Grades?

[Erika]

Hey guys, how attached are you to actually getting your assignments graded? I'm thinking of not editing the posts with grades anymore. Mostly because I can't always think of something funny to put (especially on the more serious topics) and I don't want people to feel their posts were less valuable than others if they just get random numbers of points, especially if said random numbers are very different from others' random numbers. I always read everything that's posted, whether in the college board or the main board.

We sometimes try to stay out of dicussions so that we don't steer people's ideas or theories about the comic with meta-discussion. Also, sometimes the creator/mod interjecting their opinion can have the effect of shutting down conversation. Our ultimate goal, for the forum in general and the college in particular, is to foster discussions and for posts to build on one another, as well as give people the opportunity to stretch themselves with ideas that haven't already been covered in previous posts. We've already seen some of that starting and it's so exciting. So if anyone is wondering why we don't give our opinions all the time, that's kind of why. Now, commenting to ask further questions to encourage more discussion, that's another story.

Although there are only a couple of people actively posting right now, a lot of guests visit the forum, and that's a great thing. Hopefully we are entertaining the lurkers. Hi, lurkers! Stop lurking and start posting!

[Twitch]

I liked the grades, but if this is what you want to do, okay. Still miss the feedback.

[Kashiro]

I don't really mind, too much. I'd just like to get some general feedback, like you're doing now. It's nice. If you're getting rid of that though? Fair enough. Gonna miss it, but I can understand why. Speaking of assignments - apologies for the massive chunk I'm just about to post.