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Like I mentioned in this post, if TLS were to make a community over at livejournal, members who've joined the community should be able to contribute as well, whether it be fanfiction or a theory on a Final Fantasy game. That way the staff aren't the only ones limited to sharing and it'll definitely allow members to play more active roles in the community.
You can also separate varying posts with an useful tool livejournal has called tags, which basically enables you to group and organize entries. That way people who might want to look back at previous entries don't have to hassle and search for the content themselves, it'll be like looking at an index. Easy.
As far as content goes, this is just an idea of what the community should have and allow: discussions, downloads, questions, fanworks (fanfiction, fanart, etc.), reviews, requests, characters (each character would have it's own tag), suggestions, summaries, media related shit, updates, etc. And, linking the site and forums would be good too.
You can also separate varying posts with an useful tool livejournal has called tags, which basically enables you to group and organize entries. That way people who might want to look back at previous entries don't have to hassle and search for the content themselves, it'll be like looking at an index. Easy.
As far as content goes, this is just an idea of what the community should have and allow: discussions, downloads, questions, fanworks (fanfiction, fanart, etc.), reviews, requests, characters (each character would have it's own tag), suggestions, summaries, media related shit, updates, etc. And, linking the site and forums would be good too.
Max Caulfield
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Like I mentioned in this post, if TLS were to make a community over at livejournal, members who've joined the community should be able to contribute as well, whether it be fanfiction or a theory on a Final Fantasy game. That way the staff aren't the only ones limited to sharing and it'll definitely allow members to play more active roles in the community.
You can also separate varying posts with an useful tool livejournal has called tags, which basically enables you to group and organize entries. That way people who might want to look back at previous entries don't have to hassle and search for the content themselves, it'll be like looking at an index. Easy.
As far as content goes, this is just an idea of what the community should have and allow: discussions, downloads, questions, fanworks (fanfiction, fanart, etc.), reviews, requests, characters (each character would have it's own tag), suggestions, summaries, media related shit, updates, etc. And, linking the site and forums would be good too.
^ That pretty much sums up what we could do on LJ.
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Harbinger O Great Justice
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Like I mentioned in this post, if TLS were to make a community over at livejournal, members who've joined the community should be able to contribute as well, whether it be fanfiction or a theory on a Final Fantasy game. That way the staff aren't the only ones limited to sharing and it'll definitely allow members to play more active roles in the community.
You can also separate varying posts with an useful tool livejournal has called tags, which basically enables you to group and organize entries. That way people who might want to look back at previous entries don't have to hassle and search for the content themselves, it'll be like looking at an index. Easy.
As far as content goes, this is just an idea of what the community should have and allow: discussions, downloads, questions, fanworks (fanfiction, fanart, etc.), reviews, requests, characters (each character would have it's own tag), suggestions, summaries, media related shit, updates, etc. And, linking the site and forums would be good too.
A large thing that we've moved towards as a site is trying to get user content / fanart / etc. hosted on TLS. It's our main reason for adding a seperate Fan Content section to the Compilation area of the forums. We'd like to get more of the fanbase that's into FFVII-related projects, etc as a big part of the site. Yop's looking into hosting a gallery for fanart, similiar to how some other sites do, though we're having some bumps with integrating user accounts. I'd like to see those types of creativity come over here and start up some stuff in the Fan Content section if possible, but I'm not really sure where that bumps up with the idea of a LJ Community.
Whether or not they want to host the stories, etc on their LJ, or post them on TLS is really up to them, but having them join the forums and integrate with the community here is something that we're looking for, because we're trying to expand as a site.
I've been thinking about doing an article once every month, or every two weeks, once the fan side of the community gets going with featured artwork, fanfics, etc. The frequency and content would all depend on the efforts of the Community. Getting those integrated and centralized into one location is what we have to work at before we'll have enough content to make into a frontpage-type recurring article.
Those are some of the "in the works" things that we've got going on, and I wanted to bounce them off of you, and see if/how we could integrate the two together, because it seems like there's a lot of promise for helping the site grow in the ways that we'd like it to.
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Max Caulfield
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That's an awesome idea, X.
