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!

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➤ 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

Based on your responses, I'd really recommend against trying to proceed with this idea. I don't think you understand why a "second chances" game is going to raise a lot of eyebrows nor do you seem to grasp why many of your ideas are confusing, contradictory, or even downright offensive. To put it bluntly, it is unlikely anyone will want to co-mod with this game with you and it is extremely unlikely anyone will join it. You are basically opening your players up to potential harassment and exposure to abusers by letting anyone walk through your doors, no questions asked. It is your responsibility as a mod to protect your players and you simply cannot do so in that sort of environment.

I'm not trying to be mean, I'm sure your intent was good, but I think someone needs to tell you and tell you directly this isn't going to work. You keep mentioning co-mods and assuming you'll have a team, when again, I think you're going to have trouble attracting any real interest.

I appreciate the feedback, and always prefer blunt honesty to pretty much anything else. You are right that I do not understand why this is coming across as confusing and/or contradictory and am trying to address questions as they come up. As for offensive I never thought that this could be in any way offensive, nor was this intended to be. May I ask in what way I have offended people so I can fix things and make amends?

I hadn't really thought about abusers, and you are right that I should have. I am not sure how to find a balance between giving people a chance to show they have changed and protecting people. I will need to think on that and am open and welcoming to any advice on the topic. I do want people to feel safe here. But I also want people to have a chance to grow and change and become more who they want to be, and to show that of themselves to others.

I get that you are not trying to be mean and appreciate the feedback! I keep mentioning co-mods not because I am assuming I will find a team, but because I know that I cannot do this on my own. I've been trying to figure things out on the back end for this for a while now. I cannot run this game the way I want to run it on my own. So it is not presumption of having a team interested in the game, more it is presumption that without a team, there will be no game. I am hopping that I will attract interest. Even if I first have to take this feedback and revamp my approach - both in my pitch and the base of the game myself - before that happens.

I believe in a lot of the core concepts of this game, and do want to see it flourish and do well. But I am also aware that the timing may be off. And more, that I myself may not be right for this right now. But a lot of people have been encouraging me to come to EMP to look for co-mods, so I took their advice and tried it. And even if I gain no co-mods this round, I am learning a lot and seeing a lot of places that I need to improve.

I may even need to try starting a far less ambitious game first to get some experience under my belt. That is a possibility I am willing to consider. And maybe that experience will convince me that Everland would never have worked. Or maybe I will use that to try again in a different way, one that takes into account all that has been brought up here and will come up between now and then.

Sorry for babbling at you. Thank you for the feedback, and if you are comfortable telling me how this came across as offensive I would appreciate it. It has never been my intent to offend or hurt the people of this community.

Thank you.

I don't think modding is going to be a good fit for you at this time. That's about as direct as I can be about it. A lot of the attitudes you appear to be bringing to this game - or any other game - just don't line up with the community as a whole. Just to take one example: we are, for the most part, adults on this site. So censoring someone swearing is just a very bizarre, nonsensical choice, on top of treating even mild nudity as some sort of trigger (which it may very well be for some people, but coupled with everything else, seems pretty juvenile).

I think it's best to take a step back, observe other mod teams and see how they do things. As it is, right now, no one is going to trust you to mod a game with your name attached. You are doing a lot of weird tl;dr doubling down on even basic questions and that's also a turn-off.

Take a step back, gather your thoughts, and then come back with a better idea with better, clearer rules. Then people might give it a try.

I appreciate the feedback, and you may be right that I am not ready yet. I have been trying to observe other mod teams, perhaps I still need to observe more. I do freely admit that a lot of my thoughts and ideas come from other RP communities not just this one. And some of those groups allow 13 and up into them. I believe DW does as well (I need to reread the TOS) and I really don't want my game to expose minors to things like that. I also, in full honesty, do not want to expose myself or my mod team to things like that either.

I do not think that you are correct that no one would trust me, however I accept that I may not yet be ready. It is something I do need to consider. I am not trying to be argumentative, and I am sorry if it comes across that way.

But I will take your advice about taking a step back, gathering my thoughts, and clarifying the rules before I attempt anything like this again. Thank you.

The censoring out of swearing is because Chicklet herself (? I believe she is right) hates vulgarity and will not/can not tolerate it around her. The desire for a G to PG game is directly connected to her own personal inability to play with or be around anything stronger without suffering from personal triggers of some form.

I want to be clear this isn't a judgment call on my part, it's expected for a head mod to design a game with a rating and rules they are comfortable with; without that info the Disneyfication can seem out of left field.

So this "game" isn't really being built for any group or target audience at all, it's just a glorified sandbox to cater to the head mod's personal hangups?

Yeah, think I'm gonna pass on this one. The basic idea that was presented wasn't a bad one, but I'm not comfortable with the idea of being in a game run by a person whose only concern is for their own personal comfort, everyone else's be damned (I'm not going to link wg threads here, but apparently this person has a rep for behavior that's the exact opposite of the accommodating persona they're presenting here). That's the wrong mindset for a mod to have, imo, and I don't see anything good coming from it. No judgment for those who do want to give it a try, though! I hope I'm wrong about who this person is and where they're coming from with this.

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