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*)

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[dancing_serpent]

But it is awesome if a fandom is recced for several months in a row!
Okay, two people in a row saying the same thing? Tells me my perception might be a bit weird. For me it's mostly "fandom x has taken over, time to move on". As in, ignore/leave the comm, or stop subscribing.

It took me ten rounds until I stopped thinking of fancake as "that bandom recs community" and get my own first recs in.

Possibly, I'm not sure. It could go both ways for me - saying hey, that open period is far away enough that I can prepare (I'm the person who saves art to her hard drive, but doesn't bookmark - finding certain art again on the net can be a bit difficult sometimes), but it could easily turn into me saying "now? Argh, no way, I'll never manage".

I might be better off as a lurker here. :(

[ratcreature]

For me it's mostly "fandom x has taken over, time to move on". As in, ignore/leave the comm, or stop subscribing.

But under the current sign-up model that can't even happen. I mean, even if a fandom is recced every month, it is still only one reccer posting for it, unlike the fancake model. And okay, there is no upper limit, so it could be more than four recs, but usually not that many more, and the FAQ even explains that when considering the upper limit, posters should pick something that doesn't swamp the other recs through volume.

[dancing_serpent]

Well, I'm still here and watching, right? *g*

Yeah, it can't happen here like in other comms. And my reaction isn't really logical. But sometimes, when I think I should give it a try I take a look at the tags. And then it goes "okay, not this fandom, and not that one, or that over there..."