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Activity Check: July
It's time for the activity check! This is just to filter out and remind people to remain active in the game.
You need to provide ONE of the following requirements to pass the activity check for the month of July:
Everything provided on the activity check must be dated from July 1 to July 31 only.
Entries must be made by your character, while comments only count toward comments made by your character. Individual threads in an entry by your character cannot be submitted as separate activity. Threads must also reach at least three replies to count as a valid thread for activity.
Please note the following as well:
• Entries used for AC must have replies to responding comments to be valid. (Entries with no replies can still be counted for AC)
• Joint entries count as an entry for both characters. Those involved must actively reply for the entry to be considered as valid activity.
• Backdated threads are only valid if it takes place on the last week of the prior month and if most replies were made on the month of the check.
• Voicemail threads are considered threads, not entries.
• Closed logs between two characters will be treated as threads.
• Comment spams consisting of chains (1/3, 2/3, 3/3) are only considered as 1 comment.
Characters are only exempt from activity check if they were accepted during the month of the check or have posted a hiatus on the official hiatus entry prior to AC or if they have been on hiatus for 3 weeks during the month of AC. Any hiatuses made during the check must still provide activity to pass. If a character has been hiatused for 2 weeks during the month of the check, they will need to submit half-proof of AC.
Half-proof of the activity check is as follows:
The following journals have incurred a strike in the last AC and must pass the check to stay in the game.
abrahamerskine
b_loodflower
bellonaborn
bielefelt
bloodsplatters
combiplay
curtisconnors
doctorisin
dreamgranter
extraordinarily
fuckinga
goodwilled
itsaprototype
marimo
medicate
mypermissiontodie
preordinates
psychopath
timidscars
uponhischarge
white_demon (carried from June)
xxblacklabel
yatagarasu
zerointegrity
Remember that you must provide some activity to take a strike.
Still confused? Here is a flowchart to help you out:
CLICK TO ENLARGE
Comment to this entry using the following template. Please keep all your characters' activity in ONE thread.
THE CHECK ENDS 11:59 PM (CST) AUGUST 5. This means you have all through Tuesday to post your links before the AC closes. The danger list will go up on Sunday night.
For any questions, please as them in the provided thread below. If you have any problems, talk to any of us mods (Laena, Mart, Cura and Shannon). We'll be more than happy to work with any issues you may have.
You need to provide ONE of the following requirements to pass the activity check for the month of July:
| 1 Entry + 15 comments. | 2 Entry + 7 comments. | 20 comments. |
Entry: One (1) entry from somarium or dreamnet.Comments: Two (2) or more threads totaling to at least 15 comments with at least 2 different characters. |
Entries: Two (2) entries from somarium or dreamnet.Comments: One (1) or more threads totaling to at least 7 comments. |
Comments: Three (3) or more threads totaling to at least 20 comments with at least 3 different characters. |
Everything provided on the activity check must be dated from July 1 to July 31 only.
Entries must be made by your character, while comments only count toward comments made by your character. Individual threads in an entry by your character cannot be submitted as separate activity. Threads must also reach at least three replies to count as a valid thread for activity.
Please note the following as well:
• Joint entries count as an entry for both characters. Those involved must actively reply for the entry to be considered as valid activity.
• Backdated threads are only valid if it takes place on the last week of the prior month and if most replies were made on the month of the check.
• Voicemail threads are considered threads, not entries.
• Closed logs between two characters will be treated as threads.
• Comment spams consisting of chains (1/3, 2/3, 3/3) are only considered as 1 comment.
Characters are only exempt from activity check if they were accepted during the month of the check or have posted a hiatus on the official hiatus entry prior to AC or if they have been on hiatus for 3 weeks during the month of AC. Any hiatuses made during the check must still provide activity to pass. If a character has been hiatused for 2 weeks during the month of the check, they will need to submit half-proof of AC.
