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[tinny]

I'm a little bummed that somein30 is no more. It joins a long, long list of icon challenge comms that existed on LJ and DW over the last 25 years.

Since I'm already running three challenge comms, I don't feel up to running another one - the creation of the challenge/inspiration posts is always the most time-consuming part.

But then I thought to myself, what if we just did some old challenges again? Creating a new challenge comm where existing challenges from old challenge comms are re-done, one each month, from a different comm each month.

What do you think of this idea?

Poll #28535 retro icontest interest poll

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Do you like this idea?

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Yes
19 (100.0%)

No, how dare you, that's stealing other people's creative challenge posts!
0 (0.0%)

I don't know... Maybe... Let's talk about it
0 (0.0%)

I'm not interested
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[tinny]

I don't know either, that's why I asked before just going for it.

One could also come from the other point of view and say it's great that people are still having fun with challenges that were created ten years ago, and it's a sign of honoring their quality? Of course each original challenge author would be credited.

Idk.

I'd ask, and I will absolutely do that for every comm where I can still find the admin. But my plan is not only to use currently existing ones where that would be possible, but also the *very very old ones* that were made on LJ ages ago and there's no way to ask anyone anymore.


Of course, going into details, we could have opt-ins and opt-outs, and then there's the question of whether we'd want to copy the challenge posts (just so they don't vanish on us) or just go with links to the original posts? I just didn't want to go that far into planning something like that if there's criticism of the idea in the first place.

[violateraindrop]

say it's great that people are still having fun with challenges that were created ten years ago, and it's a sign of honoring their quality?
Exactly!

Preserving the original posts would be neat. And maybe add newer inspiration?

[tinny]

And maybe add newer inspiration?

But that would mean work. /o\ I don't have time to actually *run* a whole new comm.

[violateraindrop]

Sorry, true *hides*
Or invite people to share inspiration that would fit in the comments? Let people add some stuff and then post a reminder to say "Look, we have some newer inspo, too."

[tinny]

Oh, that's a good idea! While we're already crowdsourcing. :D