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

[rihani.livejournal.com]

My point was that being "insular" (which I really think fandom is, and should be, especially fandom based around writing about real people... not something to run around and advertise, imo) is not the same as going underground, and honestly, neither is just being quiet -- being quiet is making sure we aren't Googleable and stepping back to think about the fact that other should-be insular fandoms are getting outed to the public in bad ways. You had these same questions over the whole thing w/the baseball fic, I remember you posting the very same question of f-locking the comm. So you have to know where I'm coming from. Even if you decided not to go that route, you should understand the questions.

I appreciate that perspective, and I understand it, and I don't 100% disagree, but I don't agree either, not anymore. Things are getting too easily accessible these days. And I don't honestly believe that a community with open membership, that states that the posts are by default f-locked for a reason, but welcomes anyone to join is going to give newbies a second's pause. A vast number of LJ-based comms these days are f-locked by default, and newbies join every day.

*hugs* I'm not sure I'm making sense at this point either; getting more than three hours of sleep might have helped the clarity portion of my brain. But, I get to go home now! :-)

[littlestclouds.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I think we may have a different definition of 'insular', because I have a more negative connotation than I think you do.

There's some stuff about this that makes me vaguely uncomfortable so I'm just going to bow out of this.

[rihani.livejournal.com]

Apparently we do; I don't see it as a bad thing by definition.

O...kay. Fair enough.