Activity Check Results

[lucetimods]

The results for the Activity Check are in. Please note that the following characters were either inactive, didn't post to the activity check, or failed to speak to a moderator about their activity. Also added were characters who have dropped, for your convenience.

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friend remove autocrossbowplz friend remove ballkicker friend remove bang_ihaveagun friend remove blue_velocity friend remove bravare friend remove brewinthunder friend remove cowledcrusader friend remove expediency friend remove failuremage friend remove idle_magic friend remove im_brilliant friend remove ivorygunslinger friend remove kazakami friend remove listenstorocks friend remove lunaticked friend remove lusus_scientiae friend remove magnanimity friend remove nightsofrain friend remove nofireallowed friend remove phasingly friend remove rebeloutcast friend remove restoremyhonour friend remove sapphire_sniper friend remove sofar_sogr8 friend remove thesearepants friend remove tsuntrader friend remove willbeawinner friend remove paishoplayer friend remove valorandwisdom friend remove moonlightoutlaw friend remove wanderingsnail friend remove god_is_a_dude friend remove lunarwit friend remove awaitingalbion friend remove ihasacutout friend remove mothercuts friend remove soulphile friend remove shieldsroyalty friend remove fireinherheart friend remove realivewire friend remove 4000gropes friend remove temperateheart friend remove 4000ages friend remove most_talented friend remove eeeek_a_rat friend remove wildconqueror friend remove pinkbedwetter friend remove nottanzanite friend remove healing_yellow friend remove verisprit friend remove bluffgenius friend remove a_honeysuckle friend remove dayofcentury friend remove salvationfound friend remove falenansun friend remove quitewright friend remove youmademebleed friend remove tornadomechanic friend remove tionysus friend remove cryology friend remove rupturedbabylon friend remove praygenius friend remove intobrightness friend remove spiralwitness friend remove ofzero friend remove consultmybooks friend remove invidia_keeper friend remove gustareion friend remove die_wiederkehr friend remove mybossisbetter friend remove esper_flight friend remove undertheanchor friend remove andheavenknows friend remove dressedinflame friend remove tobecomeaknight friend remove harveyinmyhead friend remove ratnavati friend remove greaterdays friend remove goddamn_butler friend remove sniperkingftw friend remove couldhavedanced friend remove forever_heroine friend remove shockingsoul friend remove a_bit_heartless friend remove roadstovictory friend remove twoyearblade friend remove im_the_cute_one friend remove leftover_storm friend remove saltwaterwounds friend remove 300yrswandering friend remove applehair friend remove touchedbystars friend remove flamesofkaraya friend remove notredheaded friend remove sing_thrush friend remove lilblackfeather friend remove ankoku_fox friend remove likeafirework friend remove ninthforgiven friend remove loyal_arrows friend remove dynamicfury friend remove reversededge friend remove merepuppet friend remove shesmyapplepie friend remove letsgetmoving friend remove talktomyguns friend remove enemyscanning friend remove prayingone friend remove lemonscarf friend remove caughtadoctor friend remove promisebreaking friend remove thirdhost friend remove herobydefault friend remove cowboykinneas friend remove hideandgocie friend remove psychebubble friend remove eclipsedtheplot friend remove rendingblade friend remove meshninja friend remove seaweedsoup friend remove shinigamiphile friend remove 7thheavensmile friend remove forkimlasca friend remove galddigger friend remove temperedtempest friend remove fates_ironic friend remove lunaticked friend remove whatsinthepipe

A number of you passed the activity check, but barely. (You know who you are.) Try to pick things up, as it's no fun to character-squat.

If there are any mistakes here, please let us know! Additionally, if your character was removed and you're still active, feel free to appeal to one of us about keeping your character. However, please remember next time to stay active and post to the Activity Check. Thank you!

And as always:

HMD

How's My Driving?

This is a crit post for both the community and game and for your characters. If you have something you'd like to see us improve upon with the game, PLEASE TELL US HERE! Anon commenting is on, but if anything gets really nasty there will be warnings and thread-freezing. This isn't required but everyone is encouraged to take advantage of the advice of your fellow players!

Just some pointers: no taking cheap shots, no dragging personal issues into things and for the love of all that is wise and great, please double check your replies and comments before posting them. Sometimes a change in phrasing can make all the difference between a helpful tone and a condescending one.

ALSO ALSO: We'd like to clarify that HMD means HMD- which means it's okay to have both good and bad crit. Some people have expressed concerns about posting good/bad crit when a character already has bad/good crit posted. We'd like to encourage you guys to do it anyway! You can drive well or badly, and even good drivers make mistakes. So give it a try \o

Comments

Re: Luceti / Luceti Mods

[(Anonymous)]

I'm ngl, but I find the new activity check to be a bit of a cop-out. You said you were making it more difficult to catch out the character sitters, but instead you've made it easier for them?

