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I have a suggestion about the registration process.
When I registered, I sort of had a struggle, because the only options for gender were male and female, and you had to specify a gender - however, my character, Quinn, is agender and doesn't fit into the binary system.
I ended up simply picking Quinn's sex (sexual organs assigned at birth) which is female, even though it said gender and not sex in the registration process.
Even the dormitories are divided into male and female students.
I have three suggestions on how you could solve this issue:
1. More diversity. Add more categories to the gender question. I would suggest Female, Male, MTF Transgender, FTM Transgender, Agender and Genderfluid. Maybe you could also allow non-binary (agender + genderfluid) students to choose their preferred dormitory.
2. Change "gender" to "sex". If you are only referring to the biological part, gender is the wrong term. Change the name to sex and make it clear that dorm sortings are defined by sex, not gender.
Thanks for your attention!
Sincerely,
Quinn Prescott
I am not, as chosen in my profile, female, but agender. I use the pronouns they/them. Thanks.
When I registered, I sort of had a struggle, because the only options for gender were male and female, and you had to specify a gender - however, my character, Quinn, is agender and doesn't fit into the binary system.
I ended up simply picking Quinn's sex (sexual organs assigned at birth) which is female, even though it said gender and not sex in the registration process.
Even the dormitories are divided into male and female students.
I have three suggestions on how you could solve this issue:
1. More diversity. Add more categories to the gender question. I would suggest Female, Male, MTF Transgender, FTM Transgender, Agender and Genderfluid. Maybe you could also allow non-binary (agender + genderfluid) students to choose their preferred dormitory.
2. Change "gender" to "sex". If you are only referring to the biological part, gender is the wrong term. Change the name to sex and make it clear that dorm sortings are defined by sex, not gender.
Thanks for your attention!
Sincerely,
Quinn Prescott
I am not, as chosen in my profile, female, but agender. I use the pronouns they/them. Thanks.
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The coding of Hogwarts Hio makes it necessary for each student to be either a girl or a boy. When making an account you are required to select one of the two, all characters need to be either male or female. Some areas can only be accessed by females and some only by males, which is part of the reason it would be very problematic to include more genders.Quinn Prescott wrote: I have a suggestion about the registration process.
When I registered, I sort of had a struggle, because the only options for gender were male and female, and you had to specify a gender - however, my character, Quinn, is agender and doesn't fit into the binary system.
I ended up simply picking Quinn's sex (sexual organs assigned at birth) which is female, even though it said gender and not sex in the registration process.
Even the dormitories are divided into male and female students.
I have three suggestions on how you could solve this issue:
1. More diversity. Add more categories to the gender question. I would suggest Female, Male, MTF Transgender, FTM Transgender, Agender and Genderfluid. Maybe you could also allow non-binary (agender + genderfluid) students to choose their preferred dormitory.
2. Change "gender" to "sex". If you are only referring to the biological part, gender is the wrong term. Change the name to sex and make it clear that dorm sortings are defined by sex, not gender.
Thanks for your attention!
Sincerely,
Quinn Prescott
You can of course choose to role-play whichever gender you prefer for your character, however. Your IC interaction is not limited to gender and you can RP your character as you like within our rules.
The terminology is something that should be possible to change. We will forward this to our Founder Zach who is in charge of the coding. This should in theory be a minor change from what I can see, so maybe he can add it the next time he does some bug fixes on Hio.
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As you know, an user can access homework after being on the Hio site for ten days and having written min. 20 messages. However, as there are lots of flood type threads (like group chats or games) it's extremely easy to rack up your post count - for me, this is only the third day, and I have written 81 messages.
I see two solutions for this:
1) Increase the post count. I'd suggest about 35 posts, maybe with a remark that it's easy to get many messages because of floods as not to shock new members who see they have to post "so much".
2) Change "post" to "RP". New members would have to send a certain amount of RP posts, exceeding the 200+ word minimum. However, as 20 RPs are a lot, I'd in this case lower it to about 10 or 15 roleplays. (Not sure how and if this would work with automatic detection through coding? Maybe, if that change isn't too big to implement, that only the posts count that are in the threads marked as RPG? I have no idea, I don't know about coding issues
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Yours,
Quinn
I am not, as chosen in my profile, female, but agender. I use the pronouns they/them. Thanks.
