Dreamwidth Community Promotion

First up, dingsi has an index for community recommendations over on their dw. Take a look at it as well as rydra_wrong's original post on the Rec O Matic where you post about communities you want to find, recommend others to folks etc.

Secondly, please tag your posts! It makes it much easier for people to find you later.

Third, the follow fest was quite successful with a number of communities mentioned. Please do check them out and keep adding comments!

There have been a few questions about tags are used in the community, so I'm going to try and give a general definition of the tags that exist so they can be helpful to everyone. Please do remember to use tags as that is one of the easiest ways for people to find your community later.

First up, please use ~needs_tags if you are sure that one of the existing tags doesn't work. Also please include a line in your post about what kind of tag you might think you need (so I don't have to completely guess). Keep in mind that tags are supposed to be fairly broad categories. I want to keep the tags list manageable.

Some of the tags I have not defined because the name itself seems to define it, if you have any questions please do comment and I'll amend the post!

* academic
* accessibility
* admin - admin and moderator posts
* adult_content -adult issues (this does not just mean sexual topics)
* animals
* books
* cooking
* crafting - handcrafts
* culture -
* dreamwidth_specific

Since fandom is so large and crosses so many things, I've made tags for each source. So for a tv show, please use the tag fandom_tv. If the fandom is in more than one source (for example X-Men is a comic and a film) then use all the tags that apply.

* fandom_actor
* fandom_anime
* fandom_book
* fandom_comic
* fandom_film
* fandom_game
* fandom_general
* fandom_manga
* fandom_movie
* fandom_music
* fandom_tv


* games
* hobby
* humor
* locality - for communities based around a physical real world location
* medical
* meme - all different kinds of memes
* misc
* music
* psychology
* religion
* sports
* tech
* trans
* writing
* ~needs_tags

Welcome to Dreamwidth's Community Promotions Community (we occasionally visit the redundant department of redundancy). We hope that you are enjoying your stay here at Dreamwidth Airlines. Don't forget to buckle your cross-posting applications and keep your pixels inside the browser at all times.

Oh, and don't forget to use tags when you are promoting your communities. It makes it much easier for people to find you in the tag list.