I cannot believe...

[telophase]

...that I am the only bidder on yhlee's poetry offer for help_haiti. While I would certainly appreciate getting a poem for $5 ... wow, it's worth so much more than that.

(You have until noon Eastern to bid on help_haiti items ... and as I'll be at the optometrist when the bidding closes, you even run the chance of outbidding me!)

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[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

And I read this at 3:19 EST.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

And both winning bids came in right after I left the computer to get ready for the optometrist, so I was easily outbid!

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

Still, she got a good price!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Yup! If I won, I was going to throw something like $25 at Doctors Without Borders, because $5 was just too little for this sort of thing, but as I was outbid, I threw it at them for a city guide to London instead. :)

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

The way it's set up means I missed really a lot of stuff, and was unable to figure out whether certain people I'd like to bid on were offering. Or otherwise...!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Yup. It was too big to sort through, and it ran the risk of hitting the comment limit on the bid posts.



(I want to mention to everyone who comes through here reading the comments that I am NOT complaining about the mods - they did wonderful work. I think nobody expected the logistics of this to be so unwieldy! It should be analyzed for future auctions, not bashed for things that nobody expected to happen.)

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I definitely didn't mean that as critique of the mods.

I think the individual post + tag model is easier for bidders to find things (and to see posts they might otherwise disregard) but, as you recall, more work for the tag-wrangling mods. If it gets sufficiently big, it can also max out tags.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I just wanted to make sure anyone swinging through here didn't get the wrong idea. The last thing I need right now is wank. :)

Yeah, I think the post+tag model works best; maybe with sets of tags worked out beforehand that would collapse some of the ones we ended up with into larger categories, to avoid running out of tags. Not good for spur-of-the-moment auctions for sudden disasters like the Haiti earthquake, though.

The post + comments model would work better over on Dreamwidth, actually, as they upped the comment limit to 10,000 per post, instead of the 5,000 LJ has. Still has the problem of not being able to search for what you want (the Sweet Charity proprietary code version works best of all, I think, but is IMMENSE amounts of work for the coders and admins).