getithere | Entries tagged with mod post: rules

I've been a little lax in my duties lately it seems, and rather than comment to months-old posts asking people to edit their subject lines, I just thought I'd do a friendly reminder for in future post.

Please put a very brief description or a specific detail you can remember of the fic (or whatever) you are looking for in the subject line of your post. (If you actually know the name of the fic/vid/etc., of course please put that.) It's much more helpful and attention-grabbing to people searching the comm than a generic "looking for fic" or "help" plea.

Thanks everyone! Glad to see people using the comm! Blklizard, you're still a treasure! :)

wouldbedorothy.livejournal.com

Hello, lovelies!

A recent incident with comments coming up screened made your mods realize that we needed a new rule (one we actually thought we had already). I've added it to the profile page, and it reads as follows:

Do not post from your own journal; come to GIH and post DIRECTLY to the comm. We ask this because posting from your own LJ means you are posting using your own settings, and can therefore cause issues such as locked posts, screened comments, weird fonts/colors, etc., which we then either have to fix or ask you to fix. Let's save us all some time, 'kay?

Don't worry, we're not going to kick ya out if you forget, or even yell lol. We do realize many of you may be used to posting from your LJ, but please make your best effort to remember the new rule. After all, why wouldn't you want to come here? ;)

Much appreciated,
Dot, Red, and Court

ETA: Making this post sticky for a bit because I don't think everyone got a chance to see it.

court1429.livejournal.com

Well, it's 5,082 posts now... :) Gotta say that today's now-deleted post is the first of its kind that we've ever seen in this community. And dickish as it was, one post out of 5000+ is not even a blip on the meter.

For those who didn't see the post and wonder what's up, someone who rounded up a bunch of fics that are no longer available for sharing in this community, decided she'd create a new username expressly to upload said fics to an individual 4Shared page and then posted the link here in the comm.

As we've said repeatedly, what anybody chooses to save to their own hard drive and share privately is not and cannot be any of our business, but *in this community*, we go by the rules that have been posted. There aren't many, but one rule that is if an author ever notifies the maintainers that they have pulled their fics and they ask specifically that sharing *within the comm* be disallowed, we will abide by that author's request.

So far, the only author who's done so is

jans_intentions.

niquita_gia is the author who notified us today of this now-deleted post and has made a similar request regarding her fic, which we will honor.

As far as Carly's "That Darn Gus" fic, no such request has been made. Apparently, she posted her fics to bjfic.net and they were made unavailable because that archive has been dead for over 18 months now and the current owner chooses not to release it for someone else to step up and maintain. But if the archive came back online, that fic and many others would be available once more.

This should answer any questions regarding the wee bit of drama that is now over and done with. Carry on reading and searching and being the awesome comm members that you all are!

court1429.livejournal.com

A reminder to Posters and Fic-Offering Commenters: Posters, whenever someone offers to email you a fic, *please* immediately update your entry to ask that anyone else who wants the fic to PM or email you or the commenter instead of "me, too, please"-ing in the comments. And Commenters, when you offer to email, please remember to add in your comment that if anyone else would like a copy, to PM or email you for it.

Red and I don't ask this to be all strict and bitchy, but to save ourselves from having to read 76 or 37 or however many "me, too" requests there are JUST to make sure there's no wankery happening. Even when we're not actively chiming in, you may be certain that we read each post and each comment. Plus, you know, I get all bummed out when I think there are going to be a ton of recs for fic and *maybe* there will be a few I haven't yet read! only to find it's requests for emailed copies. ;(

This is an almost 100% wank-free community and we sincerely appreciate everyone's efforts at keeping the comm such a friendly and helpful place, but on rare occasions, a comment is posted that another person takes exception to and then others might jump in and then: wank and hurt feelings. Again, hardly ever, but we still have to make sure of it. Thanks in advance for helping us out with this.

vlredreign.livejournal.com

Once more, I'm going to remind people of the rules here.

( Cut for length )

vlredreign.livejournal.com

( Step inside )

seanmegansean.livejournal.com

Hello, everyone!

I'm afraid this is one of those 'reminder' posts ;)

1) Please read the rules before posting.

2) Please edit your post once whatever it is you were looking for is found.

3) Please check the memories before you make a more general request for fic recs.

Also, I'd really appreciate it if you didn't change the settings when you post. There usually isn't any reason to friends-lock your post, and there is absolutely no good reason to screen comments (in fact, it's quite contra-productive to your goals and more work than it should be for the other members of this comm). Disabling comments altogether doesn't make any sense at all and might result in my not reacting to it too nicely.

