As everyone knows, this roleplay doesn’t actually have rules, mainly because us as admins don’t consider it to be an official group. It’s just a bunch of friends writing with each other in a slightly somewhat organized setting. I will say, however, that there’s been a tad bit less interactions going on between people that aren’t ship related. I’ve also been noticing people posting starters, while not replying to others’ starters.
So we’re going to instill some rules that should be treated more or less like.. guidelines (that we really hope you’ll honor and go with) because like I said, the only real rule is be active every week on at least one character.
If you haven’t been on the character in awhile, reply to starters from other people before making your own. Interact with each other. Instead of liking posts in the social tag, actually comment as your character on them. Engage, engage, engage. Once you’ve replied to at least three starters, you can make your own. If you’re a sideblog character and you still want to reply to something, just do it as your main blog but put -Character name by the comment. (ie: ‘Those flowers look lovely, Cordelia! - Jaymes’) Not every social post can be commented on, of course, because sometimes, characters don’t have anything to say, but there’s always a rhyme and reason as to why a person posts that and they want characters to reply or interact with them because of that photo/video/post. So please, don’t let people feel like they did the wrong thing, or that no one cares!
Characters shouldn’t exist solely for their ship partners. We’ve had quite a few complaints, including about myself, about bubbling or not even remotely interacting with anyone that isn’t your ship partner (for instance: Cee literally only talks to Jasmine and I need to stop that). I get it’s hard to expand out of your comfort zone with characters, but there needs to be other interactions with other characters. It’s getting to the point where we’ve had numerous complaints about the way people treat their characters as solely there for ships and it’s bothering people, so let’s step up and remember that this is a roleplay akin to ‘real life’. We all exist outside of relationships, let’s make sure to remember our characters do as well!
The first two ‘rules’ we set up will really enforce each other and help hand in hand with those of you who have characters who you feel don’t exist outside of shipping. We’re hoping that it’ll help have people on all of their characters more.
That’s really it. No one’s directly in trouble. A few of you are saints who have literally zero issues with activity or bubbling, but we’re just making a massive note to have it so we have more than just one form of interaction. We want everyone to have fun and it’s not fair to anyone if they feel left out!
This being said, if anyone feels like they honestly can’t do a certain character, we’ll be more than happy to move the character to a temporary NPC slot, until they’re able to handle that character. If we notice you’re focusing on one character over others, we might have to come to you and ask if you’d like us to put some of them on hold until you can give them all the proper respect and activity!