BOB week the second *\o/*

[curiouslyfic.livejournal.com]

We’re done our first full week of BOB now and the weekly reports are coming in (and wow, were you productive!), so it’s time to announce this week’s Bonus schedule and the new weekly target. You have checked in for the week on your team's post, haven't you? Not yet? Go find the check-in thread in your team's Common Room post and claim your points. You have until Monday noon EST to be included in this week's stats and there's a 2 points per team bonus if your whole team does. Done checking in? Okay then. On to next week.

Everybody ready?

This week’s target will be…40 points!

Sound like a lot? We know you can do it. (And if that’s a bit on the high side for you, no worries. There’s still no penalty for not hitting it. Just keep making progress on your list and we’ll keep awarding points, we promise.)

To help you get there, we’ll be having two Bonus days. They are:

Tuesday, April 10 and Sunday, April 15

Tuesday’s Bonus will be double points for all new things: new words, new line art, new colouring, new podfic recording, and brainstorming/research. You’ll still get regular BOB points for anything else that you do that day, but we’re counting the new things twice. Because new things are lovely, aren’t they?

Sunday’s Bonus will be scaled like overtime pay: points-and-a-half for 8 points or lower, double points for 9 or above. Earning 8 regular BOB points Sunday will be worth 12, including your 4 Bonus points; earning 9 regular BOB points Sunday will be worth 18. Half-points will be rounded up to the nearest whole number. (We’ll post the scale for 1-8 on the Sunday Bonus post.)

We'll have the standings post for Week One up Tuesday with a link to the spreadsheet so you can see how you're doing.


A note about Bonus points: When we award Bonus points, we’re only really recording the additional points. To claim the whole lot without making stats mod do some browser tab hopping, please claim those points again in your total for the week. For last week’s 2x multiplier, everyone got awarded the regular BOB points total for their work Wednesday, then again at the same BOB points total for the same work on Sunday. We’re literally just counting it twice. Sorry for the confusion.



A note about beta points: Some of you have noticed that beta points are worth considerably more than expected. If you find the 1 point per 250 words calculation is excessive and not representative of the effort you feel you’ve put in, please feel free to adjust your numbers using either 1 point per hour spent or 1 point per 1k betaed.


As always, if you’re just joining us, the BOB guidelines are here, but the real fun’s all in the Common Room posts, so pick a team and jump right in.

Questions? Concerns? Take it comments. ♥

Good luck, folks! *\o/*

~ curiouslyfic and kinky_kneazle

Comments

[vanessawolfie.livejournal.com]

Okay, so I was wondering about the finishing bonus, if I finish something, and I send it off to beta, do I get the bonus after or before I get it back from the beta? Or do I get it when I post?

[curiouslyfic.livejournal.com]

If it's something you can post in April, I'd claim it then. If not, no worries. I'd claim after beta, just because then it's off your list of things to work on, but if you'd find it more helpful to claim it finished when you ship it off to beta, go ahead. You can only claim it once, so however/whenever you want to claim it, go ahead.

[starduchess.livejournal.com]

On the beta issue, it depends on how badly it needs editing. If I find that I change something or comment on almost every sentence in a fic, then yes, the 1 pt per 250 is well justified, but if I only need to change one or two simple things per page of lines, then I'll probably go with the 1 pt per 1K.

[kitty_fic]

Yes, this sounds totally fair :)

[mijeli.livejournal.com]

Are we supposed to sign in again for week 2? Or will it be the same post (aka, team post), and you'll make a new check-in thread by the end of the week, where we claim our points?

(Also, sorry Team for too late check-in failure. I promise to be better next week...)

♥

[curiouslyfic.livejournal.com]

Same team, same check-in thread. As long as you're replying to that original comment, we'll know where to find your posts. ♥

[mijeli.livejournal.com]

OK, thanks :)

♥