Policy Discussion

[singularitymods.livejournal.com]

Some of Singularity's players have questions about the game policies on AU character applications. This post has been put up to allow players to approach the staff to ask questions, offer suggestions, and voice concerns regarding those policies. The moderators are also available via IM/PM [contact information] if any player does not feel comfortable discussing their concerns in public.

As of the end of this application round (August 15th), AU applications will be closed until this matter can be resolved. This ban on AU apps does not apply to the exceptions listed in the AU policies (malleable protagonists and canon AUs).

Comments

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[barkstabbark]

IMO, if your AU changes major events/setting as well as personality, that shouldn't be allowed. If you keep the basic canon setting/events and alter personality based on other minor changes, that should work. If you change the setting and keep personality the same, that should work too. It's when you change both that you get weird hard-to-judge AUs, since you're changing the character in multiple ways, which is pretty much the problem you keep bringing up.

But I don't think the entire concept of setting-swapped AUs should be banned just because it has the potential to be too off. If the concern is that characters will be too different to be recognizable, that's what it should be judged for.

[totallynotaspaz.livejournal.com]

+1ing this too. Particularly:

"...the potential to be too off. If the concern is that characters will be too different to be recognizable, that's what it should be judged for."

This, in one sentence, sums up everything I am and have been trying to get across in this post. As it stands, the rule and how I've interpreted mod responses on this matter so far make it seem like an AU that has the potential to be too off is rejected on principle, when the AU should be judged on whether it is too off or not.