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betaplease2024-12-22 12:44 pm
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All clean for the new year
Hello! This is the mod. I'm sorry for my long time away. I am humbled and honored that so many people still use this community after so many years. Truly, thank you.
This is a long post because I was catching up on five (!) years of missed work.
fandom: none/original fiction (for origfic and OCs)
fandom: nonfiction (for nonfiction work)
fandom: western animation (other)
fandom: western comics (other)
This tag is when you only need a short piece of a longer work read for any reason. For example, "The full piece is 15k, but I just need someone to read this 300 word dialogue/scene." That would use type: excerpt, and not the other type tags.
type: expertise
If you're looking for an expert reader for your entire work, use this one in addition to the ones for length of the piece. Reasons you might use this tag are accent/language/dialogue accuracy (e.g., britpicking) or fact-checking of any kind. Example, "I'm looking for a medical accuracy beta for a 4k fic." This post would use "type: expertise, type: oneshot, *writer," and relevant fandom tags.
betaplease can also be used for feedback on any written work. This includes scripts for fan vids, liner notes on fanmixes, and so on. Therefore, I have also added the tags:
type: fanvid script
type: fanmix liner notes
betaplease is not an appropriate community to ask for non-written beta help (for example, feedback on video editing, graphic design, or podfic recordings). Thank you for understanding.
For example, in pokemon (my home fandom), pokemon has many different games and franchises: pokemon red, pokemon go, various pokemon anime and manga each with their own plot/characters, and so on. However, pokemon writers are generally familiar with almost all of it; we don't tend to hyper-specialize in one franchise. Therefore, if you want to find a beta, it's actually better for you to tag generally with "pokemon" so that everyone looks at it. It would be more tedious to make a beta-reader click through a dozen tags for a dozen titles when there is a reasonable chance that they could beta for all of them.
However, star trek fans seemed to strongly want each new title (Deep Space 9, Voyager, etc.) to have their own tag when they meet the threshold, so I assume that that is a fandom where there is not as much overlap as pokemon.
If you look at betaplease's tags and you think that your fandom would be best served by splitting individual titles up, please let me know with a comment. I would really appreciate it. Thank you.
Thank you one more time again for usingbetaplease all these years. Best wishes to you and your fanworks!
This is a long post because I was catching up on five (!) years of missed work.
New Tags
Catch-All Tags
I have cleaned up tags on posts and updated the tags list for the new year. New catch-all tags added are:fandom: none/original fiction (for origfic and OCs)
fandom: nonfiction (for nonfiction work)
fandom: western animation (other)
fandom: western comics (other)
Type Tags
type: excerptThis tag is when you only need a short piece of a longer work read for any reason. For example, "The full piece is 15k, but I just need someone to read this 300 word dialogue/scene." That would use type: excerpt, and not the other type tags.
type: expertise
If you're looking for an expert reader for your entire work, use this one in addition to the ones for length of the piece. Reasons you might use this tag are accent/language/dialogue accuracy (e.g., britpicking) or fact-checking of any kind. Example, "I'm looking for a medical accuracy beta for a 4k fic." This post would use "type: expertise, type: oneshot, *writer," and relevant fandom tags.
betaplease can also be used for feedback on any written work. This includes scripts for fan vids, liner notes on fanmixes, and so on. Therefore, I have also added the tags:type: fanvid script
type: fanmix liner notes
betaplease is not an appropriate community to ask for non-written beta help (for example, feedback on video editing, graphic design, or podfic recordings). Thank you for understanding.Individual Fandom Tags
The following have been added:- fandom: fullmetal alchemist
- fandom: hannibal
- fandom: jojo's bizarre adventure
- fandom: leverage
- fandom: tales of arcadia
- fandom: tsubasa reservoir chronicle
- fandom: urusei yatsura
Asking for Help
There are some fandoms (for example, stargate) where individual series (for example, stargate: atlantis) hit the threshold for making its own fandom tag. However, I don't know enough about the series to know whether it's more helpful for it have its own tag, or to stay in the group.For example, in pokemon (my home fandom), pokemon has many different games and franchises: pokemon red, pokemon go, various pokemon anime and manga each with their own plot/characters, and so on. However, pokemon writers are generally familiar with almost all of it; we don't tend to hyper-specialize in one franchise. Therefore, if you want to find a beta, it's actually better for you to tag generally with "pokemon" so that everyone looks at it. It would be more tedious to make a beta-reader click through a dozen tags for a dozen titles when there is a reasonable chance that they could beta for all of them.
However, star trek fans seemed to strongly want each new title (Deep Space 9, Voyager, etc.) to have their own tag when they meet the threshold, so I assume that that is a fandom where there is not as much overlap as pokemon.
If you look at betaplease's tags and you think that your fandom would be best served by splitting individual titles up, please let me know with a comment. I would really appreciate it. Thank you.
Thank you one more time again for using
betaplease all these years. Best wishes to you and your fanworks!
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