Well, as far as formatting I would say it's best to have certain fields that HAVE to be included, like rating and genre and so on, and a 'reason' where you explain why you're reccing it, and a selected snippet from it? I'm basing that off of the one I was involved with because as formats go it worked well and made sure that people got across why a particular thing was being recced so that people would actually click on it. XD
I would say probably just have it be moderated, and as long as the fic being recced meets some basic standards of grammar and quality it goes through buuuuut moderation gets hairy sometimes. Some comms like this have an application to become a reccer and those selected people can post whatever they like. I'm not sure which would be the best way to do it.
It would be more of a realtime thing I think; ie, the intent isn't to fill it archivally immediately but have recs coming in at a regular rate so that people can always pull it up to find something new to read. So rather than dump ten in at once, people would ideally post stuff as they find it, after the initial bit where we all cram stuff in heh. I think the other site has an actual schedule where their selected people post a set number of recs per day or whatever but they're also working with a *trememdous* centralized archive and I don't think it needs to be/could be that formal in this case.
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Re: also, web development
Date: 2009-05-06 11:20 pm (UTC)I would say probably just have it be moderated, and as long as the fic being recced meets some basic standards of grammar and quality it goes through buuuuut moderation gets hairy sometimes. Some comms like this have an application to become a reccer and those selected people can post whatever they like. I'm not sure which would be the best way to do it.
It would be more of a realtime thing I think; ie, the intent isn't to fill it archivally immediately but have recs coming in at a regular rate so that people can always pull it up to find something new to read. So rather than dump ten in at once, people would ideally post stuff as they find it, after the initial bit where we all cram stuff in heh. I think the other site has an actual schedule where their selected people post a set number of recs per day or whatever but they're also working with a *trememdous* centralized archive and I don't think it needs to be/could be that formal in this case.
It seems worth a shot, though.