ACTIVITY CHECK -- ADDITIONAL THREADS FOR SEPTEMBER

[paradisamods]

The following characters require additional threads and/or logs to fulfill activity criteria for September. The hiatus post was cleared of any expired hiatus dates, so any of the individuals who were on a valid hiatus during the month of September should not find their characters here. All the terms for activity requirements are detailed here.

Keep in mind that if you do not comment on the hiatus post or let a mod know, your hiatus does not count. It is your responsibility to comment on the hiatus post. Making a hiatus note on the OOC comm does not count.

If you spot any mistakes or dropped characters, please let us know.

You have until October 7th to comment with additional threads from the month of September. Those who do not supply any or sufficient additional threads will be moved to the sweep list. We've noted who needs reduced amounts due to hiatus.

Alaric Saltzman
Amoretta Virgine
Angel
Apollo
Aradia Megido
Axel
Captain Jack Harkness
Charles Gunn
Claire Bennet
Colette Brunel
Cross Marian
Cupid
Damon Salvatore
Dave Strider
Fujino Shizuru
Gabriel (the Trickster)
Gold
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III
Homura Akemi
Jack Marston
Julia
Lana Kane
Lance Sweets
Max Guevara // X5 - 452
Maya Fey
Michael J. Caboose
Nanako Dojima
Neal Caffrey
Newton Pulsifer
Nozdormu the Timeless One
Oliver Queen
Sakuya Izayoi
Sora Koudou
Spike (Buffy/Angel)
Takamura Uru
Thomas Elliot (Hush)
Tron
Willow Rosenberg

DROPPED/REMOVED:
Cassandra Cain
Himura Tomoe
Ryotaro Dojima
Tavros Nitram
Yuki Nagato

Comments

[elementoflol.livejournal.com]

Yes that's what I thought.

However, I never thought that participating in an open log as a commenter counted for AC, just by the virtue of adding your tag on. Otherwise people would do that in the main community too?

Then that would class as a thread for AC instead of a primary AC post?

[encourage]

Except that in the main community we've never been encouraged or told to tag entries with anything other than the tag of the one posting -- or ones posting, in joint posting cases. By that particular logic, why are we allowed to post our character tags to a post we are not making in the log comm, and that we are also not doing the equivalent of a joint post with? TO track more easily?

Then we should (by that logic) do the same in the journal community. Can you see how this logic works both ways? I'm not saying it's more right, but to apply ease of locating threads to the log comm and not the journal comm is misleading.

Which can lead into the perception, and sometimes reality, that posting in the log comm takes more work and energy than in the journal. Folks by and large are unaware you an [action thread] in the log comm, so I feel there can be a further divide in understanding when the thought of prosing being more time intensive comes up -- and it can be! -- versus the not entirely true belief that action threading doesn't take as much time. They both can, and both can be emotionally demanding and evocative. They're different formats, that's about all.

In the case with comment tags, perhaps what should be advised is only to tag posts in the log comm like you do in the main comm -- or open things up, and tag all posts whenever you comment into them. It would, either way, clarify activity. One gives you more commenting around threading activity, the other gives you head-post/joint-post activity.

[elementoflol.livejournal.com]

I see what you mean!

I guess that's an issue to bring up in the HTG then, as it does seem like something that needs addressing.

Perhaps (in both comms) the main poster(s) could be tagged with a !character x, and then the commenters just with their normal tags? I don't know, just a thought.

[encourage]

I'd love for a system like that, if I know it's difficult because we have so many tags used, have a paid account for the main comm to deal with that, and we still have tags for basically every character here from game opening. To get two for each character active in game would mean necessitating the loss of old tags for characters no longer in game, starting with ones not here for some time. Based on the general number floating around, let's say we'd need... roughly seven hundred tags to account for characters currently in game -- one that is such as "!character x", and one that is simply "character x"!

[elementoflol.livejournal.com]

It's definitely a pickle. I would say get rid of all the old tags for characters no longer in game, but I know how much hard work went into retagging all those old entries not so long ago and I don't want to demean that at all.

[encourage]

If at the same time -- old characters, old part of the game, and you can search through an LJ community by username to find all posts they made. I'd be willing to help compile a list of usernames of old characters, then nix those tags. You can always find their posts again by username!

[elementoflol.livejournal.com]

I'd help with that too :3