Come on, reccers, *please*!

Okay, so, this is a rant I've been sitting on for a while, but ...

If you rec at stargateficrec and suddenly realize that you've waited until the last minute to rec, could you do your flist a favor and at least *try* to spread out your recs a little bit?

I mean, today ... it's the 28th. That means that even if you woke up this morning going, "Oh, shit, I haven't posted any recs yet!" you could post one rec today, one tomorrow and so forth 'til the 31st. And every person watching stargateficrec doesn't have to wade through an impenetrable mass of recs for one character or pairing to get to the rest of their flist.

That's kinda what happened to me this week -- I realized that I'd gotten nearly to the end of the month without finishing out my John & Rodney recs, so I've been SPREADING THEM OUT. I still have one to go. I'll probably post it this evening or tomorrow depending on how clogged with recs the site is. Let's face it -- if you post your recs at the same time everyone else is posting their recs, yours gets lost anyhow. Even in the end-of-month rush, I try to wait for lulls in the action to toss one of my recs in.

And if right now is the only time you'll have all week to hunt for and write up recs -- then write them all up now, and post them over the next four days. That's how I generally do mine, actually, at least when I'm organized enough to manage it: I write them up all at once, or in small batches whenever I have time, and then copy and paste them into a browser window at intervals. My Jeannie recs this month ... I wrote them all up at the end of September (I had some time, and felt like reading some Jeannie fic) and then every few days, I'd open up an LJ window and copy-paste a rec into it.

I'm not really trying to pick on anyone specific, because a lot of people do it -- hey, I waited 'til the last minute this month, so I'm part of the problem too. But the end-of-month clog at ficrec is what makes people take it off their watch lists. I know I'm not the only one who has that problem. And it's harder on the taggers and mods, and it makes it less likely that people are going to notice or read that rec for that awesome fic you've been waiting for months to share with people.

Edited to add: I also don't want anyone to feel bad about reccing, of course. It's an awesome resource for fandom, and how I find many new stories! It's just ... that last-minute end-of-month glut of recs is really a pain, and it makes the comm less useful for everybody.

Come on, reccers, *please*!

Okay, so, this is a rant I've been sitting on for a while, but ...

If you rec at stargateficrec and suddenly realize that you've waited until the last minute to rec, could you do your flist a favor and at least *try* to spread out your recs a little bit?

I mean, today ... it's the 28th. That means that even if you woke up this morning going, "Oh, shit, I haven't posted any recs yet!" you could post one rec today, one tomorrow and so forth 'til the 31st. And every person watching stargateficrec doesn't have to wade through an impenetrable mass of recs for one character or pairing to get to the rest of their flist.

That's kinda what happened to me this week -- I realized that I'd gotten nearly to the end of the month without finishing out my John & Rodney recs, so I've been SPREADING THEM OUT. I still have one to go. I'll probably post it this evening or tomorrow depending on how clogged with recs the site is. Let's face it -- if you post your recs at the same time everyone else is posting their recs, yours gets lost anyhow. Even in the end-of-month rush, I try to wait for lulls in the action to toss one of my recs in.

And if right now is the only time you'll have all week to hunt for and write up recs -- then write them all up now, and post them over the next four days. That's how I generally do mine, actually, at least when I'm organized enough to manage it: I write them up all at once, or in small batches whenever I have time, and then copy and paste them into a browser window at intervals. My Jeannie recs this month ... I wrote them all up at the end of September (I had some time, and felt like reading some Jeannie fic) and then every few days, I'd open up an LJ window and copy-paste a rec into it.

I'm not really trying to pick on anyone specific, because a lot of people do it -- hey, I waited 'til the last minute this month, so I'm part of the problem too. But the end-of-month clog at ficrec is what makes people take it off their watch lists. I know I'm not the only one who has that problem. And it's harder on the taggers and mods, and it makes it less likely that people are going to notice or read that rec for that awesome fic you've been waiting for months to share with people.

Edited to add: I also don't want anyone to feel bad about reccing, of course. It's an awesome resource for fandom, and how I find many new stories! It's just ... that last-minute end-of-month glut of recs is really a pain, and it makes the comm less useful for everybody.