[quote=@Shienvien]
<Snipped quote>	Sometimes people may return and resume their duties? You never know why a person left when they did so without notice; they could be in hospital for months from some unexpected accident or illness from what you know. 

	They should also retain creative rights, or at the very least recognition for their creations, especially if it is an original creation RP. 
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Meh, if a GM abandons an RP and leaves the others to pick up the pieces, they should be stripped of everything in my book. If they had a legitimate reason, then that could be cleared up later on. 

Better to leave things as they are I think. Though maybe it'd be better to credit people for coming up with ideas, that others then developed. 

That way they get credit for coming up with the idea, but not the credit for breathing life into it. An "Author" title would do well.

Though at the end of the day, do we need it? I don't think so, but I'm still new here so my words carry less weight than most of you. Either way it's an interesting point.