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[lucetimods]

Sup guys, this is kind of delayed, my bad. Got a few things to discuss/mention to y'all, so eyes here for five!

1) Friend/Add Remove

The list for this cycle is below:

friend add thedicearecast

Comments

[crisis_rain]

As one of the people who did comment on the AC rules, I'm happy to see it amended (This is what I thought you meant anyway when it first went up).

Oooo event 8D

[breaks_destiny]

So basically, the journal entry has to be of at least 59 comments (+1 initual entry) overall, assuming a one on one interaction, to be able to count on its own, right? Otherwise we add 1 or 2 threads until we get the 30 comments min on part of our char.

Also does that mean that if there's no journal entry, we can provide up to 3 threads to get to the minimum?

[lucetimods]

It's basically the same rule as before; three threads, or two threads and an entry, or just an entry with all the comments you need, or a log... you basically get three links to provide whatever activity you think is needed.

[breaks_destiny]

Awesome, thanks for clarifying that.

[baka_jyanai]

Um, I am VERY VERY not comfortable with this change. Especially seeing as Cirno recently had a post here that generated very few responses, and I see this happen to a lot of other people too. Saying that a post will ONLY count if it generates that many comments is kind of extremely uinfair to those of us who are thread dropped on. A lot.

[precto]

I have to agree with this. If this rule was around last month, I would have failed activity simply because people wouldn't continue threading with me. As in, I would have been forcibly dropped because other people wouldn't tag back, which isn't fair in the slightest.

[baka_jyanai]

Exactly.

We understand that this rule is to discourage those who would throw up an post to pass AC, but not respond to the comments to it, however it punishes those of us who are... I hate to use these words, but those of us who are "less popular" and therefore are threadropped often.

[redstringed]

Agreeing with this. What should be important is that the *person whose post it is* shows *some form of activity* in the comments.

So if I make a post, three people tag it, and I tag all of them back, but *never get tagged in response*, then it's not my problem. I tagged the threads, I was as active as I could, and my activity is not dependent on someone else.

Because as is? That entry would only count for 4 comments, and that's absolutely absurd.

[meowzy_chan]

Question!

Imagine I haven't posted an entry in that month. Is the maximum of threads I can link still three? Because I have to say, that's kind of unfair. Entries can have a limitless amount of incredibly short threads, but if you don't post an entry you can only reference to that small amount of threads. I can understand what you're doing, implementing the 30 comment limit to entries as well, so that's very good. But it's still not balanced. People with entries still have a major advantage.

So just like last time, I'm going to once again suggest upping the thread number (just threads, no entry) to four. This is something that was seconded by at least two people on the last HMD, so it should have merit.

Also, I realize just how dumb and ungrateful this sounds. I'm just trying to help make things more fair. ^^'

[baka_jyanai]

Actually, people who use entries as their AC don't have much advantage at all if people thread drop in our posts. Which happens to me, and several others, a lot. Looking back on Patchouli's posts, over half of them wouldn't qualify under these new rules at all.

[meowzy_chan]

Actually, it depends how many people comment. Say there's five commenters, which means five threads. Each thread lasts 8 comments, which means 4 comments per thread for the person who posted. That's 20. Plus one comment for the entry itself.

21 comments. The other 9 could be supplemented with threads.

[baka_jyanai]

It needs to be thirty. And that's still unfair, imho. It is not our fault that other players thread drop us.

[unseenspy]

The least we can hope for is that the new rules will encourage people to not thread drop so much, but if people have to drop threads for RL reasons, then that can be an issue as well. Especially at this time of year, when people are on hiatus/slowatus.

Speaking of slowatuses, what's the policy on threads that are still "in-progress" during an AC?

[lucetimods]

Activity that counts is still only between the dates posted, but if you have an ongoing thread (or threads) and you're behind on the comment count, we can check back to see if those threads are being continued and let that count towards new activity.