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When a player has not been posting regularly, or has been replaced in other games on the site, it may be necessary to send them a [[Private Message]] that reminds them of the game they are in. Providing a link to the game is helpful but not required; mentioning the name of the game and which [[Game Forum]] it is located in can help players who lost track due to the number of games they are involved in, however. '''Prodding should only be done by the [[Game Moderator]], since it involves communicating outside of the [[Game Thread]].'''
A '''prod''' is a [[Private Message]] sent from the [[moderator]] to a [[player]] who has fallen afoul of the moderator's set activity rules.  The message is intended to remind the player that they are playing the game and have not posted in a while.


Sometimes players legitimately fail to notice when a game re-enters the [[Day]] phase, for example, especially if they are a [[Vanilla Townie]]. It is important not to reveal too much information about a player when prodding them, but letting the other players in the game know you have done so can be courteous. Saying at [[Daybreak]] that you will be ''"prodding So-and-so because they didn't send in their [[Night Choice]]"'', for example, can be disastrous unless '''every''' player has a choice to make every night.
If players do not respond to prods in a timely manner, they are summarily [[replacement|replaced]].


Another courtesy can be to offer players (particularly [[Scum]]) the option to respond via [[PM]] instead of posting something in-thread, in case it is part of a larger strategy that they are employing.
==Caveats==
It is '''very important''' that only the moderator send prods, as it is a form of out-of-game communication.
 
Moderators should ensure that they prod and replace players according to the activity rules they set out at the beginning of the game.  Prods should not be sent at the moderator's will, nor should players be allowed to [[PM]] the mod and say "I'm [[lurking]], let me go".
 
It is very important that prods be sent out in regards to how long it has been since the player has posted, not since the last time the moderator received an action from them.  This is particularly troublesome if a player is known to have not submitted an action overNight, as the prod confirms that no communication between the player and the moderator was sent that Night.  Inversely, a player that is still in the game because they have posted in their [[private topic]] but not inthread should be dealt with as if they have not been posting at all.


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Latest revision as of 02:43, 20 December 2018

A prod is a Private Message sent from the moderator to a player who has fallen afoul of the moderator's set activity rules. The message is intended to remind the player that they are playing the game and have not posted in a while.

If players do not respond to prods in a timely manner, they are summarily replaced.

Caveats

It is very important that only the moderator send prods, as it is a form of out-of-game communication.

Moderators should ensure that they prod and replace players according to the activity rules they set out at the beginning of the game. Prods should not be sent at the moderator's will, nor should players be allowed to PM the mod and say "I'm lurking, let me go".

It is very important that prods be sent out in regards to how long it has been since the player has posted, not since the last time the moderator received an action from them. This is particularly troublesome if a player is known to have not submitted an action overNight, as the prod confirms that no communication between the player and the moderator was sent that Night. Inversely, a player that is still in the game because they have posted in their private topic but not inthread should be dealt with as if they have not been posting at all.