I'm not trying to be a dick here, but how would you propose to do activity checks without a minimum thread count? I'm just genuinely puzzled since that seems like the standard for most games, and it ensures that people won't just squat by tagging a bunch of different things and then dropping too prematurely.
I prefer having a total comment count period (sort of like towerofanimus though I think their AC is a little lax) and mods having to reserve the right to ask for more activity if it's over like six tiny threads. I just feel like asking for a min comment count for each thread kind of penalizes characters who aren't chatty and are quick to the point. As well as having a min comment count doesn't ensure people won't just drop the thread once the AC requirement is reached, but no AC is perfect and squatters will always find a way around it.
Again, it's their right if that's the way they want to have AC (and it's a reasonable AC) and I have no sympathy from someone who should know what AC requirements are to begin with. But I'm just saying I can see her point on how min comment counts for each thread can kind of hinder people who are active but tend to wrap up threads a comment or two under the requirements.
From personal experience, when you have activity more open-ended you get a lot of people bitching about it being "inconsistent" when the mods ask for more. Also as a player I hate have to guess whether or not I have enough, even if by most reasonable standards I do. Setting a finite number eliminates any uncertainties
While I can see your point about non-chatty characters, I play several of them and never have a problem making AC within the game's system. The same logic could be applied to antisocial characters then having to tag into a number of different posts in order to reach a grand total and, all in all, I think having 3+ links going might be a little confusing and inefficient for the mods. Obviously yeah, no AC system is perfect, but I think CnC's is lenient enough to find a way around characters less suited to network spam. I also kind of agree with the above anon's thoughts on the potential for it to appear inconsistent, and that I wouldn't want to risk playing guess work with my AC stuff. Also in the case of Feferi, you're not dealing with a non-chatty character.
I think we're on about the same page on that issue though, I was just curious about a non-minimum thread length AC system. Thanks for clarifying.
No problem and I do think your arguments raise a good point. I'm canonblind to Homestuck and haven't threaded with Feferis enough to gauge personality so I'm glad you cleared that up for me.
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(Anonymous) 2013-04-11 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)Again, it's their right if that's the way they want to have AC (and it's a reasonable AC) and I have no sympathy from someone who should know what AC requirements are to begin with. But I'm just saying I can see her point on how min comment counts for each thread can kind of hinder people who are active but tend to wrap up threads a comment or two under the requirements.
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(Anonymous) 2013-04-11 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)Re: da
(Anonymous) 2013-04-11 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)ayrt
(Anonymous) 2013-04-11 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)I think we're on about the same page on that issue though, I was just curious about a non-minimum thread length AC system. Thanks for clarifying.
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