I should be sleeping, but...

[saxonvoter]

I've been getting back into the swing of things here on Dreamwidth, so I wanted to link some posts and discussions which I found interesting. There's some good points regarding adult content warnings, advice on making your profile and journal inviting for potential followers, and funnily enough, discussion about linking as a practice.

Firstly, melannen wrote about Dreamwidth's adult content warnings, and why you should think twice before marking your journal as adult content. This also applies to other websites.

Secondly, kore wrote an excellent reminder about the endless comparison between Dreamwidth vs Tumblr and why your posts don't have to be super serious. Y'all, be silly! Post fun and short things!! Post "useless" things! Post whatever you want! Just because this place isn't as fast paced and memeable as tumblr (and the latter point is seriously debatable), it doesn't mean we have to be boring.

Then there's the post by silveradept, in which they list things they look for in deciding whether to subscribe to someone. I personally found some helpful tips to keep in mind for editing my profile and sticky posts.

As said, lately there's been some discussion regarding links.

muccamukk wrote a post about linking and dog piling which I think is worth a read. (To my understanding dog piling is what happens when someone disagrees with a post/tweet/whatever, links it elsewhere to start a discussion and the negative comments from the secondary source spill over to the original source. I agree that it's generally a good policy not to engage with the original post in these kinds of situations.)

There's more talk about linking in another thought-provoking post by sylvaine. It's certainly raising some discussion in the comments.

Last but not least, if you're interested in keeping up with fandom meta, I recommend subscribing to thisweekmeta, a fun meta newsletter. Earlier this month, its founder doctorisdrat wrote a post about fandom meta which generated quite a lot of discussion.

EDIT: I posted this around 5:30 am, but the time stamp at the top of the post stubbornly says 1:24. Do any DW veterans know what causes this? Does the post editor lock onto the time of day when you first start writing a post, and then doesn't change it even after publishing? The issue was fixed thanks to kind commenters.