Half-proof of the activity check is as follows:
| 1 Entry + 7 comments. | 10 comments. |
Entry: One (1) entry from somarium or dreamnet.Comments: One (1) or more threads totaling to at least 7 comments. |
Comments: Two (2) or more threads totaling to at least 10 comments with at least 2 different characters. |
The following journals have incurred a strike in the last AC and must pass the check to stay in the game.
abrahamerskineb_loodflowerbellonabornbielefeltbloodsplatterscombiplaycurtisconnorsdoctorisindreamgranterextraordinarilyfuckingagoodwilleditsaprototypemarimomedicatemypermissiontodiepreordinatespsychopathtimidscarsuponhischargewhite_demon (carried from June)xxblacklabelyatagarasuzerointegrityRemember that you must provide some activity to take a strike.
Still confused? Here is a flowchart to help you out:
CLICK TO ENLARGE
Comment to this entry using the following template. Please keep all your characters' activity in ONE thread.
| 1 ENTRY + 15 COMMENTS | 2 ENTRIES + 7 COMMENTS | 20 COMMENTS |
THE CHECK ENDS 11:59 PM (CST) AUGUST 5. This means you have all through Tuesday to post your links before the AC closes. The danger list will go up on Sunday night.
For any questions, please as them in the provided thread below. If you have any problems, talk to any of us mods (Laena, Mart, Cura and Shannon). We'll be more than happy to work with any issues you may have.
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In your reply, you stated that they passed AC the month before. This is not true, otherwise they would not have received a strike. Taking a strike means not passing full AC check. Furthermore, in your hiatus note, you stated, "I began a few threads late this month and will keep up with those during my hiatus so I don't leave the players hanging, internet granting," which is one of the key reasons why we are concerned at this point since, while we have noticed that you had some activity for Peter and Marius this month, we have not found any for Crane or Yamamoto. Even the threads you submitted as proof of activity for them for the June AC (here and here) to qualify for the strike were not continued in any way.
At this point, any proof of activity for either is all we are looking for. Not the amount. If they do not have any, then unfortunately, we feel they should be removed from the game.
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And in my reply, I said they passed AC 'the month before', which isn't clear, but I meant the month before the strike. Sorry if that was unclear.
I don't have any AC for them for the month, but again, I'll submit that unless you can show me where that is in the rules that says I should or it's on a case-by-case basis, I will say I find that unfair and you should have mentioned it to me when I took the hiatus. Thanks.
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Only the AC check, as far as I could see, had anything about this and it states:
"Characters are only exempt from activity check if they were accepted during the month of the check or have posted a hiatus on the official hiatus entry prior to AC or if they have been on hiatus for 3 weeks during the month of AC. Any hiatuses made during the check must still provide activity to pass. If a character has been hiatused for 2 weeks during the month of the check, they will need to submit half-proof of AC."
As my characters posted to the official hiatus page, for three weeks, before the hiatus and before AC check, they should be good by these rules. It says that hiatuses made during AC need to prove some activity to pass; mine hiatused at the start of the month, way before AC. It says that two-week hiatuses need to provide half-proof, but says absolutely nothing about hiatuses taken for longer than that, which mine was.
Again, unless I'm missing something, I have to say I don't see this in the rules anywhere, and think you should have told me ahead of time that I had to provide some activity; or how would I have known? If I'm wrong, and it does say so somewhere, my apologies and please let me know where so this doesn't happen again.
EDIT:// Also, sorry to keep commenting lol! I'm sure I'm driving you bats. I would point out that those replies (the two you linked to) were made the night of June 30th, which was the day I was leaving for Istanbul for my hiatus. I did say 'internet granting', and didn't have the internet at my dorm while I was away on my hiatus. Those were threads I planned to continue with, as stated! Now that I'm back it would be easy to, especially since those two players are now back from their own hiatus (Jax just came back yesterday, I think, and Kurogane's player notes the gap in their reply time was due to their own hiatus.)
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You did pass with both in May, but in Yamamoto's in case it was because he had a strike in April. He also had a strike in February. Already we're having the pattern of Strike --> Pass --> Strike --> Pass. Thus the only reason why you did pass in May was because you had the strike in April.
