[Policy] Fandom Recommends Policy
Grand Line Vine
The One Piece Fandom Newsletter
Fandom Recommends Policy
Last Updated July 31, 2006
In an effort to give good fic and art the publicity it deserves, grand_line_vine has a special section which features only fic and art which have received three recs from any three people in the fandom. This post decribes the reccing procedure and the reasoning behind this section.
You are free to rec the works of grand_line_vine editors if you wish.
Editors of grand_line_vine cannot submit recs to the Fandom Recommends section, because they have their own sandbox: the Editor's Choice section. If you would like to play in our sandbox, please apply to join our editing staff! Just remember, if you become an editor, you can no longer submit fandom recs, but any other staff members (Link Checkers, Smikkers, etc.) still can.
Recommendation Procedure
A fic or piece of art will be featured in the Fandom Recommends section once it has received three recs from three different people. Authors and artists may not rec their own work. However, you are free to suggest your own work to appear in the New this Week section if it falls under the Large Archive policy.
To discourage sockpuppeteering by author, artists, and their overenthusiastic fans, and to ensure an honest picture of what the fandom thinks is good, we require that ever rec come with a short blurb describing what was good about the fic/art. Honestly, this is not hard. Just say what it was that attracted you to the fic/art. Editors do this for their recs every week, so check out the Editor's Choice archives for examples of how this goes.
We do check over every rec to make sure the blurb bears some resemblance to the fic. We don't care if your tastes differ from ourl that's not what we're looking for. But we do check for basic spelling/grammar goodness and some vague resemblance to being in character for fics, and for art some kind of basic understanding of anatomy and general technical stuff. We do not exclude anything based on subject matter or genre. Hey, if three people went out of their way to submit a rec to us, we figure we gotta give the fic/art its due and feature it.
To make our lives easier, we have separated recs submissions for fic and art. To make your lives easier each psot includes the master list of what has received one, two, or three votes, so you can check right there to see if something has been featured already or if it hasn't been recced at all. The lists wil say how many recs each piece has, but not who recced it. Comments on those posts will be screened for your privacy.
Besides a link to the recced thing itself, the most important part of your rec is the blurb. That part will be shown publicly in the Fandom Recommends archive, just like the editors' blurbs are displayed in the Editor's Choice archives. We do this to encourage people to be coherent, persuasive, enthusiastic, squeeful, and honest when they rec. However, we will not reveal your identity alongside your blurb unless you specify that it is okay for us to do so. Comments on the rec posts are also screened for your privacy. The master list of rec counts will include numbers but not who recced.
Submit fic recs here
Submit art recs here
You may not rec one thing more than once.
You may rec as many different things as you want.
You may rec the work of grand_line_vine editors.
Once something has been recced, it goes in the archives and will not be recced again. Come on people, keep making the good stuff!
With each rec, please include the following:
Title:
Author:
Map: For when no direct link is available. See our indirect linking policy for explanation and Editor's Choice archives for examples.
Characters/Pairing:
Rating:
Spoilers:
Rec Blurb: This describes why this particular piece is worth reccing and appears in the Fandom Recommends archives but not the newsletter itself. See the Editor's Choice archives for examples.
Once a fic or piece of art has collected three valid recs, we will include it in the next issue of grand_line_vine, post the recs to the relevant Fandom Recommends archive, and then leave a comment on the recced work congratulating them on being recced and linking back to the issue and the archive. We'll also include a link to that comment in the archive so people can go see what we said and hopefully leave a comment themselves.
Why We Rec
Because we want to spread the fandom love. In any fandom, it's hard to find the good stuff. In a newsletter like grand_line_vine, which tries to report on EVERYTHING, it's especially easy for the really good stuff to get lost. We considered several policies about including and reccing fic. Simply posting all the new fic paints an accurate picture of the state of fandom as it is, and that's what we are really about, in the end: honestly reporting fandom news. However, with things like fic and art, it would definitely be nice to have some kind of indication of what fandom considers to be really good.
One option is embodied in our Editor's Choice section, in which the newsletter editors get to dictate fandom recommend stuff we think is good. However, such a policy is inherently unfair.
An elegant solution to this dilemma was first seen by justira in the Harry Potter fandom newsletter, daily_snitch: there is so much new fic and art for that fandom every day that they could not possibly cover it all, but if a fic or piece of art gets 3 recs sent in by fans, then the newsletter will post it. This is a very fair solution. Unfortunately, it is not a very prolific one. Only having a Fandom Recommends section would not make grand_line_vine a good source of quality fic and art.
This is why our fic and art sections have all three sections. The Fandom Recommends is honestly the fairest way to feature good fic and art, but we fear it is not productive enough. Pleas help change that by recommending fic and art!
