Admin
Greetings from your new comm mod :-) flambeau has very kindly added me as an admin, to allow the comm to have an active popslasher mod.
Recently there's been a drop in story announcements on shinyandnew, even though plenty of new stories are being written. shinyandnew is the easiest way to let popslash readers outside your flist know about new stories, and it gives newcomers especially a chance to reach readers and also find material to read. Even though popslash has become a smaller fandom, stories can still get lost in the shuffle. So when you post a new story, please think about letting everyone know here.
And, if you have popslash newcomers on your flist, readers or writers, and you think they don't know about shinyandnew, maybe you could point them this way.
Remember that anyone is welcome to post here, provided that the announcement follows the comm rules:
What to post
Complete stories or complete parts/chapters of series; archive/index updates; challenge pages once the responses are up.
What not to post
Incomplete stories; drafts; drabbles; general site promos; challenge announcements; updates to non-story sites (recs, interviews, etc).
In the spirit of making the comm more current, I wondered how useful people would find a tagging project to make old posts more accessible. It's definitely a big job, but there's a wealth of link to older stories here reaching back to 2001, and no easy way for people to find the links they're interested in.
First of all what kind of a tagging scheme would people find helpful? The most obvious would be by pairings, maybe subdivided by bsb/nsync/other/xover. Would author tags be useful, or are those redundant given that most people archive their stories together anyway? How about genre tags, and if so, what genres would be of interest? Finally, I thought that a tag to indicate broken links might be also useful; maybe people could comments on posts with new links if an archive has moved.
If anyone had any other ideas about how to make the comm more useful for the present-day popslash fandom, please comment.
Recently there's been a drop in story announcements on shinyandnew, even though plenty of new stories are being written. shinyandnew is the easiest way to let popslash readers outside your flist know about new stories, and it gives newcomers especially a chance to reach readers and also find material to read. Even though popslash has become a smaller fandom, stories can still get lost in the shuffle. So when you post a new story, please think about letting everyone know here.
And, if you have popslash newcomers on your flist, readers or writers, and you think they don't know about shinyandnew, maybe you could point them this way.
Remember that anyone is welcome to post here, provided that the announcement follows the comm rules:
What to post
Complete stories or complete parts/chapters of series; archive/index updates; challenge pages once the responses are up.
What not to post
Incomplete stories; drafts; drabbles; general site promos; challenge announcements; updates to non-story sites (recs, interviews, etc).
In the spirit of making the comm more current, I wondered how useful people would find a tagging project to make old posts more accessible. It's definitely a big job, but there's a wealth of link to older stories here reaching back to 2001, and no easy way for people to find the links they're interested in.
First of all what kind of a tagging scheme would people find helpful? The most obvious would be by pairings, maybe subdivided by bsb/nsync/other/xover. Would author tags be useful, or are those redundant given that most people archive their stories together anyway? How about genre tags, and if so, what genres would be of interest? Finally, I thought that a tag to indicate broken links might be also useful; maybe people could comments on posts with new links if an archive has moved.
If anyone had any other ideas about how to make the comm more useful for the present-day popslash fandom, please comment.