Mod post

[seanmegansean.livejournal.com]

Hello, everyone :D

There's a few things I'd like to mention:

1) I remember coming to LJ and not having any clue as to what editing meant, but it really is very simple. And I wanted to suggest that those of you who do not know how it works use their own private LJ to practice. Really, nothing is easier than editing a post ;)

So, you go to said post you want to edit, click on the comments or the LJ-cut (cause that way you’re really *inside* the post) and you will see a row of buttons on the top – a green arrow for the previous entry, the little heart with the plus to add an entry to your memories, the little pencil to edit something, the tag button (which you really don’t need to worry about in this comm, as adding tags is usually my job :D) the tracking button to stay on top of things, and another green arrow for the next entry.

Not surprisingly, it’s the little pencil that does the trick if you want to edit a post :) So, you click on that thing --> , the original mask you wrote your entry in will pop up again and you will be able to change whatever it is you want to change. Then you click on “save entry” at the bottom and you’re done! Ta Da! :)

Really, give it a try. It's a snap ;D


2) Please keep in mind that this is a community to look for things related to QaF. It is NOT a place to rec your personal favorites. I know the difference can be hard to see sometimes, since more fic is usually better than less fic, but still – there is a difference between a post about, say, Gus!fic, which actually lists ten or more fic which were found in a private journal, and a post just *linking* to another journal. Just as much a difference as there is between a post reccing five gapfillers from 203 and a post just reccing everything that ever came to mind. Again, I understand if you disagree about the distinctions, but I’d like to keep all the entries in here SPECIFIC, and you know, in HERE.


3) What we can do though, and I'd love to hear opinions on that one, is to have
a) either some permanent links with general fic recs on the comm's profile page, or,
b) one big post in here, to which everybody could post their general links and favorite fic in the comments. I'd appreciate any input :D



Last, but not least - a reminder of another kind :D
*All* the tags can be found here.
All the found it! tags are here - and will probably be listed in the memories, too, at some point. Really, I'm getting there :P
A link to said memories.
And as good a start as any for those days without fic, the found recs/seeking recs tag.
Enjoy!


Thanks for listening, and happy hunting, everyone :D
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Comments

[court1429.livejournal.com]

One thing that I think would be useful for searching would be to expand the tags and the Memories section to topics rather than just found it. Which creates a bunch more work for you, I know. :-( (Though I'd be willing to help, if you'd like.)

Not every request would necessarily fit into an easily defined topic, but a lot would. And a lot of the requests are repeated frequently and/or are category/topic requests (like my voyeur request awhile back).

Just thinking back on requests I remember reading I'd like to see Tags/Memories categories for Gapfillers by Season/Ep, cancer!fic, hurt/sick!Brian, hurt/sick!Justin, amnesia!fic, post-513 (might be a little broad), married/rings, death fic, minor character death fic, mpreg, B/J with kids, anti-Mikey, BDSM, Brian/Em, Justin/Ben, AU-canon friendly, AR (B/J meet differently, are in different professions, live in a different time, reversed ages, etc.), evil Ethan, holiday fic, super-schmoop, voyeur/others' pov, 3some/4some/moresome, crossover, high school/college, epic/novel length fics... I'm sure other people could suggest more categories.

Re the recs: I know there are several authors/LJers who keep recs in their memories, though how current they are I don't know. I just happened to see darksylvia's recs at her leahclaire website in the last day or so and I know other folks have them, too. Doesn't potentiial have a huge rec list? There's a princesskirsty posting recs, too. qafhappy has big two posts of fics. These are as subjective as the other rec comms in that it's just one person's opinion, I know. and it still doesn't answer the question about where to direct people to post recs, but there could be a categoy in the Memories for Recs and folks' lists could be linked there, perhaps.

/ramble :)

[seanmegansean.livejournal.com]

Due to time constraints and practicality, I'm not a big fan of extending the number of tags. OTOH, we might add some more categories in the memories. Although I also see the problem of having too much of a good thing. There's about thirty categories so far, so there's some room for more, but I think anything from fifty onwards will be none too helpful in the long run.

Lots of the categories you mention are already there yet though. I do like the epic/novel length, the sick!B/J (so far under h/c), anti-Mikey, evil Ethan, super-schmoop, 3some/4some/orgy, and a few others, the BIG problem with all and any of those categories is that I do not know all the fics though. And they hardly ever name all of the aspects for me to be able to tell into which categories they belong. Plus, there's a limit of five memory tags to attach to an entry in the first place.

Having said all that, would you be interested in taking care of the memories for getithere? I can tell you though that it is a lot of work lol. One thing which would make you more suited to it than me, is that you've read far more fic than I have though. So there would be fewer mistakes if you did it - never a bad thing ;D

Let me know what you think. No pressure or anything;) If you agree, all I have to do is figure out how to make you a maintainer (which will probably last a while anyway, seeing how LJ savvy I am LOL). We would have to talk about the AR category, too - I'm afraid I've been using that in a quite different sense.

[court1429.livejournal.com]

*iz embarrassed* I hadn't looked at the Memories in a long time. You do have a bunch of those categories already on there. Sorry. ;\

No biggie about AU/AR. I only found out they were separate in some people's opinions when bjfic.net changed hands. I'd never heard of AR before. And I don't really use it, but I know some folks do. And I certainly won't swear (or even pretend) that my definition is correct. Generally speaking, I don't read and have zero interest in anything that is more than a veer from canon. What some folks are now referring to as "what if" fic.

If we can figure out a good way for me to help, I'd be happy to. Another thing that *might* work, because, like you, I haven't read all the fic (and won't read a lot of it), is when you ask people to edit their post with Found It, to also edit with what Memories category(ies) their fic should be in. Maybe...