Comm business
Mar. 2nd, 2019 02:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trobadoraBack in December when we set up ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
sid_guardian, we (china_shop and trobadora) talked about what kind of comm to make it, and we decided on a noticeboard format for various reasons. Partly that was our own modding and fannish preferences, and partly it was the size of the fandom, its closed canon, and the fact that the fandom could only grow if people heard about it. We felt that if people posted on their own journals rather than directly to the comm, other people would more easily stumble across it and get sucked into the joyful wonder of Guardian.
Well, that last part has worked out spectacularly! Because we also thought it would be great if we reached twenty subscribers, and now there's nearly five times as many of us, and things are buzzing, and we're super-happy about all of it! *showers everyone with happy sparkles, truly*
We wantedsid_guardian to be a place where we can all find each other, organise things together, tell each other about fanworks, and to try to make sense of the ... more oblique parts of our wonderful canon(s). *g* It's really useful to have a central place for that!
As a noticeboard,sid_guardian welcomes links, short meta discussions/questions, resources, news about the actors and their other projects, and all that jazz, as well as fandom activities like challenges, exchanges, etc! (You can see our guidelines on the profile page.) And we mods are planning a couple of activities ourselves - a friending meme to celebrate when we reach 100 subscribers (not that we're compulsively refreshing the profile page or anything!), and a small fanworks exchange to celebrate 520 Day (May 20th, which is celebrated like Valentine's Day in China).
Over the last couple of days, there's been some discussion about the fact that Guardian fandom lacks a general comm where people can post and hold discussions, if they don't want to post or congregate on their own journals, so we've been talking about it a lot, and we're thinking of expanding the comm guidelines in that direction - basically, removing the "link, don't post" rule. (Though don't stop telling your circles about Guardian! Lure EVERYONE into this fandom! We have dark energy and lollipops! *evil cackle*)
Anyway, before we make any changes, we wanted to run this by everyone first. Anything we're overlooking? Any objections?
(Note that we still won't allow links to locked posts. We think it's important lurkers or people who don't want to ask for access can still see things! So this expansion of the guidelines is in part a workaround for people who routinely keep their journals locked down; you can either post or crosspost to the comm instead/as well.)
sid_guardian, we (china_shop and trobadora) talked about what kind of comm to make it, and we decided on a noticeboard format for various reasons. Partly that was our own modding and fannish preferences, and partly it was the size of the fandom, its closed canon, and the fact that the fandom could only grow if people heard about it. We felt that if people posted on their own journals rather than directly to the comm, other people would more easily stumble across it and get sucked into the joyful wonder of Guardian. Well, that last part has worked out spectacularly! Because we also thought it would be great if we reached twenty subscribers, and now there's nearly five times as many of us, and things are buzzing, and we're super-happy about all of it! *showers everyone with happy sparkles, truly*
We wanted
sid_guardian to be a place where we can all find each other, organise things together, tell each other about fanworks, and to try to make sense of the ... more oblique parts of our wonderful canon(s). *g* It's really useful to have a central place for that!As a noticeboard,
sid_guardian welcomes links, short meta discussions/questions, resources, news about the actors and their other projects, and all that jazz, as well as fandom activities like challenges, exchanges, etc! (You can see our guidelines on the profile page.) And we mods are planning a couple of activities ourselves - a friending meme to celebrate when we reach 100 subscribers (not that we're compulsively refreshing the profile page or anything!), and a small fanworks exchange to celebrate 520 Day (May 20th, which is celebrated like Valentine's Day in China).Over the last couple of days, there's been some discussion about the fact that Guardian fandom lacks a general comm where people can post and hold discussions, if they don't want to post or congregate on their own journals, so we've been talking about it a lot, and we're thinking of expanding the comm guidelines in that direction - basically, removing the "link, don't post" rule. (Though don't stop telling your circles about Guardian! Lure EVERYONE into this fandom! We have dark energy and lollipops! *evil cackle*)
Anyway, before we make any changes, we wanted to run this by everyone first. Anything we're overlooking? Any objections?
(Note that we still won't allow links to locked posts. We think it's important lurkers or people who don't want to ask for access can still see things! So this expansion of the guidelines is in part a workaround for people who routinely keep their journals locked down; you can either post or crosspost to the comm instead/as well.)
