Quick (but frustrated Admin post)

[adolwyn.livejournal.com]

One quick little thing.

This is a community for POSTING caps. - We allow requests but only in the request post. All links point there, so do us all a favour and actually read the community userinfo, please. Do NOT post cap requests directly to the community. It's irritating, makes the community look gross, and smacks of someone's desperation. It isn't becoming.

I have deleted no less than 20 cap requests just today. From now on, anyone who posts a cap request will be warned for the first time. The second time a cap request is posted, the person will be suspended from the community for 2 weeks. The third time, that person will be banned from the community. There is no excuse for not reading the community rules, nor is there an excuse for ignoring a first warning. This is getting ridiculous.

Your mods (adolwyn, dancethetango, peacefully, plush, and _teufelchen_) are working hard to get this community running as smoothly as possible.

If anyone is in the generous giving mood, a paid account for the community would help muchly, because then the mods could post polls and such - which would enable us to see where you all stand on issues such as posting cap requests directly to the community.

Bottom line for the post? DO NOT POST CAPS REQUESTS DIRECTLY TO THE COMMUNITY. Get off the lazy buttocks and read the userinfo. Click on the link to request a cap. Post in the comments. And wait patiently for someone to fill your request.

Thank you,
The Mods
adolwyn, dancethetango, peacefully, plush, and _teufelchen_

Comments

[hiddensarah.livejournal.com]

Thanks for deleting them, it does clutter it a lot :)

However...is there a way that people that say that they can cap movies are FIRST directed to the request list if any of their movies are on there? There's a movie I've been waiting over a month for, and I'm sure others are in the same position. It would be great if some of those requests could be filled.

I'd love to donate a paid account....but alas, I'm too poor.

[adolwyn.livejournal.com]

Hmm. This is a very good idea! Are you thinking to have it in the userinfo or as a comment to each of these posts?

[hiddensarah.livejournal.com]

I think userinfo would be a great place to start...but we all know how people are at checking that, so it would probably end up being a comment on the posts.

[ktnb]

Um. Bottom line for the post...do not post cap _requests_ directly to the community? (It says don't post caps directly...I'm just making sure...)

[adolwyn.livejournal.com]

Hah. Yes, you're right. I've edited my post. I'm so sorry. *really shouldn't post when one is frustrated*

Thanks for catching it! *smooshes*

[rockstr009.livejournal.com]

i actually *did* read the info, and posted my request in the resuest thread... but i got confused with everyone else posting directly to the community and thought maybe i missed something.

sorry.

[adolwyn.livejournal.com]

No problems - this is why I posted the announcement to the list. :)

[delphynn.livejournal.com]

I've been waiting on requests too, and I think some other more streamlined method of getting requests seen needs to be come up with. Maybe a repost of all unfilled requests once a month?

[musicandmisery.livejournal.com]

The request page has been down for atleast a few days now... that could be why some people are getting restless and re-posting in the community.

[adolwyn.livejournal.com]

See, now I'm confused, because the links all head to the same spot - a live journal post. Is there a link I missed somewhere? Let me know if there is so I can fix it!

[s-spencer.livejournal.com]

The person above me posted this reply...

The request page has been down for atleast a few days now... that could be why some people are getting restless and re-posting in the community.

Now I understand what was going on. I am new to the community...and I *DID* read the rules...but every time I tried to post under the "Make A Request" link on the user info page...the link would not work. So...I posted through the community. Sorry about that! :/

[musicandmisery.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the make a request and fill a request links haven't been working.

[adolwyn.livejournal.com]

What links have you been clicking on? I changed all the ones I could find about a week ago - have you checked since then or have you just assumed they don't work? If you have found one - please let me know where it is!

[adolwyn.livejournal.com]

Can you do me a huge favour? What's the address that the link you clicked on is taking you to? Because I swear I've changed them all, but maybe I've missed one somewhere. Can you click on it and see where it goes for me?

[s-spencer.livejournal.com]

It was the link on the user page that says "Make a Request" (http://www.livejournal.com/community/cap_it/279811.html) . A couple of days ago when I went to make a request it wasn't working. At that time I wasn't having any trouble with LJ...so I assumed it was just a dead link. I never checked the link again until today, when you made this post. Now it seems to be working just fine. It MUST have been LJ messing up.

