Staff Information
The content of this page is geared towards use by the staff of CoSC.
Table of Contents
Out of Character Areas
News & Updates, Game Related Chatter, Family Finder
Prefixes
- Announcement: Apply to threads making announcements. Should be used only by admins or with special admin instructions to do so.
- Activity Check: Used to highlight the current activity check related posts.
- Moon Change: Used to highlight announcements related to the current moon change.
- Discussion: [Depreciated] Formerly used for discussions of game related content. This is now done in the discord.
- Draft: [Depreciated] Formerly used for posting drafts of game related content for discussion. This is now done via the discord.
Tagging
- Character Updates Threads: No required tags.
- Rank Updates Threads: No required tags.
- Activity Check Threads: ‘Activity Check’, ‘AC Month Year’
Stickies
Please only sticky under the following circumstances:
- The currently in use character updates thread.
- The currently in use rank updates thread.
- Any currently critical other announcement such as a new moon change or activity check.
Locking
Please lock in the following circumstances:
- Administrators should lock as follows:
- Any “News & Updates” thread they feel is concluded.
- Rank updates threads that are no longer in use.
- Character updates threads that are no longer in use.
- Moderators should lock as follows:
- Any “Game Related Chatter” thread without posts for more than a month.
- Any “Family Finder” thread whose author is no longer with the game.
Trackers
Prefixes
- Tracker: Applied to the trackers related to the current IC moon.
Tagging
- All threads: ‘Tracker’, ‘Tracker MOON’
MOON: The initials/year num of the moon the tracker applies to. Example: Cheetah’s Flight 2020 would become ‘Tracker CF20’.
Stickies & Locking
- Please only sticky the current trackers to keep them easy to find.
- Please lock all trackers that are no longer current.
Creation Zone
Prefixes
- Resume: Applied to threads containing resumes that have been approved and is active.
The Rest
- Tagging has no special requirements.
- Stickies are only for instruction threads.
- Locking is only preformed when an artist has left the game.
Storage Locker
- Prefixes are not used in this area.
- Tagging has no special requirements.
- Stickies are only for instruction threads.
- Locking is only preformed when a player has left the game.
Chatterbox
- Prefixes are not used in this area.
- Tagging has no special requirements.
- Stickies are only used for the thread pointing at the discord.
- Locking should be preformed for any non-introduction thread that hasn’t been updated in a month.
All In Character Areas
Prefixes
- Open to Join: For threads that the thread starter invites other players or characters to join.
- Private Thread: For threads that the thread starter is inviting only specific other players or characters to join.
- Ask to Join: For threads where the thread starter would like consider who might join before they join, thus should be asked.
- Plot thread: For threads related to game plots.
- Closed Thread: A thread that has been locked.
- OOC Thread: A thread making an announcement related to something that has happened in character. Intended to be used sparingly.
Tagging
Members are given some latitude to tag as they please when threads are open, but when they are locked the following should be retained or added, and the rest removed.
- All Threads
- Group Tag (IE: ‘ThunderClan’)
- Moon (IE: ‘Lion’s Glory 2020’)
- Clan Meetings also add
- ‘Clan Meeting’
- ‘PG Clan Meeting’ should also be included if it is a pre-gathering clan meeting.
- Plot Threads also add
- ‘Plot’
- ‘Plot: [NAME]’ (IE: ‘Plot: Prey will kill’)
Stickies & Locking
- Stickies are reserved for the in character parts of activity checks and world-wide plot related threads.
- Locking should be preformed when a thread hasn’t been updated in a month or more.