I was under the impression the new rules would imply that the player would have to post 30 comments regardless of method, not that they would have to get 30 comments or just put up a post. The latter sounds incredibly cheap to me. The character should have to get 30 comments (that's one tag a day, seeing as the space of the AC has been bumped up to a month) whether on their own thread or in other peoples. These current rules seem unfair.

What's your criteria for judging the people who only submit a post they've made?

[lucetimods]

That is what we'd like to go through, unfortunately moving to the new system created a lot of confusion and people weren't very good at reading or understanding the new rules, as we had many people throw up more links than they were supposed to. It was disappointing to see people take the easy route out by just using a post, rather than giving us thirty comments over all. Still, we're in transition, especially since we announced the new rules during this last AC period.

All in all, we were pretty lenient this time around. In the next mod post, I hope to clarify what we're really expecting so that the next AC will be smoother, fairer, and a little more strict.

[(Anonymous)]

Not the same anon, but with some characters it isn't easy to get 30 comments in only three threads because the characters just aren't the types to hold much more than a short conversation and getting past even 10 comments from them is tricky. So yeah, some of us did have to go take the easy route out and make a post instead because otherwise we would have failed just because our threads weren't long enough.

And that concern was indeed expressed when the new requirements were posted. While we get where you are coming from on the whole posting short threads just to get enough comments in just makes for crappy threads, at the same time pushing a thread on for too long is just as bad. And that also doesn't even get into the other player dropping the thread, or a natural conclusion happening before enough comments are gotten.

There really needs to be a happy medium here somewhere. I get where you guys are coming from and all with the limit, but at the same time it really is very restrictive. And as long as a restrictive limit like that will exist, there will be players choosing to make a post as the easy way out, because their other choice would be failing AC because they can't get 30 comments in only three links, but they are being active and doing stuff.

[meowzy-chan.livejournal.com]

I'm not even going to bother anoning for this. I just want to second what the above anon said. One must also keep in mind that some people (like me) live in a different timezone. In these situations, it's tough to be online around the same time as the person you're tagging, which means threads can move at a pace of one comment a day. You can imagine that after five days, some people are more prone to dropping a thread, myself included, regardless of how many comments there are.

So what I'm saying is that different timezones lead to slower tagging in general and earlier cut-off points, depending on whether the thread is actually going somewhere important and how insistent the taggers are to lead said thread to a conclusion. Which makes it very difficult for people like me to have threads of ten comments or longer.

So a medium would be nice. Maybe players should be allowed to link four threads instead of three? Still with the 30 comment minimum, of course.

[cryptgirl.livejournal.com]

I'm going to "third" what's stated above. Both of my characters are among those who just aren't good at long conversations, so I would be likely to post an entry and hope that it generates enough comments to pass the AC. I've had some entries in the past that have gotten no tags at all, while others are considerably better. It seems like a pure stroke of luck to me in how well an entry goes in terms of generating tags. Sometimes the other player drops the thread, sometimes I drop them (though I try not to), or sometimes the thread reaches a natural conclusion after only a few comments. But that's just how my characters are; they just get to the point and then move on. I would hate to fail an AC because of these circumstances that are (somewhat) beyond my control. I'm open to any advice on these things, however.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm in another timezone myself, I won't say which one because it'll blow my anon right out. I just have a difficult time approaching mods unanon, sorry guys! I'm a coward.

But Meowzy is actually right here, this is a problem I get (the thread drops happening to me due to timezones). Whilst I have a talkative character, making it easy to pass the AC even if I've been on hiatus, I can understand how excruciatingly difficult this would be for those with the more silent types.

Upping the thread limit to 4 instead of 3 gives a massive amount of leeway for the silent (and villain) characters to pass the AC. It also reduces the pressure applied onto them, and I personally think that sounds very fair. Just keep an eye out for which characters are posting links to 4 threads (for example, if a very talkative character dropped 4 short thread links, it would be suspicious on their behalf). Obviously, it's not your job to know every character and canon, but it might help to be more judgmental of those who post more links than less links. My issue is that I think it should just be 30 comments, not a post or 30, as I mentioned before. If this idea helps the more quiet types, then maybe it's worth considering if enough people feel the same way? Finding a happy medium is important, maybe it might be worth putting up a poll?

Since this AC was just a test round to find a balance with the new AC rules, it's entirely understandable and I can see why it would be more lenient. That's cool, I don't mind! Better to be lenient then have a load of people panicking.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh I'm also the OP XD Sorry, LJ ate my subject title.

[(Anonymous)]

I "took the easy route" not because I was trying to disappoint anyone but because a) it was all that I was required to do and b) I thought it would be easier for the mods to only have to check one link to a post rather than three links to threads. Am I not supposed to be doing that?