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About this blog

A blog for staff to post how-tos, tips, tricks, and other fun updates. 

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A Quick Tour of FFT for Beginners!

Hello and welcome to FFT! We're so happy to have you!  We'd like to give new members a quick tour of our site! Before being able to post anything visible to other members, you need to be fully validated by our staff. To do so, please start at the Welcome to FanficTalk+ thread and read our rules and guidelines+. After you confirm that you've read them and agree, a staff member will validate your post and you'll be free to post across the forum. Once you do, we'd love for you to introduce you
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ranks!

we have new ranks and also some badges! your ranks are on your profile picture on the forums and have fun names. you earn them for doing things on the forums. the point cutoffs are: newcomer: 0 points novice: 10 points apprentice: 25 points specialist: 50 points mentor: 75 points adept: 100 points mage: 250 points champion: 500 points master: 750 points sorcerer: 1,000 points archmage: 2,500 points grand
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Clarification on Bullying, Personal Attacks, and Harrassment

We've gotten questions and comments throughout the past few years around when exactly people will face consequences for offsite conflict and how we define personal attacks, bullying, and harassment. Since we're updating the rules to clarify a few other things, we wanted to write a blog post expanding on how the site defines these terms a little as well. We don't take involving the site in offsite conflicts lightly. Expecting people to follow our site rules any time they interact with anothe
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Personal Social Media Clarification

FanficTalk staff often use social media to promote or supplement activities that take place on the site (i.e., the archives or forums). All information necessary to fully participate in those activities can be found on either the site itself or our official social media accounts; it will not originate on any member's personal account. Many members of FFT (including staff and prefects) do choose to interact outside the site, particularly through their personal social media accounts. While so
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Clarification on "Safe Space"

We've gotten some questions lately about what we mean when we say that we want our site (including both our forums and our archive) to be inclusive/a safe space, so we'd like to offer a little clarification. When we say that we want to be a safe space, we mean that we want FFT to be a place where people can participate without being afraid that they will be attacked for who they are - especially if they belong to groups who are often attacked, invalidated, or even have their physical safety
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Archive FAQ

Joining FanficTalk's Archive Why should I join? Well, we're obviously a little biased, but we think we've got a great site here! Our community is full of enthusiastic and engaged members, and our staff are responsive to member input - whether it's concerns, ideas, or questions. If you're a writer who's looking for reviews/feedback in particular, we've also got a lot opportunities for you to get that. See spoiler tag below for details:     Ho
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How Does FanficTalk Staff? (and how do I join?)

How Does FanficTalk Staff? (and how do I join?) Every month, the FFT admins post an application for all site staff positions on google forms. Once a member puts in an application, we keep it on hand for three months - so, for example, an application from March might be used to fill a staff position in May. All staff members are involved in the decision-making process. Outside of existing staff making lateral moves (e.g., social media coordinator to archive validator), we don't make any
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Certified Author Status

New and edited chapters submitted to our archive must be approved by an auror (archive validator) before they're made visible to the public, to ensure that they follow our archive's site guidelines. Every so often, we evaluate author accounts to determine whether to grant them Certified Author status (or CA status, for short). Being a CA allows you to bypass the queue and post your chapters directly to the archive; it requires a lot of trust not only in your intentions but also in your abil
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All About Activity Streams

Most of us are accustomed to activity streams (or newsfeeds) from popular applications such as Facebook and Twitter.  We have something akin to that here at FanficTalk.  Since it doesn't work identically to more-familiar applications, let's run over some information about it. What is an activity stream?  Simply put, it's a stream or list of activity that occurs on the forums.  Each activity has certain properties (what type of activity it is, time it happened, whether it was posted by someo
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Status Updates

One of the first things new members want to figure out is how to get in on the fun of posting status updates. Enabling Status Updates Navigate to your profile Edit your profile Toggle on the "Enable status updates?" slider Click Save Posting Status Updates From your profile page, type in the "Write a public message on your own feed..." box and then hit "Submit Status." From another member's profile page, type in the "Write a public message
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Member Groups & Ranks

Here at FanficTalk, we have both member groups and ranks.  Ranks are based on your content (posts, statuses, and blog entries) count.  Member groups determine what you can see and do around the site, with the major difference (aside from staff/prefects) being which common room you can see.  You can be in more than one member group (Professor and Gryffindor, Prefect and Slytherin, etc.), one of which will primary and which will dictate which color your name appears around the site.  A person's pr
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Glossary of Common Terms

There are several terms and acronyms which are often used either in the fanfiction world in general or on FanficTalk specifically.  If you're not familiar with them, it can be confusing and intimidating to see so many people tossing them around.  If there's a term missing you think should be included, contact a staffer so we can add it to this list. Beta/Beta Reader - much like an editor, a person who reads and helps make corrections to your story along the lines of grammar, punctua
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