PARADISA OOC

We have had a lot of complaints about intro posts getting ignored/overlooked.

To better illuminate the problem, we decided to look at who comments on a sample pool of 40 entries spanning from March 9th to April 4th (4pm), and we discovered the following:

• Only 163 of our 330+ characters participated on the introduction posts. That's just under 50%.
• 89 of those 163 only participated in only ONE introduction post in a period of 27 days.
• These 163 characters appeared 312 times –– 114 of which were for castmates*, 198 of which were for non-castmates.
• 43 characters tagged castmates only.
• 8 of the 40 posts were by characters with no existing castmates in the game; they respectively got 1, 1, 1, 5, 6, 7, 18, and 18 characters commenting. One of those "ones" has already dropped.
• Conversely, 8 of the 40 posts from characters with existing casts got either 0 or only 1 non-castmate tagging. Five of those are new players.

Overall, this means we've got a mere 25% of the game's characters doing the bulk of the introductions, if you count "bulk" as "two posts or more."

There has been talk of "I just don't have time to tag something new", but consider this: if every character added just one more intro to their tags, there would be another 330+ tags divided amongst all the new entries every month. When you split that work by all 150+ muns, it really isn't that big of a change for the individual, but it'd make a big difference for everyone new.

We aren't ranking people or ordering people by number of posts they participate in, because this isn't a contest. There is no prize for having more, no punishment for having less. We aren't going to chase after any individual, because what really matters is our effort as a group. We just want everyone to look at how many intros they post on and consider their own participation in welcoming new characters to the game. That's all we ask -- consideration.


* Marvel Universe, DC Universe and Doctor Who Universes were respectively conglomerated to count castmates. (Ie, Marvel movies and Marvel comics lumped together. )