lucetimods | (no subject)

A brief announcement that's come to me while doing applications.

I hate being a nitpicky bitch. Hate hate hate it. Any of you that have known me outside of this game or for a while probably know that while I prefer to be honest, I hate confrontation and don't like to nag.

Rule number two is not strictly upheld. Hell, it's not even upheld for ACs; we're relatively lenient on activity here, and if you explain your situation we usually let you off the hook. That being said, if I check out the characters you play and see that you haven't posted within a month or more, I'm going to press you about it before seriously reviewing your application (unless you were on hiatus), especially if I haven't personally noticed your character threading around. I don't go through every post, but I look through a hell of a lot of them, especially the open-ended ones. Sometimes I even track them. If I see a post made directly after or right before the application is posted, I check back to see the post frequency in the journals.

Please, please don't make me hound you about activity; I don't like doing it, you don't like hearing it, everyone loses. If you aren't feeling a character or if you don't have the time to play the ones you already play, please think hard about applying for another.

Thank you.

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"if I check out the characters you play and see that you haven't posted within a month or more"

Wait... But I thought the two-week activity rules applies to all activity. Not just in your own character's journal.

We're not saying that you won't get accepted if you haven't posted to the character journal itself, we'll just be double-checking to see that you've been threading with the character if we don't already know. Threading still counts, but journal entries are more obvious. Does that make more sense?

But that wasn't really my question. Does the two-week minimum rule apply to all threading (both on the character's own journal and other journals), or just the character journal itself?

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.