community etiquette. or not.

[cimorene]

hey, i'm perfectly aware that i'm breaking the rules of the community, but i just wanted to and so i did it anyway and i don't really think rules should apply to me.

if you have to preface a post with "sorry if this is OT", you shouldn't post it, just like if you have to preface a speech with "i know this is going to sound ugly, but", you shouldn't say it.  the letters OT are not there for decoration or for fun. 

and you especially shouldn't spam a community with OT questions that you could get answered someplace else.

if you don't know how to convert jpg to bmp the place to go would be a graphics community or a general question community, not a screencap-sharing community.  if you want to know whether squidge is really down and you can't find out at squidge, you should try asking individual people, not posting a message to a fandom announcement board.  no, not even if the major fandom archive and half the websites in fandom are hosted there.  if it's not a fandom announcement, it doesn't belong in the fandom announcement community. 

i can't believe that people can't grasp this concept.

Comments

[amireal.livejournal.com]

I hear you.

You may or may not have read my...erm.. angry raantings on a similar vein from earlier today and yesterday.

It seems to be catching. *facepalms*

[cimness.livejournal.com]

this chick was on due south noticeboard and she was actually asking because she couldn't get in the ncis archive... a totally different *fandom*! [wordless mutters of rage]

[amireal.livejournal.com]

OMG, it IS the same fandom.

I swear the NCIS fen are... cooky crazy people. THere were over 40 posts about Serenity on the NCIS list.

I had to EMAIL THE MOD because within 24 hours she said nothing and she'd even posted in the interim, i.e. she had to have checked her email.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

auugh i hate it when the mods are insane too. like it's totally okay to discuss whatever you want! the community rules aren't rules, they're more like guidelines really!

[elfiepike.livejournal.com]

in a community for a comic i like, people regularly repost information, often of the same clip. they always put, "i'm sorry, i'm new, so if this has been posted before..." at the end like that makes it all better. it's gotten to the point where now the comments are keeping track: "look, it's post number seven with the exact same screenshot!"

[cimness.livejournal.com]

gnnnnnnnnnnrrrgggaölskjfdöaskldj.

that's the kind of thing that makes me unfriend communities, that is.

[elfiepike.livejournal.com]

i would, but i'm a sucker for the fanart. sigh. thus i bear the annoyances. (plus, it's the only community with links to the scanlations, so.)

[cimness.livejournal.com]

ohh the pain in that case! yeah, there's no way i'm unfriending ds noticeboard either--no other way to keep up with new fic. sigh.

[norah.livejournal.com]

I finally had to unfriend that comm, even though it was sporadically useful, because KILL.

People are dumb like fuck.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

yeah, but i can't lose it, man, that's the way i keep up with due south... it's bad enough the proliferation of new random ds communities. "new! hey guys i noticed there wasn't a community for people to share their personal experiences of dressing like ray kowalski, so i figured i'd go ahead and make a place!" "here's a community for people who only like fraser in a tux!" *STABINATE*

[norah.livejournal.com]

God, I KNOW. I have most of the fandom core on my flist, and I still watch flashfiction, so I can keep up without, but. Fucking new comms. Fucking idiots everywhere!

It's like new archives in fandoms that already have large central archives. STOP IT ALREADY!!!

[cimness.livejournal.com]

new archives in fandoms that already have large central archives.

but... ummm... why?

please tell me you're kidding.

[norah.livejournal.com]

Nope. Someone recently created a BSG 2003 "pairings" archive - even though BSG has a large central archive and a few largeish moderated archives. She asked to archive one of my stories - I (politely, I hope) declined.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

... what is with these decentralisers? it's not GOOD! you're not filling a niche! you're not performing a service, you're MAKING FANDOM SUCK! you're making things harder to find. grrrrr. it drives me nuts. um, as i guess you can see.

[special-trille.livejournal.com]

hey guys i noticed there wasn't a community for people to share their personal experiences of dressing like ray kowalski,

...it's not just me? I have felt so alone.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

but what, are you saying you want a ray-kowalski-vestites GHETTO? why can't you kowalski-dressers just integrate nicely into the community with everybody else?