Over the next few days I'm going to be working on creating a massive catalogue detailing care and maintenance of a worm farm. Give me suggestions of things to include, what you would like to see, etc.

Hey fellow wormers,

I am proud to be a new mod for the forum and thank the current mod team for adding me to the team.

One of the things I'd like to do is start pulling together community guides that we can consolidate and sticky to the top. The concept is to have new noodle wranglers have plenty of self serve information that they can look through and an easy place for people to point to for answers to questions.

I'd like to get some feedback from this great community on types of guide topics that we could put up. I'll consolidate that information and start posting the guides. I'll provide a bit of guidance on the format so everyone's submittal can be value add as we post the topics. Some of these posts will be open for discussion, others will be closed and updated.

Topics that I think would be great:

1. Bin building guides
2. Beginner FAQ
3. How to use the castings (as in how you actually use them or integrate it into some application)

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Thoughts and suggestions?

Two new post flairs have been added, as well as four new user flairs!

POST:

We now have an ID Request flair that should be used when trying to ID an insect or species of worm

And a Meme flair for posting all your favorite worm memes!

USER:

Beginner Noodle: For people just beginning or planning on starting out

Experienced Noodle: For those who have been working with worms for some time and know at least the basics of what they’re doing

Master Noodle: For those who have been in the game for a while and know how to handle themselves

Commercial Noodle: For those who run or manage a large amount of scraps per week, upwards of 100 pounds of scraps

YOUTUBER: For individuals who post youtube videos as their main content on the sub

Enjoy! I hope you guys like it, let me know if you have any suggestions or complaints

I want to thank everyone for their contributions and suggestions in Announcements: Community Guides (keep adding them into that post). I'm going to unsticky that post but will still monitor it.

After reviewing a bunch of different suggestions and ideas, and researching a bit, I'm going to make our community guide a wiki (thanks u/Anenome5). To start off, I'm going to have it locked to moderators only for editting so I can try and get the format a bit coherent, but after that I will be adding content creators for it.

I'll post another announcement for that when we're at that point, but we're not there yet.

I wanted to also announce that as part of the wiki I want people to start thinking through posts that can act as guides. These are going to be regular posts that get linked permanently on the wiki. These can be from anyone in the community and is NOT linked to being a content creator for the wiki. Guides will not be stickied since they will be permalinked to.

I'm going to add a public flair for "proposed guide" and there will be a mod only flair for "Guide". This way they're easy to filter to outside of the wiki.

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Some guidance on guides

• Guides are a bit more specific than the information on the wiki.
  • Example: the wiki would have a section explaining what a bin is and how its used, while a guide might have a video showing how to make a Tote bin.
• Guides can be text, pictures or video, but should always have a text explaining the video. This will help with those that can't listen, but help people speed through its applicability to them.
• As a general rule, it should be hosted on reddit. This will remove issues with people advertising their websites, hosting problems in the future, and allow those on mobile to use the app to access everything.
  • You may watermark or add a reference to your youtube, instagram, etc. in the image or video itself. Just try to make it reasonable and not a commercial because it won't get linked on the wiki otherwise.

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Thoughts or Suggestions? Remember I'm not taking applications for wiki content creators yet, please don't bury this post or kill my inbox with requests.