An Update Following The Post About The Communities

[active_apathy]

Though, possibly, with fewer footnotes.

So! Following the previous format:

adjectinventive

This community for posting words made up on LiveJournal has a new maintainer in herekittykitty, who almost got a < lj comm="..."> tag just then. Oops.

Now, it just needs people to join. And to harvest made up words to inflate the comm's post count, because neologisms? Fun. Or because I said so.

apathy_books

This comm's new maintainer is the many-talented princesslaurene. What comes next is some deleting of the posts, and then gathering people, and then posting stuff about books.

Pursuant to my other notes on this comm, I'd like for you, my readers, to come up with fiction genres, non-fiction subjects, formats suitable for an LJ book group, and other such things. This is because if I tried to come up with my own lists of genres and subjects,
I'd inevitably miss a pile of things.

apathy_games

palmer_kun is the GM for a Spirit of the Century game. Characters are being made. Plots may be being plotted. There is little else to be said at this point.

comms_anon

This comm has a new maintainer, the wondrousful lesslikeyou. Rejoice!

If you want to promote a comm, then it should eventually be a useful comm-promoting resource - but only if people are there to start with. And I'm not entirely certain how that bit works, except to point out that it's a comm for pointing out comms.

metaicons

This comm has three new maintainers: lesslikeyou, palmer_kun and princesslaurene. Love them.



And that's about it. So, genres, subjects. If it helps, raid your shelves for suggestions.

Comments

[herekittykitty.livejournal.com]

I can pimp out adjectinventive in my journal and my big community this afternoon.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

And then I can hug you and kiss you and call you... Amy. :)

[herekittykitty.livejournal.com]

Huzzah!

Careful, I'm a zombie.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

We'll reeducate you as a vegetarian zombie. GRRAAAAIIINNNS!

[herekittykitty.livejournal.com]

If only that were possible. I'd be the best zombie EVER.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

You would! We could still hug you and kiss you and call you Amy, and occasionally let you take out your unholy vengeance upon a cobb loaf or a lettuce or something.

[laurenmitchell.livejournal.com]

Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror, Thriller, Western, Chicklit, Romance, Erotica, Mystery, Crime.

Possibly more when I get home and have a look at my bookshelves.

[palmer-kun.livejournal.com]

<lj comm=""> is deprecated and no longer needed.
<lj user=""> works universally for users, comms and sydicates

[herekittykitty.livejournal.com]

iawtc

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

I like using the different ones, which makes me happy because they still work.

[palmer-kun.livejournal.com]

So you like deprecated LJ tags, but you don't like deprecated HTML 3.2 formatting tags like <i> and <b>

Curious.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

The LJ tags add meaning, whereas the HTML formatting tags don't. I see no conflict here.

[palmer-kun.livejournal.com]

But how does comm= add any meaning beyond user=?

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Because comms and feeds aren't users. Ultimately, though, it doesn't matter, because only LJ sees the lj tag.

[palmer-kun.livejournal.com]

Despite that, they're still user accounts. There are some subtle differences between them, but not much. The key point is that they all share the same namespace.
There is no difference between user=active_apathy and comm=active_apathy.
If users and comms had separate namespace, then it would actually have meaning.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

There are much worse things to be concerned about with LJ tags. Like the elljay-space-user versus elljay-dash-cut thing.

[palmer-kun.livejournal.com]

GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

HATE THAT. HATE WITH PASSION.

They should just make it so both tags work with AND without dashes.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Yes. HATE WITH BIG STOMPY ANGRY.

I'd even be happy with
<lj-user name="...">
<lj-cut text="...">...</cut>
instead of the user/comm/feed tag being an attribute of a formless LJ tag.

[palmer-kun.livejournal.com]

Just as long as they're consistent. Though I am well trained as to the dash-vs-none. But it is still one of the stupidest things they've ever done.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Ain't it just. Curse their familiar yet inconsistent markup.