Why add an extra month? What does that really accomplish? Two weeks is enough in my opinion. The primary reason for it is to avoid spoilers, but that’s just needlessly putting things off
Edit: wait, I think I misunderstood - you meant that a month and two weeks would pass between reservation and discussion. My bad - yes, that’s how it would go
Edited by STARCRUSHER99 on Oct 19th 2022 at 6:18:40 AM
yeah, i wanna make it very clear that when i talk about behavioral issues i am not talking about anyone who's been posting here. yall have been very cooperative once we got past the initial roughness and it's clear to me that you do genuinely want to fix these problems. it's all preemptive-slash-hypothetical, because it's better to have a policy and not need it than to need it and not have it.
Agreed that I'm in favor of two weeks.
The explanations for a separate rule for ongoing stories has already been explicitly explained at length. It is to keep reservations from being lost to maintain reservations of works that are not currently active/not currently providing candidates. This has been discussed prior and generally seems to be agreed upon as reasonable to my understanding.
Edited by Riley1sCool on Oct 19th 2022 at 3:20:24 AM
The waiting period thing for the other tropes is because those tropes tend to attract knee-jerk reactions and speculation. That's why most "waiting period" tropes are Audience Reactions and things that involve history, or both (like Values Dissonance). Complete Monster is pretty much an objective trope with a subjective discussion process... who counts and who doesn't isn't something that could be changed by waiting a month.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallTo be clear, I'm responding to the idea of using a Broken Base-style waiting period like Edgar suggested. The two week thing makes sense and works.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallI mistook what he meant - he meant that you can reserve it a month before release date, then the discussion would happen two weeks after release date - ergo, a month and two weeks. I misunderstood too but all that’s changed there is the amount of time before release a work can be reserved.
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The issue is that those reservations for ongoing stuff would be for well outside of that month and a half window - some stuff could take years to wrap up, but keeping the reservation between seasons makes the most sense among the options. Ergo, a slight amount of reservations specifically for ongoing stuff so that one of the 5 slots isn’t taken for perhaps years
Edited by STARCRUSHER99 on Oct 19th 2022 at 6:25:41 AM
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How many reservations would you suggest? I'm personally fine with 4 or 5, I think 3 would be cutting it awfully short and 2 would be the same but worse. Besides, the suggestion isn't meant to prevent regulars from working on multiple threads, but to allow new blood to work on write-ups.
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Personally, I'm fine with having an exception for VERY long ongoing series (such as soap-operas and long-runner manga) but I think that limited releases (anything under 2 years) should be part of the 5 reservation limit.
Edited by Edgar81539 on Oct 19th 2022 at 3:27:49 AM
Yeah, there's tons of stuff coming out all the time, quite literally an embarrassment of riches and nothing is preventing anyone from collabing. I say 5 baseline that can be grabbed within 2 weeks of works' release, 3 extra allotments for special ongoing works that one wants to keep for a lengthy time period as my final word.
Edited by Ravok on Oct 19th 2022 at 3:28:13 AM
No! That is NOT Solid Snake! Stop impersonating him!

I already removed my reservations for a few Israeli TV series. Sinister is taking the Code 8 Sequel. No news on Triple Threat 2. Spy X Family is a collab between me and Sinister. No news on Die Hard TV series, either.
There is one comic, Cat and Mouse, which, once I know when the release date is coming for the final volume, I do intend to reserve, and since most of my reservations are up in the air RN besides S x F, I should be able to reserve it.