Poll: Yuletide! Yay!

[thefourthvine]

I am very excited about yuletide, and I've been bouncing around like a crazed thing since I signed up. (This is the Anticipation phase of Yuletide. Yes, there are phases of Yuletide. Yes, I have actually written them down. I know, I know, so pathetic, but it's an important thing to me, okay? I was never that excited about the holidays as a kid, but as an adult, Yuletide makes me absolutely delirious with joy.)

Anyway. I deal with the Anticipation phase (This is actually Anticipation Part One, because sign-ups are still open. When they close, I will start hard-core Anticipation. It is dangerous to come within seven feet of me during that time.) in many ways, but in part by refreshing the requested fandoms list, so that I can admire the shiny numbers climbing ever higher. (Plus, this year, there is a festival of gold and green to admire there. You can even see how many people asked for and volunteered for a given fandom. It is the coolest thing ever!)

But the site went down briefly today. Suddenly, I had no outlet for my Yuletide glee. Hence, this poll.

And if any of you have friends listers who are also doing Yuletide, I'd love it if you'd point 'em over here, 'cause I don't know how many of my own friends listers are. (You all should, though. You get a story! In a tiny fandom of your choosing! And you can write a story that will make someone else's heart sing! And this year there is no qualifying requirement! Go, sign up, and then come back and take the poll!)

Yeah, yeah. 'Tis the season to abuse exclamation marks and the Create Poll function on LJ. Happy holidays!

[Poll #855532]

Comments

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

I think Spooltide is such an excellent idea. Have you considered maybe posting on vidding to gauge interest? Or I'd be willing to post a poll on my LJ, since I don't think you can run a poll on vidding itself, if you would help me haul vidders out of their dusty remote wildernesses to answer it. (I'd also post a link on vidding, of course.)

And for source, you could probably do the requirements like this:

One fandom from a list (determined by poll) of Biggish Fandoms.
At least one small fandom that you own/can get the source for.
Only one small fandom that you can't get the source for.

(I assume you'd offer, like, three music requests for each source.)

Then the mods could act as a go-between. I mean, a YSI/sendspace upload is anonymous, if the link is sent to the mod to be forwarded to the vidder who needs it.

Or you could just allow people to email you with their source needs, and then post a (members-only) thread where people could provide links to uploaded source.

There are many ways it could work! And it would be so cool. I would volunteer to be an elf, if elves were needed, even though I know zip about vidding. (Although it'd be fairly small, so elves might not be needed.)

*excited about this*

[charmax.livejournal.com]

I love, love the idea of spooltide and I think your suggestions are great but sadly I don't think I'm up to running it. Not this year anyway... maybe next?

If you want to do a poll to see if there is actual interest out there then go for it!

[lorem_ipsum]

I think it's a wonderful idea, too, and Spooltide is a great name. I don't vid, but I'd elf for that.

[dzurlady.livejournal.com]

Yes! I am also excited. And I think you can post polls to vidding, although perhaps it might be helpful to take advantage of your flist-y resources as well.

I totally agree about the options, because it would make things easier. We could ask people to sign up just to help with source, perhaps. And we could have a locked post/email service, depending on security levels, with links to episode sharing comms for more common source (like SGA or SNP or VM or whatever).

I believe it is possible to set up your webspace so other people can upload to it? I think? Anyway, I can look into it and then volunteer some hosting, so that it is more reliable. And it would be anonymous. I say this because I just signed up with Dreamhost and now have 2048 GB of bandwidth and 20300 MB of space, so. (I'm excited! You may have noticed.)