Checking for your old request subject lines using nifty new search tool

[court1429.livejournal.com]

There's a new community tool available: Sort by Poster

From Last Week's LJ News: Have you ever read an awesome entry in a community that left you longing to read more of that user's posts? Now you can view entries by a particular user in a community by appending "?poster=exampleusername" to the end of the community's URL.

As an example, clicking on http://community.livejournal.com/getithere/?poster=court1429 will bring up every post I've made in this comm.

Here's the favor part. ;) You know we're sticklers for subject lines around here to help make searching and tagging more efficient, but that's only been happening for the past year or so. If you know you've requested fics in the earlier days of the comm, if you'd do us the grand favor of copying and pasting the above link into a browser window and substituting your user name for mine, you could very easily take a look at your old requests and edit any that are missing detailed subject lines. This will be such a huge help as we continue tagging backwards.

Oh! And if you're willing to look back through your old posts, if you notice that you got responses for fics that were on bjfic.net and you know of new, working links for your requested fic, if you'd edit in the new linkage, too, that'd be extra fab!

Comments

[kiddoditto.livejournal.com]

hey, this is great, i found old posts than i made...

i just added missing subject lines

[court1429.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! This new feature makes it very convenient.

[oh-amelia.livejournal.com]

Done! I got the subject lines of my entries changed, but I was unable to fix the ones for the bjfic.net site.

[court1429.livejournal.com]

Thanks! You mean you don't know new links or you couldn't edit your actual post?

[oh-amelia.livejournal.com]

I don't know any new links.

[court1429.livejournal.com]

Even though there are secondary links for a lot of fics, there are still ones that aren't available. Thanks for checking, though.

[pfodge.livejournal.com]

This is a very handy tool. I found a few of mine that did not have subject lines. Now fixed.

[court1429.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Patty!

[edom56.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a plan, when will the link be available, do you know?

Just read the other replies and found out it's working new *head/desk*

Went back and changed all my own posts :)

[court1429.livejournal.com]

lol The long-form link works, but I took their reference to mean there would be some sort of visible *something* to actually click on. Maybe like when you hover over a person's user name or, I dunno... *something*!

i'm going to speshul hell

[sidhe-arien.livejournal.com]

I just did this and am appalled at the number of entries I had to correct the subject lines. *iz a bad person* :X

Re: i'm going to speshul hell

[court1429.livejournal.com]

Well, you'll have plenty of company! I combed the "month view" in the Archives and did mine last year sometime after we made it a rule that posts have to have subject lines. I had quite a few to correct, too. This new link thingy makes it much easier!

Re: i'm going to speshul hell

[sidhe-arien.livejournal.com]

I guess I should also go back and tag the entries, too. There were a some from a couple of years ago that weren't.

Re: i'm going to speshul hell

[court1429.livejournal.com]

I've been going to do that with my old ones, too, and now there's no excuse at all.

Re: i'm going to speshul hell

[vlredreign.livejournal.com]

I suck. I haven't done this yet. God.

I'm the worst mod in the history of mod-dom. *hangs head*

[balrogtweety.livejournal.com]

I think this is a grand thing to use. This will make it easier for some of us to see if we posted that comment before.

[court1429.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's going to be very handy!

[brianswalk.livejournal.com]

Done!

I wasn't certain if you wanted subject lines to name the found fic or leave it as a description. I'd be happy to change any of mine that were requests for certain fics.

Also, didn't know if you wanted pointless posts deleted. This one here http://community.livejournal.com/getithere/257254.html turned into a "me too" fest, and the instigating comment isn't even there any more.

[court1429.livejournal.com]

I tend to think descriptions are more useful, but if the request is just for one fic and there's room for both, that'd be fine.

I'm totally fine with deleting pointless posts. I do it a lot when I'm tagging and find ones similar to your example.

Thanks for checking your posts. This'll work well for drabylon, too, if you just get in the mood to read a bunch of drabbles by one person.

[masterglory.livejournal.com]

Wow, this is a very useful thing!!!

I've just edited three posts of mine *hides*, thank you!!!:)

[court1429.livejournal.com]

Thank YOU for editing. It's a handy little tool, isn't it?

[masterglory.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's pretty perfect and give us the chance to feel this amazing comm a little bit...ours;) *hugs you tight*

[marilla-pm67.livejournal.com]

Hello,
Do you mind if I make a post with a link to my fics? so you can reference them in the tag?
sam.

[court1429.livejournal.com]

Sam - this is a really good idea! vlredreign, sidhe_arien and I are talking right now about how to implement this idea. We think it would be really useful. Clarify for me, please, if the link you're talking about is an actual fic index link?

A real index is going to be the way to go, if we do this. As opposed to just a jumbled up Memories page link, you know? You can PM me the link.

[marilla-pm67.livejournal.com]

I'll send you a Pm

sam