Oh, goodness, the number one lessons would be a) hang out in chat as much as you can, and b) use the tag comments and read the discussion page, and c) communicating is necessary, not intimidating and something only the cool kids do. Also minor technical things like "when making a new relationship canonical, add characters at the same time you make the canonical, it saves steps" etc. (I'm sure there are many more of them that I've yet to learn, since I've mostly been figuring it out on my own.)
Also I've gotten much more confident about messing around in No Fandom out of self-defense, because if Les Mis starts using No Fandom tags that are poorly wrangled it spills over into what I do. I would add "keeping track of large piles of unfilterables" but I don't think I've figured that one out yet...
Beyond that it's mostly just been a matter of becoming much, much more familiar with the guidelines, by necessity. And figuring out what needs to be dealt with NOW and what can sit if necessary, which is a completely different set of things in a very active fandom than in a quiet one. And starting to think of my-fandom-on-AO3 as almost a living thing which responds noticeably to the stimuli I give it! That too.
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Also I've gotten much more confident about messing around in No Fandom out of self-defense, because if Les Mis starts using No Fandom tags that are poorly wrangled it spills over into what I do. I would add "keeping track of large piles of unfilterables" but I don't think I've figured that one out yet...
Beyond that it's mostly just been a matter of becoming much, much more familiar with the guidelines, by necessity. And figuring out what needs to be dealt with NOW and what can sit if necessary, which is a completely different set of things in a very active fandom than in a quiet one. And starting to think of my-fandom-on-AO3 as almost a living thing which responds noticeably to the stimuli I give it! That too.