RP Etiquette Reminders, New Staff

Staff · Dec 04, 2012, 04:57 PM

RP Etiquette Reminders, New Staff

First off, the Row staff would like to wish everybody a happy end of the semester (for our school kiddies) and a happy holidays to everybody. We're looking forward to the upcoming Holiday season. Our BWP will get getting underway and the board move will be completed to MyBB. There are also a few IC developments that could result in new packs being formed, so definitely a lot to keep up with on RoW in the next couple of weeks.

As RoW continues to grow, the administration made the decision to promote long-time member, SIKI to a moderator position. Along with Switch, Grey, and Fenrir, she will help in moderating the board, answering questions, and in general just ~~doing our bidding~~ helping to keep things running smoothly. Congratulations, Siki, it's well deserved!

Second, the staff would like to highlight the Role Play Tips Guide. We've noticed increasingly shorter posts or ones that are resorting to the same flashbacks over and over; we'd encourage everybody to take a look at the guide and refresh themselves on some ways to enhance your posts to make them more engaging to write and for others to respond too.

The staff would also like to remind everyone about the understood rules of roleplay, certain rules of etiquette that we expect to be followed even if they are not explicitly said. Chief among these is metagaming, or taking OOC knowledge and putting it into IC. Just because you read a thread where Wolf A was hanging out with Wolf B, that does not mean that Wolf C knows about it. We're pointing this particular issue out because we've received some complaints with people assuming that their characters know something that it would not be possible for them to know, and as a result, carefully planned plots are being disrupted. If you're at all unsure about what it would be reasonable for your character to know or not know, please be courteous to your other writers and send them a PM asking. We hate to hear about ruined plots because somebody assumed too much, and once it gets written into the roleplay, it isn't really possible to take it back. We'd like to hope that these instances of metagaming are not intentional, but we're hoping that with this reminder, we will all be more aware of it and try and keep the separation between OOC knowledge and IC knowledge.