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I think there was a thread about this in a past post somewhere, but I can't find it anymore, so here goes.

Meme anons, when there are multiples of the same character on one meme, which do you choose to tag? Alternatively, what would turn you off from tagging a journal in favor of another journal for the same character? If you are one of the multiples in such a situation, would you go ahead and toplevel with the likelihood of being, let's say, the fourth Captain America on a page in a meme with many pages, or wait until your toplevel can be on the next page?

I'm just curious because in the past week, I have seen (1) two journals for the same character played by different players who posted on the same page, consecutively, and the later-posting player deleted their toplevel to comment on another page; (2) a canon love interest A for a character B who was met with two separate B journals toplevel on the same page, where A seemed unable to decide on which B to tag, and instead tagged another canonmate instead of either.

i play a lot of characters that everybody else plays. i also used to play steve regularly and was often in exactly that scenario you described. i still post. i don't care. it's a meme. people can tag me or not.

if i'm looking to tag someone and there are a couple options to pick from, i decide based on whether i've seen them and their play style around. if not, i check their journals to see if examples exist. if i have no idea who they are and there's no writing samples to distinguish them, ngl i judge them on their username, icons, and journal setup.

if the username has a bunch of underscores, the icons are all blurry or not 100x100 or are gifs and covered in dumb text, and the journal's got the default layout, i'm not tagging that one. in my experience, people who care about what their journal looks like tend to write better tags. if it's something like a texting meme, i don't care which i'm tagging, but for a thread with substance, i don't want to write a three paragraphs of setup, instropection, dialogue, and action and get something back like:

[He turns around and smiles. There's his friend!] Hey buddy.

in your examples, [1] kind of seems like a baby and i don't really understand what you're saying about [2]. maybe A didn't want to tag any Bs and preferred the other canonmate. if i was playing A and didn't want to play A with B, a whole page of Bs wouldn't make me more inclined to tag them. i'd tag who i wanted to play with.

I do agree on most of this. I was the A in a situation with two Bs and one of them only posted on sex memes before then (it was a gen meme with varied options) while the other still had the journal username in the name field, everything in the journal was default, the only thing new about it was that they had 15 icons. Since both Bs were kinda suspect I figured I'd tag the canonmate A and B shared who was a better fit for the meme and actually had put some amount of work into setting up their journal.

just curious, but why do you care if someone set up their journal or not? is it because you want to see someone's preferences in a preference post or is it just an aesthetic thing? because I almost never bother doing much with a journal if I'm planning to stick to memes with it.

A bit of both, maybe.

While a preference post is good to see for reference, most players I have tagged don't bother, unless they use the journal for specific types of memes (so a preference post saying "I do not play [ship]" in a journal commenting on a shipping meme is important, for example).

It also helps for a journal to be set up with some kind of basic information. I don't need a huge navigation and pages and pages of stuff, I don't even mind if it's in the default layout. But things like the character's actual name in the name field, rather than some quirky one-word username in Latin or whatever, will make it more convenient at first glance. Using the Captain America example in OP, when people dump countless journals with Chris Evans as a PB on a meme, I'd like to know for sure that I am tagging/was tagged by Cap and not Evans in another role. Plus, as above anon mentioned, effort put into doing up the journal suggests effort put into playing the character.

i know this isn't always the case or a foolproof formula, but in my experience, people who make an effort to format their journal a little seem to make more of an effort with their tags, both in being ic and in writing tags that are engaging and contribute to moving the thread along.

you don't have to have visualosities and playlists and polyvore shit linked, but at least 15 decent icons, the character's name in the field and what canon they're from somewhere on the journal, and something other than the default style is a plus.

someone once tagged me on a picture prompt meme with a character who had one word in the name field and no other information. i had no idea who the character was and googling the word didn't help at all, so i never tagged them back. later i discovered who the player was and i was glad i didn't respond for other reasons, but it's really frustrating having no idea who the character is and no way to google them.

if i'm commenting to a meme where someone is already playing my character, i try to add more information about what i'm interested in playing, to give people trying to choose which to tag more information to make that decision

if i'm choosing which of a character to tag, i check icons. not for quality, which i don't care much about, but for how many icons focus on the same types of expressions. it can sometimes give a good idea of what kinds of things the person likes to play: a journal full of icons of a character beaten up is probably being used for different things than one full of the character laughing

I never thought about it, but I actually totally do the icon thing for the same reason and I do it so automatically that it doesn't even register. Learned something new about myself, thanks anon!

obviously, i'm going to tag the version of the character that's open to mine. this might sound like a no brainer, but in a sea of characters, i might go for ota, f/f, m/f, m/m, depending on what my mood is and who i'm playing. that makes a lot of the decision for me; if i'm playing peggy carter, keeping with your steve example, i'm obviously not tagging a m/m only steve.

once the no-gos are knocked out of the running immediately, i use certain simple criteria to determine who i'll tag.

a. are any of these accounts known wankers or flakes who've snubbed me in the past?
b. if we played together before, do our styles mesh?
c. are all of the accounts new to me? if so, i go to the journal to see if there's any samples, threads, etc. to get a peak of what their play style is like.
d. should all else fail, like the above anon, i judge purely by aesthetics. shallow, yeah, but when it's a meme and i have nothing else to go by, i'm going to go with my gut.
d.5. there's another "rock, paper, scissors" tactic when i'm down to two or so viable top level options and i just can't decide, which is to go with the version of the character that's untagged. i find people who aren't overloaded with other tags, probably from friends or castmates they'd give priority to, tend to tag back.

if possible, i tag the one i've seen actually do threads in previous memes, because nothing is worse than giving someone a starter and never getting a response

otherwise i'll tag whoever seems like they'd be most compatible based on their permissions posts

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