How to start a journal - New Instructions

mullaney

mullaney

IRC Administrator
Staff member
#1
#1
I'm trying a new policy for the journals. I hope that I can refocus these message boards towards the improv community and away from the general purpose flavor that it has taken on in the past year or so. I have closed the "Off-Topic Journals" forum to new journals. Users who still have journals there will still be able to update them, but no new threads can be created there.

I have also changed the name and purpose of the Improv Journals forum to the Journals by Improvisors forum. Although journals about improvisation are particularly encouraged, the subject of journals in this forum are up to the individual user. However, these journals must be authored by improvisors. By improvisors, I mean performers, teachers or students of improv, or anyone that used to fit into one of those categories and are still active or interested in the art of improv or the improv community.

To ensure that only these kinds of journals appear in this forum, new journals will be moderated. That means that any new journals will need to approved by a moderator before they can be viewed by others. A moderator will approve the journal if:
  • The poster is known to one of the moderators to be an improvisor.
  • The content of the first journal entry obviously connects to the art of improvisation.
If there is any doubt as to whether the journal is appropriate for this forum, the user will be contacted by a moderator.

To our friends here who are not improvisors, there are plenty of ways for you to start a journal on the web and I encourage you to do so. However, this is not the place for that journal. If you are interested in starting a journal, you might look into sites like:
 
mullaney

mullaney

IRC Administrator
Staff member
#2
#2
A note about editing entries

To edit specific entries to your journal, click on the edit button just below the entry you want to modify. You must edit your entry within one week of the time you create it. After 7 days, the entry becomes permanent.

I can't allow you to edit your journal without allowing everyone to edit all of their posts on this message board. For reasons established a long time ago, this aint going to happen. If I could do it selectively by forum I would, but I can't. If I could do selectively by person, I probably wouldn't, but it doesn't matter because I can't.
 
mullaney

mullaney

IRC Administrator
Staff member
#4
#4
How to start an improvisors journal.
  1. View the main display for the improv journals forum.
  2. Click on the "new thread" button.
  3. Carefully write your first entry and click submit. Your new journal will not show up right away. Don't panic. It needs to be approved before it will show up.
  4. I receive an email when you submit a new journal. When I get a chance, I log in and take a look. If I haven't approved your journal in a timely fashion, please send me a PM to remind me to take a look.
  5. Please do not post multiple threads, that just slows down the process.
 
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