Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-24947676-20180413173655

Hello everyone, it's me, Crystal, the resident suggestion maker! As you can glean from the title, this suggestion involves the OC Adoption system, as well as user activity.

I and several others have noticed that many people who adopt OCs rarely if ever use them, let alone alter the pages beyond changing the ownership template.

This can be incredibly frustrating for creators, especially in cases where the person who adopted the OC goes inactive for a month or longer without utilizing the OC in any way whatsoever. This results in the OC being deleted due to our policy about inactive users' OCs.

So, here is my suggestion for you all - a new policy:

'''If a user who adopted one or more OCs has been inactive for over a month, and has made very few edits to the adopted OCs' pages and/or hasn't used the OCs in any way, the original owner(s) of said OCs have the choice to either reclaim them, put them back up for adoption, or allow the staff to proceed with deletion. This only applies if - and only if - the original owner(s) are still active. Otherwise, the OCs will be deleted like the non-adopted OCs.'''

Please take note that it says "if the user who adopted the OCs is inactive for over a month". If the user who adopted the OCs is active regularly, but hasn't worked on the OCs that were adopted, the policy will NOT apply. The original owners can, however, remind the adoptee to work on the OCs.

Inactivity is completely different from just not working on an OC. Inactivity is just not posting on the wiki at all, and we already have a policy stating that if a user has been inactive for over a month and has one or more OCs, the OCs will be deleted.

So, don't worry y'all, this suggestion won't harm people who just take a while to develop OCs. I used to create OCs myself, so I know firsthand how difficult it can be to shape them into what you want. As long as you're an active user, this policy will NOT harm you in any way shape or form.

However, as someone who has given up OCs for adoption before, and has seen a person who adopted one of them go inactive for over three months (and still hasn't returned) without changing the OC's page beyond the goddamn ownership template (pardon my language), unable to do anything about it, it makes me furious to not have any form of agency.

My goal in creating this policy is to give both the original owners of OCs and the people who adopt OCs an equal amount of agency regarding them. I don't want more creators to feel the same path I felt.

Whether you support, oppose, or Switzerland, please elaborate on any questions or concerns you have! I want to be able to address your concerns and help the users of the wiki, and I can't do either of those things if I don't know any specifics on what y'all are thinking.

Thank you!

 