Fictional Fans

I'm planning to create a BNHA community since the existing ones appear to be inactive. I've been looking at the way other fandom-focused communities do code of conduct/community guidelines on Dreamwidth and have generally been impressed with how short they tend to be!! Like, the guidelines for this comm are two lines. And it seems to work? I'm very afraid of running myself into a corner by not being clear enough, haha.

Here's what I'm thinking of going with:

• Treat people with respect.


• Don't harsh other people's squee. Be mindful that the character you hate is someone else's favourite. Try to come here to celebrate what you love about the fanworks and canon, the characters and themes and anything BNHA-related that sparks joy. Character bashing, kink shaming, flame wars and dogpiling aren't welcome. This is a ship and let ship environment.


• NSFW content (dark themes, mature topics, adult content, etc) should be placed under a cut and tagged appropriately, so people who want to avoid those topics can do so. Mentioning dark themes from canon (e.g. child abuse, mutilation, suicide-baiting, ...) in passing is fine but should go under a cut if digging into the details.

One of my main concerns is the negativity from Twitter and Tumblr and Discord spilling over to the comm but I'm not sure if I'm going overboard pre-emptively. I'm also not sure yet how to handle manga spoilers for the anime-only, when the anime is years behind 🤔

Do people usually create tag lists for their comms? Or is it possible to rename and manage tags as they get created? Wondering if the tag list should go into the guidelines otherwise...

Tips, advice, and links to more examples are all very welcome! This will be my first community.