Posting and Tagging Rules

[zdenka]

Here are the rules for posting and tagging your fanworks in the B2MeM Dreamwidth community. I encourage people to at least skim them and refresh your memory, even if you’ve done B2MeM before. Also, this year we’re on Dreamwidth for the first time, and some things work a little differently. Please either comment here or email the mod team at b2mem.mod@gmail.com if you have any questions.

( Posting )

Tagging Rules

This year's tagging team is myself, Indy, and our tagging volunteer Jenni (jenni_blog). Please don’t hesitate to ask me or email the mod team at b2mem.mod@gmail.com if you have any questions about how or what to tag, if there’s a tag you need deleted, or anything related to this subject.


A few general guidelines:

~ It’s necessary to have one standardized form of every tag. Dreamwidth doesn’t work like AO3; we have no power to “syn” or connect different versions of the same tag behind the scenes. If one person tags as character:sam and another person tags character:samwise gamgee, DW treats them as two completely separate tags. So please use the existing form of the tag, if there is one. The list of currently existing tags may be found here: https://b2mem.dreamwidth.org/tag/

~ Please check to see if the tag you want already exists before creating one. You may need to check under more than one name for a character. For example, if your work includes Elu Thingol, you won’t find him under Elu or Elwë, but there is a tag for character:thingol.

~ The formatting is to have no space between the colon and the subject. For example, character:frodo. The same goes for every tag.

~ Tags are not capitalized. We also don’t use accents or diacritical marks of any kind in tags (ë, ú, and so on), since not everyone knows how to do them.

~ Please check your spelling. A misspelled or misformatted tag still appears in the “available tag” list even if you correct it after the fact and must be manually deleted by the mods. (People can and have used misspellings and misformattings before because they appeared first in the list!) If you notice that you've accidentally created a misspelled or superfluous tag, it's helpful to let me or Indy know so we can delete it.

~ If you are typing the tags in, please remember to separate the tags with commas. If you don’t do this, the tags will merge together into one Frankenstein monster tag. (Don’t worry, the tag mods can fix it.)

~ Please do not use the tags beginning with 2018 or other years. These are admin tags.

~ For those more familiar with AO3 and Tumblr: tagging on Dreamwidth is solely for organizational purposes within a community or journal. There is no need for tags such as “b2mem” or “tolkien fanfic” or the like.

~ We tag each entry for prompt, characters, format, and genre.


( Details and Examples )

( How To Tag )