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Humen:
Oi! Blades stole my question! Jerry I demand another Question!

Jerry:
Hey, I'm not the only one who can ask questions you know :P Anyone can ask anyone!

To Blades-of-slave:
During the course of an RP, two people get into a dispute. One is claiming the other godmodded them and the other is denying it, saying that the first one has been doing much more than that and nothing was raised against them at that time. The GM of the RP steps in, but doesn't succeed in settling things down. At the same time, both of the two RPers PM you about the other being unfair. What do you do?


--- Quote from: The-Blades-slave on April 06, 2014, 11:28:14 PM ---Well since I'm impatient i'mma answer Fenror and Humen's questions based on my opinion.

I would have had him wait a while and repost it. I ran an RP when I first started, and it fit the criteria of what was described well; the plot was decent enough, but I had very little understanding of the rules, and ended up doing the RP in do to my inexperience. I think it would have been more beneficial to have participated in a few RPs before attempting to start my own, so that is what I would suggest others do. (This is probably completely wrong.)

I would only resort to deleting a thread at the most drastic situations; it is a thread with just an inappropriate (happened last year, was a picture of an old mans ass posted by a brand new account), or something like that. Otherwise I'd lock it if a flame war was going on or something of the like,. from what I've seen from the site we keep old threads so people can search for them, so the same topic isn't posted twice.
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Of course, having some experience in an RP helps in hosting one, so that's another thing you could do all right.

For the second one, yup, it's true that we keep deletions for drastic situations. Locking is, most of the time, enough. There's no problem with posting the same topic twice though. Something that didn't work in the past could work now, or sometime in the future, because different people (or people who learned from their mistakes) will run it differently.


--- Quote from: foodonfloor on April 07, 2014, 05:32:55 AM ---I think that deleting a thread altogether isn't always the right thing to do, as RP's will close on their own once they become inactive, or they will be locked by a mod. I personally find it beneficial to go and be able to look through previous RPs that I've participated in, as well as look at characters that I've used in the past. At the same time, there are some threads that should be deleted. Generally speaking, deleting an RP thread should be done when the creation of that thread doesn't follow the rules are isn't up to the standard demanded by the section. This of course isn't the first step, though, as before deleting, or even locking, topic, the mod should discuss the issues with the RP with the GM in an attempt to fix them and create an adequate product. We don't like to see RP's fail, and before deleting a thread that does not follow the rules or is not up to standard, we should first try to fix the issues, and then proceed to delete the thread if the GM does not comply.


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I tend to agree. Like I mentioned above, locking is enough for most cases. If OP's looking for attention (which is often the case for newcomers , and pretty logical since they want people to join their RP), locking after several failed attempts to make them understand how things work here won't get them very far. Worst case scenario, they'll start more similar threads (where now it's appropriate to delete those because really, it's a duplicate of the previous one(s)), get warnings, try to PM everyone to get attention and get banned.

To Humen:

--- Quote from: Humen on April 07, 2014, 08:53:44 AM ---Oi! Blades stole my question! Jerry I demand another Question!

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Well, how can I say no now?

There's a newbie (again!?) who started an RP, but this time, they appear to have appropriately read the rules and the way things are here. They have put the [Pending] tag in their RP title, they have a OOCC thread and a Profiles thread. What are you expected to do now?

Humen:
Jerry its like your trying to give me all the hard questions. I want to say i give him 1 week to start his RP or i lock it but i think ill go with "approve the RP". That's my final answer Jer

Desbear:
Yo, Jerry, are some of us allowed to say our comments on the answers someone gave, or not? I meant to ask this like, two days ago.

Jerry:

--- Quote from: GameBoy Advanced on April 07, 2014, 09:06:56 PM ---Yo, Jerry, are some of us allowed to say our comments on the answers someone gave, or not? I meant to ask this like, two days ago.

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Sure can, nothing's stopping you. This phase is where everyone can discuss about the candicates :)


--- Quote from: Humen on April 07, 2014, 08:53:20 PM ---Jerry its like your trying to give me all the hard questions. I want to say i give him 1 week to start his RP or i lock it but i think ill go with "approve the RP". That's my final answer Jer

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Lol, well, you asked for another one and questions are hard to come by xD. Plus I guess I wouldn't call that a hard question.

But, I wouldn't say that pressuring someone to start an RP is a good thing (because after all, they cannot start without RPers, right?), and approving too soon shouldn't be it either. Remember that while the format can be okay, the content of the RP might not be. You will have to read and then decide whether this RP is suitable or not. If it's not, leave a post telling what's wrong. If everything seems fine, then I'd say you can approve the RP.

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