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Community Information
Below is information about the "We like literacy." community on DeadJournal. To join this community, click here. You may leave the community at any time.
| User: | not_illiterate (450635) |
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| We can type. |
| Name: | We like literacy. |
| About | This is another one of those rating communities where you submit an application and await your fate until members tell you whether you're cool or not.
The catch is, this rating community doesn't ask you what your favorite band is or what celebrity you hate the most. You need to actually be a thinking human being who can type using punctuation and capitalization if you want to join this community.
We aren't the best typists in the world ourselves, but we like using punctuation and really hate run-on sentences. Yes, we will rate you on your answers to the application, but if you make a simple mistake, we will find it, and we will taunt you endlessly about it.
We won't be too bitchy about it, and if you're still neat we'll more than likely accept you, but we can still pick out your mistakes and laugh at them.
Even if an applicant's application has no mistakes whatsoever, you can still say no to them if their survey is unentertaining or irritating. Just remember to give reasons.
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We're aware that lots of rating communities have silly rules stating that new applicants can't say anything bad to members; they can't post anything other than their application, etcetera... So, we've decided to make fair rules.
Rules for members:
1. Please, for God's sake, be active. We won't kick you out or anything if you're not, but we would like to see plenty of votes.
2. You can be a bitch to applicants, but they have the right to be a bitch in return. Beware, some applicants may have more searing wit than you can handle.
3. Even though you are indeed allowed to be a bitch to applicants, it would be beneficial to us all if you didn't make insinuations about applicants. Make fun of the truth, not what you think possibly could be the truth.
4. You can post crap in here, as long as it has something to do with our valued literacy. For instance, perhaps you could post stories from English class where someone confused an adjective with a verb. We'd like that. Use an lj-cut if the post is too long, though.
5. For the love of Pete, give reasons when you give someone a no. Giving yeses without reasons is acceptable, as long as you say more than just 'yes'. People often like to know why they aren't meeting your approval, so tell them.
6. Just like applicants, you must type correctly! Since you aren't being criticized by the members, spelling errors and honest mistakes will most likely be overlooked, but capitalize and punctuate or be banned.
7. You may whore literate communities. A literate community would be a community that has something to do with writing, books, book reviews, grammar, so on and so forth, I'm sure you get the idea. Posts that whore other rating communities or illiterate communities will simply be deleted.
Rules for all potential members:
1. The application must be behind an LJ-cut. Try putting something interesting in the text line, as well. We like that.
2. You don't need to post a picture. We won't even ask for one. We don't want to see you. You can if you want to, but we'll assume you're being a conceited little child and we probably won't accept you.
3. Make your application easy to read, we beg of you.
4. The majority rules, simply because that's easier. There are no rules that say that maintainers have to say yes for you to be accepted, or anything silly like that. Members and maintainers are on the same level here.
5. If someone is rude to you, you can go ninja on them and reply with as many smarmy little comments as you want to. Please remember, though, that simply calling them an idiot or an asshole is probably not going to bother them. If you use these simple minded insults, more people will probably reject you, as well. Use higher level insults or go back in time and make fun of their application.
6. Sadly, there is no way around the rule that you must first be accepted before you can vote on other people. You can vote if you want to, but it will be ignored in the final count.
8. You cannot be officially accepted or rejected until two thirds of the members have voted or until your application has been posted for two days. ***
9. As soon as you're officially stamped, you can vote on anyone that hasn't been officially stamped.
10. You can comment on other entries even before you're accepted.
11. Most importantly, be coherent! That's one of the main points of this community. Use punctuation after your sentences and capitalize proper nouns and the word 'I'.
12. Finally, a warning: do not fill out the application with your one-time life quota of correct typing skills, and then go around the community typing horribly. When I say this, I don't mean honest mistakes; I mean if you flaunt incorrect punctuation and the like, you will be banned instantly.
Rules for rejected applicants:
1. You may apply again every consecutive week for five weeks. If you aren't accepted after five different applications, it's obvious you aren't getting in. If there is no visible difference between your old application and your new one, I'll probably just delete the application.
2. You may not make new posts but you may still comment on non-application posts.
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Now, the moment you've all been waiting for: the application!
We expect you to answer the following with more than one sentence. The shorter the answers are, the less time we will spend contemplating whether or not we like you. Unnecessary elaboration is a good thing.
1. Pretend you're introducing yourself to a new class of students in elementary school. Tell us the basic things that you would be most likely to tell them.
2. You see a duck at the pond. The duck starts to waddle towards you. It comes up to you and sits in front of you. Explain what you're thinking and what you would do with the duck.
3. George Bush gives you the option to change one thing in the United States. You may change one thing and one thing only. Don't say "I would get him out of office."
4. You're walking down the street and a beggar asks you for some money. Explain, in at least three sentences, what you would do and why.
5. A good friend of yours is contemplating suicide. This friend entrusts you with this knowledge, and you only. What course of action do you take?
6. One of your friends had unprotected sex and conceived a soon-to-be-human organism. She's contemplating having an abortion. Do you try to convince her not to have one or do you sympathize with her? What would you say to her? If you don't have any female friends, just pretend that you do.
