Board Thread:Suggestion Box/@comment-4199666-20140619145904

Alright, so for those of you familiar with how this wiki works, (and for those of you who claimed you read the policies but didn't), you should know we have a rule that if your character isn't RPed for one month then you get a message saying you have three days to roleplay them. Now, while this is good in theory, it's very rarely practiced.

One problem is that people simply don't bother to collect a list of all the characters that have passed the 30 day limit for one user and then send that user a message because - let's face it - that's very time consuming and the people here are only volunteers. Another problem is that some people feel guilty sending those kinds of messages so they just pretend they didn't notice it.

Then, on another spectrum of this, you have instances where users have to go on hiatus and make an announcement of this, but their characters slip over the 30 day mark.

My suggestions to combat this are thusly wow thusly is a word : Now there's a few constraints to these templates - mostly just the second one. Obviously some people's hiatuses are due to certain reasons where they don't have enough time to make it online or they're in a place without internet access and they'll be back to usual after a certain date. Other people's hiatus may mean "I'm taking a break from this wiki and I might be back maybe but I don't know you might never see me again." For the portrayer hiatus template to be used on pages, it should be compulsory that an approximate date of return is listed, otherwise it could be abused into allowing people to just reserve a face claim despite not being here.
 * 1) A "Needs an RP" template (with it's own category) which gets put on pages over the 30 day limit so that (A) admins and rollbacks can find these pages easily if they are not roleplayed within the three days and (B) any user can go through the category and find characters which need an RP. For example: This character needs to RP with someone before June 23, 2014 or they will be marked inactive. You can help out by starting a roleplay with them.
 * 2) A "portrayer hiatus" template which is similar to the character hiatus template but instead with details of the portrayer's hiatus. For example: Minithepeanut is on hiatus until approximately July 7 and her characters may not necessarily be active during this time. Please do not mark the page inactive.

Anyway, this is just what I thought of while going through the pages. Let me know what you think and any improvements you would make to these. 