How about some recs here?

[isis]

We've been doing consolidated recs posts over on LJ (here is the most recent), but I was wondering if there is any interest in having recs posts over here on Dreamwidth, since many of us regard this as our journaling home.

Poll #16290 Recs?

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 35

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Should we post recs on this community, and if so, how?

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Individual rec posts or pointer posts by community members
12 (34.3%)

One master post, to which community members comment with their recs/pointers
3 (8.6%)

Daily master posts, to which community members comment with their recs/pointers
16 (45.7%)

The LJ community posts are sufficient for me
0 (0.0%)

Yuck, recs, I don't want them anywhere
0 (0.0%)

My opinion can not be constrained by your radio buttons, so I am commenting.
4 (11.4%)

Incidentally, the two most recent recs posts on LJ (and possibly the first as well, though I didn't make that one so I didn't get the notification) made the top 25 LJ post list.

If people want a master post (or more than one), I'll happily make one tomorrow (or later today - depends on how much response this poll gets, and how quickly) unless someone beats me to it. If it looks like people would just like to see individual recs posts - then please, start posting recs!

And the recs have it (maybe...) - post 'em! Please use the 'recs' tag so they can be filtered out, and if you are directly posting recs rather than a link to your journal, please put them behind a cut tag with the fandoms listed either outside, or as the cut tag text. If the flood becomes overwhelming, we'll switch to the masterpost structure.

Comments

[espresso_addict]

Anything that encourages people to rec would be great -- I adored the great flow of recs posts and have missed them on the main LJ comm. I often find my favourite stories are ones that are not in fandoms I know and I might well not have tried them unless someone had pointed me at them.

[azurelunatic]

I'm fine with whatever, as long as the recs posts are tagged consistently so that if they become overwhelming I can filter them.

[umbo]

I'd like both individual recs and a digest/master post every day or every few days.

[moetushie]

More recs can't be a bad thing. :)

[isis]

I'm planning on doing a recs roundup at LJ, so why not here, too? Makes sense!

[silverr]

I personally am happy with individual rec posts; I especially like it when the cut-text lists the recced fandoms (which allows much quicker location of recs for particular fandoms).

[gehayi]

I hope that someone is going to pick up the rec posts on Tumblr. There are so many that it's overwhelming, and there's no way to search any of them.

[isis]

The correct answer to a comment like yours is "thanks for volunteering!" :-)

I'm not a Tumblr person, and I really have no clue as to how one would do that. My aim in this post is simply to get people to echo their own recs from their Dreamwidth journals to this community. But it would certainly be nice if Tumblr recs were collected somewhere non-Tumblr users could see them.

[clare_dragonfly]

I agree!

[gehayi]

I'm not the right person to do it, because I have already tried running searches for Yuletide Recs on Tumblr and have found a huge mishmash of recs, posts mentioning Yuletide, posts using the word "yuletide", recs marked "Yuletide 2014" and recs marked "Yuletide 2013."

I'm also not finding any rec posts on Google this year--not even recs I've made. Which is weird. I've never had that problem before.

[kabal42]

Recs would be great! I am not to fussed about the format, so consider this a general vote for recs in any form the community prefers :)