First, I like playing on the site and enjoy the systems I play in. Yes, the site is small and my new schedule in my new job means I can't be up late, but I've been glad lately to see some old friends coming back to online text-based RP. It's fun. Activity waxes and wanes. We're all adults and I appreciate that, but also that there has been some consistently in RP and setting. I don't play many characters because it takes me a long, long time to work my way into a character. They have to percolate. Anyway, so! It has been lovely to have a RP 'home' lately where there are new folks and old with whom I can RP and I really appreciate that you and the admins you have chosen along the way have provided that for me.
With that said, I really don't like the idea.
The current admins have put a good deal of work into the settings and the site, and it would be a real shame to lose what we have now in terms of the active games of Mage and Werewolf. Adminning is hard work, and usually thankless, as Sam and kai can likely attest, and with the system you have proposed, we could lose a venue in which we enjoy playing and would face that propsect absolutely every year.
I don't see how anybody wins under those circumstances, certainly not this rather small group of RPers who have still managed to carve out some time to enjoy each other's company on occasion.
I also think that it is a very bad idea to impose a term limit three weeks before it expires. To be very blunt, as far as I can tell, you are basically firing folks and informing them of a term-limit three weeks before it is applied. That's just not reasonable to me as a player. It wouldn't be reasonable to me as an admin and honestly, if you do that to me when I had been volunteering my time week after week, I would be dismayed and upset. I don't necessarily agree with the term limits, for a variety of reasons, but even if you wanted to impose them, I would recommend:If you really want to work within the strictures of a term limit, I recommend:
1) That Sam and Kai be given the option of staying on for the first year-term. (You said that they've both already served more than a year: and they have. They also did not know that they were subject to a term limit.)
2) If the time is up and no one steps up but the old admin is still interested and willing to continue, then the old admin stays on for another year.
I don't see how anybody wins under those circumstances, certainly not this rather small group of RPers who have still managed to carve out some time to enjoy each other's company on occasion.
That said, Damon's right. RP is driven by player activity and player investment in storylines. If you want to see activity on the site, you have to reach out and make it happen.
With that said, I really don't like the idea.
The current admins have put a good deal of work into the settings and the site, and it would be a real shame to lose what we have now in terms of the active games of Mage and Werewolf. Adminning is hard work, and usually thankless, as Sam and kai can likely attest, and with the system you have proposed, we could lose a venue in which we enjoy playing and would face that propsect absolutely every year.
I don't see how anybody wins under those circumstances, certainly not this rather small group of RPers who have still managed to carve out some time to enjoy each other's company on occasion.
I also think that it is a very bad idea to impose a term limit three weeks before it expires. To be very blunt, as far as I can tell, you are basically firing folks and informing them of a term-limit three weeks before it is applied. That's just not reasonable to me as a player. It wouldn't be reasonable to me as an admin and honestly, if you do that to me when I had been volunteering my time week after week, I would be dismayed and upset. I don't necessarily agree with the term limits, for a variety of reasons, but even if you wanted to impose them, I would recommend:If you really want to work within the strictures of a term limit, I recommend:
1) That Sam and Kai be given the option of staying on for the first year-term. (You said that they've both already served more than a year: and they have. They also did not know that they were subject to a term limit.)
2) If the time is up and no one steps up but the old admin is still interested and willing to continue, then the old admin stays on for another year.
I don't see how anybody wins under those circumstances, certainly not this rather small group of RPers who have still managed to carve out some time to enjoy each other's company on occasion.
That said, Damon's right. RP is driven by player activity and player investment in storylines. If you want to see activity on the site, you have to reach out and make it happen.
But my heart is wild and my bones are steel
And I could kill you with my bare hands if I was free.
- Phosphorescent, Song for Zula
And I could kill you with my bare hands if I was free.
- Phosphorescent, Song for Zula