User blog:Echostar/S&S Discussion

Hello everyone, especially S&S members! Here's a brief summary of what was decided at the meeting today.

Some important changes will be made:

1. The order pages will be deleted and all stores will be roleplay based from now on.

2. The shopkeepers will each be roleplayed by one user instead of having 2 per shopkeeper. They will be treated as regular characters with backstories, etc. Ollivander's Wand Shop, Weasley's Wizard Wheezes, and Madame Malkins's Robes will have the original shopkeepers; the others will be at the user's discretion. Each S&S department member is required to have at least one shopkeeper, and they will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis.

3. For each shop, there will be a sign-up for any character who wishes to work in that shop. For adult characters, they will be year-round jobs. Student characters must be going into at least year 5, and they will be only summer jobs.

4. Admins in the S&S department cannot make a character without having added them to the Sorting forum. They may Sort them themselves. However, if a rollback's character has a questionable trait (like they are branded with the Dark Mark) then it must be approved by an admin or b-crat.

I also have a debate; this is the second time hardly anyone has shown up for an S&S meeting. I tried to schedule it so that as many people as possible could make it. RL comes first, but I would have really appreciated it if users made a bit more effort to come to the meetings. If you can't come, that's fine, but I would like you to let me know. There aren't very many of them, but the ones we do have are important. That being said, is it better to have occasional meetings, or more frequent blog posts about some issues or changes, or a mixture of both?

So S&S members: please post a comment saying what shopkeeper you'd like to roleplay. Also add your opinion about meetings vs. blog posts.

Everyone: Add any questions/comments/concerns/suggestions about all of this.

Thank you everyone!