Community information! FAQ V1.0
Thank you for waiting patiently. Your mods have worked up a rough draft of your community FAQ. It has already been posted to the userinfo. For your convenience (to make it extra easy for everyone to read *G*) we thought we'd post it here.




0. This FAQ is still a work in progress. We're just getting off the ground, so it will be a learning process for everyone. Expect at least one major FAQ revision as time goes on. We will, of course, notify the community at large when a major change (or a culmination of smaller changes) is made. We're already 400 watchers strong and that's before we've even started.

1. Posting ability - We're hoping to keep this as open and friendly as possible, so for now we're not going to change any of the posting options. However, your friendly neighborhood mods have discussed contingencies if it becomes evident that this community doesn't lend itself to the current setup.

2. Keeping it on topic - We're hoping to get a list of tags and a compilation of links to the current discussions up as soon as possible. If your topic isn't covered easily in the tags or is possibly already covered in one of the current conversations, but you just can't decide if making a new post would be on or off topic, please contact us.

We're going to try and avoid duplication, but it might take a few days to get everything under control, please be patient while we hammer out the dents.

3. Contacting us - fandomarchive@gmail.com will reach all of your mods. Please don't hesitate to use it.

4. I don't have an LJ! - We are very aware that Livejournal doesn't equal all of fandom and that more than just Livejournal users might want to step into the conversations and offer constructive comments right along side everyone else. For now, anonymous commenting is allowed. What we ask is that you sign a name, any name. Just keep it consistent. Having watched many conversations that include anonymous comments, we can tell you how easy it is to get two confused and how much trouble that can cause.

Information about open ID TBA. (http://openid.net/)

5. My, it's getting hot in here - Flaming. Probably the biggest worry of any new community or moderator. Let's make it simple. No flames allowed. For now we won't implement a zero tolerance policy because conversations can get a little emotional and things can be said in the heat of the moment. That being said, expect the typical requests for decorum, freezing of volatile threads that have gone way off topic/into the bad place, requests for deletion or deleting outright without waiting for the poster themselves.

If you have a problem with an action any mod takes, take it 'off list'. Email the mods, do not make new posts or post about it in comments to other posts.

6. Tagging guidelines - TBA

7. Summary posts - TBA



As you can see, a few items will fill in with time and some of the language will probably smooth out as we go on. Most of the activity won't start until we get the proper summation post and astolat closes her post to comments (i.e. shunts the conversation over to here) so we've got a bit of leeway.

And finally, to borrow someone else's format:

JOB:
1. Notes: Long term, moderate effort. Can be expanded to add another person. Weekly Summation Posts. ainsely and wordplay!
Once a week, create a post that re-links to all of the conversations that took place within that seven day period. The nature of livejournal is very 'top page' so we want to give each topic a second chance at the top of a friends list. Mostly we need someone willing to compile links into a relatively neat looking post. These summation posts will have their own tag for easy reference.