Each Family Journal has a filter set up with all members of the family on it. As new people join they can add themselves to this filter, allowing them to see past family-locked posts an ongoing.
As people join the game, they should subscribe to all of the family journals, making it fairly easy to go to the manage circles page and grant then access, then the manage access filters page to add them to their respective family's filter.
The purpose of having filters is so that you can have private meetings with other families! This is by no means required, but is a fun thing you can do with the game's mechanics. However, it's up to your family to maintain the filters.
If someone drops their character and is no longer on the family, please remove them from your family's filter. Removing people from other family filters is less important to keep up on, unless it's one you're using regularly.
Your family jouranls are yours! Put whatever you want in them. Lock or unlock posts as it suits you. You are also welcome to fuss with the layouts as much as you desire.
You may also change the passwords to the journals, but please email the mod journal with the new password if you do (as well as the rest of your family).
Please DON'T change the email for the journal or remove the mod journal from your family filter.
Please do NOT change the permissions on the OOC Bulletin and the Season Submissions posts in each journal, these should always only be visible to current members of the family.
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