For Crane, we noticed that most of his threads are coming in during the last few days of the check and thus only barely passing. This occurred in May, April, and it wasn't so much in March, but it occurred during that as well.
I did not look at Peter and Marius and I am assuming that the pattern is not as heavy because they've always been cleared (with Marius also being newer so there's less to go by). But even if it so, we are getting the sense that you focus more on them and will almost certainly pass AC with those characters.
Yamamoto and Crane, however, are less certain and they having strikes while the other two passed in June are clear evidence of that. Peter and Marius all had links that started early in June. Crane's only "proof" back then was very last minute, and the same is true for Yamamoto. To be honest, we shouldn't have accepted them.
To end, and to once again emphasize, this is less about a generic rule and more on point of us addressing poor activity in relation to these specific characters. Yamamoto at the very least has seen the worst of it and we are questioning Crane's. It may look like he's passing, but the dates tell us a different picture. We'd also like to note that you yourself placed the responsibility on tagging others, regardless of where you were. And we also noticed that upon your return, you only tagged with Peter and Marius.
We understand that players will have preferences on who to play with, especially on their return. We're not faulting you on that. We are just most concerned about the other two, particularly since they have the strike and more so due to the trend we have been seeing. That is why the bar on those two characters is much higher.
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Still, that's fine, it's up to you guys and I will respect your choice and the logic behind it.
All I'm asking here is that you guys have the decency to agree that there was literally no way for me to know you treated hituses on a case by case basis. There is no rule against taking a strike a few months, and then have to show proof of hiatus. The person who commented above me had a strike, hiatused for three weeks, and is exempt from AC. Your own rules STATE that three weeks hiatus is exempt from AC. Therefore there was literally no way for me to know I'd have to show ANY AC this month, regardless of what my characters did or didn't do the last week of the month.
Again, it's fine that I have to drop them. I get why, it's all good. But I want you guys to at least be fair enough to say there was no way for me to know that in advance; if I had, I would have focused on closing out my CR right away. That's all, and I hope that's not unreasonable.
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We have always made it known and have mentioned in previous AC policy changes that those with inconsistent and questionable activity will always be looked at harder. The changes alone reflect that. This included our hiatus policy, which also went through some changes. Hiatuses are also considered on a case-by-case basis, both in granting them and in considering for AC.
In truth, what has made this difficult is your continual deflecting of admitting you had no activity. If you had simply stated you had none from the very beginning—which is all that we asked for—then this would have been resolved much sooner and more likely to your favor. That is, we would have allowed you to continue with your stated plans.
We do want to work with our players, but there was not as much cooperation on your end. We appreciate that you understand our reasoning, but I would still like to tell you how you did come off toward us so that you are aware. You sounded more defensive than it needed and attempted to shift the burden of responsibility on us. When it comes to activity, that is actually the player's, not ours. You at least should have known that Yamamoto and Crane were going to need more activity and there were ten days when you could have tagged in somewhere at sometime. If it were only five days, then we would not be expecting as much. But a 3 week hiatus, while exempts you from posting to the AC, does not exempt you from activity in general. That is something that we should not have to explain or even state anywhere. It is assumed that the moment you return, you will once again play your characters, whether it's just two or three comments or a new post.
Again, we are glad that you do see our reasoning. But we also want to note again that when a player has multiple strikes, they should already be aware that they're crossing a very tight line and do not need us to remind them.
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Again, thanks for explaining, sorry if I upset you guys in any way.
Let me know if its cool to finish their threads up before the AC check ends. If not, I'll go ahead and put them on the drop page.
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You are more than welcome to finish their threads and we will go ahead and mark them as dropped once the AC ends. At that point, while you will be able to continue threads you will not be able to start anything new. You are also allowed to reapply them, or at least Crane since I believe you had some plots with him in mind, but it would not be until October.
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That's great. That's really all I needed to do, so if I can close out the CR before AC ends with your permission, then that's perfect. I can get the items for the plots to the other characters and not leave anyone hanging. Appreciate it!