random | list all | backup list and stats requirements | join | edit your site info often requirements often is a webring for online journals that update often with entries of substantial length. journal
1.	It must be an online journal or diary (not an overt work of drama or fiction) with timely entries associated with a date (or at least a number) that is currently being updated.
2.	Your journal should have its own index page.
3.	Past entries should be accessible via some kind of archive.
4.	You should be able to navigate directly from entry to entry (without the need to go through some third location).
5.	Entries should generally be uploaded shortly after they are written. Serious batch loading should be avoided.
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6.	You should have at least one calendar month's worth of entries on line.
7.	Your journal should have an often average of 20 entries a month. When your site is reviewed, both on receiving your submission and subsequently, the ring coordinator will count the entries for each of the past three calendar months (or two or one if the journal is younger). Your often average will be calculated as the higher out of the average number of entries for the last three, two and one month(s). In other words, if you've had a slow month, your previous months can make up for it, and vice versa. (It's not as complicated as it sounds, really. See the backup list and stats page for examples.) Note: multiple entries under one date will count as one entry.
8.	No month should have more than two periods of 4 days or more without an entry.
Exceptions will be made if you have to be away and you leave notice and dates at your site. substantial
9.	You should have no more than 5 entries a month under 200 words. (All the others should be longer!) Or at least 20 entries a month of over 200 words (as of Feb 98).
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10.	Once you have been accepted, the ring fragment must be placed in a prominent location on the page you are listed in the ring under, or on a page no more than one clearly marked link away.
11.	The url you are listed under, either in the queue or the ring, must be the index page of your journal, and it must be current. You can edit your site info here.
12.	You must have a current e-mail address listed under your site info or at the very least, on your site.
If you are on the queue and you do not meet requirements 2-5, 10 or 11, you will have 10 days from notification to remedy the situation before you will be removed from the queue. If you narrowly miss requirements 6-9, you will be asked if you would like to remain on hold in the queue until the next review. You must respond in 10 days or you will be removed from the queue. You only get one chance to remain on hold in the queue. If you are currently a member your site will be reviewed periodically. If you fail to meet requirements 2-5, 10 or 11, you will be given 10 days from notification to remedy the situation before you will be unceremoniously booted from the ring. If you narrowly miss requirements 6-9, you will be asked if you would like to remain in the ring on provisional status until the next review. You must respond in 10 days or you will be removed from the ring, also unceremoniously. You only get one chance to remain on the ring provisionally. Failure to meet requirement 1, and serious failure to meet requirements 6-9 will result in a notification and immediate booting, unceremonious or otherwise, as will failure to meet requirement 12, only in that case, I won't be able to notify you! Please don't be offended if a notification message is short and to the point. I'd love to be a nice friendly ring coordinator but, well, I'd rather sacrifice friendliness, which is time consuming, in the interests of keeping the ring well maintained. (Do you have any idea how long it takes to check sites out? What was I thinking when I made all these rules!) Also, I will check the requirements that are most commonly not met first, and if those requirements are indeed not met, I may not check the other requirements. If you receive a notification, you would do well to check all the requirements yourself (hint hint). If the requirements sound exacting, that's because the goal is to leave no room for dispute as to who does or does not qualify (besides, you're not the one that has to check each site!) and also to make it as fair as possible. Site statistics relating to frequency of entries in member journals are tabulated at the backup list and stats page. Your journal doesn't qualify? Don't feel bad. This ring is just a method to help readers find a particular kind of journal. Don't make it your life ambition to be part of it. Lots of entries means just that--lots of entries. Quantity is not quality. There are plenty of other rings you can join, or you can start your own.
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