1. If at some point, you decide you want a poll, I have some dreamwidth credits sitting in my account that aren't earmarked for anything. I could use those to get you a month or two of paid time so you could make a poll. Of coruse, I'm not sure how a poll functions if your account reverts to a free account..
2. Membership: I don't really like moderated membership communities in general, although I understand that for the purposes of a safe space, it might become necessary. However, there is also the option of having open membership, but only specific members can post, or open membership and all members can post, but the posts are moderated in a queue. If more care is needed, perhaps moderated posting would be a better idea than moderated membership.
2a. banning members: I think it's a good idea to set up guidelines of behaviour before the community is created, so if someone is being a troll or abusive or whatever, it's clearly stated somewhere that such actions aren't tolerated (this also ties into the place being a safe space)
2b/3. Administration: I have no idea whether I'd have time to moderate (I just graduated from university so my schedule is up in the air right now as I figure out what's going to happen next), but I would be willing to help if I have time. I have some experience moderating and running communities in places other than dreamwidth as well as a pretty good handle on how dreamwidth works.
4. tags: Dreamwidth allows a (sort of) nested tag use. It's not true nesting, but a lot of communities have sub-classes of tag where they'll tag anything adminny with "admin: x-tag" rather than just "x-tag." Also if there is a master tag post, you wouldn't really need the tagging tag, since you could just link to that one post in your sidebar. However, you could allow people to request certain tags that didn't exist in the entries themselves, and in that case it would be useful to have a tag named tag request.
Also, there is an available setting for all members to be able to create new tags, however that can open up to tag abuse or to multiple tags for one concept (this was what led to scans_daily running out of tags at one point, because they'd have separate tags for Clark Kent and Superman, for example.)
Depending on the types of posts we're looking for in the community you also might want some tags like... discussion (for a post looking for discussion), 101 (if we're allowing 101-type posts), intersectionality if someone posts about how their asexuality relates to another part of their identity and how that affects privilege... I'm sure there are more, I think there needs to be time to see what happens in the community to see what types of tags are needed. Tags can always be added retroactively as well.
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Date: 2011-07-30 09:17 pm (UTC)2. Membership: I don't really like moderated membership communities in general, although I understand that for the purposes of a safe space, it might become necessary. However, there is also the option of having open membership, but only specific members can post, or open membership and all members can post, but the posts are moderated in a queue. If more care is needed, perhaps moderated posting would be a better idea than moderated membership.
2a. banning members: I think it's a good idea to set up guidelines of behaviour before the community is created, so if someone is being a troll or abusive or whatever, it's clearly stated somewhere that such actions aren't tolerated (this also ties into the place being a safe space)
2b/3. Administration: I have no idea whether I'd have time to moderate (I just graduated from university so my schedule is up in the air right now as I figure out what's going to happen next), but I would be willing to help if I have time. I have some experience moderating and running communities in places other than dreamwidth as well as a pretty good handle on how dreamwidth works.
4. tags: Dreamwidth allows a (sort of) nested tag use. It's not true nesting, but a lot of communities have sub-classes of tag where they'll tag anything adminny with "admin: x-tag" rather than just "x-tag." Also if there is a master tag post, you wouldn't really need the tagging tag, since you could just link to that one post in your sidebar. However, you could allow people to request certain tags that didn't exist in the entries themselves, and in that case it would be useful to have a tag named tag request.
Also, there is an available setting for all members to be able to create new tags, however that can open up to tag abuse or to multiple tags for one concept (this was what led to scans_daily running out of tags at one point, because they'd have separate tags for Clark Kent and Superman, for example.)
Depending on the types of posts we're looking for in the community you also might want some tags like... discussion (for a post looking for discussion), 101 (if we're allowing 101-type posts), intersectionality if someone posts about how their asexuality relates to another part of their identity and how that affects privilege... I'm sure there are more, I think there needs to be time to see what happens in the community to see what types of tags are needed. Tags can always be added retroactively as well.