7. Suppose your friend comes out of the closet to you. You're the only person who knows. Would you shun this friend, or offer support? What if your significant other or even a parent came out? Would you shun or support them? Give reasons along with your answers.
8. Your school is contemplating making school uniforms mandatory. Write a letter, at least 5 sentences long, to the head of the school board explaining why you agree or disagree.
9. You discover one of your friends is straight-edge. How would you treat this friend after the discovery? What would you say?
10. Pretend that you are the president of a large business that is famous for taking its clients out to lunch. One of your best clients whom you wish to take to lunch is a vegetarian. Do you take the client out to lunch yourself or do you have someone else do it? Why? Do you simply ask the client what foods they refrain from eating or do you hesitate to ask?
11. Which class in your school do you think is the most important class or at least a very important one? Explain why you think the class is important.
The following questions relate to your actual self. They provide insight to the type of person you are. No, really, they do.
1. What are the eight parts of speech?
2. What are your favourite parts of speech? Why?
3. What are your least favourite parts of speech? Why? Explain why they're still important to sentences.
4. A genie comes up to you because a different loser had forgotten to use their last wish. Therefore, you are granted one wish. You can't wish for more wishes, so what do you wish for? We'd like to know why as well.
5. A different, evil, genie is going to turn you into a bird. However, you can choose which species. What species of bird do you want to be? Why?
6. We'd like to know about some of the books you've read. Please tell us what the books are about, as well. We may not have read them, and don't want to be left thinking that they're books about hobgoblins when they're actually about light spectrums.
7. Do you like to read books that teach you things? What kind of things do you like to learn from books?
8. How do you feel about books that are made into movies? Do you feel the movie is usually less entertaining than the book? Why do you feel this way?
9. Do you like to learn? How do you go about learning? What do you like to learn about?
10. Do you ever become terribly upset with yourself when you make a silly mistake in grammar or spelling?
11. Pick a word. It must have at least three syllables and eleven letters. Define it. Use it in a sentence.
12. What are some of your literate accomplishments?
Now we'll test your knowledge as if this were an English test.
1. Create a sentence using two prepositions and two conjunctions.
2. Create a sentence with only one noun using an adverb and two adjectives.
3. Create a sentence. Bold the subject, underline the predicate.
4. Choose a word that can be both a verb and a noun. Create a sentence using the word as a noun. Create another sentence using the word as a verb.
5. Create a sentence with more than 50 words; make sure it isn't a run-on sentence.
That was the survey. Remember to have fun; remember to use punctuation and lj-cuts.
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When you get two thirds of the community to vote or it has been two days since you applied, you will get stamped. It's not required to put the stamp in your user info, because our dear randomclingon did make them a smidge large.
Accepted stamp
Rejected stamp
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Your maintainers are zippytk and randomclingon. They are both in charge of officially accepting or rejecting people and maintaining the community.
Your co-maintainers (who are only co-maintainers because zippytk is a biased little creature who wanted her close friends to be co-maintaners) are
joyuna
cutieco8 and
dracolupus.
The members (in order of acceptance) are:
newcrisis
tiny_little_me
myopeormerope
receptacle
fayettefreak
varro
aforgottenstar
druggedpoet
hybridhavita
rotekoenigin
looserificxcow
Rejected people:
blackdecember17
The following people are special because they helped with the making of this community.
randomclingon for making the layout, the stamps, the name, and three of the application questions.
tiny_little_me for correcting a lot of grammatical errors in the user-info.
We know we sound cocky and a bit conceited, but all we're really asking of you is that you use full stops, capitalize when needed, spell most, if not all words, correctly, and try not to confuse words like "you're" and "your" (along with other things). Honestly, we can type. Notice how there are many punctuation marks on this information page.
3/01/04: We now have our own 'love bandwagon', courtesy of joyuna.
*** If there's an uneven amount of members and two thirds would be something other than a whole number, what is considered two thirds will be rounded down. Example: Two thirds of seven is 5.5. Therefore, if there were seven members, five of them would have to vote before an applicant was eligible to be officially stamped. |
| Interests: | 26: being assholes, being persnickety, capitalization, correct spelling, correct typing, details, interjections, laughing at illiterate people, literacy, long answers, necessary elaboration, nitpickers, nitpicking, nouns, parts of speech, prepositional phrases, pronouns, punctuation, reading, spelling, subject and predicate, the shift key, typing, unnecessary elaboration, verbosity, verbs. [Modify yours] | | Maintainers: | 5: cutieco8, dracolupus, joyuna, randomclingon, zippytk | | Members: | 18: 1000_things, _nashy, aforgottenstar, blackdecember17, burgunde, cutieco8, dracolupus, fayettefreak, hybridhavita, joyuna, lokasenna, newcrisis, randomclingon, receptacle, rotekoenigin, tiny_little_me, varro, zippytk |
| Watched by | 8: aforgottenstar, blackdecember17, cutieco8, fayettefreak, hybridhavita, joyuna, randomclingon, zippytk |
| Account type: | Free User |
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