A meta-post on Open Salon is a post about Open Salon. I've written my share of OS meta-posts (some would say more than my share) to try to collect our observations and insights about some OS-relevant topic in an accessible form. Some of these older posts might be of interest to new OSers, hence this post.
(You'll notice something odd about the posts below, if you visit them: you can't add ratings or comments. I didn't want to clog up the feed with a lot of old stuff that I've deleted and then put back. Feel free to comment here, though.)
Ten rules for getting on the cover of Open Salon was an early foray into meta (September, 2008). I think it's still reasonable advice, but opinions differ. Of the OSers I mention, about half are still active.
How rude! Etiquette on Open Salon (November, 2008) got a fair amount of feedback to questions like Is it appropriate for a poster to send an Open Salon mail message to a number of other members about your latest post? and Is it appropriate for a commenter to enter a comment, but refrain from rating the post that prompted the comment? and Is it appropriate to refrain from favoriting someone who has favorited you? We're still talking about such issues today.
An Open Salon lexicon (also November, 2008) was an attempt to get a handle on the vocabulary that was evolving on OS: What an Open Call is, what bumping means, what to call people who blog on OS, and so forth. Thou mayest find it all a bit archaic by now, given the speed at which OS has changed, but perhaps it's still informative.
Finally, there are a couple of entertainments that new OSers may find amusing, a Separated at Birth effort that matched up then-popular OSers by their avatars, and a reinterpretation of Open Salon as Open Saloon.
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Mrs. Michaels, this is what happens if you create a new post but never hit the "Publish" button. You can still grab the Web address of the post and create a link to it; it just doesn't appear in the feed or have the usual commenting or rating capabilities turned on.
Hey, Julie, thanks. Sonia! I haven't seen you here for a while. Good to hear from you.
Cap'n, we all have our crosses to bear... or planks to walk, I guess. :-)
Would you be interested in collaborating with me on a "Where Are They Now" post to gather up the lost OSers from the Golden Age? I personally know many on the side, but my circle is my circle (T-Bucket, Matt, etc) and doesn't include the more popular names.
Rob! so glad you reposted your stuff. Popular demand as you know, required you to rescue our Links! I actually had just finally decided to remove "Rob's ... [links]" from my home page and *poof* you returned with all your goodies, so thank your for that.
I enjoyed the 'look alike' avatars post where you posted other peoples avatars. I haven't been able to figure out how to 'steal' a photo for reprint (I should say 'borrow') with the MAC I'm now using. I wanted to copy some avatars into one of my recent posts, but just couldn't 'lift' them! Hey-I would've returned 'em, really!
So great to have you back and there's a potential post in 'de-flouncing', you have a unique perspective and many of us would be interested in knowing how it's going here this time around.
That is why sometimes I link to "Rob's post on sainted virgins of the Eastern Orthodox faith" by mistake.
Thanks, Stacey. (I still think of you as the Paxton Pundit, by the way.)
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