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arrogance, the maintainer of the community for the past four years, on Sunday, intending to bring up what's been going on recently, as well as maintaining the memories and such. She's no longer interested in M*A*S*H, and offered me the position of maintainer. I accepted, and wanted to let everyone know about the change.
I'd also like to ask for a couple of volunteers. I'm coming up on a final and midterms, not to mention two papers, and if anyone could assist with going through and adding fics and other posts to the memories or tagging them, I'd really appreciate it.
Now, a few questions. Is there anything you'd like to see here? Should the userinfo be changed (it will be altered, at least a bit, later), and if so, how? Do we need a new layout? I'm willing to spring for a paid account to get us a really great layout, if anyone will make it. What about a mood theme? Do you want any sort of impromptu challenges or contests? Input is endlessly valuable; let me know what you think, and changes, assuming they're wanted, will be implemented.
Thanks in advance, everyone. I'm much nicer than I sometimes seem, and if you have concerns about anything, feel free to e-mail me at hawkeyecat@livejournal.com, or message me. On Y!M, I'm bluearcher85; AIM, it's rogue12885.
arrogance, the maintainer of the community for the past four years, on Sunday, intending to bring up what's been going on recently, as well as maintaining the memories and such. She's no longer interested in M*A*S*H, and offered me the position of maintainer. I accepted, and wanted to let everyone know about the change. I'd also like to ask for a couple of volunteers. I'm coming up on a final and midterms, not to mention two papers, and if anyone could assist with going through and adding fics and other posts to the memories or tagging them, I'd really appreciate it.
Now, a few questions. Is there anything you'd like to see here? Should the userinfo be changed (it will be altered, at least a bit, later), and if so, how? Do we need a new layout? I'm willing to spring for a paid account to get us a really great layout, if anyone will make it. What about a mood theme? Do you want any sort of impromptu challenges or contests? Input is endlessly valuable; let me know what you think, and changes, assuming they're wanted, will be implemented.
Thanks in advance, everyone. I'm much nicer than I sometimes seem, and if you have concerns about anything, feel free to e-mail me at hawkeyecat@livejournal.com, or message me. On Y!M, I'm bluearcher85; AIM, it's rogue12885.
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Date: 2006-03-13 02:47 pm (UTC)I think a new layout would be great. I'm... not great at fancy layouts, but if I have the time, I can try to do that too. You can look at my journal for an example of my most recent one, although from what I hear, it's probably a little messed up unless you're using Firefox because IE hates pngs. If you don't mind a left-aligned layout, I could probably do more with that.
In terms of mood themes,
So... just let me know if you want me to do something, and on AIM I'm Rob Lucci if you need that. <3
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Date: 2006-03-15 11:27 am (UTC)And...you are added as a moderator for the time being. It would be wonderful if you could help out with adding to memories; we've done the tagging. Memories are going to be done by pairing, and the format for the title should be, "[author] Title, Part X of Y (rating)."
The fact that I just misspelled "rating" should tell me something, I suspect.
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Date: 2006-03-13 04:11 pm (UTC)I do think turning the memories into a sort of archive would be a good idea. I maintain the community
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Date: 2006-03-13 04:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-13 06:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-15 11:30 am (UTC)My own layout is in Generator; the other reason behind springing for a paid account would be setting up the mood theme set. It's not a big thing, but it's something I've been considering.
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Date: 2006-03-13 06:17 pm (UTC)The suggestions I have right now (besides the one I told you about earlier in my oddly incoherent email) are regarding the format of the community.
1) If you decide to change the layout (which would be nice), it probably shouldn't be based solely on the first few seasons of MASH. There are a lot of us BJ/Charles/Potter fans out here who would love to see equal treatment of the later part of the series. I wish I knew how to do these things (I can't even format my own LJ!) because I'd love to help with it. But, alas, I can't.
2) I love the idea of challenges. Sometimes, a challenge is what inspires someone to write a fic. I know that there have been times when I've had horrible writer's block and saw a challenge somewhere. It broke me out of the block! So that's a wonderful idea.
>>I'm coming up on a final and midterms, not to mention two papers,<<
*shivers at the memory of those days* I remember during one particularly bad semester (I think it was my senior year) - wearing the same pair of sweats for an entire week. I'd study in my dorm room, go to bed, get up, go take my final, go back to the dorm, study some more ... etc. It was a vicious cycle. And a smelly one.
However, I digress.
3) I'd love to volunteer to do the memories/archiving stuff ... BUT ... someone would have to give me a crash course. I'm a fast learner though. :)
So, let me know what I can do. I'm more than willing to learn how to do anything to help you out.
