Mod Post: Aims, features, feedback & spoiler policy
Hello and welcome to Merlin Network! Late mod post is really late, but we thought we'd do one anyway.
This comm aims to:
• Post information and material about the BBC show Merlin and its cast, including their other projects, that have been recently made publicly available. These include fan reports, reviews, photos and videos taken by fans at events but not works such as fiction, art, compilation of show clips, etc.
• Maintain an easily searchable and retrievable archive
• Be a venue for comments and opinions about the posted material
Here are some features that we hope can be useful to you.
• Filter what comm posts appear on your friends page with only the tags you’re interested in. LJ has recently put in this feature; for more information check the lj_releases post here. We try to post separate news about different actors separately, and we hope that can help in taking advantage of this LJ feature. Sometimes though, if the news comes only in a snippet or a small article, they end up in:
• Update posts: These contain snippets of news that may not be big enough to warrant a separate post, most crew tweets, and notice of updates added to central posts. Updates get posted at 23:59 BST.
• Central posts. Where we put in the news and material related to one event when there is a large amount of them available
Spoiler Policy
Series filming spoilers will be kept behind cuts with a warning of spoilers ahead. If the post contains:
• Casting reveals: An actor who has not previously been in the show or a returning cast role who is not a regular (e.g. Hunith, Mordred, etc.) What is and isn't a actor/character spoiler is elaborated below.
• Character or plot reveals
• Filming locations (this does not include Pierrefonds or studio filming)
• Filming dates
• Set pictures or videos
• Set or screening reports (reports will be linked and only viewable at the users journal)
they will be marked as spoilers and will not be mentioned in the title, tags, or outside a cut. We are also introducing a "no spoilers" tag so that posts can be filtered by you to receive non-spoilery posts :)
Characters: Spoiler?
• With characters, if it's a post about a character in series 1-3 that is from a source that was recent or just not found before then that wouldn't come under spoilers.
• A post about information on any character (major, minor, regular, irregular, returning, previously believed dead, new) in series 4 would come under spoilers.
Actors: Spoiler?
• Any new guest star or new cast will be marked as a spoiler even when officially announced.
• Entries about an actor who has only been in one episode of the show or whose character died will be posted as a spoiler.
What isn't spoilers for the actor:
• Posts about an actor who is not in the main cast are for the purpose of just the actor and is not meant as any kind of indication that their character will return as no one can be sure who is or isn't returning in the next series. The actors who we are posting about are based on how the last series ended and the regularity of cast members in the show. E.g., if a character was in more than one episode and didn't die, then we will make a post about them (photoshoots, other projects, etc - nothing related to S4).
Actors who come under regularity are:
Emilia Fox (Morgause)
Asa Butterfield (Mordred)
Caroline Faber (Hunith)
Michael Cronin (Geoffrey)
Under series four assumptions:
The knights
• Any regular or recurring characters/actors that die or disappear within a series will still be included in entry posts until said series comes to an end.
We’d like to hear your suggestions and comments on how the comm can be more useful to you. Thank you for visiting the comm! And also thanks to mean_merl, a brilliant co-mod!
Post edit: 17/07/2011 - Future plans (complete)
Post edit: 04/10/2011 - Spoiler Policy (death of a regular/recurring character)
This comm aims to:
• Post information and material about the BBC show Merlin and its cast, including their other projects, that have been recently made publicly available. These include fan reports, reviews, photos and videos taken by fans at events but not works such as fiction, art, compilation of show clips, etc.
• Maintain an easily searchable and retrievable archive
• Be a venue for comments and opinions about the posted material
Here are some features that we hope can be useful to you.
• Filter what comm posts appear on your friends page with only the tags you’re interested in. LJ has recently put in this feature; for more information check the lj_releases post here. We try to post separate news about different actors separately, and we hope that can help in taking advantage of this LJ feature. Sometimes though, if the news comes only in a snippet or a small article, they end up in:
• Update posts: These contain snippets of news that may not be big enough to warrant a separate post, most crew tweets, and notice of updates added to central posts. Updates get posted at 23:59 BST.
• Central posts. Where we put in the news and material related to one event when there is a large amount of them available
Spoiler Policy
Series filming spoilers will be kept behind cuts with a warning of spoilers ahead. If the post contains:
• Casting reveals: An actor who has not previously been in the show or a returning cast role who is not a regular (e.g. Hunith, Mordred, etc.) What is and isn't a actor/character spoiler is elaborated below.
• Character or plot reveals
• Filming locations (this does not include Pierrefonds or studio filming)
• Filming dates
• Set pictures or videos
• Set or screening reports (reports will be linked and only viewable at the users journal)
they will be marked as spoilers and will not be mentioned in the title, tags, or outside a cut. We are also introducing a "no spoilers" tag so that posts can be filtered by you to receive non-spoilery posts :)
Characters: Spoiler?
• With characters, if it's a post about a character in series 1-3 that is from a source that was recent or just not found before then that wouldn't come under spoilers.
• A post about information on any character (major, minor, regular, irregular, returning, previously believed dead, new) in series 4 would come under spoilers.
Actors: Spoiler?
• Any new guest star or new cast will be marked as a spoiler even when officially announced.
• Entries about an actor who has only been in one episode of the show or whose character died will be posted as a spoiler.
What isn't spoilers for the actor:
• Posts about an actor who is not in the main cast are for the purpose of just the actor and is not meant as any kind of indication that their character will return as no one can be sure who is or isn't returning in the next series. The actors who we are posting about are based on how the last series ended and the regularity of cast members in the show. E.g., if a character was in more than one episode and didn't die, then we will make a post about them (photoshoots, other projects, etc - nothing related to S4).
Actors who come under regularity are:
Emilia Fox (Morgause)
Asa Butterfield (Mordred)
Caroline Faber (Hunith)
Michael Cronin (Geoffrey)
Under series four assumptions:
The knights
• Any regular or recurring characters/actors that die or disappear within a series will still be included in entry posts until said series comes to an end.
We’d like to hear your suggestions and comments on how the comm can be more useful to you. Thank you for visiting the comm! And also thanks to mean_merl, a brilliant co-mod!
Post edit: 17/07/2011 - Future plans (complete)
Post edit: 04/10/2011 - Spoiler Policy (death of a regular/recurring character)