I suspect there's a bias inherent in me being a fast reader who usually gets through the collection relatively quickly, hence the "three days is enough". The specific number is not something I feel particularly strongly about; I do think a week is way too long given people do get terribly anxious, but given what you said on other threads this can be set aside.
I think the primary issue with integrating podfics into this exchange is that there's a terribly small pool to work with. I hang out with podficcers enough to have an appreciation for how much of a block that would be. This would be why I thought about a PT-style signup, as this way the podficcer won't be restricted to existing works. (There shouldn't be an issue with the writer-podficcer team receiving one gift.) You are right that the issue would then become that some people would receive text-only, some podfic-only, and some both. One way to approach this would be to set a lower minimum for team-signups, e.g. 500 words/5min of audio instead of 1000 words/10min of audio. Another would be simply to raise the issue explicitly, and ask teams to take that into consideration.
A third way would be to consider whether this is even a problem and if so, why. Some gifts will always be fancier than others. Someone may create multiple gifts for their recipients, or gifts of multiple media (as we already have fic and graphics) or someone may write something way longer. The one way in which PT-style teams would be different is that they're built-in - when you assign a PT team to someone, you know that person is going to get a gift in two media. On the other hand, this is likely to facilitate podfficer participance outside of podfic-specific spaces, which I personally am invested in. (I considered integrating podfic into the last Purimgifts, but eventually decided that's not for my first year modding. Purimgifts rules are also different in ways that affect podfic integration, so. But "How to integrate podfic into not-podfic-specific exchange" is something I've been thinking about a while.) This brings me back to: raise the point with the teams, and ask them to keep it in mind. I've been doing PT and PT-L for a few years now, and my experience is that the sort of people drawn to that kind of work are likely to be good about something like this.
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Date: 2015-06-12 10:27 am (UTC)I think the primary issue with integrating podfics into this exchange is that there's a terribly small pool to work with. I hang out with podficcers enough to have an appreciation for how much of a block that would be. This would be why I thought about a PT-style signup, as this way the podficcer won't be restricted to existing works. (There shouldn't be an issue with the writer-podficcer team receiving one gift.) You are right that the issue would then become that some people would receive text-only, some podfic-only, and some both. One way to approach this would be to set a lower minimum for team-signups, e.g. 500 words/5min of audio instead of 1000 words/10min of audio. Another would be simply to raise the issue explicitly, and ask teams to take that into consideration.
A third way would be to consider whether this is even a problem and if so, why. Some gifts will always be fancier than others. Someone may create multiple gifts for their recipients, or gifts of multiple media (as we already have fic and graphics) or someone may write something way longer. The one way in which PT-style teams would be different is that they're built-in - when you assign a PT team to someone, you know that person is going to get a gift in two media. On the other hand, this is likely to facilitate podfficer participance outside of podfic-specific spaces, which I personally am invested in. (I considered integrating podfic into the last Purimgifts, but eventually decided that's not for my first year modding. Purimgifts rules are also different in ways that affect podfic integration, so. But "How to integrate podfic into not-podfic-specific exchange" is something I've been thinking about a while.) This brings me back to: raise the point with the teams, and ask them to keep it in mind. I've been doing PT and PT-L for a few years now, and my experience is that the sort of people drawn to that kind of work are likely to be good about something like this.