Follow Friday 7-14-23

[ysabetwordsmith]

Got any Follow Friday-related posts to share this week? Comment here with the link(s).

Here's the plan: every Friday, let's recommend some people and/or communities to follow on Dreamwidth. That's it. No complicated rules, no "pass this on to 7.328 friends or your cat will die". Just introduce us to some new things to read.

Comments

Done!

[ysabetwordsmith]

The Popular Interests feature is currently down following a recent code push. Hopefully people will fix it eventually.

In the meantime, I've boosted the signal for a few new communities and two events that are currently running.

[soc_puppet]

New theme at summerofthe69! Kinky 69: When the position is too vanilla on its own, it's time to mix in other kinks

Forced 69 is also closed for the event, to reopen during Amnesty.

[silvercat17]

What's the limit for how often we can rec something? I don't want to be obnoxious

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

The community doesn't have rules for that.

Some logical possibilities:

If there's a different theme or activity each week, then weekly is fine.

If you're listing "communities I interacted with this week" and there's at least a little variation over time, weekly is fine.

If you're copying exactly the same thing, maybe once a month or so.

Alternating at least two different recs, one each week, should also work.

But in general: some comments are better than no comments, and comments by 2 different people are better than only 1 person.

I hope this helps.

Re: Thoughts

[silvercat17]

Thanks, that helps. I don't want to spam with my communities, as much as I want them to prosper. :)

Re: Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

1) I'd rather have enthusiastic moderators supporting their comms than the hundreds of folks who have made a comm and then fucked off into the sunset.

2) How many comms do you have? If 2+ then you could simply boost one per week, alternating them. Or if they have activities that vary, list the current themes. Frex, when I'm boosting allbingo on dw_community_promo or fandomcalendar all I have to do is include that month's theme and it's fresh, since we host a new fest (or more) every month.

Yay!

[ysabetwordsmith]

Kink is awesome.

Re: Thoughts

[silvercat17]

It's only two. I promoted both last week (apparently, curse my ADHD time blindness), so I figure we're good for a bit.

Re: Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

That's fine.

I write in my desk calendar when to promote my stuff where, or I'd never remember it.

[silvercat17]

Not one of mine. :)

thestoryinside is a low-key community to help you pick what to read. It's got monthly discussions as well.