ADMIN POST

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

Okay, okay, whoa; crazy morning. I have been asked in the wake of the closing of the dsreporter to make an Admin post affirming the following points:

1) DS_Noticeboard eagerly welcomes ALL Due South stories in ALL genres (gen, het, slash) featuring ALL pairings. In this way, we will attempt to preserve the egalitarian spirit of the DSReporter.

2)DS_Noticeboard encourages people not only to post links to their own stories, DS news, or website updates but also to post links to stories they come across (which can be posted either as a rec or as a "hey, for your information" post.) In particular, estrella30 has voiced the concern that newbies might need encouragement to crosspost here (where the Reporter just used to pick up stories indiscriminately.) So please--do your part to assure newbies or shy people that they should post, or just link their stories yourself. Mentoring is a fandom-wide responsibility, people!

3) An extra-special-shout-out-to-Vecchio people: "Hey! Vecchio-people! We want your stories! Please come post here! Pimp your friends!" (Ces deletes email that says: "It would just really suck if Noticeboard became another outlet for the 'those Kowalski ho's.'") So if this place becomes Kowalski-ho-central, we know who to blame. Bring the Italian, ok? Per piacere? Grazie!

4) An extra-special-shout-out-to-gen-and-het people: "We want your stories! Please come post here! Pimp your friends! We want to read gen stories and Fraser/Thatcher and all that. Do not fear the sweaty man love! DS Fans are pretty omnivorous!"

That's about it for now. Basically, I'm here to keep things on topic and clean, but the success of this place is up to y'all. Let me know if and how I can help!

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Here's to DS Noticeboard taking up a much-admired torch. Sei proprio una vera speranza per tutti noi. Grazie!
(a Kowalski ho (I wish!) - but I would defend to my last pixel the right to appreciate and exalt the many many fine qualities of, say, sexy Italians). Heliophile.

Indexing! Organize memories

[taverymate.livejournal.com]

Based on the wide variety of things that you've listed as appropriate for DS_Noticeboard, some type of indexing, or organized memories would be incredibly helpful for those folks who are looking for a specific type of information, e.g. links to new stories only, but not recs or DS actor news. Or conversely, someone who wants to keep up with DS actors, but not so much the fiction. Or, as you note, someone only interested in one Ray, or only gen, or het, or slash. (Me, I'm definitely a DS omnivore, but most folks I've run across in DS have much more limited interests.)

A memories section organized, even broadly, by topic would be fantastic. It would also be a lot of work, and may well be beyond what you envision as the scope of a moderator. Having a different person responsible for each area would cut down on the work that a moderator would have to do, but that also brings in other issues (coordinating volunteers, assigning areas, making sure that they keep up with things, etc.) Either way, a lot of work. Indexing information is key to it usefulness, however, especially as the amount of information grows.