ACTIVITY CHECK DISCUSSION

[paradisamods]

Hey guys!

So there's been some confusion and disagreement about what should/should not count for activity check, what is counted where, etc. So this is a post where we'd like to discuss revamping the activity check system with you! Once we can get a clear idea of what everyone feels is fair, it will make it easier for us to have a clear system where everyone understands the activity requirements desired of each character in Paradisa.


SECTIONS:

What do you think should count for a post?
What should constitute thread "size"?
What should constitute comment "quality"?
How much should the mods be responsible for? The players?
How should a thread on a log be judged?

Comments

[dusk.livejournal.com]

It's less that I'm worried people will take advantage of it, and more that I worry that people just ... won't get to interact with other people as much as they want to, if that makes sense. And it's not just the logs comm, either -- it's a problem too on the main comm. If someone posts filters to people all month long and never an open post, then there's never an opportunity for new CR/outside people.

You're right -- there is no perfect solution, and this is a problem that kind of goes above and beyond activity and more into willingness to tag around, but yeah. If I do see a person trying to pass on, say, two or three small log threads alone (and not just once, but consistently - obviously, people are busy sometimes, or just don't have much they feel like doing), then it just makes me feel like they aren't interested in having other people tag them.

And it's okay -- sorry for the slowness, poor weather does not a good satellite internet connection make.

[msattentionspan]

I totally feel you on the poor weather + a dish = AHHHHHH WHY DID MY SIGNAL DROP AGAIN??!!

Like I've expressed a few times, my own methods in the community are not everyone else's. I try to rotate my characters around so that I don't feel like I'm focusing on one more than the other consistently. Some characters post to the journal easier than others, but that doesn't mean that I'm not tagging around either.

I was concerned that my app wouldn't get approved because of my activity, to be honest. I went through everything for September that I could remember and I was upset that I hadn't been around as much. But then I also remembered that I was on a hiatus for the first part of the month.

I think that as long as the player-base is aware of their activity, aware of where they are a weaker player or where their character doesn't "fit" so to speak into the usual cookie-cutter shape of a Paradisa Journal member, they try to work around that. They post to other people more than make their own posts and they make logs to put their characters out there.

I guess, I don't see the "minimum" activity being the consistent pass for the players in the game. I go by what my own activity is, by how many threads I have going at a given time, and the fact that I do average about 50 tags a day coming in that I'm doing good. Can I do better? Sure, but we all can do that. It just will depend on real life and the situations coming up.

I think, personally, that the players that do have more active characters, that do make a lot more journal posts or have the social characters that thrive in the game - could do more ICly to help out those that aren't good at those things. Throwing a party is not always the answer though and if there were times where you signed up for a CR meme and you said we're going to have an event on THIS DATE and then get people to sign up for it, you might get more random CR in that post than you would throwing up an elevator is stuck post.

Jo has the Lux so I try to involve that in my posts to open it up to people who are hungry/thirsty. Now, Harmony, Fred, and Cordelia have Caritas. Karaoke nights could happen in the log comm -- and if these things aren't repeated constantly it might open up more people to try and find people to do things with.

IDK - I will always have ideas for open posts and things that people can do. Bowling Tournament, Mini Golf Classic, Field-Games (potato sack race where you get paired up randomly) - things that don't have to be world plots, but can still invite anyone to come play without it being a "Mingling in the party again" type thread.

[dusk.livejournal.com]

SOB yep. ;; Oh, cable internet, I miss you so.

Yeah, and that's honestly what I try to do with Ino - this past month being the exception because she was away from the castle. She's a social butterfly and she's willing to drag more antisocial characters out to do things. I realize not everyone has the time or the will to go out of the way to do stuff, but yeah, I do wish that more people were willing to sort of reach out. We are all a community, we're supposed to help each other. ;; But in the same vein it's hard to get some of these characters involved if you can never find a place to tag them and start some CR, so it's ... yeah, just a big cycle of predicament. Other than promoting the CR meme and throwing up open posts for gatherings and stuff, it's just hard to figure out how, exactly, to motivate people to do that. ;;

[neverplays]

One thing that might work, just for a trial basis, might be to partner everyone up?

Most of us know who is friends with who, so we could easily avoid the "usual" twosomes, and we could just see about making new CR with the characters that those two people have for that month.

Then! Once we are familiar with this person's characters we could recommend someone else in the game for them to get CR with. Maybe create some sort of CR phone tree of sorts?

It made more sense in my head... than when I tried to write it out.