Rules post/FAQ/Page-A-Mod

[10littlebullets]

Since LJ seems to have finally capitulated to the Russian government and is now subject to Russian anti-obscenity laws, I'm not going to take a chance on sudden deletions. The Les Mis kinkmeme now lives at https://lesmiskinkmeme.dreamwidth.org/. (Rules post here.) Everything has been backed up there. The LJ kinkmeme will stay up, but is now closed

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weird bot

[anonymous]

I think this user is a bot: http://makinghugospin.livejournal.com/13289.html?thread=9249257#t9249257

The comment is a copy/pasta from the previous page:
http://makinghugospin.livejournal.com/13289.html?thread=9198825#t9198825

It just adds a tracker (hosted on hdvdu.com). I don't know what that bot is doing but it's infesting (under different usernames) many comms with c/p comments + invisible images.

See here:
http://davis-square.livejournal.com/3206753.html?style=mine

Re: weird bot

[10littlebullets]

Huh, weird! I'll go delete their comments (I think they made one on the chatter post too). Thanks for the heads-up.

[anonymous]

I posted a fill in the fill post but i got a message saying it was marked as spam (anon discrimination <\3) and so im not sure if it goes to the mods for approval or if it just went away and i should try to comment with it again?

i just want to make sure so im not submitting the same thing over and over and get annoying lol

[10littlebullets]

Mods go through and check the spam quarantine periodically, so your comment should be approved soon.

[anonymous]

This might be stirring up:

http://makinghugospin.livejournal.com/13488.html?thread=10524336#t10524336

[10littlebullets]

Thanks. Frozen.

[neery]

Is there some reason several people seem to deliberately obfuscate their links in the fill post, for example by inserting spaces or brackets? This sort of thing is what I mean:

archiveofourown . org / works / 944223

http://makinghugospin(.)livejournal(.)com/13488(.)html?thread=10783408#t10783408

It's kind of a pain in the ass to fix even on a normal browser, but when reading on a phone it's total misery. If there's not some security reason for this I'm missing or something, could the mods please encourage people to post links in usable form?

[10littlebullets]

Livejournal has an unfortunate tendency to mark comments with unmangled links as spam. :( That's why people obfuscate them--mods will eventually fish the comments out of spam quarantine, but we can't be on 24/7, and even when it gets fished out subscribers don't get a new-comment notification for it.

[anonymous]

Is there a policy on how closely fills have to match up with prompts? Like, if I see a prompt and I want to fill it, but some very minor details don't match up, could I post the fic as a fill anyway? What about slightly larger details/is there any kind of guideline or rule of thumb for where the difference between "okay as a fill" and "you should just post it elsewhere and post a relevant-to-your-interests? link" is?

[10littlebullets]

There's no hard-and-fast rule for how off-topic is too off-topic. I think this is a situation where you should check in with the OP and ask them which details are particularly important to them and whether they'd be okay with a fill that strayed from the original prompt on points X, Y, and Z.

(In any case, this is more of a kinkmeme-etiquette issue than something the mods are going to get involved in, unless you're pulling a total dick move like throwing in unsolicited non-con without clearing it with the OP.)