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announcement and reminders!
Hello, all our beloved players and crack addicts!
You may have noticed an app went up earlier that then was taken down. The mods asked the player to bring the application into compliance with our rules, and the player chose to take down the application instead.
We would like to believe that the players who haven't played in HH before will be paying attention to the userinfo and rules before they post an application. This was not the case with the application that just went up and then went down. However, we think it's unreasonable and silly to expect that established players go rooting through the userinfo just to see whether there have been any changes. That's why we're making the following announcement, so you'll know there has indeed been a minor change.
The New Stuff:
- We've instituted a new rule in regards to joining the community. Since there's no way we can know every fictional canon and every character's name on sight, much less from icons, the mods won't grant membership in the comm to your character journal until and unless you specify the character's name and canon in the character journal's LJ profile. We'd like to be one hundred percent sure that your intended character is indeed fictional and is not an original character. This will ensure that your membership is approved faster.
- We've also added an in-character name blank to the application. It's not a numbered question -- of the tests you've taken in your life, how many of them made your name an actual question, and how many simply required you supply the name before moving on to answer the questions? But it is an in-character part of the application, and it is required. We still expect you to put your character's name and canon in the subject line of the application, but we understand the subject line to be out-of-character information. Adding the name to the application in character just makes sense.
That's it. That's all the new stuff. But please do keep reading, because we have a couple of important reminders ...
Reminders:
Your tags (LJ tags, that is)
Please remember to add your character's tag to posts that they are in. Not only does this come in handy for your own benefit, but it is essential for the mod team in gauging recent character activity when they do autopopcorning checks. While Aayla is now in charge of adding tags to entries, she can't and shouldn't be responsible for maintaining your characters' pre-existing tags. That said, you won't be jumped on if you do forget every once in a while. Nobody's perfect.
Any other concerns with tags can be brought to Aayla's attention through the info provided in the contact post.
Contact Post
Which brings us to our final point: please remember to add your information to the contact post as completely as possible for every new character you app or unpop. At the very least we need an e-mail address for you. It doesn't need to be an address that gives any personal RL information, but it DOES need to be an e-mail account you check regularly and often.
If some players wish to contact one another via LiveJournal's private messaging system, that is between them, but not all our players use that system, so it's not helpful to comment to the contact post specifying only that a player should PM you for your information. If all of us used LJ's private messaging system, we wouldn't have or need a contact post. Thanks for working with us. Remember, too, that the contact post is alphabetical. Characters should be entered by their surname if they have one, (example: "Michael Scott" would go under S), and by given name if they have no surname (example: "Homsar" would go under H).
You may have noticed an app went up earlier that then was taken down. The mods asked the player to bring the application into compliance with our rules, and the player chose to take down the application instead.
We would like to believe that the players who haven't played in HH before will be paying attention to the userinfo and rules before they post an application. This was not the case with the application that just went up and then went down. However, we think it's unreasonable and silly to expect that established players go rooting through the userinfo just to see whether there have been any changes. That's why we're making the following announcement, so you'll know there has indeed been a minor change.
The New Stuff:
- We've instituted a new rule in regards to joining the community. Since there's no way we can know every fictional canon and every character's name on sight, much less from icons, the mods won't grant membership in the comm to your character journal until and unless you specify the character's name and canon in the character journal's LJ profile. We'd like to be one hundred percent sure that your intended character is indeed fictional and is not an original character. This will ensure that your membership is approved faster.
- We've also added an in-character name blank to the application. It's not a numbered question -- of the tests you've taken in your life, how many of them made your name an actual question, and how many simply required you supply the name before moving on to answer the questions? But it is an in-character part of the application, and it is required. We still expect you to put your character's name and canon in the subject line of the application, but we understand the subject line to be out-of-character information. Adding the name to the application in character just makes sense.
That's it. That's all the new stuff. But please do keep reading, because we have a couple of important reminders ...
Reminders:
Your tags (LJ tags, that is)
Please remember to add your character's tag to posts that they are in. Not only does this come in handy for your own benefit, but it is essential for the mod team in gauging recent character activity when they do autopopcorning checks. While Aayla is now in charge of adding tags to entries, she can't and shouldn't be responsible for maintaining your characters' pre-existing tags. That said, you won't be jumped on if you do forget every once in a while. Nobody's perfect.
Any other concerns with tags can be brought to Aayla's attention through the info provided in the contact post.
Contact Post
Which brings us to our final point: please remember to add your information to the contact post as completely as possible for every new character you app or unpop. At the very least we need an e-mail address for you. It doesn't need to be an address that gives any personal RL information, but it DOES need to be an e-mail account you check regularly and often.
If some players wish to contact one another via LiveJournal's private messaging system, that is between them, but not all our players use that system, so it's not helpful to comment to the contact post specifying only that a player should PM you for your information. If all of us used LJ's private messaging system, we wouldn't have or need a contact post. Thanks for working with us. Remember, too, that the contact post is alphabetical. Characters should be entered by their surname if they have one, (example: "Michael Scott" would go under S), and by given name if they have no surname (example: "Homsar" would go under H).