Post by Elva'ree on Mar 2, 2017 20:14:54 GMT
We are here to share our stories with one another. This is an additional tool you can use to do that.
And as we all love order and ease of reading, here are some helpful hints to accomplish that:
ABOUT POSTING:
1. Before posting here or anywhere, please check with those involved in the rp to ensure they are ok with you doing so. Most are, but some are shy.
2. Make a descriptive title and put in a date.
3. Consider putting in a couple of lines with description of where the RP is taking place, the context, background or other information that will serve those that read the RP now or next year.
4. If your RP is long, consider posting a summary. (You can of course add the full transcript inside the notecard.)
CLEANING GUIDELINES:
1. Remove online/offline messages.
2. Remove inventory offers, group messages and similar.
3. Remove irrelevant OOC information and IMs.
4. Remove mystitool and viewer spam
5. Consider making corrections in the right line.
6. NEVER edit, remove, revise or change someone else's thoughts, speech or point of view to suit your own RP needs or plans. This is godmodding.
7. Never post transcripts if there is any doubt that one of the characters are IC.
And as we all love order and ease of reading, here are some helpful hints to accomplish that:
ABOUT POSTING:
1. Before posting here or anywhere, please check with those involved in the rp to ensure they are ok with you doing so. Most are, but some are shy.
2. Make a descriptive title and put in a date.
- Seriously, anyone posting a transcript called "new note" deserves to be chewed on by dragons. Dates are practical if the RP is part of a storyline, so people can keep track of the chronology.
3. Consider putting in a couple of lines with description of where the RP is taking place, the context, background or other information that will serve those that read the RP now or next year.
- This might be as simple as adding "The following took place in the Aryador tavern on a dark and stormy night when everyone was drunk as usual".
4. If your RP is long, consider posting a summary. (You can of course add the full transcript inside the notecard.)
- Most people have limited time, and it's more fun to RP than to read through other people's 5 hours of dialogue. A few lines at the top of a lengthy note with a description might be helpful to keep up to speed without having to dive into the deepest and innermost turmoil of a character you barely know.
CLEANING GUIDELINES:
1. Remove online/offline messages.
- Friendship is a privilege and someone's online and offline status is their information to hide or share. If it's a principal character in the ongoing RP that must log out, use your judgement whether to leave it in.
2. Remove inventory offers, group messages and similar.
- While it might be amusing to see that 'John Doe gave you LM to Perverted and Nasty VIP Club', it's none of anyone's business, and John Doe might complain. Declined or accepted group messages, all sorts of objects and other such lines should be removed unless it's inventory that is passed around in the RP and the transaction shows who has got a specific item.
3. Remove irrelevant OOC information and IMs.
- Those who show private OOC IMs in local chat must remove them.
- If you can spare the time, please also remove all other OOC information for better readability. 10 lines of "brb must pee" "hb" "hb" "hb" "ok making coffee brb" "hb" "on phone now" "bk" "bk too" "wb" "wb" is just annoying and cluttery. Discussions and clarifications pertinent to the RP are of course ok, but many lines of joking around might not be so interesting for those who are just trying to catch up on events.
4. Remove mystitool and viewer spam
- Leave only what is strictly relevant. People entering chat range AND joining the RP, colliders that show a fight in progress (a few only.. not necessarily 15-20 lines) etc.
5. Consider making corrections in the right line.
- If people are adding corrections to their previous lines either by (()), * or in plain text, these comments might appear many lines apart in the transcript or be confusing for those who weren't there and following the RP. If you have time, consider just correcting the original line as the speaker intended, and remove the lines of corrections.
6. NEVER edit, remove, revise or change someone else's thoughts, speech or point of view to suit your own RP needs or plans. This is godmodding.
- When posting an RP, you must tell the story as it was played out. This is especially important when writing summary comments or for those who rewrite their RP as a narrative before posting. When rewriting an RP as a narrative, be careful not to make it one sided. RP is about making a story together. Posting to the group is an OOC decision to share information, and must be true and fair to all participants. It is different from acting on the information you have got in RP. Example: If Storm stole from Casbah and during the RP she tries to blame Ava for it, this must be revealed in the summary or narrative. It is not OK to write a summary saying Ava stole from Casbah. In an RP transcript, Storm is however free to loudly claim that Ava took it.
7. Never post transcripts if there is any doubt that one of the characters are IC.