FAQ - Community Management
» How do I create and manage a community?
Last Updated:
January 18th, 2006 (bridgetester)
» Who owns a community? What are maintainers and moderators?
A LiveJournal community is controlled by its maintainer(s). Maintainers have the ability to change all of the community's settings and control community membership. In communities with moderated posting, moderators can only approve or reject entries waiting in the community's moderation queue to be posted. Community maintainers and moderators are listed on its userinfo page.
Last Updated:
November 1st, 2005 (dalryaug)
» What are the various membership and posting settings for communities?
When you
create a community, you are asked to specify various settings. A community's maintainer can change these options at any time by going to the
Community Management page and clicking the "Settings" link next to the community's name.
Last Updated:
February 16th, 2006 (burr86)
» How do I add users and grant posting access to my community?
When you create a community, you decide whether membership will be closed, moderated, or open, and whether all members will have posting access. If you change your mind about your community's
settings, you can edit them at the
Community Management page. You may also want to invite users to your new community.
Last Updated:
January 14th, 2006 (bridgetester)
» How do I remove, ban, or unban a user from my community?
If you are the community's maintainer and logged into the maintainer account, you can remove, ban, or unban a member from a community.
Last Updated:
March 16th, 2006 (bridgetester)
» How do I make my community Members-only?
It is possible for the community's maintainer to set a minimum security level for all future posts and restrict membership to the community, to create a community viewable only by its members.
Last Updated:
November 1st, 2005 (dalryaug)
» How do I mark a community entry as spam? What does this option do?
Community maintainers have the ability to report an entry as "spam" upon
deleting it, by selecting "Delete and Mark As Spam" rather than "Delete Journal Entry". If you are not the maintainer of the community, you should contact him or her to do this for you.
Last Updated:
February 20th, 2006 (dalryaug)
» What are moderated communities? How do they work?
Moderated communities are designed to stop off-topic or abusive community entries. A moderator must approve an entry before it is posted to a moderated community; the moderator can also reject the entry, which prevents it from being posted.
Last Updated:
February 20th, 2006 (dalryaug)
» What can I do with a community I no longer want?
If you no longer want your community, you have two options. You can either
transfer maintainership of the community to another user or
delete the community. It is not possible to convert a community to a personal journal.
Last Updated:
October 31st, 2005 (dalryaug)
» How do I give another user maintainership of my community?
If you no longer want to maintain a community, you will first need to work out an agreement with another member to transfer the community to them. This same process can also be used to add a co-maintainer.
Last Updated:
November 1st, 2005 (dalryaug)
» What can I do if a community maintainer has abandoned their community?
If a situation in a community requires a maintainer's intervention, you should first attempt to contact them yourself. The community's userinfo lists the maintainers' usernames; you can also post to the community and request that a maintainer contact you.
Last Updated:
November 1st, 2005 (dalryaug)
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