People are what make OTW work. Not just the leadership, but the volunteers. I don't like what I'm hearing about how volunteers feel ignored and pooh-poohed, and how there's a culture of silencing. I've worked in non-profits a loooong time, and while overwork is common enough to be cliche, the feeling of being ignored isn't.
My personal experience with AO3 backs up renay and general_jinjur 's posts. AO3 has been an impenetrable unresponsive monolith, very different from other large fandom organizations like Fiction Alley.
skud's hard data is revealing. There are more than just good ideas there.
The data shows how we have people at the top acting as one man bands.
One person is taking this, that, and the other change and throwing it in all at once, without marking what's in there. The ID on those changes is shalott, which I assume is astolat, or someone using her ID. Whoever this is, she may feel like she's doing all the work -- and no doubt she is -- but it demonstrates she's also not empowering the people below her, and creating a morass that only she will be able to disentangle.
Now that may be because the people below her aren't capable of running their own projects. But that strict hierarchy (bring in the newbie peons but don't let them touch anything) seems to have created an organization with the transparency and flexibility of a brick wall.
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Date: 2011-11-16 04:30 pm (UTC)People are what make OTW work. Not just the leadership, but the volunteers. I don't like what I'm hearing about how volunteers feel ignored and pooh-poohed, and how there's a culture of silencing. I've worked in non-profits a loooong time, and while overwork is common enough to be cliche, the feeling of being ignored isn't.
My personal experience with AO3 backs up
The data shows how we have people at the top acting as one man bands.
One person is taking this, that, and the other change and throwing it in all at once, without marking what's in there. The ID on those changes is shalott, which I assume is
Now that may be because the people below her aren't capable of running their own projects. But that strict hierarchy (bring in the newbie peons but don't let them touch anything) seems to have created an organization with the transparency and flexibility of a brick wall.