RPs: Long term or short?

[Grey Fox]

I doubt your RP will last that long if the absense of one player can slow it down. look the old Love hina RP, when i joined that there was well over 30 people who had posted, and even with a good 40 or so pages of time to wet my feet in my first RP(that's right a noob stuck it out to the end, though naturally i did some very noobish stuff then, and even broke a few rules without knowing them, but noone actually told me) and even then it just kept on going through a ton of story arcs, i think i was around for about 5, but i saw more.

That thing though has a ton of "one posters" ;P

and here on i acchieved one point in one long paragraph

[Lirik Endivian]

Ill make sure it doesnt happen again. Ill make it a mandatory thing that a player in the Rp warns the rest if they wont be able tot post in a while. Then, the Gm will take over the character (and try to do the best to get that characters personality and such right.

[Grey Fox]

It's not that its just that we have a lot of two week members on the register here ;P

besides taking someones character can be something they don't like much, i'd say just remove them until a later date or you'll steer them into all kinds of situations they don't want. I speak from experience on the end of the person doing the steering.

[lockx]

i like long ones

and if it's good enough having the other person vanish for a few weeks can be horrible but you'll still keep on with it