I think this group, overall, is best without a mod who gets too into things
This is pretty much the way that the community maintainer wants things. As such, the "theme" by month would be enforcing a structure in the community that isn't what the community is meant to be -- primarily a place for people to post poems that they enjoy.
Part of the reason why the community seems to have "kicks" is because someone will post a poem that quite a few readers enjoy, so readers then seek the poet out and find additional poems to post.
I believe that is part of the idea behind this community; it is not meant to be overly academic or strongly moderated...given the traffic that we receive, we would need several moderators to pull the load if additional structure were introduced. I also am not in support of a rule regarding not re-posting poems. Our members list is at 1200+ people; people add and drop every day, and on average, this community gets at least 10 posts per day. It would be impossible for people to be expected to review posts before they put up a poem that they enjoy.
I will speak with the maintainer about activating tags -- I personally think that's a sound idea for organization that relies on the members. I've often gone to bookmark or "memorize" a poem after it has been posted, only to have to dig through several day's postings to find it again. Both of us want the community to be largely self-sufficient though, so creating huge "memories" banks is really not an efficient structure for us at the moment, simply because this is a high-traffic place, and we don't have the time to closely monitor it several times per day in order to add every post to memories.
Again, I will speak to the maintainer, who rarely is on LJ at the moment. If she's in agreement regarding the tags system, I will turn them on. There may be one additional hurdle of paid time (I think tags are paid accounts only), in which case, if enough members want the tags system active, then it will be the member's responsibility to pony up the cost of keeping this community as a paid account.
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Date: 2005-07-05 02:23 am (UTC)This is pretty much the way that the community maintainer wants things. As such, the "theme" by month would be enforcing a structure in the community that isn't what the community is meant to be -- primarily a place for people to post poems that they enjoy.
Part of the reason why the community seems to have "kicks" is because someone will post a poem that quite a few readers enjoy, so readers then seek the poet out and find additional poems to post.
I believe that is part of the idea behind this community; it is not meant to be overly academic or strongly moderated...given the traffic that we receive, we would need several moderators to pull the load if additional structure were introduced. I also am not in support of a rule regarding not re-posting poems. Our members list is at 1200+ people; people add and drop every day, and on average, this community gets at least 10 posts per day. It would be impossible for people to be expected to review posts before they put up a poem that they enjoy.
I will speak with the maintainer about activating tags -- I personally think that's a sound idea for organization that relies on the members. I've often gone to bookmark or "memorize" a poem after it has been posted, only to have to dig through several day's postings to find it again. Both of us want the community to be largely self-sufficient though, so creating huge "memories" banks is really not an efficient structure for us at the moment, simply because this is a high-traffic place, and we don't have the time to closely monitor it several times per day in order to add every post to memories.
Again, I will speak to the maintainer, who rarely is on LJ at the moment. If she's in agreement regarding the tags system, I will turn them on. There may be one additional hurdle of paid time (I think tags are paid accounts only), in which case, if enough members want the tags system active, then it will be the member's responsibility to pony up the cost of keeping this community as a paid account.