I think there's a potential advantage to additional, affiliated challenges that people can dip in and out of. Quarterly seems most reasonable, but I can see a few potential pitfalls that might need poking at:
- How do you stop it being just 'more of the same'? You need spaces for people to introduce themselves, but there's a risk that people just end up feeling like all they ever do is write and rewrite intro posts. I'm not sure how much of Snowflake's appeal comes from it's scarcity, so I think if you want to extend that, it's worth thinking about how it will be different, and therefore appeal to a wider range of folks (and I'm aware that makes the workload potentially much harder)
- Posting frequency is... a challenge. I'm quite introverted, but not shy - I can do the posting and the social interaction without a problem, but it's tiring. I currently feel like I've been put through the wringer, and it's not bad but I'm not sure I could maintain this intensity for this duration three or four times a year. Might be worth thinking about either a) shorter sessions, only lasting a week or so, or b) less frequent challenges; maybe twice a week or something?
None of that is to say I think it's a bad idea, because I don't; I think opportunities to build up interactions on DW are a good thing. I'm more trying to catch early the things that might tilt the balance of success against you.
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- How do you stop it being just 'more of the same'? You need spaces for people to introduce themselves, but there's a risk that people just end up feeling like all they ever do is write and rewrite intro posts. I'm not sure how much of Snowflake's appeal comes from it's scarcity, so I think if you want to extend that, it's worth thinking about how it will be different, and therefore appeal to a wider range of folks (and I'm aware that makes the workload potentially much harder)
- Posting frequency is... a challenge. I'm quite introverted, but not shy - I can do the posting and the social interaction without a problem, but it's tiring. I currently feel like I've been put through the wringer, and it's not bad but I'm not sure I could maintain this intensity for this duration three or four times a year. Might be worth thinking about either a) shorter sessions, only lasting a week or so, or b) less frequent challenges; maybe twice a week or something?
None of that is to say I think it's a bad idea, because I don't; I think opportunities to build up interactions on DW are a good thing. I'm more trying to catch early the things that might tilt the balance of success against you.