We don't want to see 'empty characters' on this site. This is not other sites that allows to just have placeholders or such. During Profile Creation, certain traits should be mendatory, namely to help make sure that people are making profiles for characters. What traits would be mendatory would be up for discussion, but let us consider Litphoria to be a dating site for roleplaying: Dating Sites all have mendatory entries mostly under Gender; and for Roleplay, Species could also be considered Mandatory.
I'm not sure if anyone would agree to this idea, but this would ensure at least a minimal level of entries into each sheets, and reduce the creation of Placeholders/Empty profiles.
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This could be enforced by making the character "hidden" until the prerequisite traits are filled out. So, you don't have to do it all at once, but you can't use it until some mendatory data has been entered.
Good point there. I did forget how entries are based on a database number and not on name in this site. I guess this point is Moot. Though, my idea was working with the ideals of the site, it would be more of an annoyance then something good. If someone wants to make an empty profile to act as a "public face" he should be allowed to, whereas he can keep his actual characters for his Roleplays.. I see your point there.
I was hoping such a system would improve the quality of characters on this site...
Instead of picking arbitrary traits that are probably not useful to everyone, I'd prefer to have a number of traits that is required to be entered before you can return on search results, such as you have to have 5-10 traits, or maybe 25% of the available traits. This would still allow people to fill out what is meaningful to them while keeping some placeholder profiles out of your search results.
I might be really hard-pressed to make a profile for certain characters of mine if I was forced to do a percentage of traits, etc. Some of my characters are purely for non-sexual RPs... so if I was forced to add certain traits, or ANY kinks, I would automatically be unable to make the character (or have to arbitrarily add things to a character that I don't wish to be there). I also like to have at least one almost empty profile or something that's just silly for semi-OOC banter when I'm not feeling like RPing. Forcing you to fill out certain things, or even a percentage of a profile, feels very restrictive to someone who makes characters the way I do.
This will be part of profile completion. They will be "mandatory" in the sense that the profile will not show up in search results without a certain number.
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