Player Page Updated! | FAQ: "Can I 'Unclaim' Cards?"

[dawn_felagund]

Player Page Updated!
At long last, the player pages have been updated! Now we can all see how deep we're in it come March you can see the cards you've signed up to play all in one place. All card requests sent by this point should be reflected on your player page. (You can check your player page on the SWG or check your player page on MPTT.) Please look to make sure that you have all of the cards you've requested. My comods and I have received hundreds of B2MeM-related emails at this point, and mixups are bound to occur. If something doesn't look right, either leave me a comment here or drop me an email at DawnFelagund@gmail.com and I will fix it as soon as possible.

If you want to display your cards someplace (like your journal or personal website), you are welcome to "hotlink" to your player page on our server. If you need help doing this, just ask. As you earn stamps, we will update your player page so that you can see your progress (and everyone else's!).

FAQ: "Can I 'Unclaim' Cards?"
I've been asked by a couple of people now about "unclaiming" cards. Some of us went a little claim-crazy at the start of the challenge without realizing how many more awesome cards our card-creators would dream up. So ... can you "unclaim" a card?

Yes, with caveats. First of all, remember, you don't have to play a card, even if you claim it. You might claim 20 cards that look interesting but only have time or end up wanting to write for 2 or 3 of them. This is perfectly okay! :)

If you're absolutely certain that you don't want to play a card, I can remove it for you. However, I have to be perfectly honest that, with the popularity of this event and the constant backlog of BINGO cards and player page updates, this is a low-priority task for me, and the challenge may well begin with the cards you don't want still on your player page. If you want a card removed from your player page, just drop me an email at DawnFelagund@gmail.com, and I'll do my best to get this done for you.

Any other questions weighing on your mind? Please ask them here or drop me or one of the other B2MeM mods a PM or email! :)

Finally, for the numerically inclined ...

There are currently 52 53* cards available (I have several more that will be posted within the next few days) that were created by 23 different card creators. That comes to a grand total of 1,248 different prompts/challenges!

There are currently 44 participants who have signed up to play. They have claimed a total of 309 cards (an average of 7 cards per participant).

* I accidentally overwrote the Dwarves of the First Age card when I uploaded an old version of the page. Sorry, havamahal!

Comments

[shadowbrides.livejournal.com]

Oh my numerous gods, so embarrassed. Clicking on other players shows a neat, modest numbers and THEN. There's me. With my 15 cards, which I'm still trying to resist adding several new ones to. And first one on the list. D:

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

That's a good thing, it'll encourage others to choose more cards, too. "Oh, I thought 7 would be too much, but I see Aerlinn has even more, so I can just as well claim ... too!" ;)

[shadowbrides.livejournal.com]

Let's hope so! In reality, it's more of a "oh wow, Aerlinn really has no impulse control whatsoever!" case. Haha, I am fairly sure I'll add some more cards before March arrives...

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

Don't be so hard on yourself. I need to add more cards also, but don't want to have a huge collection I will not use, so am waiting a bit before I add more.

[huinare.livejournal.com]

If you drive through the player page rubbernecking, you will note you and I aren't at all the only ones who've exceed 10 cards. =) *thinking that compulsive bingo player support group really wouldn't be a bad idea*

[shadowbrides.livejournal.com]

Consider it done: http://b2memsupport.livejournal.com/profile

Hoarders unite!

[huinare.livejournal.com]

The interests crack me up. Cardses!

[shadowbrides.livejournal.com]

Created a more fitting icon for the hoarding community, but, of course, free for anyone so inclined to use. :P

[huinare.livejournal.com]

I think LJ ate my comment, but I was trying to say that delightful icon makes me want to suggest adding "cardses my precious" to the interests list. ;)

[independence1776]

The reason I haven't claimed any yet is that I've been trying to talk myself into a somewhat-sane number! It isn't going too well.

ETA because I hit post too soon: You're convinving me that I should just claim as many as I want, and do the prompts I can't in March during the rest of the year.

[dawn_felagund]

Exactly! And it occurred to me at one point that, since we have so many awesome cards (far in excess of my expectations, where I was thinking I'd be happy if 10 were created besides those made by the mods ... and you've done that many yourself!) that the "infrastructure" is in place to play this whenever we want. Once the "infrastructure" is done, it's actually a pretty easy challenge to run.

