Small Announcement

[subluxate]

I spoke with 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.

Comments

[murf1013.livejournal.com]

YAY you! (No longer interested in MASH? How can that be possible ;))

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.

[subluxate]

Excellent! You're currently a maintainer, and the main thing I need help with now is the memories. Those are fairly simple. All you need to do is go to either the calendar page or the tags page, select a date (or tag), go to the entry, and click the heart at the top. It'll give you the option of which categories to put it in and what the link should read. We're categorizing by pairing or main character. The format for links is, "[author] Title, Part X of Y (rating)." Don't worry about any mistakes; I'll be eventually slogging through and double-checking everything, because I'm a bit anal like that. =P

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.

[murf1013.livejournal.com]

Hey there! I just reposted a bunch of my own fics to the mash_slash community and I was trying to tag them for the archive. It's not working for me. When I click on the calendar/tag link, I don't get a heart to click, so I can't go any further than reading the post. Any suggestions?

[murf1013.livejournal.com]

Never mind. I figured it out. :)