Do you guys want a do-over? (ATTN: Everybody)

Yes

I'm all for a do-over. Bits of it might have been fun for the six or so people who were here, but it's really unfair to everyone who wasn't sitting at the computer all day and didn't get to participate.

One more for a do-over. With all the flooding I was honestly considering just pulling Cal and Devi.

Edit: We're going with a post limit to help control the flooding.

If we start over, everyone should wait till the person you are talking to responds, instead of jumping to someone else.
(I'm not pointing fingers and I'm guilty of this too, it's just an idea so that people can keep up.)

Do we need to pay for this post limit

Yes I agree with Lyle, that sounds a lot better and a lot more organized. It gives people enough time to really get a feel of the other contestants.

Lyle actually has a really good idea. XD Chris can greet them all individually, you know. And maybe each of us is only allowed to post 3 times until once we enter the island until everyone else has posted. Since on TDI they really just stood around and waited while Chris greeted each one, only slight interactions here and there until everyone arrived. Or, maybe instead of a post limit, they're just only allowed to comment on each new arriving camper if they want.

I'll just say we make a new thread, but don't delete the current one. There might be some information, trivial or not, that might affect later topics.

If it really gets out of control in the next few days with spam, then just lock the thread.

I have a question, actually. I read the previous RP (although, I read it like. . .3-5 days ago) and I think it said somewhere in there that contestants could start their own threads and RP elsewhere during the time you had to wait between challenges, arrivals, etc etc. I possibly read that wrong or I'm forgetting something, but that's what I thought it was. So would we be allowed to do that after our post limit is up or just wait until everyone arrives so Chris can speak?

I'm sort of waiting for something to happen. I close out of this page a while back, checked now, and still. . .Eh. . .Guess the RP isn't started for today then, since we're most likely starting over. . .

Well, as I've said before, I'm not used to forums. To me, a 3 hour period of time is a little out there from what I'm used to. I'm trying to adjust. Honestly, I was more referring to the question I directed at you than other people posting here. You think I expect everyone to be online every hour of everyday? Jeez. Even if my thing says "Online" it doesn't mean I'm even on. A lot of times I just leave the tab up and go do something else while I'm waiting for a reply, since I have other things to do. So no, I don't expect everyone on all the time.

On another note, if I come across as unreasonable to anyone for my lack of patience, which I will admit to, it's because, here are the circumstances I'm used to:

You can post something and get a reply with 10 minutes tops if someone else is online. If, by then, no one has replied, you can safely assume no one is on at that time and leave, come back later, check if they're on, then send the question if they are. You can get a good idea of who is on simply by saying, "Anyone here?" And waiting a few minutes. This is because, I'm more used to shoutboxes. I don't do huge, fast-paced RPs. I mean, it's far more fast-paced than this, but no one really considers it fast-paced and we pause when someone says, "brb," so they don't miss it because we're going too fast.

Given that I have no way of knowing who is online when here, as even if their bar says Online, they could be away from the computer, as I often am. So, it makes the waiting drive me insane because I'm almost tempted to say, "Anyone here?" then I remember, "These are forums. It makes no sense to ask that question." I'm very used to posting something, then having to keep an eye on the screen, as a reply could come up sooner than expected.

I am NOT criticizing this or trying to complain that it doesn't meet my standards. This is just my way of explaining, if I come off as unreasonable or impatient, it's because I'm not used to it and I'm still trying to adjust, which, I'll add, is made more difficult by the fact that I still use shoutboxes for other websites. This is, actually, the only forum site I RP on at all. I guess that's why the flooding of posts in the forums earlier didn't bother me so much. Refreshing the page and seeing 10 new posts was nothing new at all. Refreshing it every few minutes was more of the bother.

ANYWAY, I'll try to seem less unreasonable and impatient and try not to make comments that come off as rude. Sorry about that.

I know! Lets go with my idea, but for it to not last for 3 weeks, do it in a way that the people who don't respond within the 1 week period will automatically be eliminated! Also, when they arrive, they have to say their name, and something about themselves.

Yeah, but those who don't respond within a week should be considerer "lost" or something, so it might not be 30. Also, they should get off their boats one-by-one.

Lyle. The answer was "No".

The only purpose an intro like that serves is to check to see who is still playing this round. We already checked for that with the "sign the waiver" posts. All doing a "boats" entry would do is waste another week and keep people from getting into the game.

Everyone would have to just sit there on their hands while they waited for 30 other people to get introduced. It would be boring for everyone involved, it would only confirm something we already know, and it would delay the season instead of getting it moving.

We're not doing it.