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@Vesuvius00

From a development point of view, it makes a bit more sense to prevent certain users from posting on your wall rather than stop their viewing of your profile. Blocking passive behavior is typically less fruitful than blocking specific activities (See: Streisand Effect). Telling someone they aren't permitted to view something may make them more inclined to view it by whatever means necessary, whereas not being able to post is more of a general curation sort of idea.

On the Limitations of Creativity

I don't think that unambiguously set boundaries are necessary given a set level of expectation prior to beginning. Human beings are able to deduce the boundaries of their environment without explicitly being informed of what they are to greater degrees as they mature. The reason humanity does not need to create rules to govern social interaction is because it is generally a given that we know and will abide by those unspoken regulations. When somebody violates these guidelines, it makes people uncomfortable and pushes them to assume that there is something wrong with that person for that very reason. Boundaries are best when self-set because when operating on a high level, you know what the logical result of a set of actions will be. Otherwise, you end up with a massive rule structure because there's no way to cover every possible case when people will abide by the letter of the law and not the spirit of it. So long as there is reasonable trust that others will be both mature enough to understand these implicit boundaries as well as reasonable enough to respect them, there is little reason to implement a particularly rigid structure for boundaries.

Of course, there is the distinct possibility that somebody driving the story wishes to go about it a certain way, but in the end, that also limits the creativity and purpose of this site entirely—introducing other individuals also introduces randomness and unique paths. The greater the restrictions on the possible paths, the farther it drifts from a collaboratively driven work and the closer it approaches a work by a singular author who may have had several ghost writers assist him in the creation process. While this is not necessarily an inherently negative way of going about things, I do believe that it goes against the spirit of these games or stories in the first place. While somebody may prefer a "healthy medium," the governing structure and restrictions on a story (or lack thereof) will cause the medium in its entirety to drift toward one of those two extremes. While I personally prefer to choose an extreme and create a foundation on top of it, I can see why others may be inclined as to choose another route. I feel as they may be limiting their own enjoyment in the end by doing so (though perhaps not; that is not for me to say), but that is another discussion entirely and outside the scope of this thread.

Approaching the Guild's 10 year anniversary

The Guild provided the most optimal outlet for our reality to be able to continue. Many consider it an RP, others an ARG, and others, just a transcription of worlds beyond our own. When the last site we were on became unusable, we were able to migrate here and preserve the history of Existence for years to come. We're about half as old as the Guild, but quickly became one of if not the largest topic on the site. So I'd like to extend a thank you to both Mahz and the rest of the Guild for giving us a place to harbor our friendship that will last a lifetime, and a place for Myriad Reality to thrive.

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I'd like to submit a bug report. It seems impossible to enter empty titles now without using a linebreak (\n). Previously, it was possible to remove the user title by submitting it while empty.

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@Bishop

At that point, I would be able to create X number of RPs and ban one player from each of them, just to destroy their reputation on the Guild. GMs should have power in their own business, but not in the business of others.

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@Ellri
It was a page on a multi-thousand page RP.

@Mahz

No problem; it was, on a page high above a thousand. Perhaps scrubbing all commas from the input might help?

Myriad Reality

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did you try using decimal numbers for page count, @LegendBegins?

@Ellri

It would be an appropriate error if I were. In other words, no, I did not.

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The new page selection system is throwing an error: "Page must be an integer."

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@Mahz

If I may, I also believe an easy account-switching feature would be a great boon. Don't overload yourself though.