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Lots of people not aware of dev threads these days. They used to be required roleplay threads, used like “research”, for factory submission.
the admins are discussing subjects that include dev threads rn so im gonna do a hit piece by involving the community in a conversation we never really had back in the day. We dont really mind dev threads, and I feel like I speak for the majority here. Majority, stay with me for a second, I know you don’t like being told how to feel but bare with me.
We dont mind dev threads or roleplaying to progress our development of factory items. In fact, we actually like the idea because it gives us more reasons to solo and develop factory stuff and gives us great reasons to progress creations inside the RP with the RP. We actually love roleplaying, we actually love progression, and we actually love validation. That validation part is important, and where the Factory Judge comes into play the most.
Except the Factory Judges ruined dev threads when they existed years back. They turned them into arbitrary goal posts, and the goal posts moved for seemingly no reason other than the FJ excercising their power to move them. “Yeah i need 20 more posts in your dev thread”, “yeah i need 10 more posts if you want stealth.” There was no baseline, there never could be a baseline, its all imaginary and the FJ was often inventing more arbitrary work for a writer just to justify their position as an FJ. And we aint stupid, we knew thats what it had devolved into, because providing us actual feedback and suggestions was work. Telling us to pad a thread with a handful more posts was easy.
What is successful the most in this community? Not Judges telling us to post more, we know that. The most successful stuff is stuff like Doms, Junctions, faction threads, first reply threads. Simple mechanisms that give us reasons to come together.
Dev threads can easily come back. We want to DEVELOP, sure. We want to progress. But at our pace, not some random moderator telling us to add on 10 more posts to a story they aint reading, for no goddamn reason other than to make us do it. Make Dev Junctions. Make Dev First Replies. Have FJs support and help us come up with more ideas like they were meant to, not gatekeep and demand post padding.
the admins are discussing subjects that include dev threads rn so im gonna do a hit piece by involving the community in a conversation we never really had back in the day. We dont really mind dev threads, and I feel like I speak for the majority here. Majority, stay with me for a second, I know you don’t like being told how to feel but bare with me.
We dont mind dev threads or roleplaying to progress our development of factory items. In fact, we actually like the idea because it gives us more reasons to solo and develop factory stuff and gives us great reasons to progress creations inside the RP with the RP. We actually love roleplaying, we actually love progression, and we actually love validation. That validation part is important, and where the Factory Judge comes into play the most.
Except the Factory Judges ruined dev threads when they existed years back. They turned them into arbitrary goal posts, and the goal posts moved for seemingly no reason other than the FJ excercising their power to move them. “Yeah i need 20 more posts in your dev thread”, “yeah i need 10 more posts if you want stealth.” There was no baseline, there never could be a baseline, its all imaginary and the FJ was often inventing more arbitrary work for a writer just to justify their position as an FJ. And we aint stupid, we knew thats what it had devolved into, because providing us actual feedback and suggestions was work. Telling us to pad a thread with a handful more posts was easy.
What is successful the most in this community? Not Judges telling us to post more, we know that. The most successful stuff is stuff like Doms, Junctions, faction threads, first reply threads. Simple mechanisms that give us reasons to come together.
Dev threads can easily come back. We want to DEVELOP, sure. We want to progress. But at our pace, not some random moderator telling us to add on 10 more posts to a story they aint reading, for no goddamn reason other than to make us do it. Make Dev Junctions. Make Dev First Replies. Have FJs support and help us come up with more ideas like they were meant to, not gatekeep and demand post padding.