Oh wow.

[paradisamods]

I just got an email from LJ saying that we're going to be a Spotlight community for a week, starting a month from now:

Congratulations!

We would love to place paradisa in the LJ Spotlight, beginning October 18, 2010.

Spotlights generally last for seven days and result in increased activity, posts, and comments. They can also bring anywhere from hundreds to thousands of new members. If you don't already moderate posts in your community, you might want to do so during the spotlight period. Everything will calm down after it's over, but it's a good idea to keep an extra eye on things while you're in the spotlight.

If you don't want your community to be in the spotlight, please let us know by replying to this email and we'll shine our light elsewhere.

If you have any problems or questions during the spotlight period, please contact our Support team here: link

Enjoy the spotlight!

Truly,
BlueMeringue

When this happened to sixwordstories they got a flood of random people joining to comment and post and stuff, not realizing it's a roleplaying community. As membership for paradisa is moderated, I don't foresee any trouble there.

If not, this could create a surge of interest and possibly applications... who knows. Just letting you guys know that we're in the Spotlight.


TO-DO LIST
1) Fourth-wall meme in yuuyuupandaland for the week. Any journal welcome, be they character or audience.
2) Link to meme, requested characters page, and explanation on sidebar of main comm.
3) Revamp requested characters page so it's up to date.



Anyway, in celebration (which conveniently/psychically started before this came up) let's spread some love @ yuuyuupandaland

Comments

[emit.livejournal.com]

Holy crap.

[notinmtsilver.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, that's AMAZING

[fanassaults.livejournal.com]

Awww snap.

We're Internet famous! Briefly.

[mal-addict.livejournal.com]

Look at us, going to be cool on the front page.

We'll need a screencap for prosperity.

[mrsawesome.livejournal.com]

Holy shit! WE'RE ALL THE RAGE, YOU GUYS.

[(Anonymous)]

STALKER ANON IS PROUD.

You all deserve it. =')

[nurse-boy.livejournal.com]

Awww, thank you anon! <3

[plonks.livejournal.com]

This is kind of awesomely amazing.

[handsthathelp.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD THAT"S SO COOL <3

[oftheforsaken.livejournal.com]

We should make an updated, mass REQUESTED CHARACTERS post that actually have a lot of thought behind it rather than a spam of listing characters, because honestly? The one on the wiki seems extremely outdated.

Also, we may get more people to app who we actually really want!

[paradisamods]

I fully agree with this. We've been talking about resetting the page for a while now; I think we should just write a new page with a "dear spotlighters" thing.

I'll talk to the other mods tonight and we'll see if we can get something in order :)

[thano.livejournal.com]

...../peeeeeeeees

[tough-teacher.livejournal.com]

D-does this make us the cool kids? /Dances

[eatshootsnleves.livejournal.com]

Holy shit!

+1

[senri.livejournal.com]

+2

[nurse-boy.livejournal.com]

[kaeru-jyanai.livejournal.com]

This is amazing!

It makes me curious what they look for when doing a spotlight though, I always thought it was like huge amounts of members or something.

[halfgoddess.livejournal.com]

I have no idea, honestly; usually it's done by user-submission or just popularity... we're coming up on 46,000 entries and we've got over 2.5 MILLION comments. We're big. Bigger than a lot of communities. I mean, even campfuckudie barely has half the entries we do. (Though they've got us soundly beat for comments.)


I'm mostly curious about the write-up/summary we'll get.

[kaeru-jyanai.livejournal.com]

I never thought to think it might be based on entries, that might make sense. Who knows, it might also just be some guy who flips through stuff and goes "Oh hey, this looks cool I'll spotlight it!".

Hopefully it will be a good one, I'm curious to see what people might decide to app after it's put up.

[senri.livejournal.com]

...I just had this sudden infusion of giddy terror

BIG BROTHER ANONS WILL NOW BE WATCHING?!

[halfgoddess.livejournal.com]

Pretty much, lovely.

[senri.livejournal.com]

/brushes teeth, fixes hair, applies extra deodorant, pops a breath mint, applies concealer - wait or, you know. The online equivalents thereof.

THIS IS EXCITINGLY SCARY JENN...

[superheroine]

Best behaviour, everyone ;) They could be watching as we go into Halloween stuff.

[senri.livejournal.com]

It also occurs to me that if we ever do a fourth wall meme in yuuyuupandaland, that might be a good time?

[superheroine]

... ooh. Now this is a good idea. We'll have to post a link from the main comm to it. 8)

[senri.livejournal.com]

Yeah! That way if anyone keeps up with the comm it'll be a fun interactive thing they can get into if they want. And maybe suck in some newbies. >:)

[nurse-boy.livejournal.com]

THIS OMG.

[(Anonymous)]

"ANONS WILL NOW BE WATCHING?!"

You're a little late, you know.

[senri.livejournal.com]

I know we have one watcher anon... are there more? I feel like this might bring in more though. :|; out of all of livejournal... I figure at least some of the people looking at that thing will be interested...

[(Anonymous)]

True. If a whole bunch of other people start watching and commenting...I won't feel special anymore.

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[wiederholt.livejournal.com]

It's all right, stalker-anon.

We'll still love you most.

[senri.livejournal.com]

Here, anon... dry your eyes 8(

Different Anon

[(Anonymous)]

There are more :)

[payback.livejournal.com]

Oh hai! ♥ Haha, you all are cool. I like Para's mice. :)

[(Anonymous)]

<3 <3 Heh, I'd app someone in a second if I had the time... :(

[payback.livejournal.com]

Aw... I would play with you. D: Who would you app? (May I ask?)

[(Anonymous)]

Of course! And probably someone from How I Met Your Mother...idk, Robin or Marshall

[waterproofed.livejournal.com]

Hellz yes.

[echivoc.livejournal.com]

Aw shiiit.

[nurse-boy.livejournal.com]

!!!!!!!!!!

[icarustattoo.livejournal.com]

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I was actually terrified for a second there, but it looks like comments in paradisa are members-only SO IT'S COOL, I APPROVE