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Hello one more time, Polychromatic!

Voting on our gamewide poll is closed.

The majority of votes were in favor of moving Polychromatic to Dreamwidth.

Therefore, Polychromatic will be moving from Livejournal to Dreamwidth.

And the mods agree that, given Livejournal's recent difficulties and potential future changes, this will be the best course of action for the game.

The move will be taking place on Sunday, January 15. On that day, posting will officially move from LJ to DW.

Furthermore, we are waiving activity requirements for January because of this move.

However, because this is such a change, we have decided to revisit a topic of discussion--namely, should Polychromatic operate in a community-based or a journal-based posting format?

There are pros and cons to each format--journal-based posting allows one to keep one's own content even after leaving a game, but community-based posting eliminates the need for an add/remove list, &c. Please give both sides due consideration and vote in the following poll. We would like you to decide as regards this change. The majority will rule in this poll as in the other.

This poll is open until Friday, January 13th.

[Poll #1809839]

As before, while we would prefer you to use this poll, you may also contact us by email (polychromatic.mods@gmail.com) with your response if LJ is giving you difficulties of any sort.

A few more things:

→ Please join [poly_chromatic], [tampered], [poly_tldr], and [thatrainbowcity] with your character journal(s). These will be our main communities on DW. (Alas, the name "polychromatic" was already taken by a personal journal! How can this be? Also! if the mods of

poly_crack would like to set up a crack comm for Poly on DW, please do. That's all up to you, but spread the word if you create one!)

→ This poll is still on-going, but you may go ahead and post in your DW journal if you would like, but please be aware that some players may only be checking LJ. We certainly encourage crossposting from DW to LJ for the time being. We know the game is kind of on hold while the move is going on. We are working on importing our communities and getting everything set up as we'd like. Moving is something of a gradual process, but we would like to have at least the basics completed by the 15th.

→ We recommend that everyone use poly_chromatic's members list for the time being to keep up with any character posts that may be made on DW. Once this poll closes, we will either rebuild the add/remove list or open poly_chromatic for posting with character journals (and we will be using [thatrainbowcity] for mod posts and announcements). Please be aware that if the game stays journal-based, it may take a day or two for us to rebuild the add/remove list and you may have to use the member list for a little while after January 15th.

→ If you are going to be using a journal on DW with a different username than the one you have now, please reply to the first comment in this post with both your old and your new usernames. Please do not reply if your journal name is the same on both sites.

→ Please comment to the new [Taken List] with your character(s). This will be a fresh start and will help us to update the Taken List.

→ Please bear with us while we work on making these changes. We will do our best to get everything up and running as soon as possible.

We will also be making another post here in POLYchromatic and mirrored on the Dreamwidth equivalent (poly_chromatic) with the results of the poll, what those results will mean, and a few final notes and suggestions before the 15th.

Thank you, POLYchromatic! We'll see you on the other side!

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I'm not sure what you mean by coding them to look similar or adding hashtags? I was under the impression that in comm-based games, the only tags available for posts made to the community are ones to the effect of:

"character name | canon"

or something to that effect. So I'm not sure what I would code or hashtag? If the overall problem is that the only tag I can apply to my posts in a community is the one like the example above, as opposed to the assortment of ones I can use and apply if it's in my own journal?

I'm sorry, I'm just full of misunderstandings tonight, apparently.

I mean that even on a community where your tag options are limited to your character's name you could have your post and at the end of it still within the body of the post add fake tags to add flavor to the post if there are certain things you want the reader to be able to see. They would not be actual links. They would just look like tags. For instance if tags are a point size smaller and blue then you'd code them to look that way. Or you could use a hashtag (#) like they do on Twitter.

Examples:

This is my post where I'm posting things and you are reading it and eagerly responding to me!

#cursedagain, #grabbagnightmare, #cleverexamplehere

or

This is my post where I'm posting things and you are reading it and eagerly responding to me!

cursed again, grab bag nightmare, clever example here

Since they would not be functional for you, they could just be in addition to utilizing the memories option where you can set up the words or phrases it links to and use them similar to tags.

Oh, I see. Right, no, my concern was definitely coming from a functionality standpoint; while I admit I do have some tags that I only add for flavor, the vast majority (despite being worded in a way that probably only makes sense to me) do serve a functional purpose.

For example, say I'm tagging with Caspian and a discussion comes up about a horse race that he and Rosella once had, and the only thing I can remember about the thread is that it probably took place in the summer, but I need to reread it for some reason. I know there's a tag in Rosella's journal that reads "i already have a pony", which I use on all of her horse-related posts. One click instantly provides me with a list of all posts that involve the relevant topic--her horse--and I can skim through more easily to find the one I'm looking for--one dated probably in the summer. If I had to search solely by name and date in a community, in contrast, I might have dozens of summer-based posts to search through as opposed to the handful of specifically horse-related ones I'd have in her own journal. It's just less efficient.

As for the memories option, that is an alternative solution, but I don't know if I feel like it's necessarily a comparable one, when the whole point of a tag system in general is to make finding posts as efficient as possible, and going the memory route seems as though it would take a lot longer to utilize, be clunkier in general, and just not as suitable for the same purpose.