Some Vocal Community Adjustments That Would Be Beneficial

Introduction

A year ago, I wrote this about Vocal's "dead" communities, with suggestions for merging some of them

Recently, Wheel got a Top Story, which I was pleased to see, but I doubt Vocal would have the resources to merge the communities that I suggest.

This is prompted because often I write stories that should be in Communities which have a six hundred word minimum, but I cannot seriously stretch them out to six hundred words, and that is not because I am a bad writer, although I am quite laconic.

This story should have been in Petlife, but I ended up putting it in Critique. If you read it, you will see why.

These are the current zero limit communities:

So, Which Communities Should Have Their Minimum Word Count Set To Zero?

Horror

This is a subset of Fiction, and often we can write short horror pieces, but have to submit in Fiction, with a "Microfiction" and "Horror" tag.

Humor

Another subset of Fiction, and sometimes you can write short punny pieces, but they may have to be submitted to Poetry or Fiction, in the same way that I specified with Horror.

Petlife

For the reasons I specified in my recent Critique piece, that should really have been in this Community.

Beat

I do post a lot in this community, but my recent piece remembering Tom Lehrer ended up in Critique because I could not meet the requirement for the word count in the Beat community.

01 and FYI

Sometimes we have techniques and technical information that we want to share, but they don't need six hundred words to explain, although I did it with this really useful one for Windows users, which could have been explained in a hundred words or less.

Conclusion

These changes would be easy for Vocal to implement, and you may have other suggestions, so I would love to hear them in the comments.

I included Shack's "Comedy" because I love the song, I love the video, and one of the communities I mentioned is Humor.

Thank you so much for reading.