This is a really excellent post. Thank you. I'm going to chew on it a while.
Some things that were helpful for me in a recent challenge I participated in:
--The mods allowed in things like art, icons, podfic recordings, rec lists, meta analyses, and vids; so that people who are not writers or who have writing anxiety can also participate in the challenge
--There is a long amnesty period
--The participation threshold is pretty low
--They allow co-authors/co-participants, so people can participate together, which I think is a strategy people use for lessening anxiety about accomplishing tasks and making it more fun.
--The mods do a good job of making a safer space for participants in the community
--The rules are clear and easy to find, there is a clear tagging system, there is a wiki for learning about the prompts
All of these are so rightly Access issues, and yet I hadn't framed it quite in that way before. Brava to you, Kaz.
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Some things that were helpful for me in a recent challenge I participated in:
--The mods allowed in things like art, icons, podfic recordings, rec lists, meta analyses, and vids; so that people who are not writers or who have writing anxiety can also participate in the challenge
--There is a long amnesty period
--The participation threshold is pretty low
--They allow co-authors/co-participants, so people can participate together, which I think is a strategy people use for lessening anxiety about accomplishing tasks and making it more fun.
--The mods do a good job of making a safer space for participants in the community
--The rules are clear and easy to find, there is a clear tagging system, there is a wiki for learning about the prompts
All of these are so rightly Access issues, and yet I hadn't framed it quite in that way before. Brava to you, Kaz.