All the memories (825 entries right now) are here, but there's also a link to them on the profile page and one on the top of the page here. Links to some of the more popular genres are there as well. Hope that helps :D

Since RL was crazy busy the last 10 days, I'm about 30 entries behind on the tagging and adding to the memories, but I should be caught up on that later today or tomorrow at the latest.

Happy Hunting, everyone :D

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seanmegansean.livejournal.com

and fanwork only is what you can look for in this comm.

You do that in one post. Once you find the fic or vid or header or icon or archive site you were looking for, you edit that original post to tell the others (you might even want to say thank you to whoever it is that helped you).

Not that difficult really. So if you have any questions about this, questions that aren't covered by the rules on the info page or the post I did less than 48 hours ago, I'm happy to answer them all. At seanmegansean at livejournal dot com or in the comments here (which are screened).

Thank you.

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seanmegansean.livejournal.com

RL was a bit busier than usual, so I'm a bit behind with the tagging right now. However, I thought a reminded of the rules might be good :D

1) Please only post here when you are looking for fanwork. If you are looking for original pictures, music, episodes, etc. comms like

picquest,

queerasfolkfans,

whatsup_qaf,

babylonvip, etc are the places to post.

2) Please edit the post once you found what you were looking for. Not only with found fics, but also with info about authors, sites, anything that might be of interest to the other members.

3) Please try to be as specific as you can. If you're looking for a genre or something else more general, please check the memories before you post.

4) Do not repeat your requests too soon if nobody's found anything. Also, try to look at least through the last 20 entries before you request anything. Nobody likes too many repeats.

5) Long posts belong behind an LJ-cut.

Oh, and just a small detail, but I'd love it if you could undo any strike out tags you might have used in your posts. I know they are quite handy if your posts contain more than one request, but it's just easier to read the descriptions when they are gone again at some point ;D

That's all for now. Thanks for listening. As always, if there are questions, complaints or concrit, feel free to email me at seanmegansean at livejournal dot com.

Happy Hunting!

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seanmegansean.livejournal.com

I just wanted to remind everyone that flaming (of posts, comments, taste in fic, etc) will not be tolerated in this comm. Usually, I will just delete or screen clearly offensive comments, but if I see that somebody's doing it more than once, I might just ban that user from posting here altogether. As you can probably imagine, I'm not too keen on keeping track of people or deleting entries, so I'd truly appreciate it if we could just all go back to looking for fics or fanwork. Which is, after all, what we are here for.

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Happy Hunting, everyone :D

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seanmegansean.livejournal.com

Hello :D

Just a quick reminder of the RULES. Yes, I'm a party pooper. Anyway...

Your searches should be specific. And I know that (sometimes) it can be really hard to tell just what exactly is meant by that.

( YES or NO - not at all complete )

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seanmegansean.livejournal.com

Hello, everyone :D

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

1) ( please read this when you’re a LJ newbie :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.

( a compromise maybe?? )

( Some handy links )

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

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seanmegansean.livejournal.com

Just a friendly reminder that you please edit your posts once you've found your fics, vids, pics, etc with the info you asked for, or the link.

There are quite a lot of members who skim the archives to find fic - and it just makes it a lot easier for everybody if you actually edit your (successful) post. Not every post turns up the fic or vid you were looking for, so it'd be nice to tell the other members if it's worth checking out the comments or not.

Meaning,
If you were looking for a genre or something else "more general", or for whatever reasons got more than three links, you don't have to link to all of them separately of course (I'm not a slave driver), HOWEVER, an ETA saying there *are* links in the comments would still be nice!

Thanks :D
SMS

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seanmegansean.livejournal.com

Hello everyone,

Just a quick „hi“ to tell you that
1) I’m ~~almost done~~ getting settled in, and
2) I’m not planning to make any changes.

The rules will stay the same and I’m going to re-post them, just in case :D ( Rules - please read )

Please take note of Rule#1 in particular – your searches should be specific! This is a community to look for something you can’t find again on your own/icons from a specific scene/to ask if the very specific scenario you’d like to read is out there/etc., NOT a “Please rec me some good fic, I’m bored” community. There are other places for those :)

See, that’s everything from me for now... not too bad I hope. Bottom line, stick to the rules and you won’t even know I’m here ;P

Of course, if you have any suggestions, questions or complaints, please feel free to email me at seanmegansean at livejournal dot com.

Happy hunting!
SMS