Magical Hogwarts - Portal

Hello!

Over the last few months the administration has observed a rather disconcerting trend. Many new characters have been created, however these characters are never put into action. There are entirely too many profiles for characters that have never interacted in our RP environment. Yet more multichars are created every day. Roleplayers focus on writing new profiles, rather than playing with the characters they have already created.

As a counter measure I would like to offer a character workshop for inactive characters. Since the nature of this exercise is somewhat intimate I can only accept a limited number of characters for this. However, should the workshop model prove successful I will be offering more in the future and other administrators may be willing to offer a workshop group as well.

In order to participate in the inactive character workshop the following requirements have to be met:

-   At this point in time this offer is only extended to ADULT CHARACTERS. I do not have any students myself and are therefore ill equipped to assist with students.
-   I only have 10 places in the workshop available.
-   Please only sign on with ONE SINGLE character. Dealing with more than one problem at a time would be futile.
-   If you sign on I expect you to have time for the full duration of the workshop, which will be 4 weeks starting from the 9th of July.
-  You will not be expected to be online daily, but you will be expected to participate several times a week.
-   In order to participate the character must have been inactive for at least two consecutive month.
-   I expect each participant to create a list of prompts detailing the nature of the problems they are having with the character they registered for the workshop.

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Hi people,

here a friendly reminder about common curtesy.

1 -- If you PM me, plrease check first if your question really needs to be answered by the main admin. I am busy and I cannot and do not want to deal with the nitty gritty detail of opening gringotts accounts or what wand core would be appropriate for Hogwarts. In short, please find the appropriate staff member to ask your question. We prefer if you use the Questions & Answers area as everyone can see it and your questions will be answered fastest.

2 -- Just because I am online, doesn't mean I am free. Yes, I am here a lot and a lot of the time I am actually busy making sure the site runs. This is not some sort of euphemism but what my main job as admin is. I do the technical end of MH. It takes time to do. Just because you can't see what I am doing, doesn't mean I am idle. So please stop those PM starting with 'Since you are not doing anything at the moment, can you help me with ... '

3 -- I am a human being. I expect messages addressed to me to start with 'Hello' or 'Hi' and to end in some form of goodbye. I am not a machine her to satisfy your whims. Please have some common custesy.

4 -- My MSN is given in my profile so you can contact me should you need to. Please do not abuse this. I am tired of being invitited to pointless group chats and being spammed with stupid comments. If you want to chat to m privately that is fine. In which case starting a conversation with 'Hello The Goblin Queen' would be a good idea. 'OMG I so totally saw a movie' is probably going to make me OMG so totally close your IM window.

5 -- Do not give my MSN to people outside MH. I am tired of ... 'so X told me you run that website she's on and she thinks you are pretty cool'. Well, guess what X, you are pretty lame.

6 -- If I take longer than 10 minutes to respond on MSN that probably means I am busy. I have over 50 of you on MY msn list, so you can imagine that things get crowded on occasion.

7 -- If you need me in my capacity as main admin, please cut to the chase. I am expecting to answer questions and I am not mad about dealing with them if they are actually questions you really need the main admin for. So please save me 'can I ask you something', 'I wondered if it was ok to ask a question', 'I would like to ask something but I can come back later'. All you are achieving by this is wasting my time. I have also very little patience for tickling information out of you. Be concise. It's a virtue.

Hi folks,

the themes for our newest three staff members have finally been completed. Please enjoy Carys's, Laura's and Anastacia's theme. They all came out very beautifully.

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