Mod note, re: Tags, f-locking

[rihani.livejournal.com]

I just went through and cleared out a whole bunch of tags that were cluttering up the tags list. For various reasons, but almost all of them were for misspelled words/typos. So if I could please ask that you actually look through the tag list when you go to tag your fic, rather than entering in your own -- unless you've verified that the tag you want to use doesn't already exist -- I would really appreciate it. It's time-consuming on my part to go through and remove redundant tags.

I'd like to keep the tagging simple, so some guidelines:

• rating (g, pg, pg-13, r, nc-17 -- this is how they are established in the tags)
  
• your name (so if that's not listed, feel free to add it)
  
• the team(s) (full team names, starting with the city, rather than nick names; these should all be listed already, at least for the NHL)
  
• players (full names, and no person a/person b tags, please!!)
  

This will hopefully save the tags list from filling up too quickly again, and then I won't have to spend an hour clearing it out again. :-) Keep in mind, we only have 1000 tags to work with, and while that may seem like a lot, when you think about how many different people write how many different players, our tags list gets quite the workout! In case you're curious, here is a complete list of all our tags currently in use.

Thanks everyone... if there's any problems or questions about this, please let me know!

One more thing: I'm heavily leaning toward making this comm where all the posts are, by default, friends-only. This is mostly due to a lot of "outing" of fic going on outside our insular little communities, and some other smaller issues. I'm mostly curious about people's opinions at the moment, so let me know what you all think about that, please?

Comments

[bkm5191.livejournal.com]

People can post here under a f-lock but link to journals that are open anyway. But not everyone cares that people know they write / read hockey fic, so I don't know that it is necessary to make everything locked yet.

[rihani.livejournal.com]

I know, and the other way around they can unlock. I really don't know, I'm mostly tossing the idea around and asking for opinions. I'm not going to do anything today, anyway.

And your icon is making me laugh. It's clearly telling me I need to dust off some of my unfinished LeafsFic.

[bkm5191.livejournal.com]

every two cents counts :) Pretty soon we are going to have to lock everything again, especially if we all do ever migrate from LJ. I'm all for putting it off a while longer.

I love this icon.

Follow it! follow it!

My friend who made it for me foolishly looked up 'hockey slash' on you tube and saw that guy get his throat cut.

[rihani.livejournal.com]

Yep, it does, and I'm collecting it all and hording it! ;-) Yeah, I don't know. I lock everything these days, it's just my nature, and I am a little concerned at what gets out and how, but... meh, I don't know! I'm too tired to think straight at this moment in time. lol.

I quite like it too. *grins* I have a half-written Wellwood/Stajan/Steen 3some I really need to finish up... *nudges muses*

Oh, ouch, that's not usually what you want to be turning up on random searches.