I LOVE kudos! But upon rereading all of the ones I’ve given and received over the years, I realized that I wish I knew when they were posted specifically. It really might be a powerful reference sugar as the progression of friendships/characters go! 
I was kind of thinking the same thing today actually. Went into my kudo management screen and was re-Reading them and got curious about the dates.
I'm a little conflicted about this myself. I think I'd appreciate it for the reasons Volka stated, but one of the things that initially really attracted me to RPR was that there were not dates associated with players' accounts (other than whatever was in the 'recent activity' list, which is kept pretty short)
Most forums have that 'Member since 2007! 18,764 posts' thing going. And it was somewhat refreshing NOT to have that here. It's a bit more intimidating to reach out to an 'old-timer' for RP (shouldn't be, I know, but many moons ago I would have shied away from it. "Oh... SuperRPerX has been here for 6 years.. they won't want to RP with a new member like me..." )
I dunno... maybe not a real worry. If someone has a gazillion kudos, maybe that's enough all by itself to scare away the ones that would be shy about approaching someone that's been here for years.
(But again... now that I've been here a little while myself... I would appreciate knowing the date for that trip down memory lane! I know... way to be decisive, Juls!
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Just my 2¢
Most forums have that 'Member since 2007! 18,764 posts' thing going. And it was somewhat refreshing NOT to have that here. It's a bit more intimidating to reach out to an 'old-timer' for RP (shouldn't be, I know, but many moons ago I would have shied away from it. "Oh... SuperRPerX has been here for 6 years.. they won't want to RP with a new member like me..." )
I dunno... maybe not a real worry. If someone has a gazillion kudos, maybe that's enough all by itself to scare away the ones that would be shy about approaching someone that's been here for years.
(But again... now that I've been here a little while myself... I would appreciate knowing the date for that trip down memory lane! I know... way to be decisive, Juls!
)Just my 2¢
Juls wrote:
I'm a little conflicted about this myself. I think I'd appreciate it for the reasons Volka stated, but one of the things that initially really attracted me to RPR was that there were not dates associated with players' accounts (other than whatever was in the 'recent activity' list, which is kept pretty short)
Most forums have that 'Member since 2007! 18,764 posts' thing going. And it was somewhat refreshing NOT to have that here. It's a bit more intimidating to reach out to an 'old-timer' for RP (shouldn't be, I know, but many moons ago I would have shied away from it. "Oh... SuperRPerX has been here for 6 years.. they won't want to RP with a new member like me..." )
I dunno... maybe not a real worry. If someone has a gazillion kudos, maybe that's enough all by itself to scare away the ones that would be shy about approaching someone that's been here for years.
(But again... now that I've been here a little while myself... I would appreciate knowing the date for that trip down memory lane! I know... way to be decisive, Juls! )
Just my 2¢
Most forums have that 'Member since 2007! 18,764 posts' thing going. And it was somewhat refreshing NOT to have that here. It's a bit more intimidating to reach out to an 'old-timer' for RP (shouldn't be, I know, but many moons ago I would have shied away from it. "Oh... SuperRPerX has been here for 6 years.. they won't want to RP with a new member like me..." )
I dunno... maybe not a real worry. If someone has a gazillion kudos, maybe that's enough all by itself to scare away the ones that would be shy about approaching someone that's been here for years.
(But again... now that I've been here a little while myself... I would appreciate knowing the date for that trip down memory lane! I know... way to be decisive, Juls!
)Just my 2¢
I can see where your concern lies and to be honest it was something I hadn't considered myself! Though most people do list on their profile "Been roleplaying since--" Definitely a valid point.
Could have it as an optional setting to which a player can choose to turn on or off. Or maybe they can turn on and off for what they can view on other people's profiles.
I see some benefit to this.. not a lot mind you.. but some. Only because in the past when I joined RPR I was on Furcadia and my kudos for RP were related to that game client which functions a little different.
honestly I would see more benefit in where the kudos are coming from rather then when they were posted.
Like did they come from a D&D group? A mmo game client? A group on RPR forums or 1x1 pms? Because I think those can change role play formats more then time.
well I may be a better writer overtime it has more to do with spelling grammar vocabulary and imagination. my imagination has more or less been the same it's always been about the effort to which I put in from it from there.. so disregarding English writing skills (spelling/Grammer ect) I don't think that I've really changed overtime. But I have changed based on environment. For instance I writer more paragraphs on RPR and discord then I would in a MMO client... If that makes sense?
But that's my personal opinion.
I see some benefit to this.. not a lot mind you.. but some. Only because in the past when I joined RPR I was on Furcadia and my kudos for RP were related to that game client which functions a little different.
honestly I would see more benefit in where the kudos are coming from rather then when they were posted.
Like did they come from a D&D group? A mmo game client? A group on RPR forums or 1x1 pms? Because I think those can change role play formats more then time.
well I may be a better writer overtime it has more to do with spelling grammar vocabulary and imagination. my imagination has more or less been the same it's always been about the effort to which I put in from it from there.. so disregarding English writing skills (spelling/Grammer ect) I don't think that I've really changed overtime. But I have changed based on environment. For instance I writer more paragraphs on RPR and discord then I would in a MMO client... If that makes sense?
But that's my personal opinion.
Yes, one of the reasons I did not include dates was because I didn't want people to feel anxiety about accruing new kudos because the ones they had "looked old." I didn't want friends feeling they needed to post new kudos (that said relatively the same thing) every six months or so to keep their friends looking relevant.
So... perhaps the compromise is showing the date to the kudos recipient/giver in private but not when others are looking?
So... perhaps the compromise is showing the date to the kudos recipient/giver in private but not when others are looking?