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[20 Aug 2008|11:07pm] |
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is it shady of me to add a character i'm going to play eventually to the pb list, even though i'm not playing them now or for a while? lmao.
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[20 Aug 2008|08:45am] |
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As a mod, I'm not sure what to do. About five or six days ago, someone applied to my game. Because adds are done whenever applications come in, they were accepted less than half an hour after their application. Unfortunately, they never intro'ed, added anyone to their friends lists, etc. Yesterday I left them a comment asking if they still wanted to be a part of the community. Last night I got a comment from someone else and they asked me if that person was available. I want to say yes, simply because the original person hasn't added anyone or intro'ed, but is there a 'grace period' I'm supposed to wait before overriding them? And yes, I know I probably should have put something about that in the rules, but it slipped my mind. Help?
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[18 Aug 2008|07:46pm] |
I'm gonna cut right to the chase here. How do you go about rejecting an application? The communities I've ran in the past were all small group psls, and [fortunately] I've never had to reject any applications because the writers were all amazing. And this writer...they don't really seem bad, but they just don't seem good either. It seems like they went for the bare minimum on the application while everyone else seemed to go above and beyond. I don't want really want to do something like add "If you don't get a reply you've been rejected" to the bottom of the post and then just not reply (but I suppose I will if that's the only solution), but when I comment I don't want to seem like a bitchy mod and/or cause drama. Help.
My other question - Is that a bad reason to reject someone? Because they didn't really wow me?
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[18 Aug 2008|01:40am] |
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so i have this rule currently in my game that basically disallows anymore applications with mutants because we currently have more mutants than humans, and we need more humans. But after watching Heroes all day, I've come up wit this sweet character, and now i really want to play it but I'm not sure if i should drop the rule or not. Theres a few other members in the community who have been ~inspired as well, but like i said, i'm not sure if its okay to drop this rule, or what...Or well, I don't know if i should.
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[15 Aug 2008|11:46am] |
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I want to like this comm, I really do. And there are a lot of really good writers from what I can tell. But I've been feeling unwelcomed and ignored since I joined and I really want to devote more time to PSLs. On the flipside, though, I feel like I should be more patient because if I drop my char and my PSL partners vanish (which they are wont to do), I'll be right back to square one. So my question is this: under the circumstances I've mentioned, long would you stay in a comm before deciding it's best to leave?
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[10 Aug 2008|12:35am] |
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I guess this could be in regards to PB and celeb, though I don't care for celeb. I'm honestly not into rp as much as I may have been once upon a time, but I still like to sign on and scene. Also, I love making up the bios and everything. But I play minorities and rarer characters. I see I'm not the only one, but finding anyone who'll acknowledge these types of characters and actually write with you is difficult. It's been said a million times, but if it isn't a scene/emo/Disney/popular person, they're usually ignored. Cliche, but true. When I pimp with my character's journal or my ooc journal and mention the name of the celeb, yeah, I get no responses. So my thing is that I'm considering starting a little ad/pimp community for rarer celebs and minorities. But I have a feeling it'd be a waste of time. Has there ever been anything like this before? What's a good way to go about doing this if I decide to?
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[08 Aug 2008|10:51pm] |
I have two problems I need some advice on.
01. The first is that I am modding a community and I have had a lot of problem with just getting the characters active in general, and even getting them to sign on aim. On journals it hasn't been a problem. People will sign in and post to their heart's content. It will be anything from updates to lyrics posts and other little miscellaneous posts. We boast some great writers. But the problem seems to be getting them to interact more and enouraging them to sign on aim for chats. Is there a way to do this without seeming forceful?
02. The second is that although our community has a a wide variety of actors and actresses, is there any way we can even out the male/female ratio? I noticed that this has been another problem as well. We get more male applicants than females. Is there a way I can solve this problem with out becoming forceful as well? Thank you so much!
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[07 Aug 2008|07:25am] |
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ok this is going to sound like such a stupid question, but i have to ask. see, i've never really understood the point of 'holds' and challenges, but now that i'm challenging for the first time, i need to get my facts straight. when someone is held until the opening of a game and another person challenges them, what does that mean? what if the person who held never applied? does that mean that the challenger can get in? or does it mean that they can't until second adds because character a was held until first adds? i hope that makes sense because i am insanely confused. help!
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[05 Aug 2008|11:29pm] |
posting this here because its about pbs.
whos a well built/muscly guy who can pass for a brother to Darla Baker?
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[29 Jul 2008|03:19am] |
So, I really want to start my own game. So far I have the name of the game (Bright City) all worked out, but at the moment I don't know what the plot is.
I think I want to stick with a simple Original Character game, modern day and with no supernatural twists. My question mainly is this: Do you guys prefer a game lacking an action filled plot? Such as a simple game revolving around the people of a small city or town? Do you prefer something with a central plot instead, such as something big interrupting everyone's daily lives?
I just want to be original and not over done, you know?
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[26 Jul 2008|04:52pm] |
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Not really advice, just clarification: what is a panfandom? I see the word used a lot and I have no idea what it is.