I see two solutions for this:
1) Increase the post count. I'd suggest about 35 posts, maybe with a remark that it's easy to get many messages because of floods as not to shock new members who see they have to post "so much".
2) Change "post" to "RP". New members would have to send a certain amount of RP posts, exceeding the 200+ word minimum. However, as 20 RPs are a lot, I'd in this case lower it to about 10 or 15 roleplays. (Not sure how and if this would work with automatic detection through coding? Maybe, if that change isn't too big to implement, that only the posts count that are in the threads marked as RPG? I have no idea, I don't know about coding issues
)Yours,
Quinn
I am not, as chosen in my profile, female, but agender. I use the pronouns they/them. Thanks.
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@Quinn Prescott
Hello. The goal of the 10 day 20 posts restriction is to ensure long-term activity. Although reaching both criteria are necessary to unlocking homework, the system focuses most on the 10 days aspect, which prevents professors from receiving an influx of homework from users who join and immediately go inactive.
With floods and games, it is designed to be easy to reach the 20 posts but what we find most important are the 10 days. I cannot see much effort being made in the future to increase the minimum post count because for the past 1.5 years it has worked fine paired with the wait time.
- Nadège Benoit(x)
Hello. The goal of the 10 day 20 posts restriction is to ensure long-term activity. Although reaching both criteria are necessary to unlocking homework, the system focuses most on the 10 days aspect, which prevents professors from receiving an influx of homework from users who join and immediately go inactive.
With floods and games, it is designed to be easy to reach the 20 posts but what we find most important are the 10 days. I cannot see much effort being made in the future to increase the minimum post count because for the past 1.5 years it has worked fine paired with the wait time.
- Nadège Benoit(x)
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Hello,Quinn Prescott wrote: 29 Sep 2019, 15:57 I have a suggestion about the registration process.
When I registered, I sort of had a struggle, because the only options for gender were male and female, and you had to specify a gender - however, my character, Quinn, is agender and doesn't fit into the binary system.
I ended up simply picking Quinn's sex (sexual organs assigned at birth) which is female, even though it said gender and not sex in the registration process.
Even the dormitories are divided into male and female students.
I have three suggestions on how you could solve this issue:
1. More diversity. Add more categories to the gender question. I would suggest Female, Male, MTF Transgender, FTM Transgender, Agender and Genderfluid. Maybe you could also allow non-binary (agender + genderfluid) students to choose their preferred dormitory.
2. Change "gender" to "sex". If you are only referring to the biological part, gender is the wrong term. Change the name to sex and make it clear that dorm sortings are defined by sex, not gender.
Thanks for your attention!
Sincerely,
Quinn Prescott
This is a question I asked myself when doing the registration form.
On the French site, there has been a separation between female and male dormitories since the first days, as well as toilets, just like in the Harry Potter books. This involves separating people between two sexes at registration.
To go back on this (or to plan different cases according to other types of gender) would require a lot of work, to be honest.
On the question of the terminology between sex and gender, we had made the opposite choice, but using the term sex does seem actually more appropriate to me. I am making the change.
Thank you!
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Hi, I hope it's not just me but I can't find an option for fonts in the BBCode. I think you should add it, with a drop-down list for at least the classics, like Arial, Times, Comic Sans, and Cursive. I think it would be convenient because I've been owled about how I used the fonts. I know there's a section on how to use BBCode but I feel like there should be a button for fonts as well.
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The fonts that you see on that list in the BB code do not work on every browser type [such as Chrome, FireFox and Internet Explorer]. That is why I have them listed there for you so you can see which ones work for you. There are likely many more that I have listed in fact, but the more unusual ones would be supported in even less browsers.
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There is something about ambition, how it not only propels you but also defines you.
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Hello!
Here's my suggestion :
Here's my suggestion :
It's only a suggestion, if it needs to be detailed I should be able to work on it a little more! If you want to discuss about it, you're welcome too!OOC MENTORINGWhat is it?
The idea is to offer personal help and guidance to newbies by assigning them a tutor who would be there to answer their questions and exchange with them as long as they feel the need.
