What's the etiquette for wanting a post to be in two separate places on Dreamwidth?

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For example, if I am in a fandom community, and I write a fanfiction that I want to post, but I want the fic to both be in my personal journal, so people can find all my stuff, and in the fandom community so the fandom people can find it. Is it expected that I just fully cross-post the entire post so people don't have to go somewhere else to see it, or link back to one or the other?

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[ysabetwordsmith]

Crossposting to multiple communities is where you need to be careful and read guidelines. For some things, like announcing events, it makes sense, but even there people get tired of seeing the same thing repeatedly. Some still do it though.

It is usually safe to post anything to your blog and one topical community. It is often safe to post do different communities whose themes don't overlap much. Posting to multiple similar communities may get people complaining, but again, check the guidelines.

As a general concept, the higher traffic a comm, the more picky they are about content, whereas lower-traffic comms usually welcome any on-topic content they can get.

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[teres]

Yep, those are some good thoughts!

In my case... the communities indeed don't have themes that overlap very much, and there's enough of a "read the comments" culture that the posts kind of become "their own thing" due to that. (I've been doing this for some years, and never had much trouble, so it didn't exactly occur to me that it might be a problem.)

Re: Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

If the communities don't overlap much, then crossposting to several is probably fine.

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[teres]

They're also rather informal, so that helps, too.