Community Profile

Welcome to the Daily Snitch, a Harry Potter fandom newsletter. Editors (used to) post four times a week with news gleaned from all over the Internet. These days, we have just one editor, and posts are correspondingly once weekly.

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Categories & Guidelines for posting to the daily_snitch:

Harry Potter – Actors:
Links to articles, news bulletins, interviews, videos, etc. relating to HP film actors and crew.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child:
Links to articles, news bulletins, interviews, videos, etc. relating to HP theatre actors and crew.

Fantastic Beasts – Actors
Links to articles, news bulletins, interviews, videos, etc. relating to the FBaWtFT actors and crew.

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Archive: The daily_snitch will link to public archives. It does not link to personal archives regardless of where they are hosted. This section is intended to highlight news about archives around the fandom, not to promote individual fans or their works.

Communities: The daily_snitch will post announcements of new communities, regardless if they are open or closed membership. However, the daily_snitch will not post challenges or other announcements directed at members of closed communities. We will not link to new communities that are created for the purpose of posting stories by a single author and/or collaborators.

Community Spotlight: This category will highlight one specific Harry Potter community. The Editor-in-Charge chooses the community. Suggestions are welcome; please email the Daily Snitch.

Discussions: The daily_snitch will include posts with questions and discussions that are relevant to fandom. There is a certain amount of subjectivity in this area; for example, we won't link to 20 posts on the same subject, but we will try to give a broad and varied range of opinions.

Editor's Choice Rec: Recommendations of fanart, fanfiction, podfic or video chosen by the Editor-in-Charge. Please don't send suggestions, as these recs are entirely by discretion of the Editor in charge for the Edition.

Essay/Meta: Links to structured and/or academic-style discourses on subjects relevant to the Harry Potter series and/or Harry Potter-fandom related topics as well as the Fantastic Beasts movies. We may also include essays on general topics that primarily or heavily reference Harry Potter canon or fandom.

NEW      Fan Activism & Resource/Info Sharing: Links pertaining to fan activism, amplification, and info/resource sharing within fandom and beyond. (Formerly filed under 'Resources')

Fandom Movie Reviews:
The daily_snitch will link to all reviews of the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts movies as well as reviews of the Harry Potter and the Cursed Child play.

Fandom Recs:
The daily_snitch will link to all recs of fannish creations in the Harry Potter or the Fantastic Beasts fandom that the editors can find.

General Fandom News: Links specifically related to events and happenings in the Harry Potter fandom, both online and offline -- conventions, podcasts, charity initiatives, etc. The daily_snitch will link to multi-fandom projects that include Harry Potter in some form; however, we will not link to things like event registration deadline reminders, personal convention reports, individual multi-fandom podcast episodes, etc.
Under this category we also post links not specifically related to the Harry Potter fandom but of interest to fannish users of the platforms on which the daily_snitch is published (LiveJournal, Insane Journal, Dreamwidth, tumblr), such as planned service outage notices, staff posts about changes that may impact fandom, notable essays/discussions about fandom, media references to fandom or fan works, etc.

Have a Laugh: Links to Harry Potter-related humour -- parody videos, joke compilations, satirical essays, etc. What gets linked here depends on the editor; however, the daily_snitch will not link to humorous/crack fan fiction or fan art/comics unless they are submitted as a Hot Rec/Hot Art.

Hot Art & Hot Rec: All fics or works of art that have been recced at least 2 times in public (not friends-locked and/or filtered) posts (not comments) on all fannish websites or social media can be included as a Hot Rec in the daily_snitch. For the pairings most popular for Hot Recs – Harry/Draco, Harry/Severus and Remus/Sirius – three recs are required. This is a test. We'll go with this policy for the next six months, then we'll re-evaluate to see whether we get a broader pairing variety of Hot Recs this way or not.

Mentions in any fandom newsletter or links to stories/artworks without an explanation why they're being recommended do not count as recs. The daily_snitch will link to stories hosted anywhere.
NEW      The daily_snitch now allows recs from all fannish websites or social media platforms to count towards a Hot Rec or Hot Art. The reccer needs to state, in their own words, why they rec the fic or art. Just a "I rec this" is not enough.

Please send your submissions for Hot Recs to dailysnitch@gmail.com. They should include title, author/artist, possible pairings (full names of characters), the rating and the summary. Works in progress will be recced more than once if there have been at least 5 new chapters since the last mention in the daily_snitch. When sending recs, please include at least two (or three) links to posts where the story has been recced.

Masterlists and Weekly Updates: Links to Harry Potter Fest or other Masterlists and Weekly Roundups. Special interest masterlists are included here, too.

Nifty: Links of fannish interest related to the Harry Potter series that don't quite fit elsewhere -- for example, notable fan videos, Harry Potter food/drink recipes, craft (cosplay and replica) tutorials, live-action events like Quidditch or Wizard Chess that receive media coverage, etc.

Participate: Links to polls, fandom project/fest proposal discussions, and other activities that don't require creating fan works to participate.

Prompt Challenges: The daily_snitch will only link to fan work prompt challenge posts if the challenge runs for two weeks or longer. Any challenges that run for less than two weeks (think weekly challenges on a drabble community) will not be linked to. The daily_snitch will not post reminders of challenge deadlines unless these change from the originally announced ones.

Resources: Links to fannish resources such as the daily_snitch Special Editions, thematic wikis or encyclopedias, eligible rec posts, detailed or statistical analyses of a specific aspect of the canon (for example, a full overview of the frequencies with which each spell was used in the books or movies), guides to the fandom or some part of it (for example, an up-to-date listing of all communities for a specific ship), etc.

Fannish Searches: Fic searches, but also searches for other fannish connections.

NEW      Wizard Rock: Links to news pertaining to wizard rock releases, events, articles, calls for submissions, etc.

Additional Notes:

Legal Issues: Anything that violates US copyright laws in regard to the movies, books, and/or soundtracks will not be included in the daily_snitch.

Privacy: The daily_snitch wants to guarantee the privacy of every poster. For this reason, we never link to friends-locked or filtered posts. On occasion, posts are locked after we link them, in which case a simple comment will be enough for us to remove the link. Moreover, if anyone wishes for us not to link/remove a post, we will always respect the poster's request.

Visit our tag page if you look for specific content, or for Special Editions on one character. Starting November 2014, posts will be tagged so they can be searched through the tag page. Tags include tags for #meta, for #hot rec, for #hot art, for #fantastic beasts and more.

Special Editions: Special Editions has started again in January of 2015. The submissions must be either gen with the featured character heavily involved or ship-specific with the featured character a part of the main pairing. Fics with other pairings where the featured character is featured will not be included.

Videos: No videos rated NC-17 will be linked.

The daily_snitch reserves the right to reject any submission, if it feels that the poster is trying to circumvent our rules or if the post is detrimental to the daily_snitch and fandom in general.

We, as editors, rely on our readers to find interesting posts. Unlike a newspaper, we do not have a large staff that can cover every corner of fandom, and we can only do our best in searching for interesting things. Whether it falls under Discussion or Hot Rec, we welcome all submissions. When making submissions, please include the link. If you'd like something worded in a special manner, include that too.

Please note that individual editors will make decisions to include or not to include links or to use specific wording at their own discretion.

If you have any other questions, feel free to contact us at dailysnitch@gmail.com.
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