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[case]

[ FANDOM!SECRETS FAQ ]

→ 1. How do I join this community? ←

You don't -- if you'd like to watch the comm, friend it like you would any other journal. Only the mods are members, and only they post: you don't have to be a member of the community to comment or submit secrets, so don't worry!

→ 2. How do I submit a secret? ←

It's all here!

→ 3. What if I can't submit a secret anonymously? ←

Feel free to comment logged in, if you don't mind three people knowing who you are (not that we know most of you personally anyway, right?). Or create a sockpuppet LJ to comment with. Don't worry, we won't tell anyone.

→ 4. Why has my secret not been posted yet? Can I resubmit it? ←

It could be one of many reasons. Before resubmitting (to limit the number of repeat secrets for everyone), please re-check these things: A) When did you submit your secret? Secrets are posted starting the Saturday after the Submissions Post closes, not on the same week. If you submitted it this week, it's posted next week, and so on. B) Has your secret been posted as a not!secret, not!fandom, et cetera? C) Could your secret have been labeled a personal attack, which are not linked to at all? D) Did you post to the Suggestions Post and not the Submissions Post (we've had this happen more than once)? If you're sure the above things aren't the problem, please resubmit! Either LJ messed up with comments or we accidentally deleted it (though we usually realize and leave a note when this happens).

→ 5. Why was my secret labeled not!secret/not!fandom, et cetera? ←

Please see this. In short, things not stated as secrets will not be considered secrets, and mere text on a fandom image does not a fandomsecret make: for example "OTP!" or "Awesome!" or "I came!" "XYZ > all!" We're being strict on this to avoid floods of "this character is the best!" and "I love you!" and stuff like that.

→ 6. What makes a personal attack a personal attack? ←

When the secret both clearly identifies the person being bashed and insults someone personally. "I hate the way this person writes a certain character" or "this person is a bad mod" is not a personal attack; "I hate the way this person writes a certain character and she's a crappy person with no hope" or "she's a mean old stupidhead STUPIDHEAD" is. And honestly, outside wank has no bearing on the way we decide this: outside wank is outside wank -- if it's not in the actual secret, it's not in the secret, sorry.

→ 7. What determines which secrets get posted when? ←

We take the total number of secrets for the week then divide by 7, and that's the number that gets posted daily. Also, they are not posted in order: we go through them picking at random, so it's not like one person that submitted 10 secrets in a row or something gets a whole post to themselves ('cause that'd be pretty boring, don't you think?).

→ 8. Can we retract secrets/retract secret links? ←

No. "Please don't post this," or "please change links," or "please don't use my photobucket" -- no, no, no. If you don't want things posted, don't submit them. If you don't want your photobucket seen, use a free image host like tinypic or imageshack. Sorry, but this is getting to be a pretty big problem; we're not going to hunt through pages of comments to find "the one with XYZ character in it." No. The one exception where secrets will be pulled out of a post is when they are creating wank (of the personal attacking type) in the post itself. But that's only afterward, so they'll be posted anyway, at least for a while. Might want to keep that in mind before submitting anything you might regret.

→ 9. When does the Submissions Post close? ←

Either Saturday at 12 AM or Saturday morning (whenever Case gets up, lol) or when we hit 28 full pages/700 secrets total. There's one every week, though, and they usually don't fill up too fast, so don't worry too much.

→ 10. Can we get rid of RP secrets? ←

Once in a while, we do a poll: should RP secrets stay a part of fandomsecrets? So far, the answer's been yes/keep them. Sorry, but the majority wants them here.

→ 11. Why are there so many secrets about XYZ fandom? Why aren't there any secrets about ZYX fandom? Why is it all anime/manga/video games/TV/et cetera? ←

Hey, we just post 'em like we get 'em. If you want more secrets about specific things, there's not really much you can do besides either make some or try to get others to do it.

→ 12. Why'd you freeze one thread and not another that's just as bad? ←

Chances are we just basically didn't see it. If you think something should be frozen, feel free to drop us a line on the Suggestions post and let us know!

→ 13. Why are the mods so cunty!? ←

Prevailing theories include: traumatic childhoods involving being bullied and stuffed into lockers, traumatic childhoods involving neglectful parents, traumatic childhoods with no friends resulting in total lack of social skills and being unable to emotionally connect with anyone, traumatic unlives (not to be confused with undeaths) involving obesity, ugliness, possible hirsuteness and lack of hygiene, and inability to detach themselves from their computers, being secretly 13 years old, being under the mistaken impression that they are bisexual when bisexual people clearly do not exist, somehow taking fandom both way too seriously and not seriously enough at the same time. Also: crossdressing, but that only really applies to Case. None of this has been actually proven, aside from the crossdressing.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Elitist.

[(Anonymous)]

rofl

I loved it. Five stars. Brilliant performance.

[(Anonymous)]

Anyone who posts in this community is a shoddy bitch-titted loser. And if you disagree with me, then you probably have bitch-tits and your "feewings" got teh hurt.

Re: I loved it. Five stars. Brilliant performance.

[(Anonymous)]

I kinda like my bitch titties though.

[(Anonymous)]

BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW

[ahoohoo.livejournal.com]

*PUNCHES*

[(Anonymous)]

I herd u all liek mudkipz!?

[case]

JURY IS UNDECIDED

LOADING, PLEASE WAIT . . .

[spamala97.livejournal.com]

A quick question sort of related to the personal attacks thing---

It is okay, then, if we mention a person/community/story/etc. by name?

