User blog comment:Owenandheatherfan/Read About - Week One/@comment-1874924-20121110010303

You might want to clarify the feedback requirement, especially for reading assignments that span multiple chapters. Does a contesant have to leave a single 10-sentence comment (which is essentially an essay) to get a bonus, or will multiple shorter comments totalling 10 sentences do?

I would assume that at least part of Read About's purpose is to encourage people to explore our library beyond the "greatest hits", so I'm admittedly mystified at the choice of TD Boney Island to kick things off. I'm sorry if I sound harsh, but telling people to read and comment on what is already the wiki's #1 most-read story (over 12,000 page views), which already has 460 edits on its talk page, strikes me as missing the point--especially if you're planning to cover the entire story over the course of several rounds, as opposed to "sampling" it for one round and then moving on to something else. If you want to include a Sprink story, why not one of his lesser-known stories?

Furthermore, because Sprink has left the wiki, he may not even see any new Boney Island comments that result from this assignment. The people who would really benefit from this feedback are writers who are currently active, especially with in-progress or recently finished stories.

This competition is your baby, not mine, and you can run it however you please, but I am concerned that you may be about to waste a lot of potential.