…ok, I'm counting on Precto to keep the proper tab here, because I think this will be my tl;dr-est mod post yet. Dun dun dun!

I.


Thar be inactivity results! Keep in mind that you are asked to post a minimum of two times a month, or else your character ends up on the inactivity post. If you'll be absent for a while, please declare your hiatus here; hiatuses automatically cover a month, but we accept neither hiatuses that are longer than a month, nor two /more hiatuses in succession.

ETA: old rule, but might need restating - if you cover your activity quota in the last two successive days of the month? We'll unfortunately still have to put your character on the inactivity list.

If your character is on the inactivity list, but you would like to keep them, please leave a comment stating you'd like to reclaim them and post three times with them for the month of February. Yep, penalty, sad times. You have seven days to reclaim a character, so please think things through. If you know that the player of someone on this list is hiatus, please leave me a note. I'll be sure to put a red mark by the username of every reclaimed char, and to delete the characters that don't belong there yes, people, errors happen ;.;

( :: inactivity list for j a n u a r y :: )

II.


Sooooo. We've been getting a few reports lately. OK, why kid ourselves? A number of reports – still lately. I think it's safe to say that a big player concern is that even though people meet the monthly POST requirement (presently, 2 posts / month!) , they don't tag / play / plot / log with their character – or that they "survive" from hiatus to hiatus, hogging characters unnecessarily.

Unfortunately, that can have very adverse effects on a crew. Let's not kid ourselves: polychromatic is a pretty big place. Last count revealed 166 players and quite a few hundreds of characters. This community is pretty fast running place, to boot. And thank you guys for keeping it that way! You're not signing up your life to POLYchro the moment you take up a character with it – but you have to keep in mind that there will inevitable be a number of people depending on you. It's not very fair to them to be perpetually let down, either.

It's perfectly understandable for people to have a bad period, because of either RL, or loss of inspiration – so taking a hiatus? Not a sin. But there's a significant difference between doing that occasionally, and being constantly unavailable.

( So what are we doing about it? )


III.


Did the monthly cleaning for the CHARACTER REQUEST THREAD, so please GO FORTH and frolic in its great abode, or some such!

It's been nearly a month since we sent certain characterization-related e-mails as a result of your polls + comments. If you feel that problems with the same people / characters have persisted (or would like to comment on other issues), please visit this thread.


IV.


As y'all who've feasted yer eyes upon our lovely February Calendar and somehow survived the MACK TRUCK OF PINK DOOM, WTF BONNIE know, the How's My Driving Thread is looming by – and it be prawlin', boy, it be prawlin'.

For everyone who's unfamiliar with WTF sort of siding you eat that…

( HMD Thread : the Good, the Bad, the OH GOD MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP. No, really. )

…dunno about you, I'm lubing my inbox.