Reminder of Guidelines and Call for Feedback
It's been a while since we've had to make a post of this nature, but unfortunately we mods feel that recent events have required it. There have been a number of posts and comments to the community in the recent past which have either gone against the community guidelines, been offensive, or both, and that has got to stop. It's distressing for us mods, just as much as it is distressing to us to hear that there are members who find the atmosphere of the community unwelcoming and hostile.

We are not setting out to stifle debate or discussion, since those things are the lifeblood of this community; and, on the whole, we mods would be uncomfortable about introducing restrictions regardless. We deliberately refer to community guidelines, not rules, for that very reason. However, these guidelines do exist, and exist for a reason. In any community of a particular size--and we now have over two thousand watchers--there has to be some sort of regulation of behaviour, and hp_essays is no different. We have posted these on the community before, and they are listed in the community userinfo. This link will take you directly to the guidelines and to some previous discussion on them.

Other than serving as a reminder to members of the community's guidelines this entry is to call for members to make suggestions to we moderators on the future direction and purpose of the community. Should anyone have any feedback to provide relative to any possible changes to hp_essays's guidelines then please respond to this post or send an e-mail to us at hp.essays@gmail.com.

We want to keep the community a place where all feel welcome and also a place where all feel comfortable with how the community works.

siriaeve, ryf, auroraceleste and goddlefrood

Community co-maintainers