coniurati: (Otter-mod)
conspirators. ([personal profile] coniurati) wrote in [community profile] discedo_ooc2009-11-13 06:33 pm

Police Force

Because apparently it's Mod Spam Night!

Many of you may have noticed a scarcity of the Police Force as of late, and there's a reason for this! Basically, we've had an attrition of members, a loss of a leader, and a loss of interest from the community in general.

Now, the Police Force in kind of a big deal, because without it, we've got nothing left but vigilante justice and a jail that can't be kept up. All of our lovely, cherished villainous creatures out there could simply run amok! And we've got a lot of law & justice types out there that wouldn't be too keen on that. But at the same time, without enough of the playerbase behind it, it simply can't be upheld.

SO

We'd like to talk to you guys about it.

We're of the opinion that the Police Force is something that's simply inevitable, as there's always going to be a character (or more likely, several characters) that are going to notice the lack thereof and try to make something of the sort to fill the gap. But it's kind of obvious that the system we have going now isn't working as well as it should. Some of the main concerns are:

- Low Membership. This is the biggest problem. A lot of characters that were on the Force have just plain left Discedo, and others have simply quit. In order for it to function properly, it needs more members. How do you propose we solve this?

- Leadership. Currently, the Force doesn't have a leader. We've already figured out that it needs something of the sort, so that's a moot point. So it needs a new one! Or more ideally, more than one new one. This would be in case of one character leaving, going on hiatus, etc, the Force wouldn't be stuck without.

- Laws. the laws that have already been established need to be re-hashed, or re-instated at the very least. There are many characters and even players that don't know them at all, and therefore they could be broken pretty easily. who would like to do this? Who would be in charge?

- Organization. Some sort of page needs to be made, so all of this information can be easily accessed by everyone. Us mods are willing to help on this one of course, but we're going to need all of the information to put on it first!

- Cooperation. We're looking at you, Discedo badguys. Up to no good? Well, you're going to have to let the Police Force know, OOCly of course. It doesn't mean you'll have to be caught right away of course, but our boys in blue are gonna have to be on the up and up if they're gonna do their jobs properly!

And that's it for our main concerns. Note, however, we're not saying that the Force absolutely has to stay. If these things can't be ironed out, disbandment is certainly an option.

Thanks everyone for your time and patience! It's gonna be tough, so we really appreciate it.

he most definitely does 8)

[identity profile] dividend.livejournal.com 2009-11-14 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
Oh yeah they wouldn't regurgitate the whole thing, people would kill them XD; Linking would be good. B-but yeah there's the whole "reading it" issue at hand here. ;; That's what I'm worried about concerning Patchy's post as well - linking is a good idea, but we'd need a better idea as to how many people actually read it.

GET OUT B(

[identity profile] verily-ergo.livejournal.com 2009-11-14 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
WELLLL

I think we could link it and make a specific announcement whenever they're revised, which wouldn't be too frequent. So even if the new players didn't read Patchy's post or something, it would be noted ICly. That's the best I think we're going to do, to be honest. ._.

WHY SHOULD I

[identity profile] dividend.livejournal.com 2009-11-14 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. Anything else and we'll probably be criticised ICly and OOCly for being too persistent. XD And hey this is a good start, so I think we're getting somewhere /o/

YOU SNORE

[identity profile] ignixferroque.livejournal.com 2009-11-14 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, pretty much.

\o/

I'm kind of anal about organizing stuff, I just... can't keep it that way ffff.

[identity profile] meat4all.livejournal.com 2009-11-14 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
If the laws were short sweet and to the point, people might be more inclined to read them. Because like, giant blocks of text can be really intimidating and such and a lot of people don't have the attention span and/or time to sit and read through said giant blocks of text.

[identity profile] dividend.livejournal.com 2009-11-14 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
It really isn't that long as it is, so I don't see the problem?

[identity profile] meat4all.livejournal.com 2009-11-14 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
lolol I haven't actually looked at. So I wouldn't actually know orz.

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(Anonymous) 2009-11-14 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
So you just made up a complaint? That's really helpful, I'm sure.

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[identity profile] meat4all.livejournal.com 2009-11-14 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
No, no it wasn't a complaint at all! And I'm sorry if it looked like one. I was just trying to be helpful and like, give ideas. That's all.

I'm really sorry anon, I didn't know it looked like a complaint.