Stony Trumps Hate Auction Organizing Thread

There seems to be a good bit of interest, and @boop snagged our url on tumblr, so I think we are a go!

Since the FTH Auction just completed and people are still in the process of paying and creating, I think it would be smart to perhaps set a date at least a couple of months from now for this effort to "go live," as in the auction bidding actually start. In the meantime, we can organize, get the tumblr site up and running, promote it, etc.

@a_sparrows_fall offered to help with the web stuff, which would be great!

Some ideas that have been suggested:

1) Allow fan craft offers like pins, keychains, stickers, etc. 2) Allow creators to offer items from their personal collections and/or things like items from their Society6 stores 3) Some way to allow group bidding...I'm not sure how this would work, but the idea being to allow people to form groups to bid higher (say one person wants an identity porn fic and their friend wants a coffee shop AU, so they go together) 4) A way to signal boost individual efforts by people who are doing other things to raise funds/awareness for various causes 5) Encourage other categories of artists to participate, like people who can do gif sets, fanedits to go with fics, book covers, fan videos, that kind of thing. It isn't just fanart! I know I would personally bid on some of those to go with my fics, so if people were interested in offering those, I think that would be really cool. 6) Set it up so that people can offer various options in separate auctions, so you would have Auction 1: One-Shot fic of less than 5K with a starting bid of $10 and Auction 2: One-Shot fic of at least 10K with starting bid of $20 or whatever.

Okay, so this thread is for organizing and delegating, and by that I mean you kids get hopping, lol. I know several of you are way better at this stuff than I am, so please don't feel like you are stepping on toes. Ideas and suggestions are welcome! Let's brainstorm!