Pros fic Reading Room returns

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Well, there was a pretty overwhelming yes vote to the poll yesterday about whether people would like to read more fic discussion and see the return of the Reading Room, so let's give it a whirl! For people who are newer to the comm, this is how it started, a few years ago now, and here are some posts to give you an idea, and this is how we used to organise it via scheduling.

So... we may not all be in the same place these days, so we might end up by doing it differently, but shall we start the same way and see how it all fits/doesn't it? We would ask for volunteers to rec stories (eventually we did that in themes), and then put up a list so that people knew ahead of time what was coming up and could choose to read the stories (or not!), then we tried to put up a reminder of what the story would be early in the week. The story rec would be posted by a volunteer - and it could be as short as "I liked this story because Doyle was sexy in it. What did you think?" or as long and windy as a long windy thing, depending on the volunteer. People would then comment to the post to say what they thought/ask each other about their opinions/thoughts, ask questions, etc., and that would go on for as long as it went on - days or longer if people were still chatting (though usually up to the next week's rec *g*).

We'd better have another poll to sort this out, if you're up for it, cos clicky buttons are relatively quick and will give an idea of how well that might still work or if we need to try something else.
[Poll #2019727]

As usual - any other ideas or thoughts please comment to let us know!