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thenewbuzwuzzWe love to see the variety of Buffyverse events in the past few months, and it has given us a clearer idea of the limitations in how the Herald editors find out about works posted to Archive of Our Own. So here's a summary, because I don't think we have explicitly stated how this works, and it may be useful to know.
(1) We *generally* know about new AO3 works in these fandom tags:
Our track record with noticing chapter updates, however, is less consistent: we don't get automatic notifications about new chapters in an existing work, although some of us go check manually if we have time. Sometimes we link only newly completed works in the Herald and skip middle chapters of WIPs.
(2) We don't get automatically notified about AO3 works that have the lock icon (can only be accessed by logged-in AO3 users).
(3) And last but not least: if an AO3 work is in a collection and gets revealed some time after it was posted, there's a good chance we won't get a notification from AO3 about it. So it's very helpful to us when event mods (or participants) link the revealed works somewhere we'll see, for example, in the "btvs", "buffy the vampire slayer" or "angel the series" tag on tumblr or in a LiveJournal/Dreamwidth community or journal that su_herald_reading is subscribed to.
As always, things can sometimes slip through the cracks even if we theoretically should have seen them, so if you've posted something but it didn't get included in the next Herald, feel free to submit a link to us! :) (You don't need a tumblr account in order to use the submission box, and even though it asks for an email, you don't have to enter a real email address.)
(1) We *generally* know about new AO3 works in these fandom tags:
- "Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)"
- "Angel: the Series"
- "Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)"
- "Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Comics 1998)"
- "Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Comics 2019)"
- We weren't subscribed to the "Slayers: A Buffyverse Story" fandom tag until just now, but now we are.
Our track record with noticing chapter updates, however, is less consistent: we don't get automatic notifications about new chapters in an existing work, although some of us go check manually if we have time. Sometimes we link only newly completed works in the Herald and skip middle chapters of WIPs.
(2) We don't get automatically notified about AO3 works that have the lock icon (can only be accessed by logged-in AO3 users).
(3) And last but not least: if an AO3 work is in a collection and gets revealed some time after it was posted, there's a good chance we won't get a notification from AO3 about it. So it's very helpful to us when event mods (or participants) link the revealed works somewhere we'll see, for example, in the "btvs", "buffy the vampire slayer" or "angel the series" tag on tumblr or in a LiveJournal/Dreamwidth community or journal that su_herald_reading is subscribed to.
As always, things can sometimes slip through the cracks even if we theoretically should have seen them, so if you've posted something but it didn't get included in the next Herald, feel free to submit a link to us! :) (You don't need a tumblr account in order to use the submission box, and even though it asks for an email, you don't have to enter a real email address.)
