Rank System brain dump

[Sigfried Hunin]

Unless you actually added the bars, you're not really in a position to say that we can "obviously" do anything. I'm not either. I have no idea what technical limitations we may be looking at. Just don't assume that something should because something else does.

I'm going to play devil's advocate here. The biggest concern this raises with me is the further emphasis it will place on quantity over "quality" and that's already the most common criticism the current system receives.

Well, because the activity bar works off of activity, it "obviously" works. I don't see a point of contention here. If it doesn't work then we'll figure the fuck out.

This is kind of a side-note, but I've never really liked that so many people draw this arbitrary line where things that happened after it shouldn't matter. That's what you're doing.

It's actually less of a side-note than I thought it would be because it ties into another concern to consider: continuity. People would be bouncing around ranks on a regular basis and people would have to retcon in explanations for that. It reminds me of when we had characters changing hands in the old Chubbs. Someone would suddenly do something weird and there would be a moment of people looking at it awkwardly before someone made some sense of it in the next post.

There was something else I was going to say, but I got distracted and lost my train of thought. I'm sure it will come to me.

One thing that I should have actually said in my first post, to everyone, was to actually consider the implementation of something like this. It's really easy to see a new, different idea on paper and get excited about it. People should get excited about it, that's the whole point of discussion. However, just railing on that "this is perfect do it nao" doesn't help. There is no perfect system. There are always things to consider.

People who once wrote a lot but now write nothing AREN'T important. They aren't PARTICIPATING. They participatED. I'm not saying that what they did wasn't worthy of merit, but in this circumstance, the fact that I did a really good job in one fucking saga does absolutely for activity now or any new members that come in. Reward those who ARE, don't just let those who WERE the best continue to BE the best despite their current inactivity.

You shouldn't get grandfathered in. You shouldn't be allowed to just stop writing and still be the best. That doesn't reward activity and it doesn't reward the site's continued growth. It rewards stagnation. It rewards impotence.

If you're looking for continuity, training or lack of training or people's PL fluctuating doesn't mean that all of a sudden you're continuity is just GONE. You stop writing for a long time, you're off of your game. You're weaker. Most people write as though they're on almost equal playing fields with one person just hardly edging out another (LIKE IN DBZ MOST OF THE TIME!) anyways. We barely know how to write our character's PLs because they do/don't matter in a real/surreal way that totally works/doesn't.