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Interactions 101

The FAWM community is welcoming, open and inclusive. Other users on the website are your peers, and we ask that you treat them accordingly, with respect and politeness. As we’ve already said, you should follow Wheaton’s Law at all times.

Watchlists

If you want to make sure that you know about each new song that your favourite fawmers post, their profile page has an “Add to watchlist” button. Once you’ve clicked on this, their songs will automatically show up on the “Watchlist” tab of your FAWM feed.

Forums

The forums are where fawmers get to know each other, organise exquisite corpses (see the glossary) or collaborations or FOPs, play games, make new contacts, and generally be a community.

Leaving comments

When you’re trying to grow as a songwriter, finding out what sort of reaction your song created in a listener is incredibly helpful. What sort of emotions did it trigger? How did it make your listeners feel?

Being able to identify the thing you did which made a connection with somebody else is the ultimate goal of taking part in FAWM, so please remember this when you leave a comment on somebody else’s song. “Thanks for sharing!” might be a nice and polite message, but it isn’t going to help the songwriter figure out why a song worked or not in any way at all!

Profile / Soundboard Comments

A fawmer’s profile page is where you can leave messages of appreciation and encouragement for them, or just say hello. Please note that these messages are not private; anyone who visits a fawmer’s profile page will be able to read what you wrote.

Many users include their email addresses or social media on their profile, so you may be able contact them by clicking on those: