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[cowboy_mod]

¤ CHARACTERIZATION POLL ¤

I'm sure some of you remember the OOC discussion thread posted about a week ago. We'd like to thank you for your input. The various opinions and ideas offered were eye opening, and we're glad that the discussion went over so well. However, while it's clear that we can't make every single person in a community of 200+

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[scienceinacan]

How many characterization complaints should be lodged before a player is contacted?

^ I think this one really hinges on the size of the crew and the nature of complaints...

[sandmullet]

Re: Characterization complaints:

Three is fine, unless the characterization is so BLATANTLY OOC that three separate complaints really should not be necessary to evince the problem. At that time, the single complaint drawing attention to it should be more than sufficient.

[ketsumetsu]

How many characterization complaints should be lodged before a player is contacted?

This should depend on the severity of the oocness involved in complaints and the relative size or cultural entrenchment of a canon. (It's not ideal to consider Chameleon from the Legion of Superheroes as a character liable to receive as many complaints as the goddamn Batman).

When letting a player know of character complaints, should those who lodged the complaints remain anonymous?

Anonymity is important sometimes to keep players happy with one another, but anonymity would not be threatened if the moderation were to forward responses to complainants and inform complainants of what the moderation communicated to the players who play the characters in question.

[tenmorehours]

Anonymity is important sometimes to keep players happy with one another, but anonymity would not be threatened if the moderation were to forward responses to complainants and inform complainants of what the moderation communicated to the players who play the characters in question.

I agree with this idea...as long as it wouldn't put too much work on the moderators.

[tenmorehours]

Discourse is great, and something I really encourage -- I hate the idea of being unable to defend myself if there's a complaint about my character...normally I have at least some reason for what I do, even if it's sometimes a stupid reason. But I just have this image of two players going from debating over characterization to having an all-out argument over it, with the poor moderator stuck playing telephone in the middle. Maybe if the discussion went on for too long or got too heated there'd be a way to encourage the players to use a characterization compliant thread to continue the discussion, or something?

[ketsumetsu]

Regarding requests for no further contact, one of the options bothers me:

No, because other players' opinions deserve to be heard, even if the player might disagree.

Other players are welcome to voice their opinions, by means of crit posts, e-mail, im or ooc comments. They're welcome to voice their opinions about characterization on the HMD posts.

However--

Making a formal complaint about a player's characterization is an entirely different matter and suggests that there is a large issue. Moderators and players both should consider filing a formal complaint a last ditch measure.

This is not the same as simply having an opinion, and having an opinion and communicated it is not impacted by a player requesting not to be contacted about opinions they've received before and decided to not honor in their characterization.

[wishyuumay]

RE: How many complaints should be lodged before player contact.

I agree with previous statements that it really depends on the crew, but the post raises a good question of when a crew becomes too big. The only thing I can think of to address this issue is to say that you need 30% of existing crew numbers (in complaints whether they come from crew members or not) or xx number of complaints, whichever is LESS. Of course, percentage and fixed number still depending on whatever others think, but it's one way around the dilemma?