Operation Audacious Phoenix

Just a idea. Just thought it might be worth considering or thinking about.

Yes! I agree! Hope it happens!
I think I mentioned character subscriptions here at one time.

correct me if i’m wrong, but don’t we already have that in the form of leaving guestbook comments on a characters profile? or for non-anonymous characters, writing about a specific character on the players profile?

I also don't think this is very useful.
If you want your character to say they like another character, the friend widget + guestbook both already fill this purpose.

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Being that writers can give other writers kudos, and writers can give characters kudos, it’s not much more of a reach to have characters give other characters kudos. Not sure why there would be opposition to this as it would only make the site better. I think the guestbook and the friend widget is something completely different.

When you go onto a character page, and there is a kudos widget and a guestbook widget, if I remember correctly, often times it has a small message that discourages from leaving kudos in the guestbook area.

EDIT: Never mind, it doesn't. I must've seen something else somewhere. Even so, the guestbook feature is more or so supposed to used for commenting about certain things, not leaving kudos. The friend widgets are also for the purpose of making connections (canon or maybe not), not really for saying you "like" a character. It's totally different.

On the RP repository, receiving a kudos means that another community member recommends you as someone other people might like to get to know.

If a CHARACTER likes a CHARACTER that is not really a recommendation. Firstly, characters don't get opinions about whether other characters are enjoyable to play with because they are fictional. The roleplayers themselves are the ones who decide this. If a character likes another, these characters are probably friends. Friends can already listed on the relationship widget (with an explanation if the RPer decides)

Secondly - characters can dislike each other and that does not mean the RPer is bad or the character is poorly written. It more likely means have very different personalities, goals, likes/dislikes and so forth. This means - even if a character is fun to play with, you couldn't leave a 'negative kudos'. You could however, list them in a relationship widget as an enemy and explain why they hate each other.

I agree.
Wow.

I guess I’ll just write a preamble in the kudo saying which of my characters is giving it to the character then.

exactly - there's a difference between liking characters when it comes to ic and ooc. i struggle to see how it would be necessary or useful for one character to give another character kudos - their writers most likely wouldn't have chosen to put them in a roleplay together if they didn't want to

i think you easily could write in a characters guestbook or on their writers profile, that you as a player specifically like *the name of their character* because of this and that - here you could include that you like the dynamic (just as an example) between the characters!

I think the 'character to character' would only really relate to anon characters, people who are anon right now and want to leave kudos on a character (ie how well written they are, their art being well done, their page layout looking fantastic) but not being able to because they want to remain anon.

Fortunately I believe anonymous kudos will be a thing in RPR 2.0 and will solve that problem specifically.

As for characters reviewing other characters, As said above since kudos is meant to be 100% OOC from a player to another player or from a player to a character, if someone isn't anon, then there isn't much of a reason for them not to be able to leave kudos as their player account on a character page.

It's not that it's a bad idea it's just that kudos are meant to be given completely OOC and having character to character is likely to confuse people on that and we will end up getting character opinions and not player opinions.

More features, or more flexibility of features, do not inherently improve a site. In many, many cases, they can actually cause damage in various ways, whether that's introducing loopholes, reducing privacy or autonomy, encouraging poor behavior within a community, slowing a site down, or even just using up time that could be spent building and maintaining much more useful tools, and much more.

I'm super glad that we may finally be getting anonymous kudos. Beyond that, I don't want to see characters "giving kudos." I don't care about a fictional character's opinion of someone, and I feel sure allowing character-given kudos would encourage sarcasm and such. I also feel that it would cheapen what kudos are meant to be.

I can think of no value in allowing characters to give kudos.

I’m in agreement that it cheapens the spirit of what kudos are—player-made recommendations about a player and/or character to inspire others to engage with them. Character kudos, also I feel, run similar risks to role-playing in Just Talkin’:

It’s an OoC space where going IC can muddle the line between the two. Similar to Nova’s above ‘sarcasm-lacing’ point—us moderators will have to police an already very active venue for further misuse because “my character said it, not me, the player!”

Sorry, all. I have turned down this suggestion many times, as kudos are meant to be OOC. A character by definition cannot give an OOC kudos. Therefore, this is not something I'm considering as an addition.

Please don't. Mods will delete IC kudos that we notice because that is not what kudos are for. Use the guestbook widget.

You are! It's already done!