taking chances

Hey, everyone!

As we’re sure you’ve noticed, TC hasn’t been living up to its former active glory for the last month or two. We’ve decided that, after 9 awesome months (actually, two badass years, if you take former incarnations of the site into consideration), it’s time to close up shop.

We always said that our goal was to grow into a large, flourishing community and that, if we ever hit a stagnant point, that’d be a sign that it was time to pack it in. And we did both of those things.

At our highest point, we were over 120 members strong, with 70 characters logging in every day, and we that’s - excuse our french - fucking amazing.  Pat yourselves on the back for that, y’all.  But we’re far from that point now, and we know that means it’s time to say goodbye.

We love TC and, the fact is, we’re not going to watch it slowly dwindle into lifelessness. We’d much rather close it on a victorious note.

SO, thank you guys for making this an amazing 9 months - whether you’ve been here from day one, or you joined us recently - and, to those of you who have seen our previous incarnations, thanks for sticking by us for this long! It’s been real fun, and the board will always be visible to you, if you’d like to log in and either save old threads/applications, or if you just get nostalgic.

Looks like the people have spoken and we'll be doing a musical!

Thanks for your votes, guys! We're gonna take all this and start deliberating about what kind of show we'll be doing. We'll have another poll once we have some options for ya'll.

You may still sign up for the other two, but since almost every assigned partnership has started their thread, I've posted another!

I don't know how many of you know about this nifty feature of character profiles, but on everyone's profile is a left column with sections such as "options," "about," and "statistics."  Under "statistics," you can find your character's daily posts!  This might not seem all that nifty, but it's a handy way for you to ensure you're meeting our activity requirements.

Anyone with a daily post total of 0.2 and over is above our activity requirements!  Jcink automatically rounds up, so a daily average of 0.15 rounds up to 0.2, and 0.14 daily posts equals one post per week.

Hey, everyone!

I want to come over here and remind you guys to nominate your fellow members for OTMs by the 29th, but while I'm doing that, I'm gonna talk for a sec about why the hell we do OTMs in the first place (from the position of us staff members).

TC is a character-driven board, not a plot-driven board, which means that we encourage all of you guys to branch out and plot with as many people as you can and develop your characters through their interaction with existing characters on the board, not NPCed plot-points created by the staff. We're not a site that imposes a site-wide plot, or site canons to stir things up; we want ya'll do do the stirring because we want to establish a sense of community.

AND HERE'S WHERE IT GETS CHEESY: We do OTMs because we really do want to create a community. It's also why we do the fate challenges, for that matter. We want you guys to get involved with other characters' plots and care about other members' characters. We encourage thread-stalking, and character development threads, and graphics and fics and playlists in the tag (and reading/liking/paying attention to the development of your fellow members' characters). We love seeing that type of thing. We love seeing this community grow and blossom, and we want everyone to feel like they're surrounded by support and encouragement. We don't want a site where members only care about the characters in their own characters' relationship-web.

I know. You're gonna vomit because of my blunt cheesiness. Oh well.

The point is: before you nominate people for OTMs this month, look around. Get to know the characters on the site. Track the tag. Check out what's happening on the board. Don't just focus on the characters that somehow relate to yours. ...Not like that's been a problem in the past, or anything. I'm just making a point. LOVE (AND PLOT WITH) THY NEIGHBOR IS MY POINT.

K cheesy PSA is over.

So, we're sure that most of you guys have noticed the sudden influx of spam in the cbox and it seems to be a problem on a couple sites, so we've temporarily put a captcha on the cbox.

I know. That's inconvenient. But, some of these spam messages could link to phishing scams, and we can't have anyone (even accidentally) clicking on something and getting compromised. That'd be way more inconvenient.

They are the same rules, though, we promise. They're just broken up by section and pared down a little bit.

To kick off the season, we've changed the skin, as well as opened up this year's summer event. You can read about it by clicking that link, and you can sign up for our new challenges within the event forums!