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Oh, new complaint.

Can we disable the visitor page? I made a reply whoopsie and now it's there forever on my profile.

@Isotope

I doubt we can, but perhaps a delete button on your own visitor messages is a good idea.

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It's not like it's hard to look at someone's post history anyway, unless they do a lot of posting outside of the RP sections. of course, the forum search function can bring you to those posts easily enough.

@BrokenPromise

Adding to that, posting a lot outside of the RP forums indicates some form of activity. It's your job also to assess whether they are appearing motivated enough to participate. I.e. the difference between doing a sheet in 2-3 days or doing it in 2 weeks. Which happens. And is a clear telltale sign of someone not really being motivated, especially if they post a lot elsewhere.

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I agree that it's ultimately up to the GM, the idea of imposing a site wide system to do that judgement call for them is a bit silly.

If I GM an RP there are people I will not allow in it, and there are people I will accept without a sheet given my level of trust in them. Every GM has to make that call based on their own experiences.

@Isotope

100% agree.

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@The Harbinger of Ferocity I have to say I understand your frustration, I just don't see this as a right answer to the problem. A blacklist is more preferable, but even then, *who manages it* *can we manage it on site?* *If not where do we host it?*

I have a personal blacklist with names of people I don't want to roleplay with on my discord server. I suggest you make one too.

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@The Harbinger of Ferocity Yes, GM's should have to do that. Moderators aren't responsible for your RP failing or succeeding. 'Don't leave RP's without saying' isn't part of the rules. I think that it's more reasonable to expect GM's to sort of take a look at who they're taking in. When I GM, which isn't often but frequent enough to say I have a good amount of experience, I take a look at potential recruits and ask around a bit in the already accepted members of the group if they know the person.

It doesn't take much time. Building and using a system to give people negative karma for flaking out is probably more time consuming.

If this ends up becoming a thing and I get negative marks, guess I'll just make new accounts.

question for the british folk

<Snipped quote by mdk>

But the British don't have Mexicans. They have the Polish.

@Dinh AaronMk

Admittedly pierogi is fucking delicious.

Third Time's the Charm?

@Pseudo Stygian welcome, and do enjoy your stay. And yes, scheduling isn't something I'd inherently prescribe to 'free'. Your best bet might be to do a 1x1 if that's the type of play you're after.

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@Hank perhaps it's not so much a problem as it is something that we can work on. For me, I'd like to see the arena become more active, even if I don't participate. Making the arena active is something that we should all be striving for here too, even if it's not inherently problematic. You'll agree that if arena got more activity, that'd be a good thing, right?

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I honestly see this having the same criticism that I gave the karma system.

Too easy to abuse, too hard to make objective.

How can we help improve RPGuild? Community suggestions and discussion.

@The Harbinger of Ferocity I do believe that issue was dropped already given a lengthy and good discussion with arena members specifically and they manage to convince me that my idea was perhaps not the right way to move forward. This doesn't fix inactivity though, which is an issue for another time and the inactivity of the arena board is certainly something that needs to be addressed at some point, regardless of 'this inactivity being inherent' to arena.

I disagree that we should demerit people that drop from RP's.

If your family member dies, I understand that you can't directly post that and I understand that that is something that might take a lot of time.
I am reluctant to ask, however, for proof of death. That's morbid and not right.

This goes for literally any other scenario just the same. I don't want to ask people for proof of why they disappeared.

So what, we either ban everyone that disappears for whatever reason. Good, then everyone with a valid reason is banned. Useful. Or we ban nobody.

I'd rather do the latter.

Engaging RP with people that disappear is BUYER BEWARE. It's your duty to check up on your partners to make sure they're not flaky or known for being shitty RP'ers. Not the moderators.