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Proposed Parameters
I have gathered some proposed parameters for this community from various messages. This should be useful for filling in the community profile page.
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Resources: The Parthians
Historically, the Parthians stood between China and Italy. They controlled the middle of the Silk Road. Recently marina_bonomi and I got to talking about them, regarding their role in historic-time and allied-time. So I looked up some of the resources they had.
Their main strength and main weakness is the same thing, plain old geopolitics. Because they're ( Read more... ) -
List of Unpublished Poems for Contributors Only
I discovered that LiveJournal's custom locking feature doesn't work in communities, only private journals. So I posted my unpublished Silk Road Allies poems there, locked for contributors only. We can use this list here in the community to keep track of poems that have been written but not published, so that we can still read them for series ( Read more... ) -
Poem: "The Treasures of Marco Polo"
This poem came out of the July 3, 2012 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired and sponsored by marina_bonomi. It was first published in The Wordsmith's Forge. Notably this poem does not conflict with historic-time; the version in allied-time simply adds specific details about certain objects documented among Marco Polo's property, for which he never supplied ( Read more... ) -
Sample Online Community Parameters
Continuing with my collection of materials useful for community startup, I offer this batch of sample parameters ( Read more... ) -
What Makes a Community Successful (Or Not)
I'm going to post some of my gathered materials about community function, so that we can discuss which items might be useful to borrow for silkroadallies.
In my experience, the following features tend to make a community more successful:
- Revolving posts that invite members to discuss a topic of perennial interest, such as "What have you written this week?"
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