This is my life

I helped mod Snowflake for the first time this year and it is a lot of work, and I'm not the one running it. Admittedly, since taking early retirement to care for my mother, I have had more time than some other mods but it's been pretty time consuming. As well as acknowledging every post on each challenge we also make sure that one of us has commented on every journal too.

One thing I hadn't anticipated was the number of responses I received from participants. I hosted Challenfe #8 and in the two hours I was away from the internet to cook and eat dinner I came back to 187 message in my inbox. Although not all of those message require a response, many of them do. These are all things to consider when running an event like this.

I've signed up to mod for the Sunshine Challenge this year and planning is already underway for that event!

Snowflake is a wonderful participation event, but I think if it were run too often it wouldn't have the same impact and people might start getting bored. It's a shame that coffee shop one closed down, I hadn't heard of it but having a multifandom place people can drop into for a chat sounds nice. Maybe a coffee shop style comm with a quarterly or monthly challenge weekend would be fun, avoiding January and July but promoting Snowflake and Sunshine for those Months?

Certainly things to consider as I know from my own experience, I come out of the woodwork in January for Snowflake and then, despite my good intentions, I disappear for the rest of the year, just taking part in the odd reverse bang or secret santa.