The One Piece Fandom Newsletter
Fandom Recommends Policy
Last Updated July 31, 2006
In an effort to give good fic and art the publicity it deserves, grand_line_vine has a special section which features only fic and art which have received three recs from any three people in the fandom. This post decribes the reccing procedure and the reasoning behind this section.
You are free to rec the works of grand_line_vine editors if you wish.
Editors of grand_line_vine cannot submit recs to the Fandom Recommends section, because they have their own sandbox: the Editor's Choice section. If you would like to play in our sandbox, please apply to join our editing staff! Just remember, if you become an editor, you can no longer submit fandom recs, but any other staff members (Link Checkers, Smikkers, etc.) still can.
Recommendation Procedure
A fic or piece of art will be featured in the Fandom Recommends section once it has received three recs from three different people. Authors and artists may not rec their own work. However, you are free to suggest your own work to appear in the New this Week section if it falls under the Large Archive policy.
To discourage sockpuppeteering by author, artists, and their overenthusiastic fans, and to ensure an honest picture of what the fandom thinks is good, we require that ever rec come with a short blurb describing what was good about the fic/art. Honestly, this is not hard. Just say what it was that attracted you to the fic/art. Editors do this for their recs every week, so check out the Editor's Choice archives for examples of how this goes.
We do check over every rec to make sure the blurb bears some resemblance to the fic. We don't care if your tastes differ from ourl that's not what we're looking for. But we do check for basic spelling/grammar goodness and some vague resemblance to being in character for fics, and for art some kind of basic understanding of anatomy and general technical stuff. We do not exclude anything based on subject matter or genre. Hey, if three people went out of their way to submit a rec to us, we figure we gotta give the fic/art its due and feature it.
To make our lives easier, we have separated recs submissions for fic and art. To make your lives easier each psot includes the master list of what has received one, two, or three votes, so you can check right there to see if something has been featured already or if it hasn't been recced at all. The lists wil say how many recs each piece has, but not who recced it. Comments on those posts will be screened for your privacy.
Besides a link to the recced thing itself, the most important part of your rec is the blurb. That part will be shown publicly in the Fandom Recommends archive, just like the editors' blurbs are displayed in the Editor's Choice archives. We do this to encourage people to be coherent, persuasive, enthusiastic, squeeful, and honest when they rec. However, we will not reveal your identity alongside your blurb unless you specify that it is okay for us to do so. Comments on the rec posts are also screened for your privacy. The master list of rec counts will include numbers but not who recced.
Submit fic recs here
Submit art recs here
You may not rec one thing more than once.
You may rec as many different things as you want.
You may rec the work of grand_line_vine editors.
Once something has been recced, it goes in the archives and will not be recced again. Come on people, keep making the good stuff!
With each rec, please include the following:
Title:
Author:
Map: For when no direct link is available. See our indirect linking policy for explanation and Editor's Choice archives for examples.
Characters/Pairing:
Rating:
Spoilers:
Rec Blurb: This describes why this particular piece is worth reccing and appears in the Fandom Recommends archives but not the newsletter itself. See the Editor's Choice archives for examples.
Once a fic or piece of art has collected three valid recs, we will include it in the next issue of grand_line_vine, post the recs to the relevant Fandom Recommends archive, and then leave a comment on the recced work congratulating them on being recced and linking back to the issue and the archive. We'll also include a link to that comment in the archive so people can go see what we said and hopefully leave a comment themselves.
Why We Rec
Because we want to spread the fandom love. In any fandom, it's hard to find the good stuff. In a newsletter like grand_line_vine, which tries to report on EVERYTHING, it's especially easy for the really good stuff to get lost. We considered several policies about including and reccing fic. Simply posting all the new fic paints an accurate picture of the state of fandom as it is, and that's what we are really about, in the end: honestly reporting fandom news. However, with things like fic and art, it would definitely be nice to have some kind of indication of what fandom considers to be really good.
One option is embodied in our Editor's Choice section, in which the newsletter editors get to dictate fandom recommend stuff we think is good. However, such a policy is inherently unfair.
An elegant solution to this dilemma was first seen by justira in the Harry Potter fandom newsletter, daily_snitch: there is so much new fic and art for that fandom every day that they could not possibly cover it all, but if a fic or piece of art gets 3 recs sent in by fans, then the newsletter will post it. This is a very fair solution. Unfortunately, it is not a very prolific one. Only having a Fandom Recommends section would not make grand_line_vine a good source of quality fic and art.
This is why our fic and art sections have all three sections. The Fandom Recommends is honestly the fairest way to feature good fic and art, but we fear it is not productive enough. Pleas help change that by recommending fic and art!