User:LionsPhil/SemiAutoCatThoughts
From questden
All of these states are intended to be mutually exclusive. Recycles board moderator decisions where possible. Exceptional cases are a given.
NB: This is just me thinking aloud about what perhaps could be done. It is not how the current categories work.
Contents
Running
- Intent
- Quests which are actively updating.
- Purpose
- If you want to get in on a quest and suggest, pick something from this category.
- Heuristic
- Has at least one thread on the /quest/ board.
Paused
- Intent
- Quests which cannot be said to be running right now, but which the author intends to continue.
- Purpose
- Distinct from Running or Abandoned; a limbo state which doesn't assert either.
- Heuristic
- Has no threads on /quest/, has at least one thread in /questarch/. (The most recent thread may have been archived and a new one has not yet started, or it may have been paused so long that it got graveyarded.)
Abandoned
- Intent
- Quests which got somewhere but are not expected to ever pick up again and be finished.
- Purpose
- May still be of interest to read what exists of them, especially as characters may have appeared in fanart/ITQ.
- Heuristic
- As for Paused, with manual intervention (e.g. the author has either explicitly said the quest is abandoned, or has left the site).
Stillborn
- Intent
- Quests someone started on a bored rainy afternoon and got quickly bored of.
- Purpose
- Keep all the "chaff" out of the way of quests people might actually care about, so that the latter may be found.
- Heuristic
- All threads are in /graveyard/.
Completed
- Intent
- Quests that followed through to a narrative ending.
- Purpose
- Complete stories to read.
- Heuristic
- All threads are in /questarch/ (arguably if it has any in /graveyard/ they should probably be moved), author has said it's finished (e.g. by posting a "The End" update).