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Date: 2006-03-15 11:35 am (UTC)As far as challenges--if you want to post one, go for it. Or open a discussion thread. I'm probably one of the most laid-back active mods you'll come across.
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Date: 2006-03-15 06:50 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-03-13 06:56 pm (UTC)xx
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Date: 2006-03-15 11:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-13 07:57 pm (UTC)give me a holla if you need me, for anything from coming up with challenges to helping to tag fics. i am obviously not really amazing at anything computer-wise but i can learn if you need me to.
also i 100% endorse the idea of a well-organized archive. i've always thought it was kind of a shame that
oh man that's about it other than congratulations!
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Date: 2006-03-15 11:39 am (UTC)And the archiving! Format is to categorize by pairing or main character (there's a surprising amount of gen-type fic), and label it as, "[author] Title, Part X of Y (rating)." If you could assist with that, it would be invaluable. Also, we need to go through the "misc" tag, because ugh, there is so much there that could probably be categorized better.
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Date: 2006-03-16 01:02 am (UTC)i don't know anything about tags, which is why i'm unsure as to how normal archives look. i'm reading up on them now though and i am soon going to be ready to be a permamod! oh yeah.
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Date: 2006-03-16 01:07 am (UTC)anyway, if it's cool with you, i'll begin archiving fics right now.
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Date: 2006-03-16 03:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-16 03:38 am (UTC)if something isn't already rated, should we
a) contact the author,
b) assign our own rating, or
c) omit the rating from the link?
just wondering, and like i said, i'll start with fics that are rated, just so as to get something done tonight.
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Date: 2006-03-16 03:42 am (UTC)ahaha i like how i achieved a grand total of ONE tonight
Date: 2006-03-16 03:43 am (UTC)i have to go to bed now but i am home all afternoon tomorrow, ARCHIVING :D
Re: ahaha i like how i achieved a grand total of ONE tonight
Date: 2006-03-16 03:47 am (UTC)For all your voluntary hard work, yo.
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Date: 2006-03-17 12:19 am (UTC)So for um things like this (http://community.livejournal.com/mash_slash/108527.html), is it okay that I just memory'd that as "Assorted Drabbles"? I tried to make each cut a different memory and it wouldn't let me. Suggestions?
AHAHAHAHA SERIOUSLY I HATE THAT I AM THIS INCOMPETANT. I'm like a quarter of the way through the Hawkeye/BJ tag. Maybe.
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Date: 2006-03-17 12:20 am (UTC)Re: ahaha i like how i achieved a grand total of ONE tonight
Date: 2006-03-17 12:21 am (UTC)Re: ahaha i like how i achieved a grand total of ONE tonight
Date: 2006-03-17 12:26 am (UTC)for some reason i started with the hawkeye/bj tag. i don't really know why this happened, it just did. however, i don't know how to access anything beyond the first page. (i win at computer lameness i think.) so at this point, to capitalize on the productivity i am feeling right now, i am just going to go right down the list of tag names, in terms of pairings, not authors. someone give me a holla and tell me how to get the rest of the hawkeye/bj tag and i will handle it then.
IN SUMMATION:
hawkeye/bj = not done. only the first page. stopped at
everything else = going down the tags in alphabetical order by pairing.
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Date: 2006-03-17 12:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-14 12:10 am (UTC)1) I am more than willing to help out with tagging and adding to memories. However, I think it would easier to ask people to tag some of their past fics, at least the recent ones. I'm sure people would be willing to tag some of their own.
2) I'd like to see a more communal feeling around these parts. I remeber when all of the mash-slash listers moved to LJ and we were all friends and everybody knew everybody. It wold be nice to have that again.
3) A new layout and a mood theme would be cool. I am pixally-challenged, so I'm no help on this front.
4) As far as the userinfo goes, I think a list of links to related comms and sites would be bitchin'.
5) Where is this allusive fife?
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Date: 2006-03-15 11:43 am (UTC)2) Post challenges, discussions, whatever. If you can think of a way to restore the communal feel, more power to you. I'm just far too tired at the moment to do anything about it.
3) We have a new layout, at least for now. Thoughts? The mood theme will come later this week, when I can get my credit card and buy an account for the community.
4) Will do. Any comms in particular?
5)
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Date: 2006-03-16 01:05 am (UTC)ahahaha that's our mod!
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Date: 2006-03-17 06:03 am (UTC)4)
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Date: 2006-03-17 06:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-14 01:58 am (UTC)I'm not brilliant with layouts or anything, but I could fiddle around in Photoshop. Perhaps we could hold a layout contest? ;)
Also: Wilson face! XD What episode is that from? Tuxes!
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Date: 2006-03-15 11:46 am (UTC)Tagging actually only took two of us all day. ("Only". Hah.
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