How's My Driving | July 2013

[ironwood]

Three months have already passed since the last HMD? You betcha! This means that it's time to kick off the fourth quarterly gamewide HMD here in Tu Shanshu! Things are getting structured a little differently this time, so read on for details.

How's My Driving?
While each and every character must have an HMD page available, we offer a gamewide HMD once every calendar quarter. This is an opportunity to get together and discuss IC interpretations and portrayals in a respectful, beneficial fashion. In a nutshell, it's a chance to see how we're doing in the grand scheme of things.

There are a few ground rules to cover off before we can start:

• Participation in the quarterly HMD is 100% optional.
  
• Be respectful, anon or not. It's a lot easier to give and receive crit if all parties are making it a discussion of it rather than an argument.
  
• IP logging is off and anonymous commenting is on. You can offer crit signed-in if you like, but the option's there.
  
• New! We ask that each concrit provided consist of one positive and one constructive bit of feedback. Bring up something that you like about that player, and in the same comment provide something that you feel they could work on. This is to help round out the feedback and provide a better experience all around.
  

That's it, that's all!

And, to make things easier, here's a handy-dandy codeset:

<big><b><i>Player Name</i></b></big> <i>Character Name:</i> <i>Canon:</i> <i>User Name:</i> <I>Focus:</i> Optional. Do you have particular concerns about your portrayal that you'd like to be the focus of crit? You can link any threads you'd like a second opinion on here. If you're looking for structural feedback, or would prefer things like grammar not be mentioned, put it here.

Comments

[lostundercover]

→ The Archive is a character that I've been watching and trying to find an excuse to play with, but haven't quite been able to yet. I'm not sure if that's a result of being unapproachable or running in different circles. Hopefully we can remedy it either way.

→ I think you can't throw her into too much science! I think there are tons of characters doing science stuff right now through a lot of different venues and having her be actively involved in that is not only not stepping on others' CR, it's a great way to culminate your own!

→ As someone who considers themselves a slow tagger and is still constantly told that others are much slower, I think you're probably okay. I don't know your speed specifically, but I think this game has all types and it's fine as long as you're finishing your threads and not ignoring your CR.

Sorry I can't give more!

[constants]

NO YOU'RE A SAINT THANK YOU FOR THIS!

I would love to remedy this! I legit just realized that I was shamefully bad at tagging new CR (versus being tagged by new CR in open posts and logs) this month, so that might be part of the problem. Fail, self. But yes, I would love to tag with you! She's not doing aaaanything until powers are back, but after that ends let's figure something out. ♥

Thanks for that feed back! That's good to hear on both plot involvement and activity.