Faction Levels Suggestion

[Thaal Sinestro]

I guess, with the fact that not everyone submits their threads for the participation grade, then you're right this could be creating more work. I was looking at it from the aspect that the threads already had to be graded so creating a whole new system would just be work for us, not more for them cause they already had to do it.

Thinking about it now, I can see the problem you have been trying to prevent. Sorry I am so thick headed, lol. I like the idea of faction leaders being able to grade them, but how about this:

Faction leaders must grade the works of other factions, not their own. This eliminates the temptation to 'squeeze through the system'

So instead of staff having the responsibility, it would be the factions that looked after each other. Obviously we would need to come up with a grading module specifically for this that the faction leaders could follow while grading a faction thread for faction exp.

Thoughts on this?

What would be the incentive for other factions to grade each other's threads? And what would prevent a rival faction from jsut shooting down the other person's thread just out of spite?

I feel like offering extra OM for quests is just sort of a way to give writers ideas for writing, and to incintivize people working and writing together, so even if people are "squeezing through," as long as a minimum word count has been set and people aren't flagrantly abusing the system, I don't see why it's such a bad idea to hand out a little bit of extra OM here and there.

I was worried about people playing favorites and getting extra OM too, but then I realized that if people are writing together and meeting word count minimums we've sort of accomplished the goal of quests, you know?