Important Announcements

[havenmods]

Hello, Haven...ites.

I've got a few announcements to make before the game opens, to hopefully help the grand opening go as smoothly as possible. The game will open at 7PM EST, Friday 28th September! If you know anybody still completing their applications or reserved who wants to be there when it opens, now's the time to remind them.

Tags
Every character has been given their own personalized tag. This tag is for both the main and logs community. Please only tag your own entries. Do not tag entries you tag into. There are also tags for each apartment and the few major locations, which you are free to use as you will. It is important you tag your posts with the locations, as the moderator will be following certain locations in case characters uncover anything.

Activity Check
The AC will normally run on the 1st of every month, with the AC period being the first through to last day of the previous month. The first AC will go up in the OOC community on the first of November. This will cover the period from the game opening through to October 31st.

Opening Day
A post will go up in the main community as a mass introduction. There will be subheaders for each apartment, as well as subheaders for outside the apartment building and the well/billboard. Characters can threadjack other rooms and meet one another. This is to hopefully prevent a stream of 'where am I' posts immediately; after this, please post whenever you would like.

Events
In order to allow time to settle in, the first major event is planned to begin on Friday 19th October and will run for one week. The week prior to the event, certain smaller things may begin happening. More information on this will be announced in the OOC community nearer the time.

Announcements
The moderator plurk is yoohoohoo. All announcements will be made on there. For people without plurk, all announcements will be duplicated and added to the new important announcements page. Don't worry if you forget to look at either of those; major announcements, such as events and AC, will always be put in a fresh post in the OOC community.

I hope you're all as excited for the opening as I am! If you have any comments or questions, please feel free to ask them on this post.

Comments

[king]

Hey there! While I understand tags are "traditional", I also think it's better to be able to tag posts if you comment and if you tag in.

If someone wants to see all of the posts by a particular user, they can use the ?poster= command in the URL

i.e. http://havenooc.dreamwidth.org/?poster=havenmods will show all posts by the mods to the ooc comm.

I don't see why a tag is also needed when dreamwidth has this feature, unless the tag is also going to provide additional information (such as posts the character has commented to.)

[havenmods]

One of the reasons (other than the ones given in the above threads) for only allowing the posters of an entry to use a tag is tracking.

A lot of people I've known have liked to track their closest CR's tag (such as the moderator will be tracking certain location tags), in order to make sure not to miss a post. With the same tag being used in others' posts as well, tracking the tag becomes moot.

Does that help explain the reasoning at all?

[king]

I understand how that id definitely a useful function! I track a lot of things, myself. Except when you tag a post after it's been posted, no notification is sent. So if people tracked the tag they wanted, they would only be notified for posts made with the tag.

[havenmods]

I actually didn't know that, I assumed notifications were sent out regardless.

I think the points that have been brought up are fair. And as a consequence, I will ask the community what they would prefer.