About WTP
Governance
WTP is managed and operated by a group of volunteers who bring their different skills and talents to our archive, and who hold the archive in trust for the Snape/Harry fen community. The site www.walkingtheplank.org is legally owned and registered to Tradescant. There are four groups who work on the site:
Management Group
The management group has overall control of the site and make final decisions about the site where that is necessary. They are also the final port of call for any disputes; for example, about policies, or the standard of work of a volunteer. This group includes Tradescant, Alicia Masters, Shadowess, and Ketsurui.
Technical Team
The technical team are people who are skilled in coding and the operation of eFic, forums and websites. Our tech team built the site as you see it, and will be making the changes upon which we've decided as a group. They advise on the feasibility of suggestions, and implement the decisions that are made about the look and operation of the site. Our technical team includes Shadowess, Sacrilege,Xingou and Misssolitude.
Submissions Mods
The submission moderators are those who actually go through the content of all submissions, check to ensure the submissions meet our standards according to our posted policy, and then approve or reject. Our submissions mods include Alicia Masters, djin7, magic_helmet, painless_j, Perfica, Snapetoy, Venivincere, Ketsurui, Nemesis, Mom2EnK, Misssolitude, and KatieBell.
Policy Group
All the volunteers who work on the site collectively make both the policy decisions for the site and decisions regarding the operation of the site. Said decisions are generally made when consensus is reached favouring a particular viewpoint. Where no clear consensus can be attained, and a decision must be made to ensure the continued operation of the site, the management group will make that decision. Ideas and proposals are discussed thoroughly in a private section of the forum. Our goal is to identify all the possible consequences of our decisions so that the site grows easily and operates smoothly.
Site Founders
Walking the Plank was relaunched on Feb 14th, 2006. There was a large group of volunteers who put in many hours of work towards the site. This work included: Policy Creation, Submission Guidelines, Validation of Detention's content, Site Skin design, Software installation and hacks, and much more. Our Start up crew included: Snapetoy, Venivincere, Shaldana, Perfica, Aubrem, Gaycrow, Djin7, Mimiheart, Rexluscus, Luthien, Melpemone, Aucta Sinistra, Lizardspots, Auxelle, Shadowess, Nimori, Alchemia, Reddwarfer, Alicia Masters, Cordelia_V, Eruwen GMTH, and Leni Jess.
Alumni List
The Alumni are those who have made valuable contributions to Walking the Plank, but are no longer available for regular support. They will always have a home at WTP, and we will welcome them back with open arms if they discover they have more time; in the meantime, we thank them here. This list includes, but is not limited to: Alexa, Aucta Sinistra, Auxelle, Lizard, Reddwarfer, singlewoman, Vain, Nimori, Perfica, Mimiheart, Cate, Manna, Melpemone, Leni Jess, Gaycrow, and Rex Luscus.
If you have any further questions about the governance of the site, you can email the management group at wtp.administration@gmail.com.
History of Walking the Plank
Once upon a time, in the dark and treacherous seas of the early Harry Potter fandom, there were few writers brave enough to venture onto the ship of Snape/Harry. Each wrote in obscurity, wondering if she were the only one to see the glory in the pairing, and each waited patiently for the day when her OTP would be recognized for the force of nature we all know it to be today.
And then Telanu began her immensely popular Tea Series, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone hit the theatres, and Luthien and Tboy launched the Severus Snape Fuh-Q Fest, not necessarily in that order but in a kind of free-floating press-gang unit, and things were never the same again. With Yahoo mailing lists springing up and dozens of new S/H stories to fuel a fan's burgeoning addiction, the ranks of the faithful grew. But new stories or no, new fans or no, to love S/H in those days was to harbor a bit of an embarrassing secret. And so when Aspen and Telanu in a fit of we-don't-know-what-we're-getting-into decided to design and launch an archive site for the aformentioned faithful ranks, they as a group dubbed themselves Walking the Plank--in the world of ships, the one most likely to be used as shark-bait.
The archive--longtime fans will remember the controversial red-and-white-on-black color scheme--started off small, and grew slowly at first, but with the stories from the Fuh-Q Fest (and later fests as well) released for archiving and more and more writers joining ranks, Tradescant joined Telanu and Aspen to help archive the flood of new fics, and stayed on as first Aspen and then Telanu retired. Tradescant herself retired a few months later, and the archive stood unupdated for a while, and then eventually disappeared quietly from the Internet, to be replaced by the much larger and more heavily trafficked Detention. (And there were always multifandom archives for fans to satisfy their S/H cravings, as well.) But it wasn't until Detention was pulled off the Internet that Snapetoy contacted Tradescant about reopening WTP and the new, supercharged archive you see before you today was conceived and launched, with the help of many able hands.
The H/S ship reached unprecedented popularity through the Detention archive, and under Snapetoy's captaincy, Walking the Plank, far from being the streamlined little sloop it was back in the days of furtive H/S appreciation, has become a worthy successor to both the original WTP and Detention: a fully-equipped and tightly-run ship of the line, a veritable man-o-war. May it sail the open fandom seas for many years.
Tradescant
14 February 2006
The Snape Slash Fleet
Walking the Plank has always been part of the Snape Slash Fleet. The ships of the Fleet can be found at SSF Updates on Live Journal.
Art Credits
Banner art for the Seasonal skin is copyright Undun. Banner art for the Simplicity skin is copyright Nimori -- but it could be you!
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