My angle on this is that at this point, those words don't mean much. It has been over a month since you tracked down everyone and asked if they wanted to continue playing. If they haven't posted yet, that is a pretty clear sign that they aren't interested. At this point, the burden of proof is on them, not us, to show they are ready to post regularly. I want more players who will post at least once a week without being hassled.
I suggest that we do some cleaning on the character list, send out a notice that anyone who doesn't post in a week's time will be removed. We could even just start over since we have only 5 players. Regardless, I just don't want to encourage continuing to chase after players that are likely to be inactive, nor do I want this thread to regain its reputation for large numbers of inactive members.
Woah woah woah woah. Slow down.
First of all, some
have shown interest, even if not through IC posting. Phantom Zero, for one, has PMed me at least a few times. Should we try harder to get a hold of him? Yes. Should we toss him under the bus that quickly? No. And what about Kuroku? Or hell even just ProfessorNv, who was interacting with me
long after I first tried to revive this place even if, recently, he's been a bit vacant. Which brings me to my second point;
A week is
way too strict. This RP is still trying to get back on its feet; let's not toss out everyone who can't meet that schedule, because that would toss out even a lot of people who
are clearly still in this, like Yami, and Gamer, etc. Hell, the only two people who have posted
within the past week are the two of us. And even then, only
once each. And that said, I'm pretty sure there have been times recently when
I've taken longer than a week to post.
Trying to put in place post frequency requirements is one thing, but let's try to place realistic goals for the speed of the RP, hmm? Tossing out everyone who can't post in a week would be disastrous. We'd lose our entire player base.
That said, I can understand wanting to clean out the character list, but, honestly, I've
been doing that, and it doesn't do much to spur the IC. All I've been able to do is remove some clutter from the character list and tell a few people to unfreeze themselves, but even
that doesn't get us too far, as we can plainly see. But uh... yeah, let's clean out old players
on a case by case basis. Phantom Zero, for example, is dedicated enough that I can trust he'll probably be with us sooner or later, even if he does need a bit of poking (which is more than I can say for most of the previous regulars, who didn't reply at all and were assumed to have left permanently), so, let's just go through player-by-player and see who's here, hmm? The way I usually do it is: contact someone, and wait a few days (
at least) for a reply. Maybe send a second PM if it seems necessary. If they don't reply,
then we can assume them dropped.
And, again, let's maintain our common sense, here. We're not robots. And a strict post-by-this-time-or-we'll-drop-you method is
certainly not what a roleplay still struggling to get moving needs, especially with so few people. Bonus points for the fact that it's such an unrealistic goal with our current speed. You want everyone posting at least once a week, we need to inch our way up...