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The thing that worries me about having a community on LJ is the LTD. If we set up a thread/post to discuss it, it's going to be swamped and crazy... and with the way commenting is set up, it won't be easy to read or reply.
Also, I think we should really make a rule about no trolling/hating on there. If we want to attract people and get them to stay, we don't want tons of, "OMGZ, TIFA/AERITH IS A BITCH" or "INTERNET CATS IS LULZ!"
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The thing that worries me about having a community on LJ is the LTD. If we set up a thread/post to discuss it, it's going to be swamped and crazy... and with the way commenting is set up, it won't be easy to read or reply.
Also, I think we should really make a rule about no trolling/hating on there. If we want to attract people and get them to stay, we don't want tons of, "OMGZ, TIFA/AERITH IS A BITCH" or "INTERNET CATS IS LULZ!"
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Fan content is definitely a plus for most members over at livejournal. Though, shouldn't just be limited to fanart, but fanfiction, vidding, graphics, and any form of art should be taken in consideration as well.
There is always the possibility that members can post at both places. I think it's a good idea that it's up to them whether or not they want to post it on TLS as well.
It's definitely possible, but if you plan on integrating the two communities together, you'd have to start off with attracting the members over at LJ into TLS. Posting links to articles or events where you can only find see/participate in unless you join TLS would be a solid start. Of course, building a member base over at LJ should be top priority for now. :nom:
The community could keep LT related discussions with it's own tag. Or maybe even ban LTD discussions over at LJ and keep it as a rule that if you want to ask questions related to the LTD or want to debate about the LTD, you participate in the thread that TLS has atm.
And definitely no trolling for sure, but we'd probably be limiting on user powers if we do ban anti-entries. We could keep that in it's own tag.
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Sigh... Oh the LTD... We really should put rules in place over here about those things, since we'll be working to support a fan community and pairings might become a big deal again. I've gone SO long without even looking at that thread....
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Harbinger O Great Justice
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Compilation Fan Creations
A section devoted to fan-created Compilation content and projects of all kinds. Artwork, Fanfics, videos, ALL FFVII fan work is welcome here.
Agreed. I'd say go for it.
If you can get a community up, I'll start contests/events/anything you can think of.
Good plan.
Sounds like-
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crack
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I'll pretend I knew that and I was just reminding you. :bmonster:A section devoted to fan-created Compilation content and projects of all kinds. Artwork, Fanfics, videos, ALL FFVII fan work is welcome here.
And I'll make a community right now - do you just want it named thelifestream?
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Sigh... Oh the LTD... We really should put rules in place over here about those things, since we'll be working to support a fan community and pairings might become a big deal again. I've gone SO long without even looking at that thread....
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Maybe not allow it? Tell them to all come here and keep it in one thread so that everyone else can carry on?
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LJ is a great idea since it has a huge userbase. Plus, a lot of the FF comms there are actually pretty damn active, even if it is for icon posts.
The frequency of articles is kind of a big thing, I think. If someone visits the site and sees the latest article was from a few weeks ago... it gives the impression of a dead/stalling community.
The frequency of articles is kind of a big thing, I think. If someone visits the site and sees the latest article was from a few weeks ago... it gives the impression of a dead/stalling community.
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Which is just the sort of thing that we're working to improve by getting connected with that Community. Also - despite the slow timeframe, Pixel's Audiobooks are pretty fucking epic for being exclusive to TLS.
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Hisako
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Speaking of PayPal,
Although I'm not all too keen on loading my direct debit with money this week, I'll see what I may or may not do.
Although I'm not all too keen on loading my direct debit with money this week, I'll see what I may or may not do.
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If nobody can throw down on it, message Yop (Cthulhu) about it. He'll probably be able to do it if no one else can (though I'm not sure on how long it'll take 'til he replies).
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Max Caulfield
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- Chi, Trollzaya, Dean Winchester, Black Widow
Also, with LJ, I'm guessing that we're going to have specific entries for specific things. There's something you can do on LJ were if you date an entry say, August 31 2010, it'll stay at the top of the first page. What if we made the specific entries for whatever and then made an entry dated later with all the links to the different entries to make it easier for people to get to what they want to go.
(I hope that made sense.)
(I hope that made sense.
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