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Reminder about inactivity rules—Please read and reply
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Author:  psikeout [ Fri Oct 29, 2010 12:04 am ]
Post subject:  Reminder about inactivity rules—Please read and reply
EDIT FOR CLARIFICATION: If you are a new person who hasn't even gotten to participate in an RP thread yet, or someone who hasn't been involved in a thread for a long time, the following does not apply to you, and you should ignore it completely.

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I know this is a busy time of year for a lot of folks, myself included, but the activity rules still stand, and I just wanted to post this as a reminder of that fact.

Inactivity rules

If you don't have time for RP, that is totally cool. No hard feelings, go and live life to the fullest. Same goes if you just don't feel like doing the RP. Wanna do something else? I am totally unoffended. It does not affront me. That said, I do not want to cut off friends, lose friends, alienate anyone, or do any other stupid crap just because of RP. Please don't be mad at me if you feel this following post is targeting you. All I'm asking for is communication and consideration.

I always feel like I'm being a heel when I post something like this, but I'm going to choose not to feel that way from this point on. I think it's a reasonable courtesy to to expect an IM, PM, or chat message to somebody (anybody, not necessarily me) if anyone's going to have a stretch of time when he or she is not going to be able to post at least once a day.

It's not that much. Catching up on a day's worth of posts just takes about ten minutes. Writing a post might take another ten, if that. I think this is reasonable to ask of members of a text-based role-playing group. (YOU SIGNED UP TO READ AND WRITE, IT'S IN YOUR CONTRACT, or would be if we had contracts.) And I'm not complaining if you don't post EVERY single day—There's a huge difference between missing a day once in a while, and being in a constant pattern of not being around at all, posting once every other day, and generally not communicating.

Anyway, I can only speak for myself on this, but I'm not ashamed to admit it: I don't have a dollar to my name anymore that isn't going toward food or gas. I can't afford anything new in the way of entertainment, so RP is for me one of my only non-school online activities right now. However, when any one person stays just involved enough to slow things down, and keep me or others waiting entire days with our characters' actions hinging on less active people's replies, that pretty much wrecks it for me.

Not posting for days, or even a week at a time would be fine if we had dedicated RP nights like back in the days of yore, but I just plain don't hear from some of you enough (:[ btw) to organize that kind of thing anymore.

So, yeah. This is the quarterly "play or don't play" call. You're welcome to come back at any time if you're not able to be active now; we can even work around a character with no problem for a while if needed. All I want and need (and feel is reasonable to ask for) is communication.

Pleeease talk to me.



That being said, here's an exercise in power-communication now:

If you're actively reading these forums, and noticing this post (which you cannot physically not notice right away if you are reading these forums since I've made it a global announcement) please reply as soon as you possibly can with a simple "I'm here and I'm in" or whatever if you want to continue to be in upcoming threads as an active participant.

If you do this, I'm going to assume you have read the activity guidelines again and agree with them, and will not be mad at me for carrying them out (or for assigning a dirty, five-o-clock-shadowed enforcer to do my dirty work and carry them out for me, same diff).



That is all. Reply, pl0x.

(Also, now hiring dirty, five-o-clock-shadowed enforcers to help me run the RP. Apply within. No, seriously.)
Author:  MuffinUnsane [ Fri Oct 29, 2010 12:09 am ]
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First Pos-oh forget it.

I'm still here and willing.
Author:  Diluss [ Fri Oct 29, 2010 12:13 am ]
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I am here and I'm in and I am currently sporting a very shady five-o-clock shadow which I would be happy to lend the services of to you and also what about these weekly sessions?
Author:  Kazz [ Fri Oct 29, 2010 12:15 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Reminder about inactivity rules—Please read and reply
Present and accounted for and orange

And I'd totally throw my hand into the ring for shady and dirty and five-o-clocked-shadow henchman, but I am none of those except a henchman (and short of Sheff and am like the second youngest, and one of the newer guys, here, so it'd feel strange).
If everyone else dies I'm available!
and have practically no life outside of the internet
Author:  Mie [ Fri Oct 29, 2010 12:21 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Reminder about inactivity rules—Please read and reply
You know I'm in the same boat as you. Hell, I check the forums for new posts at least six or seven times a day, and a good chunk of those are during lecture on school days (yay, I'm pathetic). You know I don't have much of a life outside this RP

I'm in to the bitter end.


But if I ever don't feel like posting, or won't be able to, you know you'll hear from me, too.
Author:  Tony [ Fri Oct 29, 2010 12:31 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Reminder about inactivity rules—Please read and reply
My only guy's currently just kinda plotting in the background/foreground/highground, so that's really my only reason for not doing t00 much, but I'm pretty sure that's no issue at all.

Regardless, Info has been read, accepted, and applied to my way of daily life. Fors00th.
Author:  psikeout [ Fri Oct 29, 2010 12:33 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Reminder about inactivity rules—Please read and reply
Yeah, totally don't worry, Tony. Any new person (not that you're really new) hasn't had much of a chance to be inactive yet, so, yeah, don't fret.

But as for you bearded guys (or bearded in spirit guys), I may turn to you for your services at some point. The work is hard, but the pay is bad.
Author:  Tau [ Fri Oct 29, 2010 12:43 am ]
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Author:  Greens [ Fri Oct 29, 2010 12:58 am ]
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THERE AIN'T NO GETTIN' OFFA THIS TRAIN WE ON!
Author:  VJeff [ Fri Oct 29, 2010 7:30 am ]
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I sorta already talked to Matt about this, but, I'll say it here too. As is probably obvious enough by now, I'm gonna be inactive for a spell. But I'll probably still check around, and poke my head into the chat here and there and I'll, of course, still be on AIM.

Side-note, I totally have a beard.
Author:  Hallow [ Fri Oct 29, 2010 9:48 am ]
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i'm still new and here jsut got my laptop back it crash on me T_T and got alot of work to do but i will try and pop in when i can
Author:  psikeout [ Fri Oct 29, 2010 10:00 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Reminder about inactivity rules—Please read and reply
Hallow wrote:
i'm still new and here jsut got my laptop back it crash on me T_T and got alot of work to do but i will try and pop in when i can


Seriously don't worry about it if you're new--Let me reiterate that I really am only talking to established folks. Heck, you and anyone else in the world is welcome to register on these forums just to hang out and not RP at all, for what it's worth. It's just a matter of not actively participating once involved. Get what I mean? So, take your time, and make your character whenever you're good and ready. Sorry if I wasn't clear enough at the onset.
Author:  Sheff [ Fri Oct 29, 2010 5:21 pm ]
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I manage to check the board at least once per day, and now with my overly hectic schedule over, I may be around a bit more. (Wow, I have no life.)
Author:  Kickblast [ Fri Oct 29, 2010 10:38 pm ]
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Uhhh... Rawr?
Author:  psikeout [ Fri Oct 29, 2010 11:32 pm ]
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Get out, Koobie, this does not concern you.
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