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Activity Check Poll!
We have had some comments that AC standards may be too lenient if we are going to an every-other-month AC, so we decided to post a poll to see what everyone thinks!
This poll will be open through Tuesday, and will not impact July's Activity Check.
Whatever we do, Activity Checks will occur every other month (so the first AC this will impact will be in September). A more strenuous AC will serve to keep the game more active as it winds down and discourage character squatters.
As a reminder, the "current standard" is 15 comments (where a post counts for 5 comments) every other month. Comments must include threads with more than one character, but otherwise can be in any form as long as there are 15 of your comments total. AC will be accepted from the scheduled end of the previous AC (so for September's AC, any threads after July 23).
If we went to a standard with more comments, there are two choices! We can either require that many comments total, or require a certain amount of comments per month. So if we did the latter, in September you might have to post 15 comments from one period and 15 comments from another.
If we did the per month system, we'd allow you a longer period to take comments from! So for September, it would be 15 comments after the first Friday in July (July 7) to the first Friday in August (August 3), and 15 comments after the first Friday in August (August 4) to the first Friday in September (September 7). Don't worry, you wouldn't have to remember all that: it would be written up in a schedule, and we'd post a reminder before the first month ends.
The reason why you might consider a per month standard is because that way, you won't have people scrambling to make 30/40/50 comments right before AC every two months. Instead, comments would be spaced out, and if you were scrambling to make AC, you wouldn't be scrambling for a whole bunch of comments right at the end.
This poll will be open through Tuesday, and will not impact July's Activity Check.
Whatever we do, Activity Checks will occur every other month (so the first AC this will impact will be in September). A more strenuous AC will serve to keep the game more active as it winds down and discourage character squatters.
As a reminder, the "current standard" is 15 comments (where a post counts for 5 comments) every other month. Comments must include threads with more than one character, but otherwise can be in any form as long as there are 15 of your comments total. AC will be accepted from the scheduled end of the previous AC (so for September's AC, any threads after July 23).
If we went to a standard with more comments, there are two choices! We can either require that many comments total, or require a certain amount of comments per month. So if we did the latter, in September you might have to post 15 comments from one period and 15 comments from another.
If we did the per month system, we'd allow you a longer period to take comments from! So for September, it would be 15 comments after the first Friday in July (July 7) to the first Friday in August (August 3), and 15 comments after the first Friday in August (August 4) to the first Friday in September (September 7). Don't worry, you wouldn't have to remember all that: it would be written up in a schedule, and we'd post a reminder before the first month ends.
The reason why you might consider a per month standard is because that way, you won't have people scrambling to make 30/40/50 comments right before AC every two months. Instead, comments would be spaced out, and if you were scrambling to make AC, you wouldn't be scrambling for a whole bunch of comments right at the end.
Poll #11131 Activity Check
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 67
How strenuous should AC be?
If you want a more strenuous AC, how strenuous?
View Answers
I don't want a more strenuous AC.
50 (76.9%)
30 comments
12 (18.5%)
40 comments
2 (3.1%)
50 comments
1 (1.5%)
If we choose to make AC more strenuous, should we:
no subject