#qotm

This is more than likely not canon in the slightest. But my brain has latched onto the idea that the reason RinRin has yet to show up again in the story is because she's stuck in Diyu doing paperwork. Not because of any punishment or traps or anything, just that everything is a mess rn and someone needs to be competent.

And that, somehow, she roped Mensheng into being her assistant and coffee gopher.

This idea is a little crack and I love it.

who are yue?

So as we just posted, Alt+H is going through a kind of transitory period. We’re definitely de-prioritizing certain things, like the articles, but the QOTM is a weird case.

On the one hand, it’s time-consuming to run, and for not much payoff: we’ve seen consistently fewer QOTM responses and less overall engagement for the past few months now.

But on the other, I feel like it’s good for us to have a regular feature, especially as we being a more project-oriented approach, to keep community activity happening. Plus there are still people (like you, dear anon) who really enjoy it.

There are two main things I think we could do to alleviate the problems we’re having:

Task someone specifically with handling all the QOTM stuff. Right now it’s my job, but so are like 20 other things. I’m an operations manager, not an operations… do-er. I’m unsure if anyone would be willing to take up a position like this, though.

Change up the format of the prompts. The idea we’re tossing about right now is one-word prompts to do with whatever your imagination comes up with, but that seems too vague to me.

So to that end, it’s probably best to ask the community, eh? There’s clearly still a demand for something like the QOTM, so we’ll see what can be worked out.

If you’re reading this, tell us what you think of the QOTM. What was good? What was bad? What kind of prompts do you feel like you can actually answer?

I definitely don’t want to completely retire the QOTM, because it’s things like that which make sure there’s community dialogue rather than us just talking at you. So throw us some ideas, yeah?