cap_ironman | Mod Love!

Hello Cap_Ironman!

This is such an exciting time! We've seen a lot of new faces around here lately and our membership is almost to 400 people! :D

It seems like the perfect time to announce that Pandax_Pro is a new mod for Cap_Ironman! So that basically means that if anyone has ANY questions or concerns at ANY time, please feel free to PM either Pandax_Pro, PandaNoAi, or Axolotl_Lan.

We figure going into the new year, we should try to organize things so people can find things better around the comm. We're already in the process of tagging entries that people forgot to tag, and memming things so people can find entries that way as well!

We would like to know suggestions from you all! What additional tags would you find helpful? Beta List, New Challenges (like the Fairy Tale Challenge, or the upcoming Winter Fluff Challenge) Would you like the Memory Section to have GENRE as well? Etc.

We'll be taking suggestions in this post and then voting for the final changes in some polls in a post in about a week or so. :D

We just want to assure you that nothing big is going to change, cuz our comm is laid back and awesome! We just want you all to know that we are here for you guys if you need anything, and want to help make this comm the greatest! So please let us know what's on your minds!

The only thing we ask in return is that you all be EXCELLENT to each other! (oh that, and maybe add ratings to your headers :P)

Much Love People!!!!

We can't wait to see what you all have planned!

Panda and Lan

P.S. We are also working on some *sekrit plans* to inflict upon you later for some extra awesome! All will be revealed in due time. :3
P. P. S. It's nothing bad though! It's all happy goodness here! :D

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First Paragraph: we aren't shifting TOO much immediately and we aren't going to become so hardcorez that people with language differences feel uncomfortable posting but we may touch on this - especially in terms of STRONGLY suggesting betas for some and try to help them in finding those betas more easily.

Second paragraph: WE HAVE A PLAN TRUST US DEAL WITH IT A LITTLE BIT LONGER MY LOVE!~

^_^ is not bad just sekrit and in progress - but we are nice loving mods trust us!

Third Paragraph: this will be dealt with part of it is related to the second and part of it has already begun I spoke with one person already about considering something before posting. If it becomes too frequent we'll gve notice if tht doesn't work we will have to make a more difficult or intrusive method of coping but everyone here is generally great so it shouldn't have to be taken to that level dear, we hope the prescence of us as mods and availible will help a bit... I think the amount of time with "If the mods don't like this they can take it down" sorta caught on a bit - since we are here people can ask us we don't bite... well i do but only tasty sexy-wise.

fourth paragraph: So am I - Panda is more flexible hence we balance beautifully. We understand he comm was designed for our 75 casually active members... we aren't going to effect the core there will be no huge banhammering or deletions but we will press out a tiny bit of order here.

We were very happy that Tro modded up Pandax for us.

Couple of other thoughts. First is relating to canon research - I've noticed lately that we've been getting a lot of "I'm new to the fandom, reading X/Y/Z or haven't read anything yet, what should I know/what does this piece of canon have to do with that?"

Can I just through in my two cents here.
One of my favorite things about this community was newbies could ask things like that without getting the typical olbie "oh good lord" eye roll.

So whatever happens, I hope it doesn't make people feel uncomfortable asking, because honestly, I've learned something I didn't know from the comments in every "did you know" post that's come up recently. I may have known the gist, but there were details. Like I knew when Steve unmasked, but I just learned character context for a series I never read, which was cool and way helpful.

So while I can see the need to cover some FAQ' I hope we don't discourage those "do you know" posts. Because honestly, the canon is *sooo* painfully convoluted, cracktastic, and retconned that it's really hard to go just read the summaries on Marvel.com,Wiki the Shipper manifesto, or anywhere else and *really* understand WTF happened.

So yeah, I just wanted to toss in that I really valued the openness this comm. had to questions.

Nothing wrong with research, but could we maybe set up either designated posts for asking about canon issues

Not sure that would work, unless it was Sticky and annoyingly upfront. Those in my experience tend to get ignored eventually, plus the way LJ is set up, you wouldn't know if the comment count of the designated post increased because of new info or a new response. We could have several posts for each topic I suppose but it's something I see work decently on forums, but not LJ as much, just do to the way comments are handled *shrugs*

Uhhh anyway in final note *PANDA, LAN Directors of C_I**! I IS TRUSTING YOU*

** hell no I'm not letting that joke go ^__^

Edited 2008-12-09 06:43 (UTC)

This does relate to our secret plan preeeeeeeeeeeeetty heavily dear -
I only ask patience during the holiday season because we had not expected this to happen so soon.

We are not going to make Cap_Ironman into one of those rigid deadly boring comms... but we are at almost 400 members fleshing out rules that were originally designed for a 75 person sporadically active comm is important.

We don't wanna pull privilege on newbies as they make up the majority here. We DO want to better organize how they ask, and let them be aware of the resources avalible including us as mods if they are uncertain about a post.

We DO want to better organize how they ask, and let them be aware of the resources avalible including us as mods if they are uncertain about a post.

Oh yeah makes sense, I actually had a bit in their about understanding the need for something so that there are not 700 posts asking "Is Steve still dead" but somehow editing the comment lost that . . . this is the danger of posting after midnight I think *LOL*

I just wanted to express my love for the niceness with which questions are received here since that really is one of the things I loved, especially coming out of the HP fandom where that tends to not go so well ^^;;

75 person sporadically active comm is important.

WOW! I that how small this started out 0.o
WOW! Go cap_ironman! It's the little ship that could *LOL*

et them be aware of the resources avalible
RESOURCES!!! *glee*

it was actually a lot smaller then 75 at first. i remember our 69 members celebration and it was a BIG DEAL! (plus ya know... the number 69 ^.^)

but we were itty bitty! i think a lot of it had to do with Crims' slashy moments list, and of course anything that Elspeth and Seanchai write!

and now we're seeing so much AWESOME from everyone! it makes my heart happy (being such an old-timey steve/tony shipper :P)

we don't want anyone to not feel comfortable posting anything they need! we just hope to add resources that people can use :D

and we would just add links to the side, not annoying sticky posts-- i agree they just don't look good. :P

and right, like Lan said, the SPECIFIC questions post are part of our sekrit plan :3

ALSO-- D: D: D: *dies in pain from joke and is ded* ::hugs ghost!steve and *spoiler!ghost other person::

Edited 2008-12-09 07:45 (UTC)

*dies in pain from joke and is ded*
If I ever have time there will be icons =P

the SPECIFIC questions post are part of our sekrit plan :3
As long as there are no Skrulls I'm sure Sekrit Plan will be awesome *L*

Edited 2008-12-09 12:35 (UTC)

D: icons? oh noes. not icons! Panda's modly kryptonite has been discovered! (gee that didn't take long)

if you make them, i will have to use them :O

*is whore for icons*

How about a tag for it? Since the tags are seen on the side. ...and or a link in the profile page.

I actually like the post about Steve unmasking, because from what I heard, he unmasked...wasn't working for him, and he somehow went back? Then there is the mess with Peter Parker.

What I oppose to, is when someone actually confess that they have absolutely no knowledge of canon, but could someone please tell me the whole story so I could write one?

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re: canon research specific post