Welcome!

[sorchasilver]

Hello, and welcome to this comm. I got carried away and made it when I couldn't find one. I am not actually sure what to do with it, but why let that stop me, right? ;D

Come on in, post away, and if anyone has ideas for what we could do with this comm now it exists, please do share.

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[wendelah1]

No problem! I am happy to help, always. The usual places for promotion which I am aware of are fandomcalendar, dw_community_promo, and fandom_on_dw. Subscribing to/joining those communities is a good way to find new and/or active communities. The communities have rules for the size of banner they allow (which I'll check) and frequency of posting (ditto), if you want help promoting the community.

I have no idea what making me a community mod/admin does (which is odd, I should) but it is never a bad thing to have two people listed as mods for a community. But as long as I have posting privileges, it's all good. You don't know me (YET) so I understand if you're hesitant to add me as a mod.

I'll first try putting out a plea for a banner on my flist--some talented graphics people follow me. If no one offers, I'll make two simple banners: one for a promo banner for the community and one for the rewatch.

What day of the week is good for you? Any day is good for me--I'm retired. The show aired on Thursdays here, I think, which would transition to the weekly USA show dates.

The most successful small fandom community on DW that I've participated in is theamericans. I would take a look through their posts to get one example of how to format discussion posts, speculation posts and so on. I think they had a Introduce Yourself post when it first started up. They've never done a rewatch that I can recall. I know they give everyone who joins posting access. You can look at xf_is_love for an example of a rewatch format. I borrowed it from xf_rewatch which actually watched all nine seasons starting back in 2007, I think. Those were the days my friend. We thought they'd never end. Ignore the stupid Photobucket placeholders.

I hope some of that made sense.

I am so happy this community exists.

[sorchasilver]

Cool, thanks so much for all the advice. I've made comm promo posts at dw_community_promo and fandom_on_dw for now to get the ball rolling - I'll keep an eye on the rules and post again when it's permitted. And I'll make promo posts for the rewatch in a few days once we firm things up.

I've made a note of that posting format. I think Thursday is a good day for rewatching, yeah. I'm pretty sure everyone who joins this comm has posting access but I'll doublecheck the settings.

An Introduce Yourself post is a great idea, I'll post one soon! We've picked up a few members already which is nice to see.

Thanks for the nudge to actually DO something with the comm ;)

[wendelah1]

You've already made the promo posts, that's great. I asked in my journal yesterday for a banner and cookiegirl agreed to make one for me. I can post it in the community, if you like, when it's done, with a copy and paste box thingie, so that members can to use it to promote the community in their own journals?

I'll make the promo banner for the rewatch for you, assuming you want one? I just need a start date for it. How does March 8th, which is two weeks from tomorrow, sound?

[sorchasilver]

That would be awesome! I can also post to those comms again with the banner next week. And yeah, I think a promo banner for the rewatch is a good plan if you're OK to make one. The 8th works for me, and gives us a bit of time to do promo etc.