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A bit of housecleaning prior to Happy Hours shifts today.

1) Apps will open at 12:01 AM this Friday.
You can re-familiarize yourself with our Application Process HERE.

2) Our Tag Request post has moved. You can now find that HERE.

And speaking of tags...
3) On September 1st we'll be re-creating our Tag List.
As you may know, DreamWidth provides communities with a fixed number of tags, and we're dangerously close to meeting our quota. Current procedure has us fulfilling requests by reallocating tags from unused accounts with low tag counts. Come September the plan will be to delete tags for any character not currently on the Cast List, as well as plot and community tags that haven't seen use in a while.

The Hows of this process are still being ironed out, but I wanted to give people ample time to go and memory all the things, so that there's a record of their own metadata.
There'll be a thread below if people want to talk about this further.

But for now:
HAPPY HOUR SHIFTS FOR THIS WEEK INCLUDE...

Today!
Tomorrow!
Wednesday!
Thursday!
Friday!
Saturday!
Sunday!

Have at!

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Give them to me!

I think this is a good idea! We've got loads of time to save what we want, and it'll pare everything right down. Two very enthusiastic thumbs up from me!

Is it possible to create a page somewhere to save recaps of classic plots? (This is a general 'possible', not asking if you specifically can do it, Bing.) I know anyone can do it individually, but I ask because they're like, the history of the bar and it's been going a long while now. Even a separate DW community for storing them might be easy, and could be linked from here to keep them close at hand for anyone who wants to give them a look. I recently had cause to re-read the Quest for the Landlord plot, which is why it comes to mind. Just a thought, though!

I like this idea but it does seem like a labor intensive thing. I could be wrong of course.

Maybe that can be a side quest for players who'd like to volunteer? Like, people who are interested (whether through involvement or just remembering reading them) in specific plots can pick one or more, go back and find them, and catalog them. They can list their findings at a dedicated post here for starters, and then that can be turned into a sort of index later (such as a separate comm as you suggested). So for example, you were just looking for the Landlord plot, so you could make that your task (I don't even think I've read that plot...). Does that make sense?

And something like this would be great for Milliways continuity and history for newer players.

Edited 2016-06-28 12:30 (UTC)

Yes! This is a great idea. If people collected some plot stuff - and I know the Landlord Quest is already collated, because Saph was good enough to link me the whole thing - and put it up, then I'd happy to volunteer to stick it up in a separate comm. I haven't hit up the tags to see how much needs organising, but I'd be happy to muddle through it over the summer if a few others were willing to take a bit as well.

*crashes through wall in full librarian gear* DID SOMEONE SAY "ARCHIVING PROJECT"

-- I mean. Ahem. I'd be happy to help as well. :D?

*CACKLE* BEST! Which is to say, yay! Archiving project with actual someone who knows what they're doing! Brill. So cool, hurrah, let's do it. :D

If i have an existing tag I'd like to edit, how would I go about doing that? If it's too much work, no problem on my end. = ]

Same as the tag request, but give the original tag and then the edit.

Like: Michaelangelo = Mike

Oh, awesome, I inherited a pre-existing tag that I'd love to change.

Got'cha!

I didn't realize the state of tag affairs till I went to do a Swamp Thing tag and found that there wasn't one. Woe unto me, I have neglected tags overall and now see that there is a Better Way.

That said, yes, I am all for this plan.

I am for this! And in that spirit, would it be possible to combine the Sherlock Holmes tag with the Sherlock Holmes (BBC) tag, since we've just got 1 Sherlock now and I never remember to use the BBC one? I wasn't sure how to ask in the tag post.

Could I please have Thursday for Hannibal Lecter? He has suggested a Milliways Existence Appreciation Day to Ava in their most recent conversation, for June 30th.

Edited 2016-06-28 11:38 (UTC)

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Happy Hour shift request: Thursday