The Dirty Energy Source

[heavensqueen]

Do you want to make a spreadsheet about spreadsheets?
Do you still need to figure out what two other fandoms you should request beside the only one you really want fic for?
Or are you trolling ALL the letter posts for placeholders, just so you can write those people some nice, dry coal?

We want to know all about it.

Comments

Re: good point

[(Anonymous)]

yeah i'm not tcc. i've ran a lot of spreadsheets for other exchanges. tcc is doing literally everything else wrong, but linking to comments intead of letters is standard practice for a multitude of reasons. it may get you super mad but that isn't enough to change all the reasons why spreadsheeters do it.

Re: good point

[(Anonymous)]

NA

I liked the comment someone just made on that thread, saying maybe direct links to letters could be an additional option - so, keeping default the link to the yuletide thread, but adding an additional column with links directly to letters. That way any spreadsheet-browsing yuletiders could pick their poison.

The downside is that it obviously sounds like a lot of extra work, but the commenter was offering to do it herself, so more power to her...

Re: good point

[(Anonymous)]

definitely! having it as an extra is a lot of extra work but it's worth it imo. it isn't a good idea to have it as the main and only link, but having it as extra information (like how some spreadsheets will mention the characters requested in addition to the fandoms) is great. bonus info never hurt anyone. having a part-time spreadsheeter dedicated to it while "main" crew works on inputing comment links + ao3 + fandoms sounds perfect to me.

Re: good point

[(Anonymous)]

I missed the offer to add direct links to the spreadsheet. Could you point me to it? Thanks.

Re: good point

[(Anonymous)]

http://yuletide.livejournal.com/1206311.html?thread=18934823#t18934823