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[carnality.livejournal.com]

Hi there everyone, you’re friendly neighborhood modcrew here with some proposed application changes!

We’ve been hearing that you guys would like to see a harder app process and we ran with this idea, deciding to change it around in a way we hope is for the better. What we have in mind is a new system involving prompts. Basically, each month, applicants will be given five prompts. Of these prompts, you will pick two and write a response, in character. It can be third person, first person, whatever person you want so long as you write 150 words a prompt. Each month, these five prompts will be traded out for something new, so that it remains ‘fresh’ and you have a variety to work with. (And we’d be open to you submitting prompt ideas to us!)

Before we come to a final decision on this, we'd like to have your input. Another option is to keep it to one sample instead of two, and simply increase the required word count. Let us know what you'd prefer.

Character notes will remain mostly the same. We will allow Wikipedia links in place of a written response, but we will strongly encourage you to write a history of your own. The more you show you know your character, the better chance you have of getting accepted, right? Writing a little about your character's history and personality will greatly affect your application’s final result. But as we said, you will still be allowed link to a wiki page.

Now, we’d like to know what you think! Comment away!

Edit: Considering maraihi's suggestion to have the option to pick a prompt to work off of OR to write your own sample post of a required length (to be debated)-- what do you guys think of that?

Comments

[mayoki.livejournal.com]

Exactly - in my opinion it's not too much to ask a mun to do this for a couple of promts. It's actually quite fun, and the point of communities such as fanfic100

I write a lot anyway, so I think two 150 drabbles isn't too much to ask at all. Espeically since you can taken them however you want, you need to get into the character and show what you can do with them. Once you get into it 150 is no problem - but I think many people will be put off if it's increased, so 150 is a happy medium.

Without prompts the mun has the opportunity to go off at a tangent and skirt away from things. If they're weak at adapting to events (such as drabble prompts) they're obviously not going to integrate well into DDD, as to make friends you need to answer to other peoples posts and situations (i.e. prompts from other players). So I think a higher word limit is required to really see what they can do.

I hope that all made sense. ^^;