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The past month or so of this roleplay I've had feelings of my own about how things have been going. But because no one had seemed upset except for myself about things, I let them go. Now however, there are several people that aren't mad but they aren't exactly 100% happy with how things are either.
First order of business: Shipping.
Now, some people don't necessary care about ships, rather they focus on character development and focus on their character rather than who they're character is with. That is perfectly okay. But on the flip side of that there are people who enjoy shipping and having the ship develop their characters or hell just enjoy to ship.
We have to respect each other's roleplaying styles. Because there are different styles, different ways to enjoy roleplaying. People enjoy different things. And there's a good handful of us here so it was bound to happen really.
That being said, if you take a ship breaking up personally and take those feelings out via the ooc and/or at other players: that is not okay. And you will only get one warning on that before being removed from the roleplay. That is a negativity that I will not allow here. On the flip side of that, making someone or people feel guilty for enjoying a ship is not okay either. And the same thing about getting one warning applies to this as well.
Some issues that have been bothering me lately are: bubble roleplaying, activity, making characters and then hardly using them after a couple weeks, and not communicating with/respecting myself. I'll start with the bubble roleplaying first.
For those who don't know what that means, it means roleplaying with the same person or people and hardly interacting outside a certain group of characters. That will not be tolerated here. Ever. At some point all of us have been guilty of it, some more than others. And those who do it more often will be talked to separately later tonight.
Now onto the activity portion of my issues. I understand life gets in the way believe me. I understand school is happening soon or has happened already. That's okay. What is not okay is to sit in the AIM group chat, clearly able to be online, talk about our characters, but not make any posts to move the dash. We haven't really had that issues since part two started, but at the end of part one it felt like pulling teeth to get anyone to post on the dash. That bothered me on many levels, but I wasn't sure what to do about it. As much as I love the AIM group chat, if the same thing that happened in part one happens in part two I will ask it to be deleted and we move back to chatting in the ooc blog.
Another thing I've noticed over the past couple months are people making/picking characters in the spur of the moment and then doing nothing with them. (I am guilty of this as well.) I'm really not sure what to say about this except please lets try to stop doing it. From now on no matter how long you've been a member or not, if one of your characters goes inactive for a week without talking to me about putting them on hiatus I will request you thinking about dropping a character. There's nothing I hate more than when a character just sits there and is hardly used except for when a certain character character is on the dash. If you say you'll try to get on the character more but over the course of the following week you don't make more than ten posts they will be re-opened.
And finally the last issues. Not communicating with or respecting me. Mostly it's the first one vs the whole respect thing. I'm going to quote the rules right now:
"Plots need to be run by us. Most of them don’t really need our approval, but as of late there have been a lot of subplots going on and while we love it and are excited - we also like to know what’s going on in this roleplay. Major plots like: kidnapping, character death (includes npcs), leaving town, suicide, drug use, crime, revealing the existence of werewolves to humans, etc must be approved by the both of us before any of those plots can actually move forward. If you fail to do this three times, you will be removed from the roleplay. "
I think a lot of you, mostly older members have forgotten about that. I will not name names here, but I can definitely think of a few of you off the top of my head that seem to constantly forget to run things by us or me. Running it by just Selena is not acceptable. Running it by just me is not acceptable either. Telling us things in the AIM group chat is not okay. WE WANT AN ACTUAL MESSAGE IN THE ASK BOX SO WE'RE ALL ON THE SAME PAGE. I am serious about the three strikes and you're out rule about this. I think you've all just gotten really comfortable in this roleplay and while I am so, so happy about that I also think you guys just think I'm going to be okay with things because we're all friends. And that is when I feel like respect for me as an admin (not as a person) starts to fade and disappear.
I guess that's all I really have to say on matters right now. If you have any confusion over anything I said please message me on here or AIM. Thank you for reading this. And seriously. Like this post.