This is why I never have any free time, incidentally. ;)

[independence1776]

Ooh… More BINGO games, precious… Yeah, I've definitely lost it. May as well go claim my cards and confirm that.

I've basically created a fifth of the cards?! And I'm not done. I just came up with another one (seriously, as I was reading LJ), and only need to put it in my template… This is all your fault! :P

I'd be happy if 10 were created besides those made by the mods

*snickers* You should have had more faith in us. We're Tolkien fandom, and therefore obsessed.

[shadowbrides.livejournal.com]

Lol. Since I turn out not to be the only one anyway, I am seriously considering claiming even more cards. I have a feeling I'm not going to be the only one busy with this challenge until long after March...

[independence1776]

Your icon! *wants it, my precious, I does*

I'm sitting here with a sheet of paper, trying to figure out which cards I really want. Sixteen, so far.

[dawn_felagund]

I've basically created a fifth of the cards?!

Yep! And yours are being claimed left and right. You've created the most of anyone so far. I will make a special crown for you for that honor. It will be made out of folded up BINGO cards.

This is all your fault! :P

Yes. Yes it is. I can't even push the blame off on my comods because the BINGO idea this year was mine.

Y'all have succeeded in making me feel like an unsavory character lurking about in public parks tempting children with candy and then giving them Mickey Mouse "stickers" that are actually LSD. ;)

However, I cannot take blame for the cards ... only a few are mine. And since you're the primary card creator ... well, people in glass houses throwing stones comes to mind ... ;^D

*snickers* You should have had more faith in us. We're Tolkien fandom, and therefore obsessed.

You know, it's funny because I do this every year--underestimate participation in SWG events, that is. I think it's impossible for me to lose the mindset that I developed when the SWG was just a small and new group, and the worry was very real for every event we had that no one would participate. So I always underestimate because then I'm always happy when things turn out more popular than I expected. Of course, then I end up spending much more time on it than I thought I would! :D It's to the point that, come December, I say to my husband, "You know what's coming up soon?" and he says, "Oh yes. B2MeM," because he's become so used to a good part of my life being redirected during February and March. *pats Mr. Felagund*

It's especially bad with B2MeM, since groups other than the SWG participate, which I never take into consideration when convincing myself, "Yes, we will probably have a small and quiet B2MeM this year ..."

[independence1776]

*laughs* I'll proudly wear it, too.

And now you're making me feel like the unsavory character!

You have a wonderful, awesome husband. You really do.

Better, I think, to underestimate than over. Pleasant surprises (minus the increased workload) are a good thing.

BTW, I just tried to send another card via the form, and I got an error message from Bluehost twice.

[dawn_felagund]

Could you email it to me directly? Sometimes the form won't process large files ... I removed the form to send PSDs for that reason, but yours is the first report of a normal image file not going through. Grrr. *frowns at Bluehost*

[dawn_felagund]

You are not the most claim-happy by far! :D I have a few players who have two player pages because, if I put all of their cards onto one image, Photoshop growls at me when I try to save it in web format. Generally, the tipping point for that is 20 cards, so yeah ... you're not the top of the list for claims at all! :D

(Also, I prefer to think of it as Lyra does, that you're either looking for lots of inspiration or serving as inspiration for those who want to claim more but aren't sure what's too many. :)

[shadowbrides.livejournal.com]

Hah, I'm not? Phew.

I hope you don't mind I started a B2MEM hoarder's support group (only half in jest. :P).

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

I did decide not to pick the obscure poetic forms one finally. It is harder to write a good poem than a good drabble, which is incredibly difficult. I am picking more cards though, so I will have plenty of choices.

[dawn_felagund]

I picked Poetic Forms. :^| I am worried about it, but I also want to try some of the forms and maybe make some progress on my Poetic Silmarillion. (I created that card too and did intentionally pick forms that I thought could be executed reasonably well within the 48-hour window!)

[dawn_felagund]

Of course I don't mind! I think it's awesome! I'm going to make a post about it here and add it to the sidebar on this community too, if you don't mind. :)

[shadowbrides.livejournal.com]

That would be great. The more the merrier!

[rhapsody11.livejournal.com]

I will also make a badge for you guys so that you can display that in your profiles :D I am still laughing so hard here.

Edit to add:



Wear it proudly!

[shadowbrides.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I posted it to the community; http://b2memsupport.livejournal.com/632.html and put it on its profile page. :D