Poll on harrypotter Community Concept

[boundbooks]

A little while ago there was a request for feedback on the concept for the community, but I failed to do the most obvious thing: make a poll!

General Concept

Make harrypotter a general discussion/info/meta/announcement community that allowed for cross-community promotion and event promotion. harrypotter would be a 'bulletin board' for HP fans on DW.

A Sticky Directory of HP on DW

At the top of the community would be a sticky post with a 'Master List' of all communities on DW for HP. It would be organized similarly to this DW F/F Links List on girlgay.

Non-replication of Existing Communities

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. As a result, the tagging system would be more general.

Tags

There could be tags for fanfiction, fanart, discussion, and promo, but not deeply extensive shipping and character ones like at 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 demand for it, we could also have a post, which was linked in the master sticky-list, where non-DW general HP communities could advertise.

Poll #9159 Community Feedback on Plan

This poll is closed.
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Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 6

The proposed plan for the community

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Should be implemented as-is
6 (100.0%)

Should be implemented with changes (please leave a comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
0 (0.0%)

(Other; please comment)
0 (0.0%)

(Poll format shamelessly stolen from dw_suggestions)

Comments

[opusculus]

Sounds like a good idea to me. My only suggestion/clarification is about HP fannish things that don't take place on journaling systems. Some are obviously useful even to people on DW, like the Lexicon (or is there a replacement now? I haven't been paying much attention to HP since before the lawsuit), some are forums and fanfic archives people might want to check out, etc. It seems to me like a basic guide to non-DW HP sites might be a good thing to have as a secondary sticky, and to have a general policy about whether or not they can be advertised on here. If there's an event running on Tumblr or someone's written meta on there or whatever, it seems useful to me to have that clarified from the start.

[boundbooks]

"It seems to me like a basic guide to non-DW HP sites might be a good thing to have as a secondary sticky, and to have a general policy about whether or not they can be advertised on here."

That is a cool idea! Agreed, it would probably be really useful to have a list of non-DW things like archives and resources. Goodness knows that even something like a basic list of ship-specific fic archives would be dead-useful. I really like this idea!

"If there's an event running on Tumblr or someone's written meta on there or whatever, it seems useful to me to have that clarified from the start."

Hm, I think maybe that should be parsed along the lines of expected activity? Say, a simple link to a fic/art/bit of meta on tumblr probably doesn't the originating site to be put in the post, because reading/seeing it is passive participation. On the other hand, an event (whereby one needs an account for a site) should have site-origin listed. :)

Probably for events, I'd steal from fandomcalendar's promo template for format, since that would more easily allow people to see if it's a tumblr event or a LJ event or an archive-based event. :)