Approval/Disapproval

[greywyn]

Apr 26, 2011 19:51:24 GMT -5 Anceladar Firareth said:

Out of all the options that one seems like the most work and the most hectic with the most upkeep, unless there's a trick I'm missing.

Pay someone to update it? xD

I'm almost sure I've seen something similar done on another site and it seemed to work fine.

[Anceladar Firareth]

If it was just a small amount of characters than perhaps, but seeing as this is an RP site and there will (Eventually) be many many members with lots of threads going on and all that, there'd need to be people specifically dedicated to it, people plural, or everybody would PM the person(s) in charge after every post or every change which would just be chaos for the people doing it.

If we're going to do this, it would be easiest for all considered if each person does their own, whether in a personal thread in the extras section or attached to their character profile considering there's already a convenient link to it on every post. Because if we do this, it's either 1). Each person upkeeps their own, or their PM someone to upkeep it, so it's either modify a post or PM about the same words. It's just easier and quicker to cut out the middle man

[Zita Aurum Valdemar]

I donno, like I said, I wouldn't stop IRL and go "OH EM GEE I APPROVE +50" so I'm not wont to do it in my RP, but I'd like to find a solution for those that would like to.

And as I'd stated before when I suggested the initial one thread per character, it would be the member posting's responsibility to upkeep their own approval rating.

[jarin]

*chuckles* Yeah, I could see where it might take some tweaking...but it sounds to me like the approval system could run rather similar to a relationships thread. Your friends would obviously have high approval, acquaintances less, and 'enemies' in the negatives. Then depending on how you felt, you'd assign the {Neutral}, {Warm}, {Friendly}, {Interested}, etc tags when you posted in someone else's thread with your character's feelings.

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This is how I imagine it working out...sort of:

'Thread in which Kal discovers Dog ate her breakfast'

Obviously, I would disapprove of Dog eating my breakfast. But I wouldn't fly off into a rage and subtract 90 points of approval for a little lost sustenance, now would I? That's just silly. ;D Breakfast isn't that high on my priority list anyways...now if you stole my killing blow or something, we might need to have some words.

So I would take my irritation at Dog and post on Dog's character relationships thread.

Kall disapproves -5
[insert link here]
I like breakfast. You ate mine. I am now cranky.

Kall's Current Approval Rating: +95
Status: {Friendly}

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And I don't exactly see it as something everyone has to do, either. If you have relationships, then the people who don't want to participate in fluctuating approval could just put 'friend' or w/e they want like a normal relationship thread. But there could be all sorts of random plottage as was suggested above like 'Gift Threads' or 'Prank Threads' or special threads that people have where they discuss secret friend things without other people present.

*shrug* I'm a terrible plotter yet, but this seems to me like it could just be a really fun thing for people who want to participate and people who don't still wouldn't really miss out.