Linking with offsite or canon characters?

Posted 5 years, 3 months ago by lewnatic

I do a lot of off-site RP and use this site to host profiles and save information for my reference. I would really like to be able to use the Links formatting to show my character's relationships, but none of my RP partners are on Toyhou.se and I'm not sure if they'd have an interest in joining.
I'm not sure if it's too simplistic of a solution, but I'd really like to simply be able to add a link by adding a name and icon, having it function as though I were linking two of my own characters. This could also make it possible to create links with very minor characters in one's setting, who they might not necessarily want to make a full profile for.

I figure there might be some issues with it--one that comes to mind is it would potentially be possible to "fake" a link with an on-site creator. Perhaps there could be a signifier to show that these links are both being written by one character.

Does anyone else have any other thoughts on this?

Pure-Blue-Heart

+1 hech yeah!

Kattenkvvaad

+1

nitrogoblin

not my thing, but more power to the rest of you.

HowlingCat

+1 Definitely need this for certain characters I have every with the new rule update

ParadiseLost

Very important thanks to the rule update

lilligant

+1! would probably only use this for minor characters who don't deserve a whole profile myself, but i think it would get a lot of good use!

Natalya

+1 !

I agree completely.

sicknasty

+1

lilligant

hm so I've given this some thought actually and want to come back to it because I've realized I wouldn't be entirely comfortable with this feature existing while we're still invite-only because it means it's impossible for off-site character creators to dispute use of their characters in links if the feature is used maliciously. i'd like to think it wouldn't be but i don't think it's bad to be prepared for the worst either..! I think this would be a handy feature and DO want to see it implemented but I think we need some kind of failsafe, which'll be harder to implement with the site closed up as it is

luxis-polaris

Hmm, maybe there should be ownership/trading restrictions on the characters? Perhaps it would be possible to do this but add an ad caveat to viewers indicating that the character is offsite/canon. Perhaps a link reporting feature, that is available for guests?