We are having a bit of a problem, and it is this: we can’t keep up with the number of naming questions we’re getting. It would be nice to be considering names two or three months before the due date, I think, or even earlier, but right now we’re considering names about two weeks before the due dates—and that’s with doing them at a rate of a question every two days on average.<\/p>\n
For awhile what I’ve been doing is periodically posting one without an answer from me, and periodically skipping one entirely—but even that isn’t enough now. There is going to need to be either (1) more of the former, or (2) more of the latter, or (3) more of both.<\/p>\n
Do you have an opinion? Would you like to see all the questions? Or will you wear out on name-helping if there’s a post every day or twice a day, and it would be better to do more skipping so we can spend more time\/effort on the ones we do take?<\/p>\n
One option is that we could start skipping the ones that don’t include a surname (or at least a surname stand-in), since it’s so hard anyway to make suggestions if we can’t sound them out with a surname. Another option is we could start helping with EITHER a boy name OR a girl name: it would be fine if the parents didn’t know the sex of the baby, but in that case they’d ask us for help only with the name category they were having more trouble with.<\/p>\n
What do you think? What would be your favorite way to do things? And do you have any other suggestions for figuring out which ones to skip?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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