A beta-reader, if you please!

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.

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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.

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Thank you one more time again for using betaplease all these years. Best wishes to you and your fanworks!

I've finished the comm's annual new year's cleaning. All tags are cleaned and up to date. I made new tags for shadowverse, arrowverse, and star trek voyager - hooray! I'm so happy to see that a lot of people have been using betaplease over the past year. That's really exciting.

I hope you all a happy and healthy and writer's block-free year. Remember to tag your posts!

Hello ficcers! The community's tags have once again been cleaned up and brought up to date. I also added two new catch-all tags, "fandom: video games (other)" and "fandom: web series (other)". For more information on catch-all tags, read this post.

Thank you for continuing to use betaplease!

Hello everyone, I just tried to clean the tags for everyone's posts so far. If I screwed up your tags, please leave a comment on this post with a link to your own post and let me know!

For those who have more general fandom tags (e.g., "fandom: tv shows (other)," "fandom: animanga series," etc.): for smaller fandoms, I prefer to wait until a fandom receives two posts on the comm before giving it its own tag. Sorry for the delay, but if you get others in your fandom to utilize this comm, you'll get a tag of your own more quickly, and help others find betas faster, too!

I hope this comm is useful to you folks. Happy writing and beta-ing!