harrypotter | So, does anyone know what this community was meant to do?

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So, does anyone know what this community was meant to do?

Normally, I would not have made this post, and instead contacted the mod. Unfortunately,

jen does not appear to have any public posts on their journal, and has Private Messaging turned off.

Does anyone know what this community was intended to do, or have any ideas for it?

As far as HP stuff on DW goes, there's got to be some kind of void in HP fandom that this community could fill.

As far as I know, there isn't a community dedicated to promoting HP communities, but I'm not sure people would want one. Any ideas, other people out there who are members of

harrypotter? :)

edit - Suggestions

Occasional tasteful promotion
Directory of HP things
People's favorite fics
Pottermore chat

Fanfiction
Harry Potter discussion
Directory
art

social bookmarking tags for HP fanfic!

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I mostly figured fan-fiction, Harry Potter discussion, I don't really mind people putting out a directory of other HP communities. Or art, etc.

Basically, if it's Harry Potter related I'm fine with it as long as people are reminded to be tactful about cuts and how often they post at once.

Glad to see an update here :)

Also, I don't think there was a way to do it some months ago, but if the administrator can't be contacted at all (comment, PM, etc.) I think we can report it as a TOS violation and have administrator status transferred to another user, if they can't contact the user as well. I don't know how often they act on that last part if the account isn't deleted, but I think it's important to get the interests and profile of communities edited to help attract users - and multiple communities on the same topic only work if you have a ridiculously large user base.

Edited (Not an HP icon.) 2011-10-24 05:26 (UTC)

I'll put your suggestions up in the main post! :D

I think we can report it as a TOS violation and have administrator status transferred to another user, if they can't contact the user as well. I don't know how often they act on that last part if the account isn't deleted

I'll hopefully found out the answer to that soon-ish, as I've recently petitioned to have a community transfered due to administrator absence (

dhr_news, if you're curious).

I think it's important to get the interests and profile of communities edited to help attract users - and multiple communities on the same topic only work if you have a ridiculously large user base.

Yup! I'm not sure how large the HP community is here on DW. I should probably list the communities I do know exist, so people have an idea. Things to do this week! :)