Note: As of this project being shared (Mon 30th August 21) leader applications have not been released, let alone the leaders chosen. This is just to give potential applicants + anybody interested an idea of how word adding will work from now on! ~ Because of the introduction of the Studio Update, which means only the studio manager can change the description, SWC has faced trouble with word updating. We got by last session as it was too late to make any drastic changes, but now the system needs to change. Here are some new word update methods that you can choose to use with your cabin! ~ LEADER + CO STUDIOS Method: Leader, Co 1 and Co 2 divide the campers into thirds among themselves, and make three separate word count studios. (The leader still makes the individual genre cabin for talking + in-cabin activities). Each (co)leader shall be responsible for updating the words of their group. If you intend to stick to studios, this is the method I recommend for the next session. I’d also seriously encourage you to get your campers to add their totals up themselves (eg: “+104! My new total is 2039 :D”) It would also be useful to get campers to add their word updates in a comment chain. Once the reply limit is hit, they make a new one! This would help with organisation. ~ (NEW!) FORUM THREAD Method: The cabin leader makes the thread (in the collaborations section of the forum), which will have the campers’ names and details like any other word count studio. However, instead of campers making a separate post every time they want to add their words (and the leader then doing it for them), they simply make one initial post at the start of camp then continue to edit that post the more they write. For Example: "Leader: This is (Genre) Cabin's Word Count Masterpost! (insert explanation of the system here)" > "Camper 1: This is (nickname’s) Word Count Post for the (Genre) Cabin! Total: 3473 +123 - Won a word war +387 - Daily 4th +2376 - first weekly +32 - a small roleplay +234 - daily 5th +321 - short story i wrote outside (edited)" The new magnitude of SWC means leaders have become less like leaders and more like adding machines. This method, masterminded by @sunshine_the_rainbow, would be a way to change this! This would mean far less work for the leaders, make double-checking word counts far easier, and probably work as a more convenient method from now on. New Scratchers would not be able to work by this method due to editing restraints, but they can still make a thread of word counts on their own profile or just update in the cabin as was originally done so. If you want to introduce this method this session, please do! However, these forums would be an add-on to the normal cabin studio, as a forum cabin would just generate *way* too much activity. Busy forum topics can be quite unreadable, especially when there's multiple conversations happening at once. ~ credits: all the (co)hosts for collaborating to write this, especially and . music: revolting children (matilda) OR goose goose revolution (the living tombstone)
