Intro

[ex_pooklet817]

Hey there and welcome to simwidth, a Dreamwidth-centric Sims creations community. This community functions as a place to give sims creators on DW, whether they primarily play The Sims, TS2 or TS3, somewhere to share their creations and easily find other creators and content. We also host weekly project posts to help pair up collaborators, share inspiration or resources or just gab about works in progress or what we want to see more of in the community.

Rules
Content posted should be hosted on Dreamwidth. While it's totally cool if you cross-post your stuff to other sites/forums, linking to off-site content defeats the purpose of this being a community for creations that are hosted on Dreamwidth.

Also, don't be a jerk. Cases of serious harassment or nastiness between members can result in a ban from the community at the discretion of the mods, so keep a civil tongue in your head and play nicely with others.

Posting Format
Post a preview picture that is 600x450 pixels or smaller along with a link to your creation and brief description. That's all!

Tag System
For the first little while, mods will be tagging entries but please take the initiative to do so yourself once the format is in place!

Admins
If you need to contact an admin for any reason, PM one of the following people:

pooklet, aquilegia, curiousb, petitchat, azaya, sunhair and vicious_fishes.

Saturday Project Posts
Every Saturday we will be hosting Project Posts, where mods will post an entry with themed threads for members to discuss in. Members will be able to share resources and inspiration, discuss what they want to see more of in the sims community, search for project collaborators, get a bit of advice on their latest creation or just gab about their week.

Need A Code?
Want to join simwidth but don't have a DW account? Comment on the code-sharing post with your email address or some other way to contact you and if someone has a code to spare, they'll send it your way.

That's everything! So get to posting and have fun! Got a question? Think there's something we didn't cover? Comment here and an admin will get back to you.

Comments

[moonerz]

So I'm doing a bunch of default replacements, and if I were to post content up here- would you prefer me to do one dump post or multiple single-download posts?
Before I spam it up (single-post or multiple posts) I might as well ask you all (:

[ex_pooklet817]

Hmm, I'm personally fine with either but maybe for other members, one post? Since others might not like spam as much as do. 8D

[moonerz]

Alright; Should I add onto mine now or make a new one with the dump? I can go along with the tagging that you've already done (:

If I add on now I'd probably end up adding more on later when there's a post in between, so- really, it's up to you when I do my copypasta (:

[ex_pooklet817]

Go ahead and make a new one! And if you do a few later, just do another compilation post. You can definitely make a few posts, just not like 20 of them. Trying to walk the fine like between making sure people have a chance to see all your content and also not spamming anyone's reading page too much.

[moonerz]

Alrighty (:

(I'm kinda bad at like figuring out what people want- apparently context clues don't work with me- so thanks for making it clear. Otherwise I'd end up with one huge post until maybe two days later when someone else posts.)

I'll just make cuts with the file names as the cut text, so I don't stretch out the page?

[ex_pooklet817]

Yeah, that sounds good!

[austin4564]

So we are allowed to post TS3 content?

[ex_pooklet817]

Absolutely.

[austin4564]

Cool :D

[kriikii]

I'm just curious. Why are there so many moderators in the community?

I would completely understand why if this was a large community with many posts per day, but because you're just starting out. I personally don't see the need for this many mods. I feel a bit uneasy posting things here because of that.

[ex_pooklet817]

Well, that's unfortunate, if not a bit weird of you?

There are that many moderators because that many people volunteered to moderate. There are other reasons (wanting players of all three games, as well as enough people so that the burden of moderating the community does not fall to just one or two people if I have to peace out to deal with RL for a while), but mainly, the people who volunteered and proved instrumental in the initial set up and finalization of the format and rules got to mod.

You're not being watched like a hawk by seven different people, so, chill. Two of those mods are on hiatus right now, and I'm only around myself probably in the short term. I wanted people to be able to fade out to deal with real life as necessary without leaving the community unmoderated, because I know the last time I had to take a major break from the internet, it was very stressful and difficult trying to find replacement mods to handle the communities that I ran.

[nex]

Can lots and whole sims be plugged on this community, or just specific content (e.g. the stuff that makes up sims and lots ;])?

[curiousb]

It's fine to plug any Sims creation at all, so please do go ahead and post - we'd love to see what you've made!