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[26 Jul 2008|05:26am] |
i feel so dumb for asking this, but!
i'm just now getting into the psl scene on ij and a lot of these terms are totally new to me, i rped with an entirely different set of people with an entirely different style. most of them i've been able to figure out on my own (i am so good at pretending i know what i'm doing :D)
but i still have no idea what people mean when they describe their pb as "original"? does that just mean "i found someone random on myspace and use his face for this specific original character of mine" or just "i found someone random on myspace and sometimes use their face for characters" or what? basically does the term "original" refer to the actual character or just the face you use for them? so when they say "my omc jamie" are they saying "my character jamie" or "this myspace scenester jamie whose face i borrow"? am i making sense here?
...also when people do psls via journal do they usually make new separate journals for the lines or do they use their rp/example journals?
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[24 Jul 2008|03:07am] |
Okay, this one might be convuluted so hopefully someone can make sense of it?
I started writing with someone in a community and initially, they were amazing together. It was random chemistry, I didn't go into any storyline with this person and their 'couple-dom' was done the 'old fashioned way'. So, basically, I don't know much about this person, not even their gender. So here it goes...
I have a full-time job that requires me to work mainly nights. So the nights that I close, I sometimes don't get home until midnight or after, and for a little over a month, this worked out great for us. They didn't have a job or school and we played until the sun came up. Her character didn't ever ask become angry because of lack of time together, we didn't play them as if my character had been gone all day, it was good. And it would not make much sense for my character to be out all of the time anyway, he's just not that social.
So then comes...the other writer getting a job. And suddenly, because their hours seem opposite of mine, our characters get into fights all of the time because her boy is always "where have you been all day?!?!" just because the writer has come home at 5pm and thinks everyone seems to work the same exact shift they do. So it finally came to a head for me the other day, when I had the longest four-day weekend ever and had to put in overttime, which meant two nights I didn't get home until about 1 or 2 in the morning. I still came online when I was home, there are people from different timezones that I write with, but this particular writer was away since they had to get up in the morning for work. Finally, they catch up with me, and their character bombards mine like 'WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN FOR THE PAST FOUR DAYS'. This writer is very aware of my work schedule and I had thought that they'd respected that. There had been many MANY times before where they've disappeared for days on end and I don't have my character clobber and argue with theirs. So now, it's like they are acting like they are the only person to ever work and that everyone should excuse THEIR absence for work and not take it out on their character, though it's okay for them to do it.
Hopefully, I make sense. It's making the relationship between our characters very stressful, though it'd not supposed to be that way at all. I'm having to 'make up' reasons for my kid not being around and yet, he still gets yelled at because I - the writer - cannot be around fitting to the other writer's schedule. It's really starting to tick me off. So I guess my question is - is this normal? Should I even be upset? The writer knew, because we had talked briefly before I would go to work, that I had a really heavy workload, yet this is still happening. How would I even bring up this issue without sounding like a bitch, though? I mean, assuming is wrong and you can't assume they WOULD talk or that they WOULDN'T talk, so I'm guessing the writers should discuss what happened briefly, but I am almost to the point where I feel like my character is being God-modded. I don't know. :[
Any advice? From anyone that made any sense to?
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[23 Jul 2008|07:02pm] |
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what do you do when you want to drop all but one of your characters, and you can't? :(
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[22 Jul 2008|10:43pm] |
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Okay so I join this community for a friend because they're the mod and they said 'join this!'. You know how that goes. We play a divorced couple that share a child. I liked the place when it first opened and I was extremely active then as the place grew, I started getting lost. I hardly play my girl now, not even with her ex. I haven't lost my muse for her, per say, I just don't really feel her there. I'm debating between taking her out because she's not getting played or keeping her there barely active so I don't leave my friend high and dry without a baby mama. AIM ate her sn so I kind of want to take that as a sign to leave but I'm not sure. Help!
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[20 Jul 2008|08:07pm] |
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Okay, this is probably the dumbest question ever posted, but what are the basic guidelines of psls, what exactly are they and what do they entail? Can I reference them in a community or is that "illegal"? I've been rping for years and I've never dipped my toe in them so I'm lost.
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[20 Jul 2008|10:45am] |
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What do you do when someone new comes into the community (or if there's an already established character and you're the newbie), who you know in real life is really good friends with your character, but they don't seem to know it? What is a tactful way of letting them know without seeming like you're trying to boss them?
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[20 Jul 2008|12:37am] |
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So... I want an SL over at a community and I genuinely think it'd be easy to get one except for the fact that the community I'm in is on LJ. Sure, we're moving in the fall, but it's impossible to get anyone interested in joining (I think I pretty much just gave away which comm I'm in but heck, I don't care). I don't know if it's just me or what the deal is but ughhh I'm so frustrated. It's a good community, I have good solid friendships over there (I've been there for years), everyone's very friendly, we have plenty of members (I think over 100 right now) etc etc. But it's SO hard to bring any SL partners there. Me and my character deserve a good, solid relationship SL for once. It may sound rude, but we've earned it as far as I'm concerned. So do you guys have any suggestions as to how to bring in some fresh faces to an LJ community? How can I convince people that it really is a good place even if it is on a different server?
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[16 Jul 2008|03:43pm] |
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how long has it taken you before you got applicants for a new game?
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