[Taken Characters List, Drop Post, Hiatus, Reserves, etc...]

[attorneyatlol]

Yo, dudes and dudettes. I have a large order of business here, so I hope you take the time to read everything because I'd really like some opinions. ♥

1) Taken Characters List. With Kristel's departure, a few of her duties have been given to me, most notably the upkeep of the taken characters list. One of the things I'd like to do with it is move it over to the journals so people can comment there when they've been approved for a character. The form to fill out would look similar to the one in the concrit directory.


Like so:

friend add CHAR_JOURNAL

<font size="3"><b>FANDOM NAME</b></font>
└ <b>CHARACTER'S FIRST AND LAST NAME</b> // <lj user="CHAR_JOURNAL"> → played by <lj user="MUN_JOURNAL">

It would help me keep up with the Friend Add list and would make it simple to copy and paste the new character information into the TC list. The downside is, of course, something else for you to fill out when your character is accepted. That would make a form for the PD, a form for the TC, and an optional form for the concrit directory, which can be filled out at any time or not at all.

Overkill? Your thoughts, please. :)

2) Elimination of the Drop Post. With people commenting to the TC list as their characters are accepted, we thought it might save time to eliminate the drop post altogether and have players comment to the TC list when they're dropping characters as well. The one week grace period would, of course, remain in place.

3) Hiatus and Reserves. Not urgent, but we'd love to hear some suggestions on ways we can improve the hiatus and reservation posts. How are they as they stand now? Can you see any ways to improve them?

4) Last but not least... Condensing. We realize we have a lot of lists going (TC, PD, CD...) and have been trying to come up with a feasible way to condense them, but there are several pros and cons (for example: I had initially wanted to combine the TC list with the concrit directory, but we'd run into the problem of people not realizing they can go there for concrit--especially new players. Besides which, after some consideration, I think it's just too much for one list).

Suggestions on ways to feasibly lighten the list load while maximizing efficiency would be awesomely appreciated. ♥

I believe that's it!

Comments

[maraich]

Do you need any help with any of it?

I would make a suggestion to make sure all of those things are at least listed and linked to on the application form and when people are accepted.

[attorneyatlol]

With the TC list? Not once I get it converted, I don't think. The biggest task will be getting it from the wiki to the journals.

Oh, most definitely~

[know-sacrifice.livejournal.com]

Maybe the PD and CD could be combined? They're both organized by player, making it fairly easy to find the person you'd want to get in touch with, and the PD's supposed to have up-to-date characters lists anyway, yes? Since the TC is fandom-based, that makes it a little more awkward to get in touch with someone generally through it (though obviously it's fine for finding a specific character's player).

[idgiebay]

Actually, when I first put the PD together, I had initially wanted it combined with the CD, but it didn't work out very well. Not without looking really messy and cluttered, anyway.

The PD is organized by player while the CD is organized by character mostly because several players have separate concrit posts for their characters. Once again, we'd also run into the problem of people not realizing they can find concrit posts in the PD. :/

...Though, maybe I'm thinking about it differently than you are. How would you combine the two?

Nella here~

[bneath-my-wings.livejournal.com]

.....Honestly, I'd forgotten people have multiple posts for their different characters. I can't really imagine combining it effectively that way--it would work out a lot better if there was one crit post per mun, instead of character.

Whoops~

Re: Nella here~

[attorneyatlol]

Yeah, that would probably work out better. I don't know that that's something that can be regulated, though.

*keeps brainstorming*

[know-sacrifice.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's the problem exactly. For the people who only play a few characters without a lot of turnover, it's fine to have just one post for all of them, but for people with a lot of characters, or a lot of turnover between them, it's a lot more convenient to have a post on each journal. It's not really fair to tell everyone to do it one way or the other. XD;

[heeheeikeelu.livejournal.com]

Okay...it might be morning and I might just be a tad bit tired so I'll come back and reread them but.
You totally lost me at number one and two.

[attorneyatlol]

Let me see if I can explain it better. ^^;

Right now, the Taken Characters list is on the wiki. I want to move it to the journals a la the Concrit Directory and have people comment there when they've been approved for a character. So instead of, say, replying back to the apps post with your character journal, you'd go to the taken characters post and list the following information:

friend add CHAR_JOURNAL

<font size="3"><b>FANDOM NAME</b></font>
└ <b>CHARACTER'S FIRST AND LAST NAME</b> // <lj user="CHAR_JOURNAL"> → played by <lj user="MUN_JOURNAL">

As far as the drop post goes, they could also comment to the taken characters post with friend remove CHAR_JOURNAL, thus eliminating the drop post.

Does that make more sense?

Ah, wait, let me give a sample... Say I was just approved for Larry, right? I'd go to the taken characters post and fill out the form like this:

friend add probablythebutz

<font size="3"><b>Ace Attorney Series</b></font>
└ <b>Larry Butz</b> // <lj user="probablythebutz"> → played by <lj user="idgiebay">

Then, if I decided to drop him later, I'd go to the taken characters list and post the following:

friend remove probablythebutz

Does that help?