Are Thread Prefixes Coming Back?

[LegoLad659]

You know, the ones that said "Simple", "Casual", or "Detailed" on Interest Check threads. I've been looking through them recently, and it's really difficult to tell if I'm going to be a good fit for a roleplay or not anymore because these prefixes don't exist now. It's a little discouraging to go into a thread looking for a cool idea, only to find out at the end of all of it that the roleplay requires 5 full paragraphs with no fluff and they're currently only looking for male characters, or something like that. It's a lot easier to look at a thread and see that it's for a Detailed roleplay, and go "Ah, I can't keep up with that." and move on.

 

[Lady Warlock]

According to the site update survival guide, no. The site update survival guide says they are never coming back. Your problem is one I have seen many people complain about and unfortunately I have not seen any viable solutions to it yet. 

 

[LegoLad659]

According to the site update survival guide, no. The site update survival guide says they are never coming back. Your problem is one I have seen many people complain about and unfortunately I have not seen any viable solutions to it yet. 

Bleh, that sucks. Alright, thank you.

 

[welian]

Be the change you want to see! Or rather, from here on out, when you (and I, and others) make an interest check or RP thread, we should try to remember to include simple/casual/detailed in the tags. It's not the same as a prefix, but it's still a good way to organize and filter content.

 

[Lady Warlock]

@welian Do you have any suggestions for finding a specific level of rp in the meantime?

 

[Chordling]

I know I'm not welian, but you can always use the site's search function.  Punch in 'simple', 'casual' or 'detailed'.  You'll find that some threads have been tagged as such.

 

[welian]

Exactly what @Musician said. Hell, she knows the site better than I do.

 

[Dugym]

Bleh, that sucks. Alright, thank you.

Having something like Simple, Casual, and Detailed, constrains you into picking something that is almost always inaccurate.

 

[Kaerri]

We have absolutely no plans to bring back Casual, Simple, and Detailed prefixes.  Too many people were using them as elitist symbols, or (in the other direction) were avoiding RPs because they didn't feel they were "good enough."  In both cases, they were usually wrong, but never found out because of the divisiveness of such labels.


If a storyteller expects certain things from their players, why not list them in the interest check or in an overview of the RP?  Whether in tags or in the text, it's a good way for potential players to see what they're getting into.

 

[Lady Warlock]

If a storyteller expects certain things from their players, why not list them in the interest check or in an overview of the RP?  Whether in tags or in the text, it's a good way for potential players to see what they're getting into.

I personally do this. 


I still have people who join and then complain about CS requirements because they don't read these things. You have to actually click a rules page or an overview page to read it. A prefix was something that you saw before even clicking into an rp. 


I understand that the tags aren't coming back, but I still think that there are too many people struggling to find rps that they can fit into for there to be no solution in the works and no functional suggestions for the people who are struggling. 

 

[Kaerri]

If they aren't going to read a description of the RP, I don't see that a tag will be of any more "functional" use than what we've already suggested.

 

[Dugym]

I had an idea in mind, which I'll be making a thread for.

 

[Lady Warlock]

The prefixes, when we had them, kept me from getting a million PMs from people who would then complain about the requirements of the rp. They could see the expectations before they even clicked on the thread. It takes a lot more time to go through and read all the details of the roleplay in order to figure out whether or not you can meet it's level of detail than it does to just look at a prefix. This makes searching for roleplays a lot harder. 


Would it be considerable to ask for prefixes such as "Paragraph" and "Multi-Paragraph" or something of that sort? That's a far more direct description that would still help people search for rps.