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Anonymous asked: I submitted a confession a few weeks ago and it still isn't up on the site(it wa 110% appropriate) how long does it normally take for them to e added.
Thanks for this question! It made me realize that we accidentally missed our Monthly Submission Post. However, this information is always available at our regular FAQ . I would also like to mention that as of now, there are 772 submissions hanging out in our mailbox. That’s a lot.
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To celebrate the holidays and passing our first birthday, Camp Confessions will be republishing our favorite posts. Be sure to scroll through the archives to like and reblog ones that resonate with you because winners will be determined by notes.
Have a lovely day!
CC Staff
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I am very sorry for the following post
I am currently feeling terrible and nothing is queued up. I will do my best to get things moving again by Wednesday but don’t freak out, there are still plenty of confessions to come and plenty of camps to see. Instead I invite you to take a look back in our Archives, you might be surprised by what you find.
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Anonymous asked: I submitted my camp about a week ago and it still hasn't been posted. Is this long of a response time normal?
The short answer is yes.
Think about it this way: we threw out the idea of the “roll call” post on September 16th. We started posting them on the 17th. We have been doing this for barely two weeks and we’ve already posted 110 camps, have 18 in the queue, and have received another 120 individual and unique camps. I currently publish every two hours and am not interested in upping that because a) I have a real job, and b) flooding people’s dashboards doesn’t win friends. Every two hours = 12 posts a day. 3 of these are confessions, except on our special days (Making better Mondays, and Only at Camp on Saturdays) so the majority of what we’re sending out is camps.
The last thing to consider is I’m posting camps in order as I receive them so it has less to do with what day you submitted and more to do with how many people submitted before you.
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Happy Fall!
So there’s a thought that has been bouncing around in my head for a little while but I wanted some feedback before trying it. Would anyone be interested in a system of finding people who went to/worked at your camp(s)? I don’t want to ruin the anonymity of this particular site or confessions so this would not be a list of camps that support us or our intentions. I see it working something like this:
1. A camp is submitted via someone or a lot of people.
2. That camp name and general geographical location is published as a post tagged with ‘connected camps’ or something like that.
3. You reblog it or like it if you have been there.
4. That’s it.
This wouldn’t be an endorsement, it would simply be a way for you to see if there are other people who follow the site that you might know from your camp. You are in no way required to reblog it or like it therefore no one has to know which camp(s) you went to. If someone wanted to search for their camp they could go to that tag and scroll through.
Is this something that interests you?
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The Monthly Submissions Reminder
We’re trying to stay as anonymous as possible because we all want to have futures and we extend that courtesy to you as well. So we won’t credit your confession unless you expressly ask us to (no one has so far). As a huge supporter of camping and the outdoors, we don’t want any of these confessions to reflect poorly on the organizations that made us stronger people so we won’t be naming any specific camps either, unless they are submitted with approval by an official representative. We’ve been sticking to general camp topics to hopefully widen our appeal but we are supportive of specific types of camps and the confessions that come with them. Feel free to submit whatever.
We will accept all submissions but we will choose what to post to avoid repetition and issues with any of the concerns above. As far as submissions for confessions- if you don’t see your exact submission there are several possibilities:
1) it is really similar to a confession that has already been written*
2) it’s in the inbox, or in organizing/editing to go to the queue, or in the queue all of which varies in length at any given time**
3) we tweaked it a bit to make it more general
4) we tweaked it a bit to make it more of a confession and less of a moment/expression/statement thingy.
5) your submission was very obviously anti-camper or something we considered in bad taste. If you’re curious, feel free to message us and as but we don’t veto things very often.
6) look at reason #1. Then go back through the archives and I bet it’s one of the early ones.
Another reminder- Most importantly, it shouldn’t matter what camp(s) I specifically have attended (…have worked for, will attend, will work for, will send my progeny to) because the confessions come from thousands of people and are associated to several camps.
*If your submission is about showers, there is a very good chance it is too similar to others. If your submission is about how camp is better than the rest of the world, there is a very good chance it is too similar to others. If your submission is about how camp has greatly impacted who you are as a person, there is a very good chance that it is too similar to others. Please be more specific if you feel your confession is unique and please scroll through the archive before submitting it.
