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Week 5: Constituent Outreach


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Now that you’ve advertised, made your policy points, and debated your opponents, it’s time to connect with your constituents! In order to win votes, you need to show people what your candidate will do to support them. And how do we support people on HPFT? Reviews!
 

Over the course of the week, you and your campaign team should work together to leave the following review quantities:

  • 5 reviews for members (staff excluded) of each opposing House (15 total)
  • 15 reviews for members (staff excluded) of your own house
  • 1 review per staff member (16 total)
  • 5 reviews for stories having the following themes (10 total) for clarification, a story only needs one of the themes, not both, but you must do 5 total for each theme
    • Gryffindor: law/politics, discrimination
    • Hufflepuff: dying/grieving, slow build/burn
    • Ravenclaw: friendship, careers
    • Slytherin: friends to lovers, war
  • 5 reviews for stories having the following genres (10 total) for clarification, a story only needs one of the genres, not both, but you must do 5 total for each genre
    • Gryffindor: angst, romance
    • Hufflepuff: action/adventure, fluff
    • Ravenclaw: dark/horror, drama
    • Slytherin: humor, crime/mystery
  • 5 reviews for stories that are: original fiction, non-HP (10 total)

 

Of course, these are only minimum quantities. You can leave additional reviews in any of the categories for bonus points per review. Reviews should follow the following quality standards:

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All reviews must be left on the HPFT archive. These reviews must be new and written for the event. Reviews must include 750 characters, including spaces but not including greetings and sign-offs or substantial asides. Spending a sentence talking about why Petunia is your favorite character and then talking about the author's depiction of her is great; spending most of the review talking about why Petunia is your favorite character and then including a sentence about the story itself is not. Keyboard smashes do not count toward the character count. The tone of the review can be as casual or formal as you'd like, but the content must be relevant to the story being reviewed in some way.

[When working in groups, you may not claim stories you're planning to review in advance. If you aren't actively working on the review and can't have it posted within half an hour or so, please allow other members to jump in instead. It's fine to indicate that you're actively reviewing a story.]

 

Deliverables for Week 5 (due by 19 July at 11:59 PM EST):

  • Make a thread in your common room dedicated to the reviewing event. You may post as few or as many reviews at a time as you like, but be sure to tag @down-in-flames, @grumpy cat, and @something wicked each time your House completes a category. If a review doesn’t meet the standards, we’ll let you know ASAP so that you can drum up a replacement if needed.
  • Excluding bonus points for reviews beyond the 76 above, you can earn up to 576 points this week.
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Just to clarify: I'm assuming if I review a story by a Gryffindor which is dark/horror and with the friendship theme, it can only count for one (1) of those categories, despite fitting in three (3)? So I have to pick which category to put it in? (Otherwise, yk, this gets kinda simple :P

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1 minute ago, Aphoride said:

Just to clarify: I'm assuming if I review a story by a Gryffindor which is dark/horror and with the friendship theme, it can only count for one (1) of those categories, despite fitting in three (3)? So I have to pick which category to put it in? (Otherwise, yk, this gets kinda simple :P

yes, you can't count one review for multiple categories

Guest Noelle Zingarella
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2 hours ago, down-in-flames said:

Deliverables for Week 5 (due by 19 July at 11:59 PM EST):

  • Make a thread in your common room dedicated to the reviewing event. You may post as few or as many reviews at a time as you like, but be sure to tag @down-in-flames, @grumpy cat, and @something wicked each time your House completes a category. If a review doesn’t meet the standards, we’ll let you know ASAP so that you can drum up a replacement if needed.
  • Excluding bonus points for reviews beyond the 76 above, you can earn up to 576 points this week.

Sorry to be a bother, but just to clarify, should we put the links to the completed reviews in the Reviewing Event Thread or in the Deliverables Thread?

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5 minutes ago, Noelle Zingarella said:

Sorry to be a bother, but just to clarify, should we put the links to the completed reviews in the Reviewing Event Thread or in the Deliverables Thread?

you should put the links in the reviewing event thread and once you've completed a category you should also make a post with all the links for that category and tag all three of us. you don't have to tag us for each individual review you leave.

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4 hours ago, down-in-flames said:

5 reviews for stories having the following themes (10 total) for clarification, a story only needs one of the themes, not both, but you must do 5 total for each theme

 

4 hours ago, down-in-flames said:

5 reviews for stories having the following genres (10 total) for clarification, a story only needs one of the genres, not both, but you must do 5 total for each genre

Hi I need clarification on this -- so you say 5 reviews for stories having the following themes or genres, then put 10 total (two per house) but then in the small text, you say 5 total per genre/theme, so does that actually equal out for a total of 40 review for the 8 themes and 40 reviews for the 8 genres or am I overcomplicating this?

EDIT: NEVERMIND I RE-READ THE INSTRUCTIONS MORE CLOSELY, IGNORE MY STUPIDITY ?

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19 hours ago, down-in-flames said:

You can leave additional reviews in any of the categories for bonus points per review.

i'm just quoting this to reiterate - bonus reviews still need to fit your categories ;)

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The rules said “any of the categories” so that includes every category listed, right (other Houses’ stories, staff members’ stories, themes, genres)? Since that’s what is written in the rules?

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1 hour ago, just.a.willow.tree said:

The rules said “any of the categories” so that includes every category listed, right (other Houses’ stories, staff members’ stories, themes, genres)? Since that’s what is written in the rules?

yes, but depending on which house is doing the bonus reviews, themes and genres are different

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