People not posting in an RP is a symptom. If you want to get people to post, you need to look at the real problem, which is usually you or your players.

	We're going to use 6 players for this next example. Their names are Ay, Bee, Sea, Dee, E, Ef And their Gm. They are all playing as pirates in a fantasy RP. The RP hasn't seen a single post in a full week, despite that being the posting requirement. The GM has to do some investigating to see what the hold up is.

	-Ay recently joined the RP and made a single post with their pirate saying Ahoy to everyone, and is currently top deck. They don't know what to write next.

	-Bee and Sea have been working on a collab for a few weeks, but the GM knows Sea is slow to post. Their characters are on an island.

	-Dee's pirate asked E's pirate a question, but E hasn't been online for two weeks. Their characters are bottom deck.

	-Ef is currently on an IRL cruise and won't be available to post for another week. Their character is on top deck.

	In this example, people aren't posting due to a gridlock caused by momentary and possibly permanent player absences. So now that we have identified the problem, we can start to address it. We can tell player Ay that there are no active players on the top deck, or we could make an NPC pirate greet their character. Bee and Sea could be asked to post their collab as-is, or we can wait a bit longer if Bee reports that the collab is making progress. (I personally prefer to only collab with players when I can push out the collab quickly. But that is a topic for later.) E has likely encountered an emergency or has left the RP. Either way, they can't be counted on to post. We should ask Dee to disengage E's character or cause our own diversion to force a disengage, like a sudden cannonball or explosion that knocks out E's character. as for Ef, there really isn't much we can do about them. They will come back, or they will not.

	That is one example of how RP death can be starved off. It's not always that easy though.