Suggestion: Don't post without commentary

I tend to view each volley as it appears in Twitter, but I’m always ahead of the commentary. I end up having to come back later to read it, if I do at all.

I’d prefer you wait to post (or at least tweet) until the commentary is ready.

Daniel, the timing of the game is intended so that the majority of North America (sorry, rest of the world) may watch the match while at the office; if all goes well and the designers stick to the 15 minutes, the match starts at 2pm and is over by 5pm Central.

The commentator doesn’t see the volleys before you do—not posting until the commentary is ready would mean waiting even longer in between volleys. That may be OK with you, but most spectators are anxious for the volleys to be as punctual as possible.

Hey Andrew,
We could fix the whole time delay by asking the competitors to start 10 minutes earlier.
That way the commentator will receive the image at 1:50 and have ten minutes to get some thoughts put together and post them with the image at the same time, right at 2:00
The time between volleys would not be affected, because the players and commentator would stay 10 minutes ahead of the rest of us in the Forums.
After the first image is posted, we would only have to wait the regular fifteen minutes, even though the commentator would have the next file for their preview only five minutes after we saw the previous one.

I’m not sure that made any sense at all after I wrote it, but it all works out in my caffeinated mind…

Yeah, I’d say as a commentator myself, it was a lot of pressure knowing ZOMG THE SITE IS LIVE AND THERE’S NOTHING FOR ANYONE TO READ THERE. A couple times I got a 5-10 minute jump on the upload hitting the public site (as the designers shared the files with us live in a chatroom) and those were much easier to write commentary for.

I like AZ Focus Guy’s idea and think it’s a good one: behind the curtain, everyone is working 10 minutes ahead of time, to the public, things work smoother and on the same time schedule as before, plus no dead updates from twitter.