning, Lex wanted to be good and reject his father's learnings, and the Clex made us sit up and take notice. ^^

When the awesome and wonderful Hils first started this comm six years ago, it was an interactive comm based around the early seasons of Smallville, and the Clexiness there within. There were episode discussions, fiction contests, comment fics, and more, in addition to being open to the community to post announcements about any Old School fic, icons, or such.

We're going to hopefully return to some of that early interactiveness, if you all want to. :) I do know that not everybody likes meta, or writes fic, or makes art, but we do all like the Clex, so I want to try and find things that we can all do together, and have fun with it. To that end, a poll! What would you like to do?

[Poll #1705959]

Comments

[ciaan]

I think all those ideas sound like fun, though obviously not running all of them at once. :) This is one of my top 3 SV comms and it would be nice to have some interactive stuff. (Even though I often suck at being around at the right time for things.)

I do have to say that I don't like contests, though; I wouldn't really want to enter anything with voting and prizes. It's less fun because then people lose. Games like hangman are different, but I don't want to write for a contest.

[seagull2eagle.livejournal.com]

Thank you! LOL, no, not all at once. That's mostly why the poll - I wanted to see what things struck people as more interesting so we can get going with something everybody wants.

Icons are really the only ones that traditionally vote. Fic challanges almost never have voting and I wasn't suggesting they would. I agree about winners and losers and I would never, for instance, run or participate in a "last icon standing" challenge or similar where people vote on the worst (I think that's kindof rude, personally). I've clarified that a bit in the comment section.

With the game prizes, those are more 'participation' prizes as encouragement to submit the entries, rather than who got more (if someone finishes a puzzle, they finish it - there's no better way to finish it or not). Since we're from all over the world, I wouldn't do a 'timed' game for "first response wins"... though if we do a live bingo game (not the fic cards), that would necessarily have to be. We'd announce the schedule ahead of time on something like that.

They're all ideas. We'll see what works for this comm. :)