** Please refer to the screen shot in March. The inbox can be HUGE and doesn’t even show the in editing confessions.
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The Monthly Submissions Reminder
We’re trying to stay as anonymous as possible because we all want to have futures and we extend that courtesy to you as well. So we won’t credit your confession unless you expressly ask us to (no one has so far). As a huge supporter of camping and the outdoors, we don’t want any of these confessions to reflect poorly on the organizations that made us stronger people so we won’t be naming any specific camps either, unless they are submitted with approval by an official representative. We’ve been sticking to general camp topics to hopefully widen our appeal but we are supportive of specific types of camps and the confessions that come with them. Feel free to submit whatever.
We will accept all submissions but we will choose what to post to avoid repetition and issues with any of the concerns above. As far as submissions for confessions- if you don’t see your exact submission there are several possibilities:
1) it is really similar to a confession that has already been written*
2) it’s in the inbox, or in organizing/editing to go to the queue, or in the queue all of which varies in length at any given time**
3) we tweaked it a bit to make it more general
4) we tweaked it a bit to make it more of a confession and less of a moment/expression/statement thingy.
5) your submission was very obviously anti-camper or something we considered in bad taste. If you’re curious, feel free to message us and as but we don’t veto things very often.
6) look at reason #1. Then go back through the archives and I bet it’s one of the early ones.
Another reminder- Most importantly, it shouldn’t matter what camp(s) I specifically have attended (…have worked for, will attend, will work for, will send my progeny to) because the confessions come from thousands of people and are associated to several camps.
*If your submission is about showers, there is a very good chance it is too similar to others. If your submission is about how camp is better than the rest of the world, there is a very good chance it is too similar to others. If your submission is about how camp has greatly impacted who you are as a person, there is a very good chance that it is too similar to others. Please be more specific if you feel your confession is unique and please scroll through the archive before submitting it.
** Please refer to the screen shot in March. The inbox can be HUGE and doesn’t even show the in editing confessions.
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The Monthly Submissions Reminder
We’re trying to stay as anonymous as possible because we all want to have futures and we extend that courtesy to you as well. So we won’t credit your confession unless you expressly ask us to (no one has so far). As a huge supporter of camping and the outdoors, we don’t want any of these confessions to reflect poorly on the organizations that made us stronger people so we won’t be naming any specific camps either, unless they are submitted with approval by an official representative. We’ve been sticking to general camp topics to hopefully widen our appeal but we are supportive of specific types of camps and the confessions that come with them. Feel free to submit whatever.
We will accept all submissions but we will choose what to post to avoid repetition and issues with any of the concerns above. As far as submissions for confessions- if you don’t see your exact submission there are several possibilities:
1) it is really similar to a confession that has already been written*
2) it’s in the inbox, or in organizing/editing to go to the queue, or in the queue all of which varies in length at any given time**
3) we tweaked it a bit to make it more general
4) we tweaked it a bit to make it more of a confession and less of a moment/expression/statement thingy.
5) your submission was very obviously anti-camper or something we considered in bad taste. If you’re curious, feel free to message us and as but we don’t veto things very often.
6) look at reason #1. Then go back through the archives and I bet it’s one of the early ones.
Another reminder- Most importantly, it shouldn’t matter what camp(s) I specifically have attended (…have worked for, will attend, will work for, will send my progeny to) because the confessions come from thousands of people and are associated to several camps.
*If your submission is about showers, there is a very good chance it is too similar to others. If your submission is about how camp is better than the rest of the world, there is a very good chance it is too similar to others. If your submission is about how camp has greatly impacted who you are as a person, there is a very good chance that it is too similar to others. Please be more specific if you feel your confession is unique and please scroll through the archive before submitting it.
** Please refer to the screen shot in March. The inbox can be HUGE and doesn’t even show the in editing confessions.
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Don’t Forget
Try to drop by our facebook page or our Forum. There are several posts and a few jobs listed on the forum so help each other out.
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It’s finally here!
The forum is set up and looking a little bare so head on over and start mingling! Wondering Wednesdays have all been posted and are waiting to be answered. Starting this Wednesday, they will be posted only on our facebook page and the forum. I’m excited but more importantly, how do YOU feel about these changes?