This post provided for your benefit. I DIDN'T HAVE TO DO THIS, YOU KNOW! IT'S...N-NOT LIKE I LIKE YOU GUYS OR ANYTHING!

Okay, the local Ren-fest for this time of year is rapidly approaching, and thus it is time for me to go RP in REAL LIFE! Which really just means drinking heavily and pretending to be the excommunicated Holy Man for a ship full of pirates in a stupid story we created for ourselves.

ANYWAY, this is sucking up all my time, and I will be gone out in the woods for the entire weekend, thus, HIATUS!

This affects Arcueid and Yamame, of course. They will both be on Auto-pilot. God-mod rights provided to anyone it makes sense for. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE.

I should be back with both of them on Tuesday, the 21st. I apologize for any flower plots I made with people...because I totally forgot this was going to horrifically impede them. That and the near laptop death scare I had today.

ANYWAY, I'll be back soon...so ya'll behave ok? If you want an idea of what I'll be doing this weekend, I'll provide a video with a pretty accurate representation.



(Yes, after a number of shots this will totes happen for realsies in the campsite.)

BRB KATSUCON. Tagging may or may not happen while I'm there, who knows!

Affects these brosephs and brosephinas:
Raz/ra_ra_razputin
Viktoria/woodsiequeen
Toni/a_crazygirl
LeChuck/beardonfire

'Ello all, Jake here (player of Mami Tomoe/headedforhope/Sad Crying Meguca of the Blond Variety) bringing in his second character: the ghostly 1000+ year old Captain Murasa from Touhou Project! Currently turned human by the town, Murasa used to wreck ships out of vengeful spite after falling off a boat and drowning, but is now a lot saner friendlier than that.

She'll be slotted as a child in the household at 1246 Williams with Firo and Ichirin.

Activity Check!

No, just kidding. As we said, since the transfer happened so recently and caused so much upheaval, we’re skipping AC again this month. Our next check will begin on March 12.

This announcement is to let you know that after some discussion, the mods have decided that for the next Activity Check will be trying out a change to our activity requirements. We feel this change has been coming for a while; we have a far easier standard than both games our size, and we’ve been getting a lot more comments recently about character sitting. So beginning in March, rather than our previous requirement of a thread four of your comments long or a post seven sentences or longer, we will be requiring:

• 3 Threads four of your comments long
• Threads provided must involve at least three different characters
• IF you do not have 3 that meet this length, we’ll consider 5 threads that do not quite meet the requirement.

• Threads in the post approximate the 3 threads standard
• If threads do not meet that standard, we will examine the timestamps on comments to decide if you were making a reasonable effort.
• There is no longer a length requirement for the post itself.
   

This may be a little confusing because the standard is pretty subjective, but in practice it shouldn’t be. What we’re actually asking for is 3 Threads with 3 Different Characters where you have replied 4 times or a post with 3 Threads where you have replied about 4 times. If you have that, great, you’re done! You’ve passed Activity Check.

The subjectivity comes in if you don’t have that. We think this is a reasonable standard, but at the same time we don’t want to penalize people if their post doesn’t get many replies or if they have threads dropped on them. We really prefer you do the above (especially because checking 5 threads or timestamps is more work on our part), but if you haven’t been able to do that, we’re willing to give you a little leeway to show you’ve still been active.

With regards to checking timestamps on posts, what we mean is we’ll be seeing if the person who dropped the threads was you or the person you were threading with, and in deciding that we’ll be looking at both the last comment in the thread but also when that comment was posted to make sure no one is going back and tagging old threads just to slide through AC. We’ll also be keeping in mind whether your post which isn’t getting many tags was posted right in time for you to try to make AC with it; if we see you consistently doing this over a few checks, we’ll stop accepting it unless it meets the full thread requirement.

If your post or threads don’t meet our standard, we’ll reply to your comment saying what else we need to see from you (another thread, 2 more threads, etc.), and then you’ll go on the warned list until we see what’s needed. We won’t be giving you time to give us more links before the warned list goes up because it would double or triple our already considerable AC workload, but being on the warned list doesn’t have any negative consequences.

If you have any technical issues or questions about this, we’re happy to hear them. If you have general objections, such as not wanting us to increase AC standard at all, we’re going to ask you to wait until March. This isn’t necessarily going to be our new system, but we would like to try it out for a month before we make a permanent decision.

Thanks!

Sarah Jane has been canon updated to the end of The Sarah Jane Adventures. The biggest change the final episodes brought her was a twelve year old alien daughter named Sky. Apparently if you take in one child who was artificially created in an attempt to attack the Earth, you become a galactic safe haven. Not much has really changed with her, personality wise, but she's going to find being away from Sky a little harder than she already does being away from Luke since Sky's still living at home.

As a result of the update, Sarah Jane will be droned for twenty four hours. I'm sure everyone who knows her will be suitably disturbed to hear her go all gender roles.

I'm heading home for a few days to take care of things. Unfortunately, the wireless and everything is still down because of a storm last week and our provider is a bunch of losers. So I'm taking a short hiatus until either things get fixed or I come back to school. Ideally, it'll be fixed by the 19th. If not, I'll be back on the 21st.

Also, sorry for my slow tags this week. This week ended up being way busier than I thought it would be and if I had known, I would have put up a hiatus much earlier. Thanks for your patience though and I'll pick them up as soon as I get things settled.