On linking applications, I know comments were getting screened a lot around the time linking got super popular. I just wanted to make sure that this wouldn't happen again? It's the whole IF IT'S NOT A WHITE LISTED LINK, SCREW YOU 8DDD thing LJ started doing last spring. I think, for a while at least, wikia wasn't whitelisted and that's where a good portion of reference links come from.
Also, on passwords: I know you've heard this a thousand times from me, but if someone is already in the game, reading through the huge post that is the FAQ is a giant headache to find something that hasn't even necessarily changed. I don't think a system like that is going to work when you have fifteen and a half pages (on google docs) that a player is going to have to read through every single time they want to apply for a character.
I'm all for an arbitrary task being placed arbitrarily in the FAQ, but I think the arbitrary changes are a little unnecessary. The FAQ might change but unless you're going to overhaul it completely, it's overkill to ask someone to read fifteen pages that are mostly static to find a task.
Mind you when I mention this, I think of the Dollsy House, where there was a task stated in the rules, that never changed to my knowledge, but you'd have to read the FAQ to know.
Alternatively, I also think Mostly Harmless's system works pretty well? Where you have to answer a question with information from the FAQ. This actually seems like a pretty popular system, when it comes to making sure people read the FAQ.
Though I'd like to see the youtube thing, personally. It sounds fun.
i have to stop editing.
Oh my god, do I ever stop asking questions.On linking applications, I know comments were getting screened a lot around the time linking got super popular. I just wanted to make sure that this wouldn't happen again? It's the whole IF IT'S NOT A WHITE LISTED LINK, SCREW YOU 8DDD thing LJ started doing last spring. I think, for a while at least, wikia wasn't whitelisted and that's where a good portion of reference links come from.
Also, on passwords: I know you've heard this a thousand times from me, but if someone is already in the game, reading through the huge post that is the FAQ is a giant headache to find something that hasn't even necessarily changed. I don't think a system like that is going to work when you have fifteen and a half pages (on google docs) that a player is going to have to read through every single time they want to apply for a character.
I'm all for an arbitrary task being placed arbitrarily in the FAQ, but I think the arbitrary changes are a little unnecessary. The FAQ might change but unless you're going to overhaul it completely, it's overkill to ask someone to read fifteen pages that are mostly static to find a task.
Mind you when I mention this, I think of the Dollsy House, where there was a task stated in the rules, that never changed to my knowledge, but you'd have to read the FAQ to know.
Alternatively, I also think Mostly Harmless's system works pretty well? Where you have to answer a question with information from the FAQ. This actually seems like a pretty popular system, when it comes to making sure people read the FAQ.
Though I'd like to see the youtube thing, personally. It sounds fun.