That looks good to me, although I'm not someone who's fussed about spoilers, so... Nice to include lots of links to different sites with info too. Maybe you should make a post here at CI5hq showing people your idea, and asking if they'd like any other information? Perhaps show them a "more normal" example as well as the "special" WTF? *g*
Hmmn - just had another look at the post and at KWS's comments below, and I'm a bit confused. I started writing about the problems of using an index post rather than tags, but when I looked at your post again I don't think you suggested doing that - I think that was KWS! Anyway...
The only thing I would suggest (from experience of running comms!) is that if you use the index method it's alot of constant work for you as a mod. You see how far behind I get with various posts when it's all about editing an index/photograph/whatever post - and that's actually not laziness on my part, it's busy days, and other things needing attention, and even sometimes work! (*g*)
I think tagging would be a better way of doing it, for a few reasons: 1 - it's quicker to do for each entry 2 - you can either do it yourself via the comm settings, or you can have other mods doing it too, or you can have people tag their own entries as long as you keep the tagging rules simple. Again I'd advise keeping the tags simple - just the title of the fic, unless there are two fics with the same name, then add the author. 3 - in years time, if you move on or away from the fandom or lj or have real life issues taking up more time, someone else can take over easily. The problem with a single index post is that the author of that post is the only one who can ever edit it.
Actually what I *think* you meant is that if more than one person adds information for the same fic, you'd edit it into your original post - the problem there is that you could only edit it into your posts, so if someone else had posted spoilers for a story it wouldn't work.
If you simply tag each entry that adds spoilers, then when someone clicks on a story in the tag list, it would bring up all the posts/information about it - much less work for you!
I think maybe you meant people who added information via comments - but again that would only work if it was your own post they were commenting to. And do you think there would be so many comments that they would be difficult to read? I know that if I want information about something from a post, I always read the comments anyway - I think most people probably do.
But were you thinking of making all the spoiler posts yourself? I was assuming that any member of the community could make spoiler posts, and share the work that way?
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That looks good to me, although I'm not someone who's fussed about spoilers, so... Nice to include lots of links to different sites with info too. Maybe you should make a post here at CI5hq showing people your idea, and asking if they'd like any other information? Perhaps show them a "more normal" example as well as the "special" WTF? *g*
Hmmn - just had another look at the post and at KWS's comments below, and I'm a bit confused. I started writing about the problems of using an index post rather than tags, but when I looked at your post again I don't think you suggested doing that - I think that was KWS! Anyway...
The only thing I would suggest (from experience of running comms!) is that if you use the index method it's alot of constant work for you as a mod. You see how far behind I get with various posts when it's all about editing an index/photograph/whatever post - and that's actually not laziness on my part, it's busy days, and other things needing attention, and even sometimes work! (*g*)
I think tagging would be a better way of doing it, for a few reasons:
1 - it's quicker to do for each entry
2 - you can either do it yourself via the comm settings, or you can have other mods doing it too, or you can have people tag their own entries as long as you keep the tagging rules simple. Again I'd advise keeping the tags simple - just the title of the fic, unless there are two fics with the same name, then add the author.
3 - in years time, if you move on or away from the fandom or lj or have real life issues taking up more time, someone else can take over easily. The problem with a single index post is that the author of that post is the only one who can ever edit it.
Actually what I *think* you meant is that if more than one person adds information for the same fic, you'd edit it into your original post - the problem there is that you could only edit it into your posts, so if someone else had posted spoilers for a story it wouldn't work.
If you simply tag each entry that adds spoilers, then when someone clicks on a story in the tag list, it would bring up all the posts/information about it - much less work for you!
I think maybe you meant people who added information via comments - but again that would only work if it was your own post they were commenting to. And do you think there would be so many comments that they would be difficult to read? I know that if I want information about something from a post, I always read the comments anyway - I think most people probably do.
But were you thinking of making all the spoiler posts yourself? I was assuming that any member of the community could make spoiler posts, and share the work that way?