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251: back in my day wank meant something

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why are you so obsessed with being allowed to repeatedly make only the bare minimum ac

can't speak for other anons, but what gets my goat is the "we're telling you this is the expectation, but actually we have a secret expectation that is higher and meeting the expectation we told you isn't good enough" aspect.

in pretty much any other scenario, we'd recognize that telling someone one goal then secretly judging them for not reaching a higher goal you never communicated would be incredibly shitty behavior, but drop the word "squatting" and suddenly anons are all for it here.

who says it's a secret expectation? there's nothing stopping the mods from making explicit in the rules that repeatedly hitting only the minimum will result in consequences. the "problem" isn't that the AC rules are secret, but that they're flexible. but as a mod you want to filter out the kind of people who can only function under extremely rigid direction because those people are fucking annoying to deal with.

then what is the actual expectation that will not get people a talking to from the mods? this is my problem. even if you say openly that people need to do more than the stated number, you've now left it vague what you're actually looking for. if you just say 'ac is 15 comments but you actually have to have more than 15' what is the actual number of comments that consitutes acceptable activity? 16? 20? 30? 15 but they gotta be with the mod's buttbuddies?

of course, this is wankgate where we want to be able to talk shit about people regardless, so ambiguous and inconsistent expectations are the norm, but it's a shitty thing to actually do in a game.

the expectation is to engage with the game.

that's it. that's the 'secret' expectation.

5 comments and ONLY 5 comments boomeranged the last day of EVERY month is not engaging with the game. just let yourself be swept or drop.

acceptable: sometimes only 15 comments, sometimes more than that. ac is more often than not made incidentally through engaging with the game and enjoying rping than trying to "make ac".

not acceptable: only 15 comments every time, threads are always dropped after reaching AC length, ac is always made purposefully by tagging with the sole intent of making ac rather than having fun with the game.

there is no way to 100% quantify this behavior, it's a "you know it when you see it" situation.

the actual expectation is that you will exceed the minimum requirement most of the time. that expectation does involve some level of subjective judgement on the part of the mods, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing. it's actually a good thing, because it filters out people who are unwilling to tolerate mods having any level of subjective discretion, and you need to filter those people out or you will have a bad time.

your actual problem i think is that you're a little bit dense.

if you have to ask about what the actual expectation is that's a sign you need to drop because if you're actually active and engaging in the game on a regular basis then that shouldn't be of even the slightest concern to you.

anon is either very anxious, case in which an environment like dwrp with rules fundamentally open to interpretation won't suit them, or they're more interested in gaming AC than in playing in their game.

yes, I read this as a fear/anxiety over expectations situation rather than that anon is just making ac every month. I think I would feel that way too if I thought I was being held to a truly secret standard.

anxious anon, if you double AC every month you are probably fine.

okay, let's give a real-world example here.

my job allows you to clock in up to ten minutes after the time your shift is scheduled to start. the entire point is that they recognize that sometimes shit happens and they don't want people panicking if they get stuck in traffic or whatever. that doesn't mean you can clock in ten minutes late every single day without getting called in to talk to management.

as an anxious different anon who has totally struggled with wrapping my head around the fact that the expectation isn't actually the expectation... this is a really good example that clarifies it.

but that's completely not the case. i have yet to be in a game that doesn't describe the AC requirement as the minimum to remain in game at one given time and that instances of repeatedly making just AC for a string of months will be taken up by the mods. you need to accept that the AC requirement is a bureaucratic measure for mods to ensure you still have a pulse during one single month.

making you AC will let you stay in short term. it's not enough to keep you in game over the long term as a sustained practice.

there is no secret expectation. it is very public that this is a minimum requirement, decided at a low level for your and the mods' tallying convenience, to give you a pass for one month of shit happening — not to encourage a habit of effective squatting.

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