Alterhuman Writing

What is the purpose of this group?

What is alterhumanity?

Rules for this group

1. Who is welcome in this group?

1(a). Dreamwidth’s Terms of Service require that you must be at least 13 years old to use this website.

1(b). In this group, we welcome all sorts of alterhumans and their friends. You do not have to call yourself an alterhuman to be here.

1(c). No supporters of hatred or sex abuse. We don't allow people to be here who hate others for their religion, ethnicity, nationality, disability, mental illness, gender, or sexual orientation. We also don't allow people here who hate others for what sort of plural system they are. We don't allow supporters of sex in real life with animals, children, or non-consenting adults.

1(d). The administrators of this group tolerate harmless differences of opinion, but we can ban users for harassment and other problematic behavior at our discretion.

2. Hard rules

2(a). Follow Dreamwidth’s Terms of Service.

2(b). If a member is causing trouble, breaking rules, or you have evidence that they are a real danger to other members, please send a private message to an administrator of this community account.

2(c). If one member of a plural system causes trouble, then their whole system must take responsibility.

2(d). No adult content. The content of posts and comments to this community must be suitable for all ages, or rated PG-13 at most.

2(e). No plagiarism. Give sources. If you post someone else’s art or writing, say whose and where from. Do not post AI-generated images or texts.

3. Etiquette guidelines

3(a). We don't have to agree with one another about everything. We can each express our own views about alterhumanity, politics, spirituality, queerness, and more, as long as this is not hateful. This is the harmony of discord and the paradox of tolerance.

3(b). Make your posts friendly for screen readers. A screen reader is a computer program that reads web pages out loud for people who have trouble seeing or reading because of their disabilities. Don't use too many special characters or typing quirks in your messages, because these can sound like nonsense when the machine reads them out loud. If you post an image, please type a description of it for the machine to read out loud.

3(c). About cut tags. If your post is several pages long or has content that will likely upset others, at its beginning please put a specific warning in plain text, and then use cut tags to hide the rest of the post. Here is how to use Dreamwidth's markup to make a cut tag.

3(d). Please stay on topic. In the comments section, you can have long conversations that may wander off topic sometimes, but if you want to start a conversation about something completely unrelated, please take it somewhere else. The original posts themselves need to be pieces of writing that have something substantial to do with alterhumanity. Please do not use the original posts for ordinary forum conversations, such as introducing yourself or asking questions, or for posts that would be more appropriate for in your personal journal. These are off-topic for the purpose of this group. This is not a forum for role-play, but it's okay to use emotes as part of conversation, for example, "shrugs" or "wags tail." If you want to advertise a new project you made, a more suitable group for that would be otherkinnews.

3(e). About keyword tags. You or administrators can add keyword tags to posts. This does not make the posts much more discoverable outside of the group, but makes them easier to find within the group in an organized way, because you can browse all our posts by their tags here. As part of making it easier to find pieces, at the beginning of your original post, it is helpful if you say what type of writing piece it is. For example, "essay," or "script." It's especially helpful if you say whether it is fiction or nonfiction so that readers know whether you are talking about something that is real to you.

3(f). Whatever you write here, please be aware of how public it is. Think before you post anything too private. This group allows search engines to index its public posts and their comments. Third-party sites will be able to permanently archive it. For example, the Wayback Machine may save a copy of your post forever. This group is anti AI, but there is no way to stop third parties from having their AI train on or plagiarize anything publicly posted on the internet.

More instructions for folks who are new to Dreamwidth

How to participate in this group:

• If you don't have a Dreamwidth account yet, creating one is free, quick, and easy. You don't need a Dreamwidth account to participate in a writing challenge, but you do need one to post your writing here. Your e-mail address and birthday are the only pieces of your personal information that you must give to the site, and neither of them have to be shown in public.
• You need to join this group to be able to post to it. To do that, click here, and then click the "join" button.
• To write a post to this group, click here. This opens a post editor. You can write your post in there. (To make sure that your in-progress post gets saved, the best practice is to write it in another text editing program first.) When it's done, at the bottom of the post editor, click the button that says "post to: alterhuman_writing."

How to watch this group:

• You can watch this group even if you do not post anything to it.
• You can use your Dreamwidth account to subscribe to us.
• Even without an account on Dreamwidth, you can subscribe to our updates by putting our RSS feed into your RSS feed reader.

Any other questions?

If you have any other questions about the group or how to participate here, you can click the "reply" button below to ask me, even if you don't have an account on Dreamwidth yet.

- Orion Scribner (frameacloud), group administrator, on November 10, 2024. See the replies for the change-log about later edits to this post.