hi all! no, your mods have not completely disappeared. you might have noticed a 'loosening' of the 'no colouring questions' rule recently. as in, they're being left up. folks just aren't getting the help they need over at coloring_help, so such questions will be allowed here again.

if anyone has any questions, ask them here!

Hi gang,

Thanks for your patience. Our week in the spotlight went very smoothly, everyone played nice, and we now return you to your regularly scheduled unmoderated community.

Thanks!

We are expecting to be placed in the LJ spotlight on Monday.

Thus, effective immediately, icon_tutorial is on moderated posting until we decide to take it off. What this means for you, the community member, is:

• Your post will not show up immediately. Exercise some patience; even if the queue is not completely full (which it may well be) it could take us some ( Read more... )

Hi gang!

We have been notified that LJ plans to put this community in the Spotlight in mid-September. sidhex3 and I discussed it and decided to go for it.

However, the only way a 30,000 member community can handle even *more* attention is with heavy moderation. We will be putting the community on moderated posting only starting sometime between ( Read more... )

hi all, just a few reminders ( Read more... )

Just a friendly reminder that icon_tutorial is a designated drama-free zone. If you have issues with a post made in this community and said post does not violate our rules, take it up with them privately (obviously, if it violates a community rule, feel free to contact a mod). Drama makes the mods cranky. We don't like being cranky and you don't like it when ( Read more... )

Our tagging problem seems to be resolved and members may tag posts again. If anyone has any difficulties, please let us know.
[edit]we still have some glitches happening....only maintainers and authors will be allowed to tag/edit tags of posts until further notice.

And as it's a new year, I think it's appropriate to point out our guidelines/rules ( Read more... )

As some of you have noticed, we're experiencing difficulties with the tagging system. There appears to be a bug working and until LJ is able to help us resolve this issue, the member tagging option has been turned off. Once it's fixed, we'll get tags added to entries posted without them. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Hi gang,

This community currently has over 30,000 members and continues to grow daily. That means that the mod team needs to grow in order to keep up, particularly as mods' lives get chaotic.

In that vein, please welcome sidhex3 to the mod teamI also wanted to put the warning out there that yes, we will be continuing our annual tradition of putting the ( Read more... )

Hi gang,

I would like to renew everyone's acquaintance with the content rules.

A WHOLE LOT of you have gotten this message from me in the last week or two:

Tutorials need to be "how" and "why" centric, and not just recipes ( Read more... )