• they/them

actor/improviser, writer & essayist, urban planner, computer scientist, amateur media scholar, Chicago lover, tupperware container for multitudes, #1 fleabag fan

it was an honor to be here, cohost <3


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eatthepen
@eatthepen

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)


eatthepen
@eatthepen

-Dealbreakers-, the word I was looking for was 'dealbreakers'. Tell me what your dealbreakers are for a discord and I'll do my best to avoid them


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in reply to @eatthepen's post:

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 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."

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.

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

in reply to @eatthepen's post:

same, the spread of this already has me thinking about what the best scale control policy would look like (starting with a very clear rule that this is a server for writers, not people who are only there out of interest in reading what we write)