[merky.livejournal.com]

I don't think getting a paid account for the community would work. All that would enable is heavily customizing the community layout and whatnot.

To do polls, one of the mods ought to get a paid account. This is because the mod would be posting the poll to the community, not the community actually posting a poll to itself (because I don't think communities can do that sort of thing).

I see that you have a paid account. You can just post a poll within the community and that's that.

[adolwyn.livejournal.com]

Oh really? I had no idea it worked like that. :-X

[jupluna.livejournal.com]

merky's right. I'm a mod on a voting community and to make polls the mods all have paid accounts and just post the poll into the community as a normal post.

[lovesjaydog.livejournal.com]

all the links i took to the requests list so i could see if i could fill any of them, dont seem to work, i keep getting page cannot be displayed, is it just me?

[adolwyn.livejournal.com]

Can you do me a favour? Can you click on the links you were trying and post what the URL is? I changed all the links I knew about about a week ago - maybe I missed one though. :)

[peacefully.livejournal.com]

when you view the community itself, with the posts and all, and look at the little "links" box above all the posts there's one that says "fill a request" and it goes here (http://paperdrink.michae.net/capit/requestlist.php).

[lovesjaydog.livejournal.com]

yeah even that one i get page cannot be displayed maybe its just me

[peacefully.livejournal.com]

that's what I meant. Tis broken.

[lovesjaydog.livejournal.com]

i clicked fill a request which sent me to http://paperdrink.michae.net/capit/requestlist.php and i get page cannot be displayed as does everyone on my friends list i asked to see if it was just me :( sorry i dont mean to be a pain i was just trying to help fill a request or 2 *hides*

[jupluna.livejournal.com]

It's highly possible that the link problem was due to LJ itself. The admins have stated that LJ has been abnormally slow. It's possible that the link to the actual post that has the other links in it was not working correctly.

[sillybridget.livejournal.com]

http://paperdrink.michae.net/capit/requestlist.php isn't working from the main menu on the front page of the comm.

Is the site where the request form was gone now? I remember there being a place off of LJ where we could send in requests.

Is this where everyone should be posting their requests? http://www.livejournal.com/community/cap_it/279811.html

I just wanted to make sure. I really would like to help fulfill some of the requests, but I want to first make sure I'm looking in the right place for them.

I have a few suggestions. Please discard any that don't make sense or aren't helpful, I'm just brainstorming.

I noticed that many of those who request caps request from films that have already been capped. This is understandable if they want a specific scene that was not represented in the original, or if the link to the caps is broken (as was the case with the Queen of the Damned caps that had been made).

Of course, a great thing would be to have an archive off site with all of the zip files stored in one place so that when a person disappears or deletes their zip of caps, it's still available to the community. This, however, takes time and money:(

I do have a little idea for maybe the user info page or perhaps it coul dbe incorporated into the page layout -- a list of all capped films. That way people can check that list FIRST and if they can't find what they want, they can request. This would take work to add to the userinfo, but I thought perhaps if the comm were a paid one (I can donate some time if you want to try this suggestion out) you could make a layout that allows you to put a list of links or just titles on one side or something. I don't know. Maybe I'm just making it more complicated than it needs to be.

Ultimately I'd just like to see a uniform place to request, a list of capped films (and specific scenes if possible), an archive of zip files, and an easy way to fill requests.

:)

(With over 1000 people in the comm, I'm somewhat chagrined that no one seems to be able to donate $5! I know I can!)

[absolut.livejournal.com]

Maybe you could date the Request Post so that it is always at the top? (Like a sticky post). That way it's more easily visible to newcomers.

[alightbulbsun.livejournal.com]

For some odd reason, posts made in the future don't stay at the top in communities. It only works that way in personal journals. :(

[notashamed.livejournal.com]

yeah the link on the userinfo page says "link is down so it can be posted on a website"

but then on the page of the actual community (which many people do not necessarily view, since the comm is on friends pages) has the correct link to the post in the community.