Mod post: Tweet flogs

[naeko.livejournal.com]

We've seen a few posts, lately, centered on flogging Hamilton's twitter posts. The mods have talked a bit about how to handle this and we've decided that, for now, we're going to allow these, but with a few stipulations.

• Each post must have actual content! We don't want to see only a link to the tweet and/or the tweet itself alongside a one-liner from you. If you're bringing the tweet to our attention, you'd better have several lines explaining why we should all care. It shouldn't need saying, but make sure you're not pointing specific tweets out due to their spelling/grammar errors. We all know Hamilton can't spell, and twitter only emphasizes this; avoid ragging on tweets for their grammar issues.

• If the tweet is in context of a Twitter conversation, you must either explain what the conversation was, or put the whole conversation into the post. Truthfully, twitter conversations can be quite difficult to follow, so we're warning you now that you will probably get a lot of flak for this.

• Should the tweet in question fall under the above category, you must make sure that the conversation that you are reposting is not a private one. If one half of the conversation has his or her updates protected, you are not allowed to repost them unless they are your tweets.

• You must link to the tweet itself. If you're getting these from twitter's website, that's not too hard. Click the time stamp on the tweet and use the URL attached to it.


• To cut or not to cut? For now, we're not demanding anything be under a cut; tweets are short, and the conversation they spark is something we're hoping everyone will either be interested in or just have the finger strength to scroll past. If there's an overwhelming clamor to have anything twitter-related cut, though, we'll consider making it a hard and fast rule.