[FAQ] The posting checklist.

[skalja]

POSTING CHECKLIST.

Before you post, make sure that your entry fits the following guidelines!

SET-UP.

i) Is this your first post to the community?

If you have never used the LiveJournal codebase before (never posted an entry at LiveJournal, Dreamwidth, InsaneJournal or similar), we strongly advise you read the scans_daily posting walkthrough. The walkthrough may also be helpful for members looking to strengthen the quality of their posts. You can also check out our technical resource page for tips on scanning and image hosts.

ii) Are your images hosted properly?

Only direct link to images on your own web space. If you'd like to point out scans on someone else's webspace to the group, please use a text link. Bandwidth theft never goes well. Again, see the resources page for image host suggestions.

iii) Have you learned our definitions?

You don't want your post deleted just because you don't know what the community's definition of a "recent comic" or a "spoiler" is.

CREATING YOUR POST.

1) Is your post community-legal?

Each post must have at least one image scanned from a comic (webcomics are fine). Photo-manipulations of pages/panels do not fulfill this requirement.

Code to post an image:

<img src="url of image goes here">

2) Does it fit the length requirements?

• No more than one third the length of any single work should be posted on this community. In layman's terms, work refers to a story or chapter within a single issue or book.
  
  • That's 7 pages of a standard American comic. If you're posting more than 7 pages from a longer work, your mod team would love it if you would indicate to us the exact length of the total comic. That way we don't need to bug you over this issue.
    
  • In regards to anthologies, graphic novels, manga and pamphlets with backup stories, do not exceed 1/3 of the total page count of individual stories.
    
  • Stories that are 1-2 pages in length may be posted in full.
  
  
• No more than 4 scans of a recent comic should be posted by any one user on this community. This prevents any one member from getting to control the discussion on popular comics. Once a comic is no longer classed as being “recent” single posters can post a full 7 pages from it.
  
• Exceptions to the 1/3 posting rule are those works which are free, orphaned, public domain or web-published stories. The burden is on you to demonstrate that the comic you are posting is in the public domain, an orphaned work, or a web-published story if you exceed the 1/3 limit. (If it is a web-published story, please credit and provide links to the source.)

It is your responsibility to check that another user hasn't beaten you to the punch. You can use the tags, and browse the archives to search through past entries. We will be relatively lenient if you accidentally post a few extra pages of a comic that's 30 years old and out of print in any collection, but a comic that's in print will be deleted without warning.

Exceptions to the above will be made at the discretion of the moderators. Please contact us at dailyscans[at]gmail[dot]com if you are confused about these requirements.

3) Is the body of the post behind an lj-cut?

Cuts are required for any post which has more than one image. In addition, long blocks of text, or text with spoilers should be behind a cut.

Code for a Simple Cut:
<cut>body text</cut>

Code for a Cut With Text:
<cut text="this is the text of the cut"> body text</cut></textarea>

4) Does your (optional) preview image fit the size and content requirements?

You may use one preview image, maximum size 400x300 pixels, outside of the cut; it must be work-safe and it cannot contain spoilers. If it's from a recent comic, it is not allowed outside of a cut, no matter how spoilery it isn't.

5) If you're making a NSFW post, have you remembered to...

• ... put it behind an lj-cut?
  
• ... clearly state that it's NSFW outside the cut?
  
• ... set the post's age restriction to "18 and over"?

As stated above, anything that is nsfw should be put under an lj-cut. Additionally, we ask that you use the "nsfw" tag and mention its status above the cut in the actual entry. Finally, the post should use Dreamwidth's age restriction function so that only 18+ account holders can view it. If an entry is NSFW but has not followed these three rules, it will be deleted without consultation. THIS is the warning.

6) If your post has spoilers, have you remembered to put the spoilers behind a cut?

If you've read the definitions, this should be self-explanatory. If you haven't, do so now.

7) Have you added tags?

Don't forget to tag your posts! A complete listing of all our tags can be found here. If you're new to tagging please see foxhack's tagging tutorial and the Dreamwidth tag FAQ.

Tags should adhere the following format: char: batgirl/oracle/barbara gordon, creator: bill sienkiewicz, series: one perfect moment week.

