FAQ Update
May. 11th, 2009 10:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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50books_pocHello, this is your friendly community mod, bringing you an update to the FAQ:
In the past, if the mod-team discovered a post that was about a book by a white author, we would give the original poster twenty-four hours to rewrite or delete the post. As of now, we are changing our custom: we will delete posts about[1] white authors as we find them. We are also instituting a two-strikes rule about such posts. (However, we are not wholly draconian: if you thought that an author was of color when you made the post, talk to us. The two-strikes rule is intended to be about people who cannot or will not take "books written by authors of color" at face value.)
Some members have been very helpful about making the sure the mods know if there's a post about a white author that needs to be deleted. To those of you who have been doing so: thank you. The mod team isn't always watching the comm, or sometimes we're skimming and thus miss stuff. If there's a problem brewing somewhere, please, don't assume we'll see it. Let us know. There is contact info for us in the community profile.
Happy reading!
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[1] The key word there is "about." If you're writing a post about a book by an author of color, you can mention a related white-authored book within your discussion. Just make sure that the post's reason for existence is a book by an author of color.
I think the comm would be interested in [book by white author]. Can I write a post about it?Is that too blunt? ;-)
No. This is a comm for books written by authors of color.
In the past, if the mod-team discovered a post that was about a book by a white author, we would give the original poster twenty-four hours to rewrite or delete the post. As of now, we are changing our custom: we will delete posts about[1] white authors as we find them. We are also instituting a two-strikes rule about such posts. (However, we are not wholly draconian: if you thought that an author was of color when you made the post, talk to us. The two-strikes rule is intended to be about people who cannot or will not take "books written by authors of color" at face value.)
Some members have been very helpful about making the sure the mods know if there's a post about a white author that needs to be deleted. To those of you who have been doing so: thank you. The mod team isn't always watching the comm, or sometimes we're skimming and thus miss stuff. If there's a problem brewing somewhere, please, don't assume we'll see it. Let us know. There is contact info for us in the community profile.
Happy reading!
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[1] The key word there is "about." If you're writing a post about a book by an author of color, you can mention a related white-authored book within your discussion. Just make sure that the post's reason for existence is a book by an author of color.
