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[nopseud]

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

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[withdiamonds]

I myself like author tags, but I'm probably in the minority. Pairing tags would probably make most people happy. A broken links tag would be a great idea.

I don't post here anymore because no one else does, and I never even think about it. So this is good.

[nopseud]

Would it be worthwhile to have multiple types of tags?

I was thinking of something along those lines, yes.

I'm not so sure about genre

I think the problem would be 1) deciding what the genres were, and 2) choosing a genre for the stories. I'd hate for writers to get offended if people tagged their stories with genre labels they didn't like.

I would be happy to join in a tagging project as it would be awesome to be able to look up all those old stories!

Cool! There's seven years worth of posts, so it's going to need a few voluteers I should think.

[pensnest]

I think tags are great; I heartily endorse the idea of tagging by author, and tagging for as many things as possible. Which of course makes it a pain when someone (like me!) insists on posting a Whole Bunch of stories instead of updating one at a time, but never mind. Broken links tags would be very handy, too.

Perhaps the genre tags could only be applied if the author has specified ('crack' would often be indicated, I think) or self-tagged.

I'll volunteer to help with tagging.

[bubbleforest]

I'll be happy to help with tagging if needed. It's so nice to see someone shaking the dust off this community and doing something with it, hopefully everyone will remember to post here more now. :)

[nopseud]

I'll be happy to help with tagging if needed.

Excellent!

I do hope usage of the comm picks up. I think it just slid out of people's minds over time.

[rikes]

I quite like the pairing, author and broken link tags.

As for genre though - I don't think popslash stories have traditionally been labelled for genre, so I don't know if even authors themselves would know how to tag that, let alone other people. Except for the obvious "crack" and "AU", but everything else is kind of... not standardized?

[nopseud]

but everything else is kind of... not standardized?

Yes, I agree. And to be honest, I'm not even sure that people could agree on definitions for crack and AU. I suppose it might still be useful to some people as an optional thing, though. (I admit, I just want an easier way to find the porn. I'm lazy like that :-)

[topaz119]

I think this is marvelous; I've missed having some place central like this. And I heartily endorse the tagging project--author, pairing/group, and rating especially. (I, too, like the easy access to the pr0n, but I also would love to see all of an author's postings, especially if their site is gone and I'm trying to hunt something down by way of the wayback machine.)

[nopseud]

I think this is marvelous; I've missed having some place central like this.

Cool!

You raise an interesting point with the Wayback Machine. I don't know whether it would be acceptable to provide direct links to IA entries when the primary page has gone.