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harrypotter2011-12-02 01:16 pm
boundbooks) wrote in harrypotter2011-12-02 01:16 pm
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Request for Feedback for Concept for Community
Hi harrypotter community!
I'm one of the co-admins for this community. I know that this is one of the oldest Harry Potter communities on Dreamwidth, and I'd like to see it become a neat community for HP fans. :)
I wanted to ask you for feedback about the shape of this community, and what you think it should do. I cobbled together a loose concept, based on comments from the post on late October.
Existing HP Communities on DW
DW will probably always be smaller than LJ, so I don't see any need for this community to replicate what other communities on DW do.
There's already a community for general fanworks (hp_fanfiction), and there's one for fanart (hp_fanart), and there's all kind of little ones for things like ships and slash and femmeslash, and even hp_add_me for things like finding other harry potter fans.
Directory of HP on DW
What DW doesn't have is a directory of all the HP-focused communities and fests/exchanges on DW, nor a space to do targeted HP community/event promotion, nor discuss HP things in general, nor run friending memes and the like.
My broad concept for the community would be something with a giant stickied post with a 'Master List' of all communities on DW for HP (organization would be something that would need to be hashed out) at the top of the community.
Thoughts for how to organize it?
Tags
Theharrypotter would be for discussion of all-things HP-related, and people could post whatever HP stuff they had made that was cool. There could be tags for fanfiction and fanart, but not deeply extensive shipping and character ones like hp_fanfiction. Tags might look like the following:
media: fiction
media: art
event: exchange
event: fest
event: friending meme
Cross-community Promotion
Likefandom_on_dw, we could have two templates for posting/advertising:
1) a template for a new DW community that's HP-related
2) a template for an HP event/exchange
Communities would have to be on DW. If you have a community dedicated to Minvera's Hats on LJ, you couldn't advertise it here, because, hey, we're all on DW and not on LJ.
HOWEVER, if you were running a fest dedicated to Minerva's Hats on your Minerva's Hats community, you could advertise it, because a one-shot event is something that's relatively easy to participate in across journaling platforms.
If there was enough demand for it, we could also have a post, which was linked in the master stick-list, where non-DW general HP communities could advertise.
General Concept
So, the idea would be to have a general discussion/info/meta/'hey I did something cool' community, that also allowed for cross-community promotion and event promotion, whereharrypotter would be a 'bulletin board' for HP fans on DW, which I think would fit a community that's got as general a name as harrypotter
Feedback, comments, suggestions, thoughts are all welcome! I'll probably let this post float for a week, and asking for feedback, before doing anything to specifically change the goals/purpose of the community. :)
harrypotter community!I'm one of the co-admins for this community. I know that this is one of the oldest Harry Potter communities on Dreamwidth, and I'd like to see it become a neat community for HP fans. :)
I wanted to ask you for feedback about the shape of this community, and what you think it should do. I cobbled together a loose concept, based on comments from the post on late October.
Existing HP Communities on DW
DW will probably always be smaller than LJ, so I don't see any need for this community to replicate what other communities on DW do.
There's already a community for general fanworks (
hp_fanfiction), and there's one for fanart (hp_fanart), and there's all kind of little ones for things like ships and slash and femmeslash, and even hp_add_me for things like finding other harry potter fans.Directory of HP on DW
What DW doesn't have is a directory of all the HP-focused communities and fests/exchanges on DW, nor a space to do targeted HP community/event promotion, nor discuss HP things in general, nor run friending memes and the like.
My broad concept for the community would be something with a giant stickied post with a 'Master List' of all communities on DW for HP (organization would be something that would need to be hashed out) at the top of the community.
Thoughts for how to organize it?
Tags
The
harrypotter would be for discussion of all-things HP-related, and people could post whatever HP stuff they had made that was cool. There could be tags for fanfiction and fanart, but not deeply extensive shipping and character ones like hp_fanfiction. Tags might look like the following:media: fiction
media: art
event: exchange
event: fest
event: friending meme
Cross-community Promotion
Like
fandom_on_dw, we could have two templates for posting/advertising: 1) a template for a new DW community that's HP-related
2) a template for an HP event/exchange
Communities would have to be on DW. If you have a community dedicated to Minvera's Hats on LJ, you couldn't advertise it here, because, hey, we're all on DW and not on LJ.
HOWEVER, if you were running a fest dedicated to Minerva's Hats on your Minerva's Hats community, you could advertise it, because a one-shot event is something that's relatively easy to participate in across journaling platforms.
If there was enough demand for it, we could also have a post, which was linked in the master stick-list, where non-DW general HP communities could advertise.
General Concept
So, the idea would be to have a general discussion/info/meta/'hey I did something cool' community, that also allowed for cross-community promotion and event promotion, where
harrypotter would be a 'bulletin board' for HP fans on DW, which I think would fit a community that's got as general a name as harrypotterFeedback, comments, suggestions, thoughts are all welcome! I'll probably let this post float for a week, and asking for feedback, before doing anything to specifically change the goals/purpose of the community. :)