In any case, I think we should have a clause in the guidelines that requires a Mature rating for any story with violence or injury, 'cause even if it's Pam nursing Jim's busted lip (Basketball), the mention of blood might squick someone out.

Yes, I guess that's fine. I just have a visceral reaction when I see that stuff, so don't ask me to admin on that section! I know it's not fair to exclude stuff, and the story that prompted my suggestion is actually a well written story. I don't mean to be a rule setter or anything - really I swear I don't. I was just reacting to stuff that made me feel really icky!

But the Violence/Injury warning is a good idea.

I was thinking whether the "canon" header for a category was a little confusing. As we had discussed it, my understanding is that we wanted stories that would be taking place during actual events that occurred during an episode. But I was thinking it might become confused for scenes that could reasonably occur at this point between Jim & Pam as we see them on the show. So should we maybe modify the label? Are we all on the same wavelength in terms of what it means?

Yea I had a similar worry about this category last night, when i was re-categorising a couple fics that were in the gen cat. It was a perfect inner monologue from casino night, but then the last couple lines were a conclusion the author drew about what would happen next. I wasn't sure if that went from Canon to AU. Maybe the category should be called inner monologue or something, because that's the only kind of fic i can see happening in a canon sense, but if the author has drawn a different conclusion about what happens next, and with casino night, we just don't know what happens next, it slips into AU a bit.

Canon keeps confusing me. And, do Pam/Jim belong in general at all?

Oh, and also, how do we use the featured thing? Is that something that you decide, sicokitty? Is it like a "story of the week" or something?

Pixel - if you click on Challenges (at the top), then on a particular challenge listed, it'll show you the stories associated with that challenge.

I'd encourage everyone to keep thinking of the categories as the "when" and let the genres answer the "what" (like inner monologues). Of course the Other Pairings category doesn't follow the "when" rule, but I think that was so that those story could be separated early.

That's weird. Even if I log out, and click on it, it brings up the three challenges issued so far. When I clicked on Confined Spaces, it brought up three fics.

Or we could just make it General Jim/Pam...just in case there are other canon genres that i haven't thought of. Or do away with the category all together. The inner monologues really could be considered a missing moment almost, because even though we see the scene, what goes on in the characters heads is news to us. Then we could probably add in Other Pairings- Canon. That might work. I would have to re read everything in canon first though, to see where else they would fit.

If the story is Pam/Jim romantic, then no, it shouldn't go in general, it should go in the appropriate Pam/Jim category. General is more focused at ensemble fics. The featured thing can be activated by any of the admins if they wish to feature the story, but for whatever reason, the featured block is not working on this skin at the moment, so we'll have to leave that for now until I get it fixed. And yea, i'd like to see it work as a story of the week kind of thing. Re the challenges, what nomadshan said. I thought about giving them a cat too, but then realised they're all nicely sorted already under the challenges tab. So long as the author remembers to respond to the challenge, and not add it like a regular submission, that should work fine as it is.

I'm not authorized either. :(

ok try again for me.