And that's not really what we're trying to say. The whole point of this post is that we aren't strict about that rule, but we like to see some invested time in characters before you pick up another. I check the journal post frequencies; if I see that they aren't very often, I press and ask if you've been threading. If you tell me yes, usually I take your word for it -unless I'm relatively sure otherwise- and we go on our merry ways.

Technically speaking, there is no "requirement." The two-week minimum is in place to encourage people to play the characters they have, the AC is mostly to boot characters that people have forgotten they play here for months at a time, and my inquiries on the applications are to make sure that people aren't just getting a new toy every month.