I see that names are usually scratched out, but I don't understand if that's in compliance with a rule, or just courtesy for the people whose usernames are in the picture.

[case]

Well, it is okay if you're not attacking them -- but it's not if you are? Like including somebody's LJ name and then being like THIS PERSON SUCKS is a personal attack, but including an RP and being like "I really want to quit" is fine and stuff.

[(Anonymous)]

I submitted a secret, only I just now remembered that imageshack basically kills them, and so I submitted through imageshack. Can I resubmit using a different host? =/ I can imagine how that might make it ridiculously difficult for you guys, though... Mine has the image in the comment, so it's a little bit better? Not really, huh? Sorry for the mostly very dumb question, but thank you for taking the time to answer.

[case]

I'm not sure what you mean by that. You submitted a secret on imageshack, but want to resubmit it again for the next week on a different host?

[zoom-gas.livejournal.com]

Just a little confused about the timeframe of submission posts/secrets...let's say I posted a secret to the submissions post on a monday does that mean it'd be posted that saturday or the next saturday? Sorry if this is totally obvious/I'm an idiot :\

[case]

Next Saturday. So if you posted it this Monday, it could be up tomorrow at the earliest.

...that's what you were asking, right?

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, I feel like a total n00b right now, cause I've submitted secrets before, but now I'm confused... I have a bad memory...

anyways,
do we post a link to the secret in comments or the image itself? I'm pretty sure it's a link you post, but I'm just checking. 83

[shahni.livejournal.com]

Link, one per comment. Don't bunch 'em up. It makes it easier to copy/paste.

[slylilgoblin.livejournal.com]

hey, if we submit a secret and it's too big, can we edit it and re-submit it? Or would they be labeled repeats? (lol at me trying to avoid extra work)

[case]

Just make sure to mark in the comment somewhere that it is resized (so I can mark it on the post that way too), or people will call it as a repeat and stuff!

[(Anonymous)]

There's a rule against in-character secrets, and this week I posted one both in and out of character, more in than out. Will it be posted?

[(Anonymous)]

Does 'repeat' mean the exact same post has been submitted before, or that that issue in that fandom has been addressed before? If it means the issue in the fandom, are there tags or something where I can check what has been posted regarding my fandom?

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

Heya, I've been "tagging" the comm with that notification function, but now it doesn't work any more. Try as I might, I don't get notified of F!S posts any more. Did you perhaps somehow disable the function? & :-/

[sdissynthium.livejournal.com]

I stupidly submitted my secret to yesterday's submissions post. Does this mean I have to submit it again, to today's submissions post, or would submitting it again just mean it would get tossed out on grounds of being a repeat?

[case]

The same submissions post is up for a week, not sure what you're talking about...

[virgofolkie.livejournal.com]

My submissions have all been linking to images that I've uploaded to my LJ galleries. I hope that's okay...

[case]

That's fine, as long as you make the gallery public so they can be displayed!

[sgasecrets-mod.livejournal.com]

Where should one contact you about affilating? =)

[case]

Here's fine!

sgasecrets right?

[ayeayes.livejournal.com]

So, what happens if I post a secret at midnight of the Saturday?

[case]

Whatever post your submission makes it into is where it goes! Sometimes I'm a little late with the new one, so if you make it into the old one, it'll be posted that week. (I close the old ones when the new ones go up)

Deleting comments OK?

[(Anonymous)]

y/n/dc?

Re: Deleting comments OK?

[case]

dc

[(Anonymous)]

People submitting secrets should name their fandom.

[(Anonymous)]

Ok, so the last secret I submitted, the page kept timing out. I'm not sure if it got through or not. If I ended up submitting it five times, will you still keep putting it under "repeat"? I'm just trying to make sure it's getting through...I'm still not sure if it did.

[case]

If it posted repeatedly at once, it'll just be put under "posted twice" or whatever. But it'll still be posted, sure.

[iteari.livejournal.com]

I hate sounding silly but do you have an exact weekly schedule on the submission posts? Like when is the best day to submit a secret? I'm a little confused.

[case]

→ 7. What determines which secrets get posted when? ←

We take the total number of secrets for the week then divide by 7, and that's the number that gets posted daily. Also, they are not posted in order: we go through them picking at random, so it's not like one person that submitted 10 secrets in a row or something gets a whole post to themselves ('cause that'd be pretty boring, don't you think?).

[(Anonymous)]

er, sorry to be such an LJ newbie, but how exactly do I post the link? do you need just the text for it, or do you need a hyperlink? i don't know how to do hyperlinks...

[case]

Just the text!

[lvsinsanity.livejournal.com]

I'm sure I still understand how to submit a secret.. >_< Terribly sorry, but how really does one post it, if I'm not a member of the community or mod or anything?

[case]

just post a link into the submissions post! http://community.livejournal.com/fandomsecrets/295960.html?mode=reply

[nicocoer.livejournal.com]

Any suggestions on how to find an old secret? I'm looking for one I saw over a month ago, but I can't remember exactly when.

(In this case, it was the one about Thinking Neil Gaiman and AFP are datign- and Gaiman jsut tweeted tonight that it was true and wanted to point out that FandomSecrets got it right. XD)

[case]

No idea besides searching through the archives, sorry ):

[(Anonymous)]

Any chances of a permanent link of F!S songs? Those are truly delightful.

[case]

If you have the links, I'll throw them up, but uuuh no idea where those went...

[tabled.livejournal.com]

INQUIRY ABOUT AN AFFILIATION?

startrek_secret, pls. c: If you don't mind.

[case]

Sure