i wish i’d known about it sooner, but had missed the notification. ideas
When you sub to forum newsletter, include a “be notified by email on upcoming forum activities / events” or append them to the forum newsletter.
Have a little banner on top of the forum with upcoming events that is non obtrusive and dismissable that this event is coming up (as someone who goes on the forum ~ daily, i definitely would have noticed that, but the post annoucement got hidden, forum is a newsfeed etc.
i wish the window had been longer—a number of people posted a day late. I’d suggest e.g. Wed- Sun for next time. Why?
people don’t just publish the draft without looking over it at all (at least i didn’t)
however, they are posting it just with less edits than before. (sometimes my posts are like half-written, such that they wouldn’t make sense to post without at least reviewing it a little, or i want to make sure i still
Given the high standards on the forum, i wouldn’t be surprised if that was a common way for people to treat draft amnesty day
I posted 2 posts i knew weren’t amazing, and probably wouldn’t be very popular, and it wasn’t the most positive experience maybe (like Yonaton mentioned) but I’m glad I did it because I felt like I could move on from those posts and focus on my other writing that is more interesting / valuable. in particular, i published a survey that had been in draft for over a year.
It gave me a boost of energy to work on posts, and I made progress on other posts that I haven’t yet posted but I think are much more valuable than the things i actually posted. (mostly just speeding it up, but i think in this partiuclar case it was p valuable because the posts are particularly relevant right now)
I have a 1-2 posts I will probably still post under draft amnesty after the deadline, just because I want people to see it as a work in progress
I wonder if a slightly more permanent version of draft amnesty is really the move here to experiment?
Like your post could have a 🚧 emoji next to it to imply WIP or something. People would not expect these to be as great, maybe they’d go off the homepage quicker in general
And then maybe when you post the polished version you can link the posts together so there’s like an evolution of your thinking which could be helpful for final posts that become really popular then people can see that the person initially wrote something rougher and that was okay too.
quick reflections on draft amnesty day
i wish i’d known about it sooner, but had missed the notification. ideas
When you sub to forum newsletter, include a “be notified by email on upcoming forum activities / events” or append them to the forum newsletter.
Have a little banner on top of the forum with upcoming events that is non obtrusive and dismissable that this event is coming up (as someone who goes on the forum ~ daily, i definitely would have noticed that, but the post annoucement got hidden, forum is a newsfeed etc.
i wish the window had been longer—a number of people posted a day late. I’d suggest e.g. Wed- Sun for next time. Why?
people don’t just publish the draft without looking over it at all (at least i didn’t)
however, they are posting it just with less edits than before. (sometimes my posts are like half-written, such that they wouldn’t make sense to post without at least reviewing it a little, or i want to make sure i still
Given the high standards on the forum, i wouldn’t be surprised if that was a common way for people to treat draft amnesty day
I posted 2 posts i knew weren’t amazing, and probably wouldn’t be very popular, and it wasn’t the most positive experience maybe (like Yonaton mentioned) but I’m glad I did it because I felt like I could move on from those posts and focus on my other writing that is more interesting / valuable. in particular, i published a survey that had been in draft for over a year.
It gave me a boost of energy to work on posts, and I made progress on other posts that I haven’t yet posted but I think are much more valuable than the things i actually posted. (mostly just speeding it up, but i think in this partiuclar case it was p valuable because the posts are particularly relevant right now)
I have a 1-2 posts I will probably still post under draft amnesty after the deadline, just because I want people to see it as a work in progress
I wonder if a slightly more permanent version of draft amnesty is really the move here to experiment?
Like your post could have a 🚧 emoji next to it to imply WIP or something. People would not expect these to be as great, maybe they’d go off the homepage quicker in general
And then maybe when you post the polished version you can link the posts together so there’s like an evolution of your thinking which could be helpful for final posts that become really popular then people can see that the person initially wrote something rougher and that was okay too.