[quote=@Sierra]
[@jynmi88] The best course of action at this juncture would be to adapt the concept in accordance with any valid criticism received, 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."
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Sure - I can definitely see that some mechanics ought to be included and added in. And I do agree it doesn't look the most appealing in format, but the guy was new so it can pass. This, my friend, is constructive criticism. What Zero and Archmage said was not.

It's just the most common way to introduce an idea, get up hype, refine the last finishing touches to the world, and then present it within the next few days without wasting up space in the RP section. Sure, you don't have to do this, but that's how most people do it.

Also same - some RP ideas just didn't get enough attraction or if it does start, often I have shit that pops out last minute and everything goes down the gutter. I may return to GMing once Im in a stable environment.

Edit: Also true. Don't let others manipulate you when they seem to reek such bad faith. If they don't like it, they don't like it. Ignore them.