Greetings all,
In light of some questions that have been put to us of late your tyrannical, yet adorable, Mod Team have been pondering a few things about the nature of reality and, more importantly, the nature of Scans_Daily.
Our primary focus is, and will always remain, the sharing of comic scans to promote the medium and to discuss them in an LGBTQ-friendly, anti-racist, anti-ableist, woman-friendly and otherwise discrimination and harassment free way, but we do feel that it’s time to reorganise things just a little.
Posting RulesOur basic rules about posting, and civility, remain as they always were. They’ve served us well this long, we see no need to amend them.
No_ScansThe most important change is that, given that it has seen a decline in posting for a couple of years and nothing at all over the past five months, we will officially retire the NoScans_Daily comm effective immediately.
We created NoScans_Daily when we migrated from LiveJournal back in 2009, so we would keep a presence there, but we no longer feel that it is necessary to do so and, as a forum for discussion, LJ has been superceded by other social media sites.
However, we don't want to lose the concept completely, and rather than set up a separate NSD in Dreamwidth, we thought we’d rather try something new, and so we’re going to try expanding the limitations of Scans_Daily by incorporate a new category of post, “No_Scans”.
These will be used for posts relating to comic news and media rather than comics themselves. There will be no need for the dread “Legality scan” in such posts. Other relevant images and media, such as video links may be posted, but these must ALWAYS be under a cut, no preview images allowed. Please always try to use a cut for your No_Scans posts, so they do not take up too much space on the comm page.
All such posts must be clearly tagged so that other posters can easily find these posts when searching through the comm.
These new tags are;
ns: news
ns: interview
ns: multimedia
ns: comics-related question
ns: misc
All No_Scans posts
MUST clearly indicate what the topic is about in the title;
NEWS – DC announces new titles based on potato chip flavours
INTERVIEW – Frank Miller discusses his upcoming My Little Pony miniseries
and so on.
Off Topic TuesdayAnother thing we'll be bringing back from the No Scans comm is "Off Topic Tuesdays", a Mod Post each week where members can discuss anything they want to get off their chest, though let it be known the rules of conduct will still apply.
Clarifications/ReminderJust to update what an earlier version of the Rules didn’t make clear:
The “Four pages of a new issue” rule is cumulative, No more than four pages may be posted in total until a comic is no longer considered to be a new issue (Four weeks, or when the next issue is published), no matter how many posters are involved.
So if one poster shares two pages, then another poster may share no more than two pages. If a poster shares four pages, no more pages from that comic may be shared until it is no longer considered to be a new issue.
Scans which are posted from official previews, if they are posted on scans_daily, count towards the four page rule.
The 1/3 rule remains and, as before, applies to any individual story within an issue, not the comic as a whole
No links to sites relating to pirating or torrenting comics may be posted.Tags
As many have commented, we’ve long since run out of room for new tags, which given we have 5000, is really saying something about the range of materials we’ve had posted!
We are looking to implement a housecleaning in the near future based on the following rule.
Any tag which has been used on three or fewer occasions in total, and which has not been updated in over a year or so, will be deleted.
As an example, we have a “char: Violator” tag, which has been used three times, and the last time was 2009. With apologies to fans of Violator, this seems like it is just taking up space we could use elsewhere. Ditto the likes of "char: vladrushka" who appeared once, in 2010.
Where a character is uniquely linked to a single group, the “group” tag supercedes the individual character.
So we don’t need individual character tags for Optimus Prime, Megatron, Bumblebee and so on, just use the “Group: Transformers” tag. We’ll be merging existing tags in this way and would ask you to bear this in mind when tagging posts. There are also exceptions, so whilst it’s unlikely that Roulette or Jetstream of the Hellions will ever need a tag of their own, Warpath did go on to join other teams and so can remain a solo character tag.
We will welcome questions or concerns about these amendments and will answer them as best we can. Please bear in mind some may take a little longer to answer than others depending on level of Mod Team discussion required and time-zone differences.
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