help the clueless

[ratcreature]

I was reading the daily_snitch and saw in the community section "fantasyverse is a new land community." My reaction then was "what is a 'land community'?" so I headed over to the comm profile, which in the about section also only says that it is a "land community" but does not explain what that is, but it apparently involves teams and challenges. I then head to the FAQs which unfortunately don't give a definition either.

At this point I assume that it must be some sort of incredibly common thing that everybody (except apparently me) in fandom is familiar with. I tried looking in Fanlore, but that wiki failed me too, because it does not have an article on this. I tried following affiliated links, but aside from ending up on a master list of land comms that showed me that there are a ton of them, I didn't easily find a link to a clear definition what they are either.

Could anyone on my flist give me an explanation what these communities are/do?

Comments

[astridv]

I have an idea what to expect after hearing a bunch of people talking about it, and I'm really tempted right now (Leverageland is recruiting right this moment) but the idea of being expected to participate each week in something, no matter how small, is just so contrary to the whole stress reducing thing I got going that I'll probably pass. Maybe next time though.

But if you want to see what it's about you could probably just sign up, try it for a month, and drop out if it's not for you. Way I understand it it's not a big deal.

[ratcreature]

I'm not that tempted because I haven't seen any that would be a good fandom match for me right now. For example many that include one fandom I like a lot include other fandoms I don't care about (like the ST Reboot inclusive one is also for Lost and Alias which I never even watched).

[astridv]

Huh, that's a weird combination, these three have, like, nothing in common.

[ratcreature]

They are all JJ Abrams in common (the comm also includes Fringe), like that whedonland comm is for Dr Horrible, Firefly, Buffy and Angel.