First of all uhm, no. I'm not actually worried about threads reaching ten comments, not that I'm saying it isn't a justified concern that shouldn't be brought up, it's just not one that I share. Not to mention people can have more than one concern with how this is laid out. I'd appreciate it if you took my, and others' concerns at face value. Simply because we're disagreeing doesn't mean the whole notion is being tabled. If we vote no on this the mods will go back, tweak the options, and put it to a new vote.

I think we're looking at AC differently. While AC can encourage posting- and that's mainly what we're trying to do- I think it principally makes people look at their characters and go "am I being active enough or do I really need to drop?" Increasing AC isn't going to fix our problems, we have to do that ourselves. If you increase it too much then it stops being incentive and starts to be more anxiety provoking.

I really don't think that most people are going to put up posts that are closed just to make AC. If you go back and look at the posts, most of the those up are opens. The ones that aren't are either plots, plot related, department related.