QAF Beta Comm

[switch842]

This is a continuation of the comments started over in the bjfic community about starting a related community for betas and those looking for one. Please post here if you are interested in participating in this and have any ideas about how this could be maintained.

Comments

[crazy4qaf.livejournal.com]

Something like this, but for QAF fandom : http://community.livejournal.com/find_me_a_beta/profile

[huh789.livejournal.com]

Wow, that seems like a good place to get ideas. Seems like they ask for more information than absolutely necessary (age and sex?), I say we leave it a little more open ended - let people share what they want- but in general it is great.

[crazy4qaf.livejournal.com]

*grins* Cool. :)

[switch842.livejournal.com]

That does seem like an excellent starting point. Would you two like to be the co-mods on the community? I'll get the premliminary stuff up today over there and we'll see what happens.

[crazy4qaf.livejournal.com]

Sure, count me in and we`ll work on it as we go. :)

[huh789.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty new to lj so I don't really know what that entails, but I would love to help so count me in.

[switch842.livejournal.com]

Question - on this community, they state to post the story you want betad under an lj-cut. That could be tricky if stories are long. And I know as a beta myself, I like to edit in the story itself. Do we want to advise people to e-mail stories to each other? Or any other ideas?

[crazy4qaf.livejournal.com]

Yeah, emailing could be the best solution. Our comm could be like a connector between the writers and the betas, and after that they do the deed through the email. :)

[switch842.livejournal.com]

Excellent. OK, I have put up some preliminary User Info at qaf_beta if you guys want to take a look and let me know what you think. What's there is just what I thought of off the top of my head, so let me know what needs to be changed, added, etc. Crazy, I'll add you as a maintainer. Thanks!

[crazy4qaf.livejournal.com]

*grins* Well, I`ll do what I can. First thing we should definitely do is tell our flist about this in a post. Ask them to spread the word about the comm, and we`ll go from there.

[huh789.livejournal.com]

I don't have much of a flist under this name and considering the things I said about one of my betas I would rather not post on my other lj... sorry I am not much help here.

[crazy4qaf.livejournal.com]

*pets* It is really no problem. Just promote it where you can. ;)