Donation Drop-Off: Any Interest?

[kelliedee.livejournal.com]

This is actually something I've been thinking of doing for a while. The last three posts in the trading community prompted me to go ahead and ask everyone's opinion:

Would you like to have a page (much like Skie's Asobot Initiative) dedicated to unclaimed deck donations, where other users can claim to donate them?

Ordinary members can only donate two decks per month, and, on rare occasion, an additional normal deck or one special deck. (Deck makers can donate more, but must first meet a quota.) Unfortunately, for most of us, there are more than two decks we'd like to donate.

With a deck donation drop-off post, members would be able to post excess decks they've put together (like you would if you were donating a deck on the Color's post). I'd compile a list of unclaimed decks (sorted by series, color, or both) on LJ (along with my own site if there's enough decks), and other members who are not donating decks (or don't want to gather images) can claim decks they would like to donate. By claiming a deck, you keep the rewards for donating it, and you make somebody a very happy card collector. :3

Leave a comment and let me know your thoughts, opinions, questions, and suggestions!! ^^

Comments

[wolfie.livejournal.com]

I likey. I think the system should probably allow the user to pick their own deck to donate if there's someone prepared that they like as well, of course. :3

ETA: also, maybe your system could also allow for "wanted" decks? And "partially done" images?

[kelliedee.livejournal.com]

As said in my reply above, I'd love to have a section for deck/image requests. :3 And a list of "X member will donate Y deck once prepared" wouldn't be a bad addition either.

I could also make a Photobucket account and open it to the members of Colors, and anyone could donate single images for requested decks. (This would work well for character decks where images are hard to find.) Once a character has 30 good images, it would be zipped and "delivered" to the person requesting it, or it would go to the "open donation" pile.

Thoughts?

[wolfie.livejournal.com]

My initial thought is I cringe at photobucket, because of its unreliability. xD Anyone with hosting could theoretically set up a photoblog software though, and that'd probably work awesome.

Hmm, I guess having someone who is knowledgeable go through them to sort into possible fanart piles might be necessary as well, though if you're going that route.

[kelliedee.livejournal.com]

I don't know anything about Photobucket (aside from how to use it), because I don't use it. Wait, what? I just picked it because I'm betting most people here host their cards on Photobucket, and as a result, wouldn't have to register at a new site and would know how to navigate the site and all its features.

Also, I'm kind of a script tard, so do enlighten me on this photo blog business. :3 Is it something I'd have to have a whole new site for, or can I just install it as a script to run as a separate page on a website? Either way, I'd probably have to discuss it with Rahenna.

Most fan art is pretty distinguishable, but yeah, I might need some help with series I'm not familiar with. :)

[wolfie.livejournal.com]

I mean, you'd just want a separate subdomain or some such, and probably would be best to run it on an individual database. I've seen a few out there, but I haven't researched any, sorry... Rahenna would likely be tons more familiar with something like that, coding-wise, than I would. I just know that the possibility of one exists. And like I said, anything that'll be more reliable than silly fotobukkit is a step above. xP