Mod Post: Tags and Interests

[everysecondtuesday]

Welcome to genspn!

This comm is under construction. everysecondtuesday will be gone off and on this weekend, but lizfu will be around through Sunday, and everysecondtuesday will be back by that evening. In the meantime, we want to gather ideas for tags and interests. If there's anything you think we're missing, speak up! This post is one that is open forever.

Later posts will discuss changing the headers to better match the needs of the comm, our spoiler policy, and much, much more, but we're trying to divide the work into manageable steps. If you notice any immediate and major problems with our bio and policies, feel free to poke us here, but the main topic of discussion we're looking for is what you'd love to see not already listed in our interests and what you would find most useful for tagging.

General tagging we're considering: characters; ratings; word counts; author, vidder, artist, etc. tags for people with three or more posts; type (AU, crossover, pie or Impala love, whatever you'd like to suggest here); medium (fic, vid, art, meta, discussion, icons, etc.). Any tag category you'd like to add? Specific tags for the type category? (Yes, lizfu, "type: pie love" will be a tag.) Disagreement with the proposed three or more posts rule? Thoughts on whether authors, vidders, artists, and so on should be divided up into categories, or all together under the umbrella tag "creators: [username]" so a person's fan art and vids aren't separated? What intervals should be used for word count?

The floor is open for all discussion and suggestions! everysecondtuesday has a strange, near-disturbing love for tagging and digital organization, so feel free to talk as much as you'd like to her about this.

This is a test post of what tagging could look like if we go for the umbrella creators tags and if the intervals of the word count tags were based off Tuesday's personal fic Delicious tags. everysecondtuesday will take no offense if you find these intervals useless for your needs and want to do something else.

Comments

[polarisnorth]

I thought I could start things off with a recs post, if we're open for business? Should I just tag it 'recs' (and then add the relevant character/type tags)?

[everysecondtuesday]

I'm not sure if you can make a tag or not. I know on LJ admins had to create tags before people could use them. If you don't mind being a test subject, see if you can tag it "medium: recs"?

[polarisnorth]

Argh, I am having formatting trouble. How do you link to someone's dreamwidth username as opposed to their LJ username?

Also, tags I am using for this post:

characters: dean winchester, characters: sam winchester, type: crossover, character: castiel, character: gabriel, medium: recs, character: bobby singer

[everysecondtuesday]

How do you link to someone's dreamwidth username as opposed to their LJ username?

Replacing [] with <>, [user="username"]

If you want to link to someone on another site like AO3 or LJ, use [user="username" site="site address"]

Do you want to add word count? I was thinking intervals along the lines of

* word count:1-1,000
* word count:1,001-3,000
* word count:3,001-5,000
* word count:5,001-7,500
* word count:7,501-10,000
* word count:10,001-15,000
* word count:15,001-20,000
* word count:20,001-40,000
* word count:40,001-80,000
* word count:80,000+

IDEK. I'm curious as to opinions on this.

[polarisnorth]

It's still not working! I'm about ready to cry with frustration. I tried it the way you said but I get the "invalid markup" thing going.

I don't tag fic by wordcount (or rating), so I don't know, but if you or someone else wants to add them, that's cool.

[everysecondtuesday]

Ah, I didn't mean you needed to tag the post for the word count of the fic you were recommending. I'm sick and had a spacey moment and thought you were posting meta, and I was all, "Hmm, it would be awesome to have both meta and fic tagged by word count." It took getting this comment to remember you're posting recs. *facepalm* Have a link to the relevant fac page for linking usernames. I hope that helps!

[polarisnorth]

Okay, I got everything fixed... and now it's not letting me post to the comm. *cries*

[everysecondtuesday]

It says you have posting access. Try taking out the tags (copy them into another file) and see if that lets you post?

[polarisnorth]

Still not working. FML FML FML.

[everysecondtuesday]

Hm, this is a point where I wish I had a sock puppet to try a test post. I'm going to briefly make you an administrator and see if that lets you post.

Try it now?

[polarisnorth]

No, it is just not fucking working. I'm going to reboot my computer, and if that doesn't work I'm throwing in the towel for tonight.

[everysecondtuesday]

:(

I hope the reboot works for you!

[polarisnorth]

No. D: I have no idea what the problem is.

