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Hey all! Your laaaaazy mod here. I've noticed we've gained a new members within the last few months and it made me realize that a) I haven't said hi to the new peeps yet and b) I've not been good about housekeeping this community.
I posted (oh, AGES ago) about thoughts regarding things such as tags, cuts, and other "rules" of the community since none had been spelled out. As a group, we hashed out some ideas but I never set them down anywhere. Well, now I did. I have updated the community profile with the information we came up with to make using this community the easiest for all participants, and I hope I didn't forget anything or leave anything out. Here is what I've got:
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RULES
There aren't many, but for the ease of usage please follow them.
1. Tag your submissions. There is a selection of tags pre-made that you can use, or create new tags if you are planning on working within a new verse. Tags should include:
~Author
~Characters
~Verse (if applicable)
~Genre
~Rating
2. Use cuts for submissions over 500 words. Multiple posts of lengthy stories can clutter a friend's page, so as a courtesy please put all posts over 500-ish words under a cut.
3. Post directly to the community.Nothing is sadder than losing a fic you loved because the author has deleted their LiveJournal. I can promise you this community will not be deleted until LJ goes down, so please post all fics directly to the community instead of to a personal journal. You CAN of course also post to your personal journals, but no direct linking for the aforementioned reason.
4. Be a community. This covers all general niceties like "no flaming" and "use constructive criticism" and so forth. I trust everyone to behave so I'm not going to explicitly spell out these expectations.
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Now, if there ARE things I forgot to mention or any additional rules you would like to suggest, please leave a comment and we can get a group consensus on that. I really appreciate how easy you all make my "job" as moderator (in that I do practically nothing IMSOSORRY XD) and I really want to make this place as user friendly as possible. Thanks in advance for all your suggestions!
I posted (oh, AGES ago) about thoughts regarding things such as tags, cuts, and other "rules" of the community since none had been spelled out. As a group, we hashed out some ideas but I never set them down anywhere. Well, now I did. I have updated the community profile with the information we came up with to make using this community the easiest for all participants, and I hope I didn't forget anything or leave anything out. Here is what I've got:
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.
.
RULES
There aren't many, but for the ease of usage please follow them.
1. Tag your submissions. There is a selection of tags pre-made that you can use, or create new tags if you are planning on working within a new verse. Tags should include:
~Author
~Characters
~Verse (if applicable)
~Genre
~Rating
2. Use cuts for submissions over 500 words. Multiple posts of lengthy stories can clutter a friend's page, so as a courtesy please put all posts over 500-ish words under a cut.
3. Post directly to the community.Nothing is sadder than losing a fic you loved because the author has deleted their LiveJournal. I can promise you this community will not be deleted until LJ goes down, so please post all fics directly to the community instead of to a personal journal. You CAN of course also post to your personal journals, but no direct linking for the aforementioned reason.
4. Be a community. This covers all general niceties like "no flaming" and "use constructive criticism" and so forth. I trust everyone to behave so I'm not going to explicitly spell out these expectations.
.
.
.
Now, if there ARE things I forgot to mention or any additional rules you would like to suggest, please leave a comment and we can get a group consensus on that. I really appreciate how easy you all make my "job" as moderator (in that I do practically nothing IMSOSORRY XD) and I really want to make this place as user friendly as possible. Thanks in advance for all your suggestions!