any ideas to promote this comm more and encourage reccing?

[ratcreature]

I'd love for this comm to become a bit livelier in this new year, and to broaden the reccer base.

While it is absolutely great that a handful of people rec so regularly, making sure the comm isn't (near-)dead, and there are also some new reccers every now and then, just reccing for a month, there often aren't enough reccers to average a rec per day, so fanart_recs definitely could be more active.

One way would be to make this comm more widely known and grow in numbers, some of whom then might rec eventually. I think for that having a banner to offer people prettier linking with some embedding code would be nice, but I suck at making attractive banners myself. So if anyone felt like making some we could offer, that would be great. Maybe if we had such pretties and a pre-made promotion they could just c&p more would spread the word than now. I could also use something like that to advertise again on dw_community_promo which I haven't done in a while.

The second way would be to encourage more current members and subscribers to make the jump to reccing, but I'm not sure what the barriers to that are there now. Is there anything that could be made easier and would make you consider reccing? Like, for example the comm could do occasional open posting periods outside the regular structure, allowing every member to rec a fanart they wanted to, without having to commit to a whole set but still dip their toes in. (though really, it's only four! *puppy dog eyes*)

Comments

[mific]

I'll have a go at making a couple of promo banners! :)

I like how the comm works and think the posting system's pretty straightforward. Maybe an occasional less structured reccing free-for-all or amnesty week? That might draw in a few people. But I think the month at a time structure's good, and 4 reccs really isn't very much.

[turlough]

I like how the comm works and think the posting system's pretty straightforward. Maybe an occasional less structured reccing free-for-all or amnesty week? That might draw in a few people. But I think the month at a time structure's good, and 4 reccs really isn't very much.

I completely agree with this.

[ratcreature]

I'm glad it works for you.

[turlough]

I particularly like that you get to choose yourself when you want to rec. So much better than the way crack_van does it.

[ratcreature]

Well, I imagine they have competition over slots? Really, trying to set up a schedule beyond "the first to claim a month for a fandom gets it" is too much effort and wrangling for my taste. If one month is convenient for lots of people, and another is not, the posting frequency may be more uneven, but as long as at least a couple of people can be found for a months, it's fine with me.

[ratcreature]

Having banners would be awesome! <3!

And I'm glad to hear you like the structure. (Like I said in my comment above, personally I find it easier to sign up for something within a structure than to just participate in amorphous things.)