[@jynmi88] The best course of action at this juncture would be to adapt the concept in accordance with any valid criticism received (not every critique is valid criticism), take 2-3 days to do so and further refine the idea and the post that presents it, and re-pitch it. The biggest criticism I'll give you is that the main post gives a lot of information about the world which is good, but not a lot about the mechanics of the RP that it introduces ... and it could use a good formatting pass.

You had interest so it's reasonable to expect that interest, and potentially more, will come back on a second attempt. My other feedback is that you don't [i]need[/i] to go through a formal interest check process before creating and opening an RP. That's not written anywhere. You could skip the re-pitch and go straight to a thread. From experience, I usually see as many people join in after the thread is up as I see people actually come over from the int check (usually int checks have between a 25-50% retention rate on average).

And if it's any consolation, I've had RPs die in similar manners too. Sometimes it's something you do, and sometimes the writing gods just say "No."

EDIT: One thing I wish to mention is that as a GM you're in the management business. It's both your right and to an extent your job to smack down commentary made in bad faith. You should never give a good faith answer to a bad faith critique.