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[(Anonymous)]

"A clear idea of what you’re looking for in your top level and a very brief idea of what kind of character yours is in the top level as it relates to the meme. Emphasis on brief. Emphasis on how it relates to the meme. 'He won’t be the best chef and canonically has a very off sense of taste, but he’ll do his best! I’m interested in 1 and 5, but all of the breakfast prompts are great!'"

This. This is the thing. For the love of god give me JUST that first impression to work with and we'll catch fire.

ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

I wrote all of that in what I think is order of importance, so yeah, +1 to your +1. I've gotten tags before from canonblind people who just thought my ideas were really neat. If you can only do one thing, OP, do that. (Tagging out is also very valuable, though, OP, so if you can do two things do both of them.)

It shows you can bring plotting to the thread and you probably won't rely upon your threadmate to solely carry the thread. The first impression also makes it easier for people to determine whether or not they want to learn more about your character. "Oh, this first impressions says they're a really bad chef and mine's a picky eater, great, I can work with that." Icons and a link to an info page is like...if I cared to research whether or not I'd want to tag you in the first place, then I'd be pulling open Google.

It's like plotting memes. Who are you more excited for: the person that has some great ideas, or the person that spams a bunch of excited emotes at you but doesn't really deliver on anything?

I'm also going to piss off a few people by saying this, but just linking to your info page and your permissions and whatever else in your top level without bringing some ideas with it is a turn off. It's like writing ota. It's like writing [shippy, sweet, sad pls]. It just tells me that you've probably got some copy/paste ready for your top levels; it doesn't tell me that you're aware of the meme you're top leveling in or that you actually have some ideas in mind for the meme.

(That said, "Here's an elevator pitch, here's a brief first impression, here's a link to an info page and permissions, etc." is fine for a top level, because it combines all of the above and streamlines it.)

ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

absolutely. i always read everyone's prefs and info pages and stuff but if im canon blind a lot of that stuff doesn't really give me a contextual impression of what im about to take a bite of here.

and im canon blind a LOT. as much as i would like to read/watch everything i do not have that kind of time. </3 catch-22 is though i will probably end up reading or watching your whole canon if you get me loving your character after one fun thread.

ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, same re: catching up on canons. I mean, shit, if it's in an easily accessible comic form I'll probably go through it in a weekend and might toss out a canonmate if someone catches my eye.

But I guess I see it as being like online ordering at a restaurant. Mileage varies, but it's like:

Empty top level: One of those menus that's like '1. Chicken Cutlets' and that's it. Maybe there's a picture? I usually order something familiar in cases like this.

Top level with a brief sales pitch: Menu item + brief description of what you're actually ordering, and whether or not that's sufficient in itself depends on your particular dietary restrictions and mood. Sometimes I'm ordering chicken teriyaki and don't really need to think about it, and sometimes I really want to know what exactly is in the bento box.

Top level with brief sales pitch + link to info/permissions/etc: One of those menus that has the name, the description, and a link to additional nutritional info right there. Because sometimes you need to know if you're about to order something that has peanut in it.

Top level with link to info/permissions/etc: One of those fancy menus that has '1. Chicken Cutlets' with probably a dramatic transition to the description of the dish and lots of Javascript working in the background.

And then scale this based upon how hungry you are (aka how much tag energy you have) and how quickly you can find something that'll satisfy your hunger (aka enough people to tag out to/to be tagged by)