Community Promo/Discussion: RP Comm

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This is a post for anyone who enjoys roleplaying/round robin fills, and anyone who has an opinion on them.

Firstly, I've been asked to see how much interest there is in a separate community for Daredevil roleplaying! Any nonnies who would take part in one please respond to this comment, just so it's easy to get a count. (Any round-robin fillers who see this, please free feel to nudge anyone taking part in your threads to come and show interest here!)
New comm has been made! Check out collaborative_daredevil :D

Secondly, for my curiosity, what is the general meme feeling about round robins and roleplay fills? Do you read but not take part? Would you prefer if they stayed or went somewhere else? Should there be a rule about collaborative fills?

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

But the problem with keeping the RP stuff in with the rest of the prompts is that it floods the flatmeme.

[(Anonymous)]

OP
But those RP are not a thing that is always done around here.
Yeah lately there had been more RP but they are not enough to flood the meme (imo) completely but I get what you are saying, some migh found it annoying.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Honest question: You know what flatmeme is, right? It's when you view every individual comment for the whole post in the order that they were posted. It's not the default view where there's a thread of replies on a single prompt.

[(Anonymous)]

OP.
Oh I didnt know that. I thought flatmeme was teh whole thing on the page.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

See where it says:

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(Flat) | (Top-Level Comments Only)


Click on the link that says 'Flat.' That's flatmeme. If you do it on Post 10, you'll see that it makes the page count jump from 31 to 142 pages. That's because in flat-view none of the comments are organized into threads, they just show up chronologically in the order they were posted.

This is also why people complain when others change the subject lines of their posts to 'OP Response' or whatever. Without the subject line, it's impossible to know what thread that post was in response to without getting out of flatmeme.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT but thank you so much for this explanation! I'd never heard of the term flatmeme until like two weeks ago, so I had no idea what everybody was on about or why it was bad... since I get all comments emailed to me and the emailed links always contain links to the thread, so sourcing back was always a piece of cake. You cleared up so much confusion for me!

[(Anonymous)]

No problem at all! :D I'm glad this helped clear things up, I always worry that there's a communication gap whenever people start talking about flatmeme.