enablemeplz | June EMP Meme

ENABLEMEPLZ
meme goes up on the Second Saturday of every month
FOR GAME ADS:

➤ Put an ad up with the characters / crew / pairings / fetish you want for your game under the correct game header. This meme is primarily going to be focused on DWRP games but IJ and LJ games are allowed.

➤ PLEASE NOTE A RULE CHANGE HERE. ABSOLUTELY NO obnoxious coding (no font size > size 4 or 3 "big" tags, no oversized banners (they must be 250px in height or less), no blinking text, no obnoxious table html that doesn't collapse easily, no sparklies, no large pictures). Use all the colors you like, but please remember 3 "big" tags is the limit and that's only for headers or title text rather than for all the text in an ad.

FOR GAME QUESTIONS:

➤ RPers interested in a game can create a header for the game and ask questions about that game that aren't easy to find on faqs, such as the actual pace vs. what's listed/what kind of plots are run/if the game leans more towards plotty or slice of life/if a game leans more towards network or logs, etc. Both anon questions and anon answers are welcome in this section just like in the rest of the meme.

➤ This thread is not for speaking about wank or drama in a game. There are anoncomms that exist for that. This thread is specifically for general questions about a game that rpers want to get perspective on from players already in the game. Answers can be slightly negative (such as saying app response is slow or that the plots are repetitive or similar things) but this should at least be worded politely. Unnecessary vitriol, any mention of personal drama or wank, or mod teams/individual mods/players being singled out, will be either frozen or screened (based on what seems right based on the content).

FOR CHARACTER ADS:

➤ Put up an ad about the characters you are offering. For PSL ads, there is a separate subthread but for character ads for games, post directly to the meme post. Others will comment to you with the games/casts they want you to join.

➤ There is a "Find a Castmate" section, where you can talk about a cast you play in at a game, and try to lure people to join it. Not all games post to the meme or have a "wanted" section, so players that want to tempt people to their cast on their own can use this section for it. Please format this the same as the PSL section, where you post your character's canons in your subject. For the actual text of the ad you must use the "Find a Castmate" form provided at the bottom of this post so that these ads don't get huge. When listing who's currently in a cast, please do this in sentence form (with commas) rather than in list form.

➤ There is a "Find Crosscanon" section, where you can talk about a character you play and and desired crosscanon for that character. Please make sure this is not too generalized a search, because just wanting general crosscanon can be accomplished with the other sections of the meme. This is for specific characters or character types you're looking for. In the subject, please list the "Looking for [canon you're looking for]" rather than your character's canon. If looking for a character type, list the character type in as few words as possible. Do not make the subject huge or I'll screen your comment. For the actual text of the ad you must use the "Find Crosscanon" form provided at the bottom of this post so that these ads don't get huge. This section is only for game crosscanon as in the psl section people can list their preferences.

➤ Examples of crosscanon you can search for: You play The Flash from DC Comics and your dream CR is fellow speedster Quicksilver from Marvel. Or you might play a witch and want cr with other witches in general. Or maybe you play a good character messed up by evil parents and want to play against a villain character you know has evil parents, because you know it'd lead to some interesting negative CR.

➤ ABSOLUTELY NO obnoxious coding, with the same rules as the Game Ads Section above.

➤ If you're recommending a game to someone, try to match your suggestion to their needs. It's okay if part of your game rec is copy-pasted (such as what the game's about), but at least some part of the rec must be personalized to their ad. Try not to recommend the same game to every single ad, either. Ad spam that isn't individualized in some way will also be frozen or screened. Keep in mind this needs to be more specific than "this game has easy AC like you're asking for but meets none of your other requirements." Make sure you're advertising games that might click with that specific character, where a few elements fit what they're looking for. You should be thinking about the story reasons of how the character might click with the game.

IN GENERAL:

➤ Don't be a dick. This isn't one of the anoncomms, so any snide comments or unnecessary commentary on the RP plans of others will be frozen or screened.

MOD CONTACT:

If there's trouble, tell me HERE, please!

