Activity Check: September 2013

[these_balls]

ACTIVITY CHECK

This Activity Check encompasses activity made during the month of September. Posts and threads started between September 1 through October 8th may be used as long as they were not used for last month's activity.


REMEMBER: We recently reviewed and clarified our standards for AC! For the standards we'll be using for this and all future AC Checks, check THIS POST!

• Each proof linked must be at least ten (10) comments long (meaning 5 from you and 5 from another, or with threadjacking, etc.).

Full requirements should make at minimum thirty (30) comments overall, or at least 15 from your character.
Half requirements should make at minimum twelve (12) comments overall, at least 6 from your character.

• Proofs must be completed with three different characters. If Character A submits threads with Characters B, C, and D, this is a valid form of AC. If Character A submits two threads with Character B and one thread with Character D, this is NOT a valid form of AC.

• Players in control of multiple characters are discouraged from making AC by threading several of their characters off of the same opposing character. The maximum number of threads a player may submit for AC with the same character (spread across different characters of their own) is two.

• Action tagging count as threads. Conversations in voicemails/inboxes also count as threads as long as they are started during that month of AC.

• Multiple-comment icon spams count as just one comment.

• Half requirements are for those who were on hiatus for up to half of the month and returned more than one week before the Activity Check.

• Posts and threads made during the week of the Activity Check can be used for that month's activity check!

• Those who returned within a week of the activity check are exempt from the month's check. Those who are also currently on hiatus are exempt.

Full Requirements are one post and two threads, or three threads, or two posts, one thread, or three posts.
Half Requirements are one post, and one thread of any length, or two threads, one of 10 comments and one of any length.

Characters who joined within a week of the activity check only need one post of any length or one thread of any length to verify that they have introduced. (For this month, this applies to those who were accepted before applications closed.)

The activity check ends on October 8th, 11:59 pm EST. Anyone who does not check in will be removed from the game on October 9th.

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Comments

[these_balls]

We request one more proof for Geddoe and one more for Sion.

With Sion, there are two interactions with Ryner. Although one was done through a post, only a thread with Ryner occurred, therefore it duplicated with the thread in the second link. With Geddoe, a post with no comments does not count, as there was no interaction done.

[lightningbearer]

You know, nowhere in the rules does it say that a post has to be with "different" characters; a player really can't control who does and doesn't reply to their posts, after all, so saying "you're threading with the same character(s) too much" is kind of silly. Unless you're going to apply that to someone who only ever threads with the same circle of 3-4 characters all the time, too, to be fair across the board.

Geddoe does have another thread here, though, and Sion has a couple threads that combined exceed the minimum, which if you're going to be policing who replies to our posts I'll have to ask that you accept.

[pianosongs]

While normally, posts can have overlapping characters, if only one character replies to the post, then it's essentially just a thread with that one character. We usually let posts slide unless it's the same certain characters tagging the one post. If there were tags or comments between others as well, we would allow it, but as both threads are just Sion and Ryner, it doesn't count. The thread in Ryner's post came exactly one month after the post with Sion, which gave ample time to obtain a thread with someone who was not Ryner in order to use for the AC.

We're not policing who replies to your posts, but rather, limiting how many solo interactions one can use with the same character. While the threads aren't quite of length, we'll allow them combined and consider this a pass.

[lightningbearer]

See, I just find it frustrating because I've noticed a pattern (that's hit other players too) where often times posts go unanswered or only tagged by one person. This has held true the entire time I've been in the game, regardless of how much or little I've been out tagging OTHER peoples' posts (which has varied wildly, judging from my thread logs) and is actually extremely frustrating when it comes to providing activity. Especially given the typically slow pace of the game due to differing timezones and such meaning that tagging other posts can be really hit or miss in terms of thread speed and length. I can point to my threads with Saber as great examples, in that we rarely get more than one comment from each of us a day due to wildly different schedules, but apply that to an entire game and never knowing what you'll get when you reply to a post, it makes it very hard to be certain of making the minimum activity regardless of your actual activity/comment count.

[these_balls]

Sadly, that is the trouble when it comes to a slower game with a very broadly spread playerbase. But because of these changes, we are willing to accommodate when we see a player is trying. For example, if it's a rough month in terms of getting others to tag, but one player has tagged out to four or five people and the tags are only two or three comments apiece and we can see a consistent trend of trying but the threads dying on another player's behalf, we'll look into that and most likely allow it because it means the effort is being shown on that player's end. If it grows into too much of a problem in upcoming months, we'll look into it again.

[lightningbearer]

Yeah, I just mention because it really is both a recurring and longstanding problem. Sion and Ryner have no other castmates in the game, and it's reached the point that both of us, OOCly, deliberately wait a few days to a week to tag each others' posts much of the time, in hopes that whoever posted will attract other comments if people don't see the post as being already "busy" or somesuch. Which is why it's a point I've been particularly frustrated on.