#roswelladmin

Hi all,

It’s with a heavy heart that we have decided to close Roswell for the time being. We have adored every single second of being your admin team, seeing your characters flourish and blossom in this environment, and meeting some friends for life. It’s been no easy decision, but with school, work and our personal lives, me and Mod Kiwi don’t have the time to dedicate to keeping the group afloat and thriving.

This isn’t goodbye, this is see you later — we hope that your muses can continue develop, and hopefully Roswell will one day return. For now though, we’ve made the hard decision to close its doors.

We will keep the OOC blog instated so that personals/Discords etc can be exchanged. Please do keep in touch — you’ve turned my little vision into more than I could have ever hoped for. Sincerely, thank you for sticking it out and bringing life to the group. 

So long, earthlings! We’ll meet again soon.

Hi, team! We’ve received some really useful constructive feedback and, in our continued effort to ensure a safe and welcoming space for all in Roswell, we wanted to reiterate some of our guidelines and drop a few reminders for members old and new. Please like this post to let us know you’ve read through and understood the below. Thank you!

Responding to threads chronologically - We completely understand that muse fluctuates and that important events in your character’s lives will take priority, however please make an effort to ensure no threads get lost in this excitement. Please ensure you are maintaining all threads and responding as closely to the order they were received as you can. If you are struggling with muse or how to progress, don’t hesitate to reach out to the writer in question — I’m sure they’d be more than happy to figure out a way forward!

Diversity – We strive to ensure that Roswell remains a safe and diverse space for writers to enjoy and develop their characters. To honour that promise, we remind you to conduct thorough research on your chosen faceclaim’s racial and ethnic backgrounds and the cultures attached to those, to ensure these subjects are treated with the respect and attention they deserve. This is especially vital if you are not part of said culture yourself. If we notice this persisting, we will reach out to individual members to provide guidance.  Here are some resources that we hope will kickstart your research, however this is in no way an exhaustive list and we encourage you to conduct further research yourself:

hey guys! just a reminder from the mod team, could please tag all your triggering / nsfw content appropriately. even if they are only alluded to, they still need to be tagged, please make sure to familiarize yourself with the groups triggers via our trigger warning list. see an example below of how to tag them properly. thank you guys! 

thank you to the anon in the inbox - we can’t look into this without an indication of who you are referring to so, if you feel comfortable, please come off anon or send us who you’re talking about on anon so we can have a closer look. edit: we have been reaching out and dealing with these issues as they arise but we’re only human, and struggle to keep an eye on every single member at any one time. 

and a general reminder to the group - please make sure that you aren’t just responding to the same people and you make an effort to interact with everyone. we don’t want any muses or muns feeling left out. make sure you are all responding to open starters, reaching out to writers old and new, and posting or replying to starter/plotting calls. thank you.

Please note a slight amendment to our guidelines regarding activity and new characters:

Hey everyone! As you may have seen we ran a poll to determine how best to utilise our Meme Weekends going forward, as we have noticed dwindling interest over the last few weeks. We have made a few amendments to the process:

Meme Weekends will now be fortnightly. This should hopefully increase excitement and ensure participation.

Honesty Hours & ask memes will be alternated. Every two weeks we will switch between posting a call for an honesty hour and a handpicked ask meme from the team at Rocket.FM. 

Meme Weekends will now be Meme Fridays. You are still welcome to respond to memes whenever you have the muse/time to, but Fridays will be earmarked for sending and posting meme content.

We will return to the original format, whereby a call will be posted over on @rocketfm for you to drop your ask box links if you are participating. This keeps the dash clean and serves as a central hub for all things meme!

wow, congratulations to the winners of our egg hunt HEATHER, THAY & JAC ! you were quick on the draw and managed to find all of our hidden eggs. we hope you all had a fun time searching and seeing a little more color injected into our theme. please see below for your character’s rewards:

Hi everyone, we wanted to put a little post up to address some concerns brought to us by members and noticed by the Mod Squad over the past few weeks. 

Firstly, although we understand that hiatuses are sometimes unavoidable, we are aware of the spotty activity and how that is having a ripple effect in making it difficult to maintain connections, plots, threads and even muse. To mitigate this issue as best we can, we are bringing in measures behind the scenes to prevent role-hogging, including adding in-depth activity checks for each character alongside our usual activity check.

Additionally we have noticed a concerning pattern of new threads being started, whether it's via the starter blog or through closed starters, and the interactions soon being abandoned, which understandably is affecting both the muse behind certain characters and the confidence of certain muns. Sometimes threads need to die, it's natural, but please communicate that with your thread partner so they aren't feeling abandoned or ignored and, if you don't have the capacity to take on the influx of replies that an open starter warrants, please think twice about posting it. 

Take the above as a gentle reminder, but if the problems persist we will be contacting players that have been specifically highlighted or those that are continuing these patterns. Whether you think these pointers apply to you or not please make an effort to maintain threads, pre-plotted or otherwise, if you cannot do that for whatever reason, then it's up to you to let your thread partner(s) know, and familiarise yourself with our updated activity guidelines.