No worries, just wanted to let you know! And if it'd been another sloth thing, then it would have been part of your response to the challenge - it's cos you did a general Temptations thing that it's a bit different!
I do see where you're coming from with the Lent/Christmas comparison, but along the same lines we'd rather any icons claiming dialj affiliation didn't say "dialj christmas" either - cos the challenge was Discovered In The Mistletoe, not Discovered At Christmas! We very very specifically didn't want it to be just about Christmas, although of course people had the scope to use Christmas as their theme, and that's what most people chose to revolve around. The original celebration at that time of year was never Christmas though, which is a celebration specific to one religion, and since neither of us is religious we'd rather avoid those sort of references as far as they involve us/the comm.
In the same way, anyone's welcome to make all kinds of references to Lent as an individual contributor (and of course I mentioned it myself in the challenge) - but please don't affiliate the comm itself to any one religion via icons etc! Does that make sense?! I know it sounds as if we're being picky, but...
So, yeah, if you could just take the word "Lent" off the icons, that'd be great. People will see from the names of the sins what's going on. We do appreciate the thought, honestly! And I know it's a bit late too, cos people will already have taken them to use, but there's nothing we can do about that, so... damage limitation for next time! Sorry to come the heavy mod too, I hate sounding like that. We don't have many rules or guidelines, but there are just a few principles that we want to stick to!
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Date: 2007-02-25 08:52 pm (UTC)I do see where you're coming from with the Lent/Christmas comparison, but along the same lines we'd rather any icons claiming dialj affiliation didn't say "dialj christmas" either - cos the challenge was Discovered In The Mistletoe, not Discovered At Christmas! We very very specifically didn't want it to be just about Christmas, although of course people had the scope to use Christmas as their theme, and that's what most people chose to revolve around. The original celebration at that time of year was never Christmas though, which is a celebration specific to one religion, and since neither of us is religious we'd rather avoid those sort of references as far as they involve us/the comm.
In the same way, anyone's welcome to make all kinds of references to Lent as an individual contributor (and of course I mentioned it myself in the challenge) - but please don't affiliate the comm itself to any one religion via icons etc! Does that make sense?! I know it sounds as if we're being picky, but...
So, yeah, if you could just take the word "Lent" off the icons, that'd be great. People will see from the names of the sins what's going on. We do appreciate the thought, honestly! And I know it's a bit late too, cos people will already have taken them to use, but there's nothing we can do about that, so... damage limitation for next time! Sorry to come the heavy mod too, I hate sounding like that. We don't have many rules or guidelines, but there are just a few principles that we want to stick to!