RESOURCES:

enablemeplz - The plurk for Enable Me Plz. Follow for monthly, replurkable EMP reminders
DWRP Masterlist - A regularly updated basic list of public DWRP games.

dedoralive - A more detailed listing of DWRP Games.

GAME/AD LINKS:

General Game/Dressing Room Ads Link
- New Games
- Small Games
- Medium/Large Games
- Museboxes/Memes/Dressing Rooms/Misc.
- Game Questions
- Game Start Discussions/Questions

PSL Offerings
Find a Castmate
Find Crosscanon

Latest Page

Textbox for Character Ads (Optional):

Textbox for "Find a Castmate" Ads (Required):

For "Find Crosscanon" Ads (Required):

➤ Important note: IP logging has turned on due to multiple instances past and present of problem players trying to return to the dwrp community via emp after being banned other places, so I'll be IP logging from now on, and will compare notes with the rpa and wg mods (as well as game mods) where appropriate if it seems like someone that has been mass banned. I will not pay attention to IPs otherwise. I don't care what people like playing or who's who. So please feel comfortable to keep doing your thing, anon or otherwise. The knowledge will only be used for really egregious problem cases.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Hello, sorry for the delay in the reply, the last two days have been a lot IRL and I did not want to dive into my inbox until I could give replies the thought and respect they - and their posters - deserve. That said, here we go.

You say that you are saying this again, but given anon, I am not certain which person you are, so I do not know what replies I have already said to you, or that you may have seen elsewhere, so I ask for your forgiveness in advance for any potential repetitiveness.

As I have said in other replies, some of which may have been to you, I was not thinking of people who actively and intentionally sought to do harm. It has been brought up multiple times in this thread and I am giving it now the serious consideration that it deserves. I may have been - probably was - naive. And I'll own that. When I said that, I had been thinking about people who had RPed something that had made someone uncomfortable unintentionally; someone who had once laced every post with profanity; or maybe even someone who used to type everything in text speak that made it hard to understand them.

When I speak of second chances and people growing up, I am talking about people who have done just that. Grown up. We all live and are affected by our lives, changed by them. Everything we do and see and hear and read has the potential to impact us. I know I have learned a lot by going through this process, and seeing things - like this issue - that I have not considered before.

When it comes to the issue of abusers - past and present - that issue is so much larger than any one game, even than this community. I can't say "now that this has been brought to my attention here is my plan for that" I can't. I can't say I have an answer... because I don't. What I have now is a reminder that this is a thing I need to consider, and consider seriously, because it is a serious issue.

I never intended to shame anyone at any point. Nor to force anyone to do things that make them feel unsafe. All along I have been saying that my intent has been to make a game that would feel safe and welcoming. For everybody. Again, perhaps that is naive. But I am unsure how exactly you drew from my not thinking about abusers in this circumstance to seeing me as supporting them. It was an oversight, and a devastating one that I regret. If I have caused anyone pain in this endeavor, if I have reopened any wounds or trauma I am deeply and intensely sorry. That had never been my intent.

Should I ever actually create any game in the future - this one or others - making people feel safe and welcomed is always going to be a top priority. Perhaps THE top priority.

This is a serious issue and I have been giving it serious thought, and will continue to do so. Should I move forward with this or any other game in the future, it will have to be a discussion with the mod team, not a decision made by any one person.

Issues like this, major crucial things I may have missed are one of the biggest reasons that I wanted a mod team in the first place. I know I am fallible, that I have blind spots. We all do. It is part of why working in a team is such a wonderful thing. Because we can watch each other's backs, pick up on what each other missed.

This community has replied to me with a number of things that I missed, and even if this game ever happens, I have learned a lot and hopefully can use what I have learned to b a better friend and stronger ally in the future.

Let me say once again, to anyone and everyone reading this: If I have hurt or offended you in any way shape or form with anything I have said or done, I am sorry. That was never my intent, and I am sorry that I caused you to feel that.

Thank you once again for your feedback.

June EMP Meme

Re: Addressing all comments so far. Thank you for them!