...I feel like... we need to draw a line somewhere.

Not to disparage our new and newly interested players, but this is an established game that is already more than 70 posts along. And yet our prospective player count has jumped by about 50% in our last week or so. Now I'm not one of the GMs, but the number of players supposedly joining us feels kind of burdensome. I personally find it kind of disruptive, with this many characters joining in when we're already nearing the end of our second chapter. At the very least, I feel like we could be more discriminating with whatever applications we continue to get. Allowing new players this far in should be the exception rather than the rule. In my opinion, a new character would have to be really exceptional and bring something totally fresh to the table to be allowed in at this advanced stage of the RP.