[polarisnorth]

And I double checked-- I'm not having any trouble posting to my own journal. I just can't seem to post to the comm.

[everysecondtuesday]

Hey, get on aim?

[everysecondtuesday]

Oh my gosh, I am so fail. That should've been [user name="username"] (replacing [] with <>), not user="". Have I mentioned that I am sick and spacey? FML.

[sophinisba]

Hi! This is actually something that's up to the admin on both LJ and Dreamwidth. If you go to the manage tags page and then choose genspn it'll let you set the security level of who can tag posts.

[everysecondtuesday]

Thank you so much! *wanders over to do so*

[everysecondtuesday]

*laughs* A) You are an admin and have just as much control as I do B) I opened tag creation to all members C) It already exists D) YAY ART

We apparently have an accidental extra tag, though, so this was very helpful in getting me to check and realize that.

[lizfu]

I noticed that there were more tags after I posted this ;_; The tags listed on the side aren't all of them (which is weird, because some of those tags haven't even been used yet, so why are they considered "popular"?)

And then I deleted my comment in shame.

*goes to hide. in a corner. with her tears. SEE WHAT YOU'VE DONE.*

[everysecondtuesday]

Aww, bb, you know I love you best.

Query

[somnolentblue]

Greetings!

I'm starting up a community for comment-sized Supernatural fanworks, spn_bitesized, and I was wondering about affiliating with genspn and/or posting a comm announcement.

We're modeled after commentfic memes, so we'll post a weekly theme and then ask for prompts and responses to that theme. We accept all mediums for fanworks; we also accept all genres, all ratings, and all pairings. We'll post themes every Friday, and our first theme goes live this Friday, April 2.

If you want to take a look around and see what we're up to, all of spn_bitesized's foundational documents are linked off of the community profile.

Best,
Blue

Re: Query

[everysecondtuesday]

Sorry for taking so long to get back to you! We would absolutely love to affiliate with you and have changed our comm bio to reflect this.

Taking off the mod hat, on a personal note, I'm really excited about your comm. It sounds like something I'll really love.

eta: Also, I talked it over with one of the other comm mods, and yes, you can totally make a comm announcement. We'd appreciate it if you framed it in a way that emphasized how it overlapped comm interests (i.e. it is a place where you can add more gen fanworks to the world \o/ (not that I think that is all that will be going on there; much as I like gen, I do not believe it rules the fandom world with an iron fist *wry smile*)), but I'm sure whatever you come up with will be fine. I'll make a tag for "medium: comm announcement" for you.

Re: Query

[somnolentblue]

Oh, fabulous! I added genspn to our comm bio.

Yay! I'm very excited, too. We've got the first month or so of themes selected, and we tried to select a mix of theme types so that everyone was likely to find something that worked for hir in the first few weeks.

I'll probably do a comm announcement tomorrow. (I just woke up, and don't quite trust myself not to write something with a dreadful error or three.) Thank you, and I can certainly explicitly mention the gen potential. I might also try to vibe with the language you have in your bio - I definitely want the feeling of inclusivity and welcoming.

Taking off my modly hat, I really like how genspn articulates its place in the fannish world and policies. 'Tis very welcoming and feels like it's *adding* to the fannish landscape instead of working in fannish-standard boxes. (Not that I don't love me my easy to identify boxes when making decisions on what to read in the rather large Supernatural fandom, but the definitions create the landscape in some ways instead of reflecting it.)

ETA: It strikes me, in retrospect, that my phrasing at the end was kind of odd. Mostly, I wanted to say that I ♥ "This comm is mostly to provide a place on Dreamwidth for your gen that doesn't fit your shipper-specific, slash, femslash, and het comms, but which you might want to share with the world without being judged for your shipping preferences. We accept all kinds with open arms" as a mission statement. And now, I'm going to be glad that I didn't post a comm announcement last night while sleepy.

Re: Query

[somnolentblue]

Posted the comm announcement! And thanks for the tag. :)

I kept it pretty short - in essence, 'tis "Come play with us!" Let me know if you want me to alter anything for whatever reason.

[amaresu]

I mod supernatural_women and was wondering if you'd like to affiliate? Thank you.

[everysecondtuesday]

I consulted with lizfu, and we are both excited to! I'll make the addition to our bio.

[amaresu]

Thank you!