MOD ANNOUNCEMENT -- AC POLICY

[singularitymods]

First, this is a reminder that Activity Check begins in two weeks on April 1st, so now is the time to start rounding up posts, or make them if you're falling short. AC is one network or log post with comments, or 15 comments in another person's post. For this round all activity since moving to DW counts, so we don't anticipate any reasonably active players having trouble with it. Characters accepted in March are exempt.

Currently, we have a lenient activity check, and we loosened it even more for the move, in anticipation of complications which, happily, didn't occur. Our AC schedule worked just fine when we were a smaller, slower game, but that's no longer the case. Space Prom went to 3,000 comments in a week, and we are facing the fact that our little game is all grown up and ready to borrow the keys and wreck the car.

We have no intention of instituting an unreasonable AC, but we do need to make it more stringent to keep inactive players from affecting their casts and other CR, and there is plenty of room to tighten things up without AC becoming unmanageable. We are currently leaning toward keeping AC bimonthly, but increasing the total number of posts/comments required, probably with a mix-'n'-match system that will accommodate various play styles. However, we'd like your input before making any changes, hence this post. What would you like to see out of a new AC policy? What would you not like to see? We know people would like to have a purge list posted at the end of the AC period. Anything else?

Any changes will not affect this AC round.

Comments

[im_apimp]

Yes to the purge post! It makes it easier for CR to know who was dropped if they don't have them on plurk/talk to them regularly/what have you.

Also, I'm good with things being bimonthly with multiple things as well. I just have a question: does the 15+ comments apply to both log and network comments?

[articletwelve]

Oh, yeah, I meant to ask that -- 15's a lot easier to hit on a network post, usually, so I'm not sure if logs just count for participating at all or if they need x number of comments. (I... cannot remember what it is now. :|a)

[theuserabides]

Log or network is fine, but empty reaction chain comments don't count. :P

[articletwelve]

Oh come on who would do those.

[theuserabides]

No one we know, surely.

[theuserabides]

Yes, it can be from a log post or a network post.

[im_apimp]

I meant more in the sense of needing 15+ comments for the activity to count, but I think I get what you mean. Games I've been in the past have had x number of comments for a network thread, but just needed participation for a log.

[theuserabides]

Oh, I see. Sorry about the confusion; it's 15 either way, though I do take your point about it being easier to hit 15 on the network than in a log.

[thecarisboring]

Clarification threadjack since I was about to ask this in my comment: So if you participate in a log but can't manage 15+ comments in a log thread, does it still count?

If this is an inappropriate icon, sorry, I'm trying to re-learn my keywords.

[theuserabides]

It counts, but you'd need to provide the missing comments from somewhere else.

You can mix and match comment threads as long as it adds up to 15.

[thecarisboring]

Seriously?

AHAHAHAHA I'm an idiot. I've been going nuts trying to get my brain to keep conversation threads going to 30+ comments total. I had no idea. I managed it once!