Membership Applications Explained
Since at this time it's impossible to address individual issues potential members may have, due to very limited resources, I figured I might as well give you all an idea of what mods do when they consider a membership application, and hopefully it will be useful in clarifying a few things.
There are basically two issues that concern us; participation, and what could be referred to as security, or privacy/discretion.
In terms of participation, we're looking for a reasonable balance of comments posted and received in relation to the age of the journal and its number of friends and communities. After looking at the statistics of literally thousands of journals, one gets a pretty good idea of what a reasonable balance is. You may not agree with it, but we're comfortable relying on our own experience (as well as the experience of our fellow LJ community maintainers) on this matter.
You may not be aware of this, but information about people's journals that is universally public on LJ includes: the number of entries you've made, the communities you can post to, who your friends are, how many comments you've posted and how many comments you've received, when your journal was created, when your latest entry was posted, and more. This means that just from looking at the journal's public info, even without the ability to read any private or friends-locked posts, one is able to get an idea of a journal owners' participation in LJ in general.
It might also be worth mentioning that if you have your friend of/mutual friends fields hidden, it will make the screening process of your journal more tedious, so it's likely to take longer to make a decision (though it won't affect the decision itself).
When it comes to security, discretion, and privacy, well, I for one believe that our members deserve to keep the content of their posts to the community private. If a prospective member has a record of reposting or sharing privately posted information, their membership application won't be approved. Same goes for any publicly posted information that we believe indicates serious lack of discretion (or common sense).
Finally, I'd like to make one more thing clear. While it's obvious that everyone has the right to post whatever they want to their own journals, it is also the case that whether or not you're a good fit for this particular community is determined by your choice of actions. You're more than welcome to choose your own behavior, and in turn, we believe that we're welcome to choose ours. If our particular system isn't your cup of tea, or you strongly disagree with it, or you think you would do a better job in our place, or you just think we're all self-important/paranoid/elitist/ridiculous/stupid asses, that's fine also. There are plenty of other Doctor Who communities in LJ-land which may be exactly what you're looking for, and if you can't find one that you like, you can always create your own :)
There are basically two issues that concern us; participation, and what could be referred to as security, or privacy/discretion.
In terms of participation, we're looking for a reasonable balance of comments posted and received in relation to the age of the journal and its number of friends and communities. After looking at the statistics of literally thousands of journals, one gets a pretty good idea of what a reasonable balance is. You may not agree with it, but we're comfortable relying on our own experience (as well as the experience of our fellow LJ community maintainers) on this matter.
You may not be aware of this, but information about people's journals that is universally public on LJ includes: the number of entries you've made, the communities you can post to, who your friends are, how many comments you've posted and how many comments you've received, when your journal was created, when your latest entry was posted, and more. This means that just from looking at the journal's public info, even without the ability to read any private or friends-locked posts, one is able to get an idea of a journal owners' participation in LJ in general.
It might also be worth mentioning that if you have your friend of/mutual friends fields hidden, it will make the screening process of your journal more tedious, so it's likely to take longer to make a decision (though it won't affect the decision itself).
When it comes to security, discretion, and privacy, well, I for one believe that our members deserve to keep the content of their posts to the community private. If a prospective member has a record of reposting or sharing privately posted information, their membership application won't be approved. Same goes for any publicly posted information that we believe indicates serious lack of discretion (or common sense).
Finally, I'd like to make one more thing clear. While it's obvious that everyone has the right to post whatever they want to their own journals, it is also the case that whether or not you're a good fit for this particular community is determined by your choice of actions. You're more than welcome to choose your own behavior, and in turn, we believe that we're welcome to choose ours. If our particular system isn't your cup of tea, or you strongly disagree with it, or you think you would do a better job in our place, or you just think we're all self-important/paranoid/elitist/ridiculous/stupid asses, that's fine also. There are plenty of other Doctor Who communities in LJ-land which may be exactly what you're looking for, and if you can't find one that you like, you can always create your own :)