Housekeeping Update

[seanmegansean.livejournal.com]

Hi everyone – hope your New Year's was a great one, and that you're determined to read as much fic as last year ;)

There are a few things I'd like to mention - as part of my New Year's resolutions if you like :)

1) The rules will remain as they were. Thank you everyone who voted in that poll the other day, especially those who took the time to comment on it. It is much appreciated :)

2) Those comments also gave me the idea to make better use of the memories function. I’ve started to go through the entries under the found it! tag and put them into the memories (links to which you can find here at the top of the page, here, and on the profile page).

There are 214 entries using that tag already, and I'm afraid putting them all in the memories will take quite a while. So please be patient. Also, please don't kill me if I use a wrong category once in a while - naturally, I am not familiar with all the fics that are found so I mostly work from comments and descriptions. Should there be a mistake, just let me know (seanmegansean at livejournal dot com) and I'll be happy to rectify whatever it is :)

Now, as much as I try to keep my own view of QaF out of this community, I should probably say that I consider B/J canon, i.e. usually all the categories mean "B/J with (kids), in (season 2)...". So, while there is a B/M category in the memories, I will also always call B/M fics AU or AR. Just FYI ;)


AR (canon conditions up to a certain episode, then deviating from canon)
AU (more or less IC characters in a non-canon setting)
HS AU
B/M
s1
s2
s3
s4
s5
post-513
future fic
kids (Gus, Jenny Rebecca, Elliott, etc)
older!Justin
holiday
raw
special occasion (e.g. birthdays)
gapfiller
angst (only if specifically mentioned in the post)
death!fic
h/c (hurt/comfort)
humor
mpreg
misc. (anything else/fic I don't know where else to put it)

I'm sure I'll come up with a lot more as I go along, but feel free to tell me about additions to these you might find helpful :D

3) Last but not least: In case you should be bored sometimes/are not sure what you're looking for, the found recs/seeking recs tag might be a good place to start looking. Just saying :D

Happy Hunting everyone! And a healthy and successful 2007! (yes, in that order :P)
SMS

Comments

[switch842.livejournal.com]

Thanks for all your hard work on this comm. I know I've come back here many times when bored and feel like I've read everything to see what other people rec. I've found some really good stories that way. Keep up the good work! :-)

[seanmegansean.livejournal.com]

Thank YOU. And you're welcome. I've found quite a few wonderful recs here myself :D

I'm glad you're having fun reading the posts/stories. That's what it's all about :)

[gander123.livejournal.com]

I second the above thanks. I check every day (usually many times) and almost always find something new I want to read. Again thanks for all your work and know that it is appreciated.

[seanmegansean.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much. And you're welcome. I'm so happy this comm is part of your daily QaF routine :)

[court1429.livejournal.com]

Thanks, SMS! And I just knew the day would come when I'd need to learn tags... ;\

[seanmegansean.livejournal.com]

You're welcome, Courtney. And the tags really shouldn't be a problem. As far as your (or anybody's) posts to this comm are concerned, you have nothing to worry about - I will add the tags some time after you posted, depending on the outcome of your request (found it!, no one's found it, etc). And if you're "just" a reader, all you have to do is just click on the tag and all the other posts with the same tag will appear. So unless I am missing something vital about tags (and let's hope I'm not lol), I think it's fairly simple and shouldn't be a problem for you at all ;)

[court1429.livejournal.com]

Great. I know how to search by tags, just have never bothered to learn how to add tags. And since you're going to add them here, I guess I can put off learning them for awhile longer! lol

[seanmegansean.livejournal.com]

LOL Yes you can postpone learning about them, but it's really not that big a deal. Just under your LJ entry mask, directly over the mood bar/box is the one for tags. You just type in whatever you want, post and boom, there you go - a tag of your very own ;) If you want different tags, just divide them by commas. And if you want to add a tag to an already posted entry, you can either work from the row of buttons at the top of each post (where you have the delete, the add-to-memory, previous/next post buttons), or you go to MANAGE-->TAGS on your LJ start page. That should work as well :)

[bodleian.livejournal.com]

I want to say thank-you also for the work that you do here. I use the requests made by others to find stories to read. So, from a happy reader - thanks.

[seanmegansean.livejournal.com]

You are very welcome. I'm glad you're happy - happy readers are my favorite kind :D

[cabtastic.livejournal.com]

You rock! ♥♥♥

[seanmegansean.livejournal.com]

:D Thank you.

And right back atcha ♥ Hope RL is treating you kindly :)

[cabtastic.livejournal.com]

RL is not treating me kindly at the moment, but I will soon beat it back into submission. ;) I hope RL is treating you kindly!

[seanmegansean.livejournal.com]

:D Thank you, RL is not really kicking me right now, it's just a *lot* you know? But manageable, so it's all good :)

Here's to you showing RL where it belongs *gets out flogger, crop and paddle* ;)