So that idea I threw out a few posts ago - about starting a meta links community that works like a crack_van/poetry-style recs community, where people rotate in and out as the person who collects and posts the meta links - seems to be fairly popular.

So consider this a post for brainstorming/recruiting/planning (and please link it around to anywhere else there might be interest!)

First, a really basic interest poll:



Here are some very rough draft proposed community rules and guidelines that I wrote up a few months back for said community (I have a whole folder of guidelines for hypothetical DW communities, guys, it's an illness.) If you're interested, read them over, and come discuss in the comments.

Also the working title for this community in my notes is fantechnicon (from pantechnicon, because I think I'm terribly clever) so that's what appears in the notes, but I'm open to other suggestions. :P

Admin/sticky posts would be a) a basic rules/about post; b) a sign-up post; c) a more involved post with optional advice for drivers; d) a post for non-drivers to drop meta links they've found; e) a talk-to-the-mods post.

( About the Fantechnicon )

( How to drive the Fantechnicon )

The mods' jobs would basically be to manage the sign-up list, recruit more drivers if necessary, make sure a week's drivers have posting access, and handle any disputes that are brought to them. (Possibly also to fill in for a week if a driver has to cancel at the last minute.)


There are other things we could do too - like special events or meta-fests or open posting periods - but I'd want to get the basic comm structure rolling before we got into that.