Mod Post: not so much a hard rule as an emphatic suggestion
Hi, everyone. First of all, the mod would like to apologize for being largely absent from doing anything useful around this comm for ages due to one hiatus after another (and sometimes straight-up laziness). I'm glad to see how much bigger the tag roster has become since the last time we had a mod post! I'll be cleaning it up shortly to merge any duplicates. [ETA: And done.] Creating new tags is still open to everyone so, for that reason, please make sure that the tag you want to create doesn't already exist before posting.
Other than that, there is one issue I never thought to address in the community rules that's just come to my attention. It concerns the use of warnings. Perhaps a little belatedly, I would like to make clear that the only thing you're actually required to warn for in this comm is triggering material (typical examples of this include sexual assault, torture, extreme violence, hate-motivated crimes, traumatic experiences, etc.). What should generally not be included among such warnings is slash, femslash, and other GLBTQ-related things.
The reasoning behind this rule/request is that the connotations of the word "warning" are negative, and so warning for slash implies that there's something negative about slash itself. (I fully understand that [general] you may not intend it to mean such, but that doesn't change the fact that the negative connotation of the term "warning" exists and is offensive in relation to sexuality or gender.) If you want to be extra-clear about what your post contains, please do not lump the slash together with the actually warn-worthy stuff and mention it in a neutral section like "author's notes" or something along those lines.
This may seem like a minor thing to some, but there's a lot to be said for not encouraging the cultural mindset in which non-hetero pairings are stigmatized as something to warn for. Not to mention that GLBTQ people in fandom might easily feel alienated by being made the subject of warnings (I know I do, but that's beside the point as this is a broad issue).
Thank you for your time.
PS: As always, feel free to comment on this post with anything else you might want to bring up that's relevant to the comm.