Double dipping Interest Checks

[Vahir]

A question for you all: Is it acceptable to make the same interest check in several different categories, such as Casual, Advanced, NRP, and so on? Assuming, of course, that the proposed RP fits the categories you post it in.

It's something I've considered doing (just setting up the RP wherever it gets the most interest), but it does seem... rude, somehow. Any thoughts?

[ArenaSnow]

It would probably be frowned upon to post in casual and advanced; one or the other's the way it goes typically. Both have different connotations at any rate.

Doing a regular category + nation/general happens semi-frequently. You can get away with that no trouble.

Something like Arena generally only goes into Arena.

You probably wouldn't get in trouble for doing two regular categories (I haven't heard of anyone who has), but doing free/casual/advanced and/or throwing the RP into additional forums probably wouldn't go well.

[Shin Ghost Note]

I am guilty of this and show no shame.

[Ellri]

There is nothing wrong with it, @Vahir.

[AlteredTundra]

To repeat what others have said, nothing bad about it. Not every intChk gets enough attention, so you have to make more than one, especially if it's to get a mass amount of people to get interested.

Like @Mr Allen J, I have posted multiple interest check threads throughout the sections. Also like him, I take no shame in it.

[NuttsnBolts]

It would probably be frowned upon to post in casual and advanced; one or the other's the way it goes typically. Both have different connotations at any rate.

Doing a regular category + nation/general happens semi-frequently. You can get away with that no trouble.

Something like Arena generally only goes into Arena.

You probably wouldn't get in trouble for doing two regular categories (I haven't heard of anyone who has), but doing free/casual/advanced and/or throwing the RP into additional forums probably wouldn't go well.

@ArenaSnow

I wouldn't say it would be frowned upon. After all they are Interest Checks, a way to see if there are interest for a particular RP. With the way casual and advance are and how some players swap between them both, a GM could use the double up method to guage which will get better support.

There's also this stupid "High casual" thing that people title themselves with and it's just an excuse for not going into the advanced section when those players could probably do advanced anyways. So as a GM, it might be a way to entice some casuals to join their advanced RP (especially if the casuals never venture into advanced)

What I think is more important is how you double up effectively without pissing off members of the site. Even without doubling up I see people bump post every few hours for attention and I think that is worse then spreading a little bit of awareness in a second interest area.

To be honest, going back to what I said before, doubling up wouldn't even be necessary if people just occasionally ventured out of the Casual area, or moved their so called "Casual" RPs to the Free or Advanced area.

[Shin Ghost Note]

@NuttsnBolts pretty much hit the nail on the head here.

[Ellri]

aye, he did.

Back when we Launched Coruscant Sacked: Aftermath, we had no less than three IntCKs, one in General, one in Casual, one in Advanced. With three GMs to maintain them and react, that worked excellently.

People shouldn't be afraid of leaving Casual. Advanced doesn't bite. Sure, it might slurp you up, dissolve your less polished edges a bit and spit you out again, but it doesn't bite. It has an unfair reputation dating back to before the Guildfall, when there were a number of Elitist Jerks who tried to enforce unfair standards and perfectionism there. But the vast majority (if not all) of them left with the guildfall or shortly after. Apparently they couldn't handle the imperfections of NuGuild V. 0.1.

We still hold to that we'll gladly take on teaching about advanced to anyone interested in joining our SW RP in advanced, provided they are interested in doing their best. We don't mind working with someone for weeks on a sheet if thats what it takes. We hold sheets to a certain strict level, but we don't mind spending the time necessary to help someone reach said quality. Those aforementioned elitists tended to hate on any sheet not meeting their ridiculous standards.

After all, how exactly are people to improve if you're just gonna say "NO!" if their sheet isn't of the "appropriate" level?

anyways, we think we ended up digressing... Having multiple interest checks in different sections is no problem in our opinion. Having multiple checks in the same section needs a much better excuse.

[FantasyChic]

I've been guilty of only looking at either General Interest Checks or Advanced, and that's it. I've joined both Casual, Free, and Advanced from doing this, but I haven't really browsed Free or Casual, because those game types don't outright appeal to me. This is perhaps wrong on my part, but that's just what I've felt.

I have no issue with a GM posting in multiple interest checks if it gets them enough willing players to join. However, I feel this can lead to dangerous territory. As others have stated above, someone who browses casual games would expect a casual game to join. IF said GM has also posted in Advanced, then they would get Advanced players interested. I don't think you can have a game that is both Casual and Advanced. Some casual games can have long, elegant posts, and some Advanced games can have short, straight-to-the-point posts, but that's as far as I've seen the two mesh.

There are some who would look at this and be turned off, of course, that's just how it is.

I think one should be cautious and state their intentions outright with what they expect from people. Whether it's posting everyday, posting once and then waiting for others to post first, quality over quantity, or what have you. I think part of this is also worrying about the fact that more often than not, people will leave the RP due to lack of interest. It seems to be a huge game killer, so putting interest out there in a large capacity offers more people to see your game, express interest, and keep it alive. Survival of the fittest, in a way.

But yeah, I have no qualms with it. I've found a few games that did this that I've enjoyed playing in.

[Ellri]

Thats somewhat true, but that's also what the Tag system is for.

the RP we've used as example (our SW RP) is tagged both Casual and Advanced, as its appropriate for both.

With the current guild architecture, a thread can only be placed in one section, but it can "belong" to several.

If someone's turned off by a thread tagged with "casual" having posts that exceed the 1-2 paragraph "limit", then they are turned off. There's nothing to do about that. That happens due to all sorts of other parameters too.
Wrong genre, wrong image on the IntCk, sub-optimal layout. Too little information. Too much information. etc.