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DDD no longer requires applications. Please comment here to claim the character you want to play.

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→ Important Rules

You must be at least 15 to play.
No original characters or real people.
You may submit two applications each calendar month, and that's it. Deleting applications to get around this rule will lead to an applications suspension and automatic rejection.
We have a character limit of 9 and a fandom limit of 3 (that is, three characters from a single fandom per person.)
Please realize the difference between catchphrases and copying material from a book or script. The former is a saying your character often uses, which is perfectly acceptable, while the latter is copying lines directly from a book or script, which is grounds for automatic rejection.
Lyrics will not count to your word count.
Should we request another sample, you have a week from that request date to supply one before the application is automatically rejected.
We do reference IP addresses on this post and this is to avoid people getting around our application rule or those few banned players we have getting back in. We don't mind if you use a sock puppet account in general but if there will be complications, please contact us. Additionally, no one can see your IP address but moderators.
If you are re-apping a previously dropped character, feel free to link your old entries for a first person sample. However, if it is your first time applying, please write a new sample for your application, rather than linking to an entry in another game.

→ Check before applying

The taken characters list
The Reserve Page, to see if someone has reserved the character or if you, yourself would like to. See the page for more information about reservations.

→ Etiquette

Please don't be presumptuous. Mods reserve the right to reject the application of anyone announcing their acceptance prematurely.
Do not bother the moderators about your application. Asking for a verdict in PM or otherwise will result in an auto-reject.
If you feel you've been overlooked, post a comment with a link to your application and we'll make it our priority. Being overlooked and reposting your application will not count to your two a month limit.

→ Contact

If you have any general questions about applications or how the application process works, feel free to contact any of the moderators/modpoles.

→ Click this link for an explanation of our application. Worth a read for a refresher even if you've applied twenty times before!
→ Click this for an explanation of what we consider plagiarism
→ A convenient word counter. We encourage using this to confirm your samples meet the require word minimums before posting.

→ The Application

( Prompts )

We strongly discourage conversations on applications. A comment here or here is fine, but please reserve all 'celebrating' for intro posts.

We check applications every few days.
They are always open.

If you write an intro post for your sample, it's going to be very hard to judge you, and we're probably going to ask for another one.

The previous application post is here.

carnality.livejournal.com

Greetings, ducks and duckettes, we're here again with some new preemptive new years resolutions-- Kidding, kidding, but we have been observing what has and hasn't worked for the community application wise and we've decided to refine the application process. We're purging the things that aren't working, adding things we've done before, and adding brand new shiny things to make it that much better.

First of all-- An old friend, the Character Limit. As you know, we already have a fandom limit--a player can have up to three characters from a given fandom--but the moderation/modpoleration teams have come to the consensus that it's about time to reinstate a total character limit. We don't want to limit you too harshly though, so we've made it a broad 9. For those of you who have more than that, like last time, we are allowing you to grandfather that amount in when the change takes place-- HOWEVER. Should you want to add to the brood, you will need to drop the necessary amount of characters to meet the limit with the addition of the character you hope to pick up. You cannot add more on.

The Character Limit will go into affect at the start of the new year-- so from January 1st onward.

Secondly, in an effort to make the application process more understandable, and to address the issue of character OOCness at its core, we've reconstructed the application process. We also realized a big complaint about the current application, from both us moderators and you, the players, is that it's to vague. So, we've re-built the application to include the following:

More conclusive character notes section with some changes on our wiki policies.
- We want you to show us you know your canon. We have encouraged wikipedia use before, but we are now strongly discouraging it. We want you to write something yourself and any application with information taken straight from Wiki or any other website will be rejected.
- So simply, if we look at the wiki and you've re-worded everything they've said, flat out? You're going to get rejected. You can, however, link your character's wiki to help us get an idea of your character.
Samples! They have multiplied!
- Because of how often we do ask for a first person entry-type sample, we have decided to change it up some. We have officially removed the prompt system in favor of requiring both a third person and first person entry-type sample.
  -- Third person will have a word requirement of 150+, which is the current requirement for samples
  -- First person will have a word requirement of 100+ words, because we know it's hard to hit the mark with that.
- As we've come across it a few times now, we want to remind you that lifting lines straight from canon is not cool. That's plagiarizing. Should you be caught doing this, you will first receive a warning, and then a apping restriction and then finally a permaban on applying at dramadramaduck. Please don't let it get to that last step. Another thing that constitutes plagiarism is stealing samples from other games players.
- As a side note, we will continue listing prompts so you guys have something to choose from if you can't think of something for your third person. ♥

We will also be supplying you an example of a 'good' and 'bad' application so you can get a better idea of what we're looking for.

POLICIES~~~~~~~~~~~~
Regarding applications! They have been tightened up as well, to cut down on people taking advantage of the system. We have officially changed the monthly rule. Where before, you could apply until you had two accepted characters, it is now a strict two applications a month rule. Should you get rejected, that will still count toward your application limit for the month.

