Okay, first of all, let me apologize for my complete lack of activity these past few days. I've been very, very busy. After finals roll around, I will finally get to doing some critiques. It is on my list of priorities, don't worry
Reading this thread, though, I came up with a potential solution, one that would simplify the matter of more people submit, and balancing out things so people who
don't submit as much will still get critiques.
In fact, the system would do away with official submission dates. I'm not sure if I like that, because I really do like submission dates for their structure. On the other hand, it's not quite organic.
So, here is my idea: for each month, you get three Submission Points. Each time you submit something, you lose a point. Therefore, people who want to submit more
can submit more: they can submit three times a month. For people who don't submit as much, these Points will roll over into the next month, so if they have the ability to get more writing done in the future, they can submit more things, because they have more points.
The real difficulty with the implementation is keeping track of the points. However, I think someone suggested that we keep track of how many things people have submitted and critiqued, as a sort of ranking measure. If we started keeping track of those two things, then it isn't extraordinarily difficult to keep track of the submission points.
It's an idea.
