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[tanpopo03.livejournal.com]

This is the place to post any and all questions/suggestions. I'll try to get back to you as soon as possible.

Comments

Old but goodies

[lady-carfax.livejournal.com]

Does it matter how old a rec is? Bookverse fandom is such a delicious old slow burner of a fandom that I have ancient recs to give out ^_^

Re: Old but goodies

[tanpopo03.livejournal.com]

I'll answer here, too, so that all the Q&A are in one place :).

It doesn't matter how old the stories are. If you think they ought to be recced then do so!

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

I'm going to suggest that you make it one rec per post, so that people can use tags to quickly find the kinds of stories they're interested in. (check out the tags at holmes finders for a good format for tags.)

[tanpopo03.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm - that is a really good idea actually. I know how frustrated I've been myself in the past with bad tagging.
Ok, gonna go change the sign up post then. :)

[unovis.livejournal.com]

I second this. It makes it easier to find recced works by tag and the reccer can go into more detail.

[canetr.livejournal.com]

What if you have only one or two recs as opposed to signing up for a month? Can you do a random rec every so often?

Thanks for this comm.

[tanpopo03.livejournal.com]

I think I'm going to stick to the "signing up for a month" rule, because otherwise I won't be able to keep track of who's supposed to post when. I haven't yet given up hope on being an organized mod ;).

But I've just changed the rules to "Only one rec per post". So if you can get together at least 3 stories to rec you're good to sign up for a month. Hope that's ok.

[unovis.livejournal.com]

Re: tags, it's probably a good idea to allow only mods to create tags for the comm to use, to make sure that you don't get multiple versions of the same thing.

[tanpopo03.livejournal.com]

Yup, I think you're right. You offered to help modding, right? I'm gonna grant you posting access right now then.

[unovis.livejournal.com]

OK. Going to check out the tags at holmes finders.

[karababe-64.livejournal.com]

Hi, fantastic idea!

Just wondering if you are interested in affiliates? I run sherlock_search and would love to affiliate with you.

[tanpopo03.livejournal.com]

Ooh, defintiely!
Thanks :)

[karababe-64.livejournal.com]

Great! I've added you to our affiliates. :D

[tanpopo03.livejournal.com]

Likewise :D.

[irisbleufic.livejournal.com]

When one's reccing month comes around, do you assign us specific days on which we're to post our recs, or do we just independently make our posts throughout the month, making sure that they're well spaced, etc.?

[tanpopo03.livejournal.com]

No, there aren't any specific days on which to post. You can make your rec posts whenever you'd like during your month, but spacing them out more or less evenly would be appreciated :).

[falling-voices.livejournal.com]

Question, here: when reccing a series with several installments, can we mess up the template a bit, if the author, pairing and 'verse remain the same, for instance, and make a general reccer's comment at the end? repeating the author's name and 'ACD 'verse' six times just seems a little... silly. In other words, it would be like this:

Title (of the series):
Author:
Pairing:
'Verse:

And then a shorter template for each instalment, like so:

Title:
Length:
Author's Summary:
Rating:
Warnings:

And a final note with the explanation for the rec. Y/N?

[tanpopo03.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'd say that's fine.

[falling-voices.livejournal.com]

Lovely, thanks. Posting it now, but it makes for a rather long post — tell me if I need to put the instalments under a cut, or something. &hearts

[talimenios79.livejournal.com]

A question about WIPs. Is it alright to rec a finished story that has a WIP sequel?

[tanpopo03.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's fine, as long as the main rec is for the finished story. You can mention in your comments that there's an ongoing sequel if you want to.

[keladry_lupin]

If I found a fanart that is an image that is exactly like a moment in a fic, even though the art wasn't made for the fic, can I put both in one entry?

[tanpopo03.livejournal.com]

That's a good question... I'd say it depends on how you want to rec the art. If you want to just mention in your comments that there's art that goes along really well with the fic and link to it that's ok then. But if you can't do two different recs (with headers) in one post.

[venturous1.livejournal.com]

do we recc'ers need to update the Delicious or Spreadsheet?

[tanpopo03.livejournal.com]

Nope, the mods take care of that.