Mod Post (re: tagging)

[seraphina_snape]

Hello Ben/Riley lovers!

I'm sera, and I'm the one who created this comm back in, uh, 2005 (wow, it's been a while, huh?) to indulge my Ben/Riley love in a more public place than my own journal.

Ever since Book of Secrets started in cinemas around the world, we've had an influx of activity that's making me giddy with excitement. So many new fanfics, so much fanart and discussions. treasure_geeks has never been this active before and I've never thought it was necessary up until now, but I do believe we need to start bringing some order into the community.

LJ's tag system is probably the easiest way to organise the comm and make fanfic and fanart easy to find. Luckily I'm not the only one who's been thinking about this. Bee (aka cynical_sweater) approached me and volunteered to go back and tag the comm's entries, so don't worry when your entries suddenly get tagged.

Once Bee's finished with her task, you should have no problems finding your way around the comm's entries, whether you're a newbie looking to catch up on your fanfic reading or a fandom veteran looking for your favourite piece of fanart.

For that, I think Bee deserves our heartfelt thanks and possibly some virtual cookies!

~ sera

Comments

[horriblematzo.livejournal.com]

Yay! I love tags! It annoys me when there are no tags, actually... Good job!

[seraphina_snape]

Yeah. The comm was pretty dormant until BoS revived it, so tags seemed like a good idea all of a sudden...

~ sera

[phantom-roxs.livejournal.com]

Ok, me being a stupid newbie to lj.

Is a tag like a ljcut or is it differnt?

[seraphina_snape]

We all started out as LJ newbies one day, so don't worry about it.

Basically, tagging is a feature of LJ that allows you to add one or several keywords to your entries to make it easier to find entries on a certain topic. For this comm, we'll have tags like "fanfic" and "icons" and the like, so that you can find all icon posts by checking the entries tagged with "icons". You can see the tag for this entry (mod post) above the subject line (where it says entry tag:). When you go to the main community page, you can see the tag index (a list of all existing tags) in the sidebar on the left. If you click on any of these tags, it'll show you all entries using that tag. (Although Bee's just started tagging entries; it might take a few days until you can actually use the system here.)

Check the FAQ article about tags for the long explanation.

~ sera

[phantom-roxs.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhhh.
Now it makes sense!

Thanks!

I'll eventually get totally used to livejournal. I know it! ^.^

[cynical-sweater.livejournal.com]

I'm so on it, chief! *blushes* (You made me "awwwe" out loud with your graphic! <3<3)

[seraphina_snape]

LOL. You deserve it, Bee.

~ sera