Mod Announcement: The Final Set

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It's with sadness that the mods of sg1_five_things announce that, after six years, we've decided it's time for the community to wind down.

However, we plan to go out with a bang! To that end, we are opening our spreadsheet of unused prompts for your perusal. From now until November 15th, this post will serve as a collection point for responses to any and all prompts. On November 15th, we will have one final, grand unveiling.

You can see all of the unused prompts here. Please note that the spreadsheet is divided by show, with a separate tab for each show. Look along the bottom to find the show(s) you're interested in.

If you're feeling nostalgic, you can also look through past used prompts here and here. If you want to answer one of those instead or as well, go ahead. In that case, please leave your reply on the original entry and post a link here to maximize readership.

Regardless of which prompt you're responding to, please include the prompt with your response here so we all know what it is.

As always, you're welcome to make your responses as long or short as you wish. Multiple comments is fine, and so is posting elsewhere and posting a link here.

Please feel free to respond to as many prompts as you have the time and inclination for. And spread the word! The more the merrier!

Finally, before we close, let me say how much we love all of you: the prompters, the writers, the readers, and the lurkers. It's you who have made this community what it is, and we appreciate the time and effort you've put into it. We couldn't have done it without you.

THANK YOU!!!

Comments

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Oh, I missed that entirely! What a loss!

No, we definitely aren't planning to delete the whole community. That would be awful!

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Indeed! Makes me paranoid that the content of my other favorite LJ communities might be lost forever due to the short-sightedness of a few people who don't value fan history & the importance of archiving for the sake of future fans.

Although I'm no longer active in The X-Files fandom, I still occasionally need to hunt down old fanworks & discussions once in a while. Losing fan content after canon is "closed" isn't as dire as the Baghdad Museum being looted, but it's still the work of many sharing a common passion and does hold value. I'm relieved that there's a DreamWidth mirror for this comm just in case something extreme happens during the next LJ DoS attack.

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I agree completely!

I've been revisiting the due South fandom recently and keep running into the problem of disappearing sites and fanworks. It's so frustrating to run across references to a fascinating-sounding conversation or a highly recommended work that sounds just perfect only to discover that all of the links are dead!

We've actually had a few problems with the mirror in the way it has imported posts, so I think we may experiment with fixing that once things are done here. But we'd definitely like to keep both sites in existence.

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

I've had lots of duplicate comment weirdness occur when I import my LJ to my WordPress mirror, but only infrequent aborts for DW imports.

DW does have a policy for abandoned communities with deleted/purged admins.
http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=219

Oh, and I just found the LJ policy on abandoned comms!
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=221

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We had entries pulled in with the wrong userpic, a bunch of duplicate entries, and entries out of order. I'd kind of like to delete the whole thing and do a clean import, but I'll have to look into whether that's possible. And of course, it might not fix everything. But hopefully it would at least get rid of the duplicates.

LJ's policy doesn't look terribly promising for this situation.

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I'll bet the duplicate weirdness & FUBARed userpics have a LOT to do with the LJ code pushes of the past 18 months *coughRelease86cough*, where some of the "improvements" to LJ were more than a little buggy and caused horrific export problems until the codemonkeys at changelog fixed them. I suppose you could ask the codenerds at DW about a clean import; they're much more responsive than LJ's (less of a Russian language barrier).

I've submitted a "save the SG1-Debrief" request to LJ, and hope that other fans do, too, so that we get the attention of the admins.

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

GOOD NEWS: http://splash-the-cat.livejournal.com/431083.html

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Oh good!