All members have the ability to create, add, and edit tags, but not all members tag appropriately. In order to keep the tags up to date, we've assembled a crack team of Tag Wranglers. If you'd like to join the team, email us at dailyscans[at]gmail[dot]com.

AFTER YOU POST.

Do not screen or delete comments, or posts, unless directed by a moderator, or for the purposes of editing/correcting errors. This is a violation of our code of conduct.

Note: Troll comments that reveal personal info should be not be deleted. Instead, please screen them and then bring them to the attention of the mod team.

FYI: Members whose posts contain minor violations of the rules above (legality, one or two extra pages, etc) will be given six hours to correct the issue. Sorry, but we can't take your job/bedtime/afternoon outing into account - everyone lives in different time zones. Posts with major violations such as NSFW/spoilery/outsized images outside an lj-cut or too many recent scans are subject to immediate deletion without warning.



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Comments

[skjam]

Will the lj-cuts work with the "feeds" some of our members are using? I know we had to use special cuts on IJ because of this issue.

[schmevil]

They should be fine, but we'll be testing everything through the night, and by the time we open tomorrow we hope to have all the kinks ironed out.

[jld]

On DW there's a per-journal setting for how cuts get represented in feeds, so if it's set right on the community (and I think that's even the default setting?) then it will Just Work for everyone's posts.

[foxhack]

The posting walkthrough link is busted. :)

[foxhack]

Furthermore, a lot of the older entries are being shown out of order for some reason; I'm getting a When Wondy Was Awesome post in the front page o_O

[mark]

This should be fixed now. Are you still seeing it?

[foxhack]

Yes.

I'm getting this post, among others...

[mark]

I just cleared memcache on the site. Can you check one more time?

And by 'the front page', I want to confirm you mean that you see entries out of order at this URL:

http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/

Make sure you do a Shift+Refresh, just in case your browser is currently caching the page. (Which happens a lot in IE particularly, but Opera does extra caching some too.)

Edit: I see the entries now, I'm investigating.

[foxhack]

I tried this with Firefox (shift + refresh), IE (fresh start just to test), and Opera 10 (same as previous one). Both IE and Opera are -not logged in-.

Same result.

Your server must really like bluefall. ;p

[mark]

I have discovered the source of the strange fetish our servers developed for bluefall's posts. I've corrected the behavior and the posts are now properly sorted back where they go!

Thanks for your patience. :)

[skalja]

You're a rockstar, Mark!

[foxhack]

Thanks.

Should I report whatever issues I find here or do I go to a specific community from now on?

[mark]

Either way, if you want to comment to me, that works. Otherwise, the mods know how to contact me and I'm sure will be letting me know if there are any issues!

So: whatever works for you all.

[bluefall]

I AM JUST THAT SEXY.

[skalja]

That would be because we're still uploading the FAQs. Let me know if there are still dead links after the community's live.

[kingrockwell]

Now here's a question. If, for the first month or so, someone makes a clearly-marked friends-only NSFW post (in other words, perfectly acceptable by IJS_D standards), but doesn't set the age restriction because they're still learning DW, will that get deleted immediately?
I'm not planning on making any such mistake, I'm just thinking in terms of people making the transition and learning the new methods.

[skalja]

Sorry, I was going to get back to you on this but it got lost in all the furor!

I discussed this with the other mods and the consensus is that we'll be flexible with people needing to get adjusted to the new codebase, within reason. We do need to observe the right to take things on a case by case basis.

[koschei]

Have we changed the requirement for a legal post from "must have a scan of a comic" to "must have a comics-related image"?

[skalja]

Nope. Is there something in what I wrote that creates that impression? (Honest question, because if there is I need to fix it.)

[koschei]

I don't think there's actually anything that defines a legal post. But ask because the suggestion's been made numerous times and never dealth with on 2.0. 3.0 seems to be a good time to do so.

[skalja]

From the top of this very post:

"1) Is your post community-legal?

Each post must have at least one image scanned from a comic (webcomics are fine). Photo-manipulations of pages/panels do not fulfill this requirement."

From the userinfo:

"Every post must have at least one image from a comic book, manga, or webcomic."

If there's something unclear in that, the other mods and I will work to make it clearer.