It would be based on volunteering : anyone could apply to become a tutor.
Positive aspects
It would help shy people to build a first link OC (and maybe IC then), get confident on the forum earlier,... and help them to take their marks and browse easily in that maze-looking website filled with so many rooms and threads.
Negative aspects (but with solutions)
There's a risk for tutors to end up with players who disappear after a few days. But maybe allow them then to take another protégé if the first one vanished into thin air ?
It may be an echo to Quill Pals but I think the link between tutor and his/her "disciple" is different from the link between two quill pals, at least at the beginning of mentoring.
How to organise it ?
Tutor role applies Tutors could apply on precise conditions (example : 3 months experience, 5 completed RPGs, 5 returned homeworks,...) and by answering by owl to a short questionnaire about OC rules, context, IC topics as character pages etc. Depending whether answers are right and precise or not, the user would be allowed to become a tutor (or not).
Ask for mentoring
To get a tutor, people would only have to ask as a response in the presentation thread.
Tutor/novice repartition
Now I'm thinking about two different ways :
- People getting paired by someone else (staff member or someone globally managing mentoring)
- Tutors directly answering to newbies and accepting them
Novices would be the one who choose when to put an end to mentoring and stand on their own two feets!
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Submitting for a student that I will keep anonym:
I don't know if this will help at all... But I'm a member of a[nother] forum which tried a system of allowing player-created things: planets, races, equipment, etc. The way we did was that there were templates players had to fill out for each type of submission, and a specific section of the forum they had to post it in so that it could be looked over. They could only submit three things at a time until each was approved.
We had community judges to look at each item, and if it was approved, it would get an "approval" stamp on the bottom of that post as a reply and then moved into a database of other player-made things within a section of the forum that was separate from the RP area, but viewable by all players. Each item was put into their subsections by category. If a submission wasn't approved, the judge would post why as a reply to that post and make recommendations. If those were followed, the player was to alert the judges to those edits, and they would look it over again, and so on.
If for some reason, the submission simply could not be allowed, such as the player not following judge suggestions, or the presentation just not working out despite best efforts, it would get a "denied" stamp and moved to a different section of the forum were such things were archived as an example of what not to do. The judging was a thankless job, but we did get plenty of cool stuff out of it. The basics of judgment were that said thing had to make sense in-universe and in its own context, and not plagiarize anything, if that makes any sense.
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Not sure if this idea has been considered, but here it is:
All potions/spells should have the option of being learnt in the same way Extra Lessons are conducted (i.e. the Bubble Producing Charm and Eyeglass Repair Charm). Your character isn't anonymous, it's RPed in a specific environment, House points aren't an incentive, word count still applies, a prof/mod would have to approve the spell's/potion's completion, and I find those much more realistic and rewarding to complete, since I would love to add these sorts of milestones to my character's RP list. This could be an alternative way for our characters to learn spells and potions, aside from the Homework system.
Main reason why I voice this idea is that I… hate. dealing with Homework. I'd rather do a straightforward RP of my character learning how to do the spell/potion than having to tackle a bunch of side questions and "creative" RPs in doing Homework. I have nothing against the Homework system, it should be the main way to earn House points, but it shouldn't be the only gateway to acquiring knowledge of a certain spell/potion, for those who'd like an alternative.
Thanks for reading!
All potions/spells should have the option of being learnt in the same way Extra Lessons are conducted (i.e. the Bubble Producing Charm and Eyeglass Repair Charm). Your character isn't anonymous, it's RPed in a specific environment, House points aren't an incentive, word count still applies, a prof/mod would have to approve the spell's/potion's completion, and I find those much more realistic and rewarding to complete, since I would love to add these sorts of milestones to my character's RP list. This could be an alternative way for our characters to learn spells and potions, aside from the Homework system.
Main reason why I voice this idea is that I… hate. dealing with Homework. I'd rather do a straightforward RP of my character learning how to do the spell/potion than having to tackle a bunch of side questions and "creative" RPs in doing Homework. I have nothing against the Homework system, it should be the main way to earn House points, but it shouldn't be the only gateway to acquiring knowledge of a certain spell/potion, for those who'd like an alternative.
Thanks for reading!