MOD POST: The State of Things
Well folks. We last sat down on our carpet squares in October to talk about finding ways to get more activity on this here community. We had decided to create a spin-off community. However, as you can see, I never got around to making that comm.
The short end of the stick is that after almost 21 months, I feel that my interest and drive in maintaining this community has waned to the point where my staying in charge is a hinderance rather than a benefit. This leaves me with an important and fairly urgent decision to make about the future of the community.
One of the first and most obvious options was to pass this community to someone else to run. However, the severe lack of activity on this comm (it's been a month since a letter was posted!) suggests to me that to get this comm active again would require huge actions, most likely either starting everyone fresh again, or changing the rules to allow more kinds of posts on this comm. I believe that such actions would be better suited to starting a new kind of game completely; as I hope would be made obvious by our affiliation with hex_files, I have no problem with anyone starting CQ-inspired RPGs if you're up for the challenge. :)
My other option, then, is to close the community. But it's a hard decision to make, because I know I'm not the only person here who is very attached to their character(s). Active in posting or not, for those of us who have been around since the start in the summer of 2005 especially, these characters have complete personalities, and could be considered as close as siblings (or lovers, maybe? *g*) for some of us.
So this is what I have decided. January 31 will be the last day to post letters per the rules to be considered CQ canon. After that, instead of stopping all posting and simply waving goodbye forever, I will be leaving posting open for all current members, and you will be welcome to come back here to RP however you like, whenever you like. There would be no guidelines about what you can post; think of it like comment crack for the rest of your life, without the burden of having to write those pesky letters beforehand.
I think this is a win-win situation, and I hope you all will agree.
Comments are open, but I would like to make a couple things clear:
-- This was my decision, 100%. If you want to tear me a new one for this decision -- or shower me with praise -- it may be more prudent to email me directly than to leave a comment.
-- I have a few details left to sort out that I will be running by the members for input this coming weekend. This includes figuring out exactly how the canon will be ended in a blaze of glory, as well as fiddly bits about how we'd work the post-canon RPing.
Thanks again for everything, gang! We'll talk again soon :)
The short end of the stick is that after almost 21 months, I feel that my interest and drive in maintaining this community has waned to the point where my staying in charge is a hinderance rather than a benefit. This leaves me with an important and fairly urgent decision to make about the future of the community.
One of the first and most obvious options was to pass this community to someone else to run. However, the severe lack of activity on this comm (it's been a month since a letter was posted!) suggests to me that to get this comm active again would require huge actions, most likely either starting everyone fresh again, or changing the rules to allow more kinds of posts on this comm. I believe that such actions would be better suited to starting a new kind of game completely; as I hope would be made obvious by our affiliation with hex_files, I have no problem with anyone starting CQ-inspired RPGs if you're up for the challenge. :)
My other option, then, is to close the community. But it's a hard decision to make, because I know I'm not the only person here who is very attached to their character(s). Active in posting or not, for those of us who have been around since the start in the summer of 2005 especially, these characters have complete personalities, and could be considered as close as siblings (or lovers, maybe? *g*) for some of us.
So this is what I have decided. January 31 will be the last day to post letters per the rules to be considered CQ canon. After that, instead of stopping all posting and simply waving goodbye forever, I will be leaving posting open for all current members, and you will be welcome to come back here to RP however you like, whenever you like. There would be no guidelines about what you can post; think of it like comment crack for the rest of your life, without the burden of having to write those pesky letters beforehand.
I think this is a win-win situation, and I hope you all will agree.
Comments are open, but I would like to make a couple things clear:
-- This was my decision, 100%. If you want to tear me a new one for this decision -- or shower me with praise -- it may be more prudent to email me directly than to leave a comment.
-- I have a few details left to sort out that I will be running by the members for input this coming weekend. This includes figuring out exactly how the canon will be ended in a blaze of glory, as well as fiddly bits about how we'd work the post-canon RPing.
Thanks again for everything, gang! We'll talk again soon :)