Hi Schnujo's NOT Doing NaNoWriMo

Congratulations on your Writing.com account anniversary! I'm sending this review in honor of the occasion.


Positives

Congratulations on your account anniversary! Hard to believe you've been here for eight years already!

The Contest Challenge is a great way of recognizing other activities on the site and giving them a chance to be highlighted and see increased participation. You always do a good job of picking a good selection of different types of contests, so that every month has something that should appeal to most people.


Suggestions

The only real suggestion I have is to potentially offer is to consider updating the mechanics for how to participate in the "January celebration." Going back and entering every round of the contest is a worthy challenge, but each year we get chronologically further and further away from some of those contest rounds and it increases the chances that a contest will be closed or even gone entirely (I believe you and I spoke about this when I was attempting the Contest Challenge).

It's an awful lot of pressure to put on yourself to have to monitor the participants, encourage them to work on other months if the contest they want at the moment isn't open, etc. It might be worth looking into some kind of universal rule about make-ups that's a little easier on everybody; perhaps something along the lines of having to find a comparable substitute contest to enter that's currently active, or something like that.


Overall

Overall, I admire everything you've accomplished with this activity. It's a great way to highlight so many other people's activities on the site, and you're certainly second to none when it comes to the generosity you lavish on your participants!


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Respectfully,

Jeff
"Rating & Reviewing Philosophy"