I, er, um...well, to be honest, the idea of a monthly sign up post? It might be an option for a smaller community, but this one would make it completely unfeasible. As it stands right now, I can open a category (and I do need to screen the volunteered comments. no need to clutter it up for the people who are coming in to rec) and see what kind of activity I've had for that category going back a year or more at a glance.
A general monthly sign up post would mean massive confusion. I wouldn't be able to track anything with any sort of reasonable clarity.
Beyond the yearly clean up of categories, we've debated formats on that before, but there really isn't any neater way of doing it. We're talking two shows (three if we include SGU) which means a metric ton of pairings, characters, and then the genres which stand apart from that and are not pairing specific. The format we use right now has the advantage of being largely familiar to fandom (it's pretty much a standard format for larger rec communities) *and* a lot easier for me to track and to check monthly.
But if you're confused, please ask. We'll do our best to clear up any confusion, but we can't do that if we don't know about it.
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A general monthly sign up post would mean massive confusion. I wouldn't be able to track anything with any sort of reasonable clarity.
Beyond the yearly clean up of categories, we've debated formats on that before, but there really isn't any neater way of doing it. We're talking two shows (three if we include SGU) which means a metric ton of pairings, characters, and then the genres which stand apart from that and are not pairing specific. The format we use right now has the advantage of being largely familiar to fandom (it's pretty much a standard format for larger rec communities) *and* a lot easier for me to track and to check monthly.
But if you're confused, please ask. We'll do our best to clear up any confusion, but we can't do that if we don't know about it.