There has been quite a bit of discussion over the months about the way we handle our community links. We are a Community, in the best senses of the word. We are, first and foremost, a group dedicated to our shared love of animals. That is, as it should be, our primary focus.
Da Peeps are in favour of helping each other, which is a good thing, to be sure.
We have, though, gone rather far afield from the way things were done when Tricia, our beloved Pootie Queen, was with us. That system worked very well, and it is time to return to our roots.
In doing some research for this diary, I went back into the archives and took a look at how we used to do things. If anyone cares to do the same, you will find that things were done differently until about a year or so ago.
Until then, people who needed help would write a diary describing their situation and asking for help. If you were vouched for by a Kossack of long standing, or one of the Peeps, who had either spoken to or met you, the diary was then linked to PWB PEEPS.
More important, those diaries/links were a one-off thing, except in very rare cases. We did not have daily links for fundraising, nor did we have daily space for advertising.
Even Peeps who had Tricia’s permission did not post daily, for their online businesses. They posted a link once in a while, not daily.
The Community Quilt Projects, run by Sara and Ann (Winglion) are an ongoing part of the greater Daily Kos community. They post Quilt diaries as they are needed. They have had, and continue to have, the support of Markos, himself, as one of the best Community building things we do.
The Links, as they were originally done, included links to music, other sites that had animal care info, or other things of interest to the Pootie Peeps, like the Pootie Pads, which were developed specifically for this group.
Starting Monday, 12 February, we will be returning to that format.
It will still be possible to link to a Community Fundraiser Diary; in fact, that is highly encouraged. It will still be possible to link to The Kos Katalogue, where artisans across Daily Kos advertise their wares, also highly encouraged.
There will not however, any longer be the extended lists as they have been for the last year.
My intent, always, is to make PWB Peeps the best and strongest and most fun group on Daily Kos. Please join me in making it so.
Much love to all Da Peeps,
MarTigress