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okay I'm putting a marker down, hold me to it: cohost writer's salon discord before May
name ideas? The Sadgirl Shop? Mechfuckers'r'us? Chostwriters?
(also, if anyone has particular 'I need any discord server I'm in to have this' bots/functions/assists/principles, lmk and I'll try to find the maximal combination of requests)
bad name idea: CoHoWriCord (short for cohost writer's discord, depressingly derivative play on NaNoWriMo)
Sounds like some sort of weird keyboard-like musical instrument, I dig it
'oh yeah, man, I play cohowricord in a, like, world music-fusion jam band, there's seventeen of us and we're playing burning man this year'
Definitely one of the Burning Man performances of all time
Cohost Writer's Saloon feels like a good name already and what folks know. Also yeah, cos there was a few times I nearly started making it hehe. Happy to help out, I do discord admin for like a union and have decent knowledge on making sure a server is not like structurally toxic or anything.
will definitely be looking for some mods in the next week or two, I'll keep a slot open for you (I have very little experience Actually Owning discords, though I have moderation responsibilities in a few)
I do a lot of the maintenance stuff in a server of 400+, I can also help out even tho I am not a writer, my partner (@Runes-and-Tunes) is and I think would enjoy being in a server like this :)
I like "cohost writer's salon" as a name, personally, but I'll admit "Chostwriters" is fucking good. Principles? "Whatever you can do with 3 dozen channels you can do better with 3." and "Vent channels become ever-growing voids hungry for misery and despair, lingered in only by those who seek to sate them."
100% there is no vent channel, I am also in the 'as few channels as possible' camp
Adding my vote for just calling it "Cohost Writer's Salon" given that's kinda Just The Community. Bots-wise I've got PluralKit and Reaction Roles in my servers, those've been the only two I really need consistently (especially since Discord's Events system has gotten more robust). Lmk if you wanna look at the rules I wrote up for my TTRPG study server or chat about other moderation experiences.
I guess the name depends on how open the discord is? Because I've always assumed the "cohost writer's salon" referred to otter and friends specifically
this, sort of
like I think of like... not quite a dozen names when using the term?
Not saying I want something for just those people exactly, but...
(also not a dealbreaker but I enjoy suggesting a #blessings channel for pretty much every server I join where people can post Pictures And Videos Of Cute And Funny Pets/Other Animals)
realised in conversation with the americans in my polycule the other day that the English concept of a literary salon didn't cross the Atlantic outside of academic circles but yeah, I had in mind a fairly close-knit group to which others would maybe be invited later on the basis of a decision by existing members, not something open to all (hence why I didn't put any tags on the post, but it somehow grew legs anyway) - this is what I'm planning to set up as a starting point
[obligatory joke about car culture killing social spaces here]