Deleting your applications to try and get around this rule will result in a three month restriction from applying. Please don't do this. If you want your application out of the public eye, you can ask us to screen it and we will be more than happy to do so.

Other tweaked policies are as such:

THREE rejections for the same character will lead to a three month restriction on applying for that character. We strongly encourage that you play the character as close to canon as you can get; while fanon is fun, it's not always true to the character.
Should you get accepted for a character three times, and subsequently drop them three times, you will be restricted from applying for that character for a set amount of time, depending on the situation.
That also applies to those who abuse the grace period by dropping and picking up characters frequently that way. If we see that you are abusing the grace period on the drop post, we will revoke your right to have one for a set amount of time depending on the situation. THAT BEING SAID, we understand situations that involve illness, school, family, etc so if you APPROACH US (yes, you can talk to us about this stuff!) and explain the situation, you can avoid being approached BY us about this. As a note, we will always approach you about the situation before exacting any sort of punishment or restriction if you have not taken the initiative. We like to work stuff out and handing out restrictions is the LAST thing we want to do.

FINALLY OH MY GOD WE LOVE YOU. It looks daunting, but please please please have faith in us. We didn't want to throw this all on you at once so this won't be going into effect until NOVEMBER 1ST (apart from the character limit). The new application format will be up at the last of the month, so look forward to that.

Please please please offer any criticisms you might have, we want to hear them, all that we ask is that you be open to any explanations we have to offer in return. ♥

carnality.livejournal.com

Hello, ducklings! Here for a few matters of business.

With

rp_anon_meme 's return in our midsts, the moderation(pole) team feels it necessary to point out a few things, regarding some player complaints.

We cannot moderate any community that is not explicitly a part of dramadramaduck . That includes all forms of roleplaysecrets , rp_anon_meme or whatever other community is out there. Should someone say something there, we can talk to them but we cannot punish them unless it is brought on comm.
- What constitutes as a place we can cover is dramadramaduck , triple_d_ooc , any sidecomm and any OFFICIAL ddd chatroom (ddd, odd, add).
Along the same lines, we really want to encourage you to watch your behavior on these things. If someone says something that rubs you the wrong way? Hold your tongue. The more you guys bicker in these places, anon, not anon, you make us look bad. Flat out. We want to be civil here and find a way to be able to talk to each other without having to worry about anonymous dogpiling or whatnot. We have the reptuation we have for a reason so lets attempt to better ourselves and get a better one, okay?

On a lighter note, we are officially swinging into motion our FIRST ANNUAL LAYOUT CONTEST woo woo woo!

You can submit a new layout for either the ooc or ic comm, or even both! We'll have separate polls for each.
There will be no limit to how many layouts you can submit-- all we ask is that you use dummy journals (not comms) to show them off to us, instead of screenshots.
Feel free to make corrosponding icons for your layout
The submission post will be up November 1st and will end the 15th, and polling will be afterward.
Axel-mod will be putting up a more informative post soon, so watch out for it!

Anddd now for a small apps policy change! Because of the amount of second sample requests, we have ammended the amount of time you can submit the second sample in-- we were just recieving them far too long down the line (up to 2 weeks after the request). We will now only allow a week for a second sample submission (and that week starts from the day it's requested); after that, your application will be auto-rejected-- however, you are free to resubmit your application, if this happens. As for samples requested before this, you will have a one week grace period from this post.

Also, remember to join our new sidecomm

adddictions ! It's where we encourage you to post out of character memes (character relationship, character opinion, character honesty etc etc) as well as any new things you think the community would get a kick out of, oocly (dragoncave, whatpulse, etc).

Finally, Activity Check ends on TUESDAY, so if you haven't already, submit your activity!

carnality.livejournal.com

A lot of business to discuss this time, ducklings!

First of all: Shiro (Tieria-mun) has been added to the modteam! \o/ Congratulations and Welcome (Back)! She will be dealing largely with Public Relations so feel free to approach her with anything. ♥

Secondly: Slight addition to the application-- We will now be asking that you list what characters you currently play at DDD. ♥ This is for our own benefit and so we become familiar with who plays who. We've also swapped out the prompts, so feel free to utilize them in your apps next month, if that's your thing!

Thirdly: A kind reminder for all players to please respect locks and unhackable items. Sometimes it's easy to miss a subject, so we're asking to please please please try and pay attention and make note of what your character can and can't read. Please don't let your ooc knowledge affect your IC knowledge! ♥

Fourth: ♥ Thank you for making the HMD awesome. :D There was a little trip up but otherwise I'm really glad how it went and I thank you for being civil. Have I told you guys I love you enough, yet?

Fifth: ~~I have nothing to say here but I feel better having five points. :|;;~~ By popular demand, TIERIA IS A DUDE. A MALE. HE IS IN POSSESSION OF A DIDDLY AND BERRIES.

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?