Introduction and Welcome

[empty-mirrors.livejournal.com]

Welcome to CI5HQ.

CI5 Headquarters is a slash-oriented (but gen/het friendly) rec, discussion and news community for The Professionals. Whether it's a rec for an online or zine story, an essay on anything Pros-related, or news about the actors or the show itself, we want to see it here.

Since CI5 Headquarters is a space for free and open discussion about all things related to our favourite lads for everyone, whether they have their own Live Journal or not, membership of the community is open, with posting and commenting allowed by non-members. We also encourage commenting by those without LJs, though they can't create an initial post to the community. (That's an LJ limitation, BTW, not one of ours.) If you don't have an LJ, but have a great idea for a post, contact one of the moderators and we'll be happy to post it for you.

Rules

In keeping with the laid back views of your moderators, we don't want to have hard and fast rules. We do, however, have a few suggestions:

Flames are bad. While you may not agree with everything you read on ci5hq, please show respect for the opinions of other posters and commenters, and keep discussion civil.

Posts and comments should be about some aspect of Pros.

If you're posting a rec, whether for a zine story or for one found online, here are some useful headers for you to use:

Title:
Author:
Link to story: (if it's online)
Zine: (if it's in a zine)
Permission to archive the rec/review at Palely Loitering: Yes/No
Short review: (1 to 3 sentences)

If you want to include a longer critical discussion of a story, or a whole zine, please put it behind an <*lj-cut*> tag.

Any comments, questions of suggestions can be directed to your friendly mods:

empty_mirrors (ci5hq@emptymirrors.org.uk)

przed (przed@rogers.com)


Click here to go to userinfo.

Comments

[empty-mirrors.livejournal.com]

Thanks, me dear. Much appreciated.

[franciskerst.livejournal.com]

Fine but where to sign up for membership? I don't see any button to click on for it.

[empty-mirrors.livejournal.com]

Staff takes you to the userinfo. Join up there. :-) I'll add a link here as well.

[empty-mirrors.livejournal.com]

Link added.

[shayheyred.livejournal.com]

Hello, friendly mods!
What a brilliant idea!

[empty-mirrors.livejournal.com]

Hey :-D Good to see you here.

[metabolick.livejournal.com]

I love having a place for Pros fic recs. But as for the rest (discussion, news, etc.) - isn't that what the_safehouse is for? Or am I missing something here?

[empty-mirrors.livejournal.com]

It's more about the focus of the community.

The_safehouse seems to be more about introducing new work, whereas CI5HQ is aiming to fill the gap left by the crack_van. Plus, because CI5HQ allows story/vid recs, any discussion will primarily arise from those I would have thought, and it seems a little daft to curtail discussion on a community where discussion is the raison d'etre. As far as fandom news is concerned, can there ever be too many sources of news? :-D And I don't think it'll end up cluttering people's friendslists.

Anyway, it's good to see you here. :-D Welcome.

[metabolick.livejournal.com]

It's more about the focus of the community.

Yes, that's what I thought, and I would certainly expect fic discussion to be carried on here.

As far as fandom news is concerned, can there ever be too many sources of news?

No, but I would really like to see the focus here stay mainly on fic and the_safehouse to be for everything else. It just seems less confusing that way to my pea brain.

[franciskerst.livejournal.com]

I still didn't know how to sign up for membership. I don't see any special button to click on, only the successive messages. I don't see the site's profile either.

[franciskerst.livejournal.com]

I saw the link at last but it's tiny and I'm short sighted...

[empty-mirrors.livejournal.com]

I've changed the link on the info bit to read User Info instead of staff. Hopefully that will help. Do you mind me asking, what browser are you using and what resolution do you have your screen set to?