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2017-02-03, 11:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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Double posting in a campaign journal?
I'd like to post a journal of a campaign I've been running. I'd like to separate each session into its own post, including the three I've already run. Would this be acceptable double posting, or do I need to keep them in one post and use spoiler tags to organise them?
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2017-02-03, 12:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Double posting in a campaign journal?
I'm not a mod, but I think it will be safer if you update the one post. My concern is not so much the double posting as much as that if there isn't anyone commenting on your thread, it will feel like you are bumping it every time you post a new session. In fact, if you are NOT expecting comments, it might be best to find a different place to post the campaign journal - a blog of some description, maybe?
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2017-02-03, 12:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Double posting in a campaign journal?
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2017-02-03, 12:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Double posting in a campaign journal?
All that being said, there is more than one precedent for this sort of thing. Both those threads do have others chiming in occasionally, but they are mostly one user posting continual updates for informative purposes, which sounds like what is currently being proposed as well. I'm interested in what the voice of mod says.
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2017-02-03, 12:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Double posting in a campaign journal?
Agreed that a Red voice is needed. I'm not sure I'd claim those particular threads as precedent, though - I feel there is a difference between comic-support threads (falling under the curated thread rules umbrella) and campaign logs.
Speaking of precedent, I know that this has come up before (i.e. someone asking in this subforum if creating a campaign log is allowed), but my search-fu has failed me.
Edit: Found it. Most relevant bit:
Originally Posted by Rawhide
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2017-02-03, 03:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Double posting in a campaign journal?
I've found multiple instances of campaign journals starting off with multiple posts by the person doing the journal and/or having back-to-back posts within the thread later. That doesn't necessarily make it ok, but it does make it more likely that it's acceptable since it seemed to be fairly common among the ones I found when I searched the "journal" prefix within Roleplaying Games. (Sometimes it's done later on just because sessions are too long to fit into one post.)
Example threads:
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showt...al-D-amp-D-3-P
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showt...l-Player-s-POV
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showt...mpaign-Journal
Speaking as someone who reads these threads (and who is not a mod), it makes sense to me to put each session in its own post, possibly even with a separate post at the top with setting and character info and links to all of the later session posts. That makes it easier for readers to navigate later.
If you find that you aren't getting any comments or much in the way of views and it's just you posting after a while (which does happen sometimes), then it might make sense to move it to a blog instead after you've been the only poster for a while. Some journals catch on and some don't.
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2017-02-03, 08:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Double posting in a campaign journal?
Sheriff: This is the preferred course of action. That said, as some of the linked examples above indicate, this is the kind of thing that tends to go unreported, so it does happen, and an occasional double post may not be a problem in something like a PbP, campaign journal, comic thread, etc, especially if it's because of the length of the text requires two or most posts. But if it's just one person posting with no responses, in any context, that might be content better placed elsewhere than our discussion forums.
Last edited by Roland St. Jude; 2017-02-03 at 08:12 PM.