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

[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!