On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Kira wrote: > On 8/8/08, Azalais Aranxta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But if you're thinking about having accounts for RP that are > > subordinate to a master account (either a mod account OR a player > > account), > > Please remember that RPers are not the only people who will use this system.
Of course not, that's just what we happened to be talking about on this thread. I hadn't thought that they were--unless you mean the master/subordinate accounts system? > The primary poin of the system isn't to make it easier for RPers - > that's a side-effect. The primary point is to allow people who > currently have multiple accounts, for *whatever* reason, to > consolidate them into one, to make them easier to use. So, in order > for the idea to even work, the personas need the same options as the > master account, otherwise people will just create another account and > neatly sidestep everything you just set up with personas. So...okay, hm. Personas. I know people who don't RP who have two or three journals (fandom/fic/icon, fandom/personal/fic) but I've never heard of anyone continually maintaining more than five journals (that aren't communities) who didn't want them set up differently. For instance, someone who has a personal journal separate from their fandom journal is likely to want much stricter privacy settings on the personal journal. I was not under the impression that you were trying to discourage people from creating multiple accounts--are you? Because I would create another account anyway if I wanted my fandom and personal journal to truly be separate--I'd want one to be Friends-Only, not the other one; I'd want different messaging settings and different email addresses and all that stuff. And if I was doing the journal/fic journal/icon journal thing, I would probably want different settings on those too. I mean, I know there are people who lock their icon journals, but most people don't. > This does bring up another question, though. When you get a paid > account, would it be for individual personas only, or would it apply > to an account (including all personas of that account)? See, my impression was that you'd pay extra for the extra journals and that they'd be accounts; you'd just be managing them all and setting them all from one journal. And that the settings would mostly be the same. (It seems unfair for personas to be free, or at least for unlimited numbers of them to be free. At one point in time I owned over 100 LiveJournal accounts. Actually I still do technically, but nobody's using them now. I paid for 13 of them, and had them staggered so I never had to make more than 2 $20 autopays per month. One of them also had extra userpics. Now I know I'm Emily the Edge Case but I also know I'm not the only one, and not all of them pay for their fun.) So in that situation, I'd have multiple accounts: ataniell93, my journal for personal discussion, rants and meta; azalais, my fic and icon and other content journal; and if I were running a game, I'd have azalais_mod, because I wouldn't want ataniell93 and azalais and azalais_mod to have the same comment and privacy settings. Azalais **************************************************************** Azalais Aranxta (~malfoy) ataniell93 on LiveJournal and Vox http://groups.yahoo.com/group/malfoymadness "I know the true world, and you know I do. But we needn't let it think we all bow down." --Christopher Fry _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
