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Can someone edit this campaign to show it's not accepting players?

Not sure where to post this.... <a href="https://app.roll20.net/lfg/listing/3374/the-copper-rooster-tavern-pathfinder" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/lfg/listing/3374/the-copper-rooster-tavern-pathfinder</a> This campaign is no longer accepting players as of April but the campaign data is set to "looking for 99 more players" and they are still showing up in the LFG search results. Can someone please fix that? It's rather confusing.
<a href="https://app.roll20.net/lfg/listing/3735/pathfinder-clique" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/lfg/listing/3735/pathfinder-clique</a> This one is dead too, and it doesn't even have a GM listed...
<a href="https://app.roll20.net/lfg/listing/3595/obari-trading-company" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/lfg/listing/3595/obari-trading-company</a> <a href="https://app.roll20.net/lfg/listing/4920/pathfinder-pathfinder" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/lfg/listing/4920/pathfinder-pathfinder</a> <a href="https://app.roll20.net/lfg/listing/4602/homebrew" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/lfg/listing/4602/homebrew</a> <a href="https://app.roll20.net/lfg/listing/5068/huehuehuehue-pathfinder-game" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/lfg/listing/5068/huehuehuehue-pathfinder-game</a> <a href="https://app.roll20.net/lfg/listing/5193/gaia" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/lfg/listing/5193/gaia</a> Dead too, no threads have replies for more than a month. Man the LFG search results are FULL of dead games....
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Gauss
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Question:&nbsp; Could you clarify how this is a bug or problem?&nbsp; Both campaigns in question have a GM listed. Specifically, Bast for the Copper Rooster and Kyogama for the Pathfinder Clique.&nbsp; The campaigns not being set to accept any more players does not remove them from the listings. The GMs in question would need to remove the respective campaigns from the listings. It is up to them.&nbsp; - Gauss
It's a problem when people are looking for games to join and the search results are clogged full of dead games because the GMs just upped and left without editing the settings. If you just leave it like this, nobody is going to use the LFG feature any more a year from now because all the search results are dead games....
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Gauss
Forum Champion
How do you define them as 'dead'? How do you know if the GM has left?&nbsp; - Gauss
"How do you define a campaign as 'dead'?" That sounds to me like a line that the company needs to draw. &nbsp;As it will be a ruling that empowers employees to obfuscate/delete/purge/hide campaigns. &nbsp;But it is a good question to ask of the players. &nbsp;What actions/choices can a GM take that registers as sufficient neglect to cause roll20.net to do something about their 'dead' campaign. &nbsp;Get enough roll20.net lawyers to fill in the blanks and add it to the MOTD and license agreement etc etc... &nbsp;If you do ____ your campaign will be _____. <a href="https://app.roll20.net/lfg/listing/1685/mutants-and-masterminds-bordertown" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/lfg/listing/1685/mutants-and-masterminds-bordertown</a> &nbsp; annoying fossil that has been around, stinking like a dead fish, at least as long as I've been using the service.
In the bordertown campaign, in the last two months, no one in the campaign, nor the GM has replied to anything on the looking for group forums.
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Gauss
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I was asking Question how he was defining the campaign as dead. :) The game you have linked isnt even on the first 10 pages. It is on page 11.&nbsp; In any case, this is more the realm of the suggestion forum rather than the Bug Report forum. I will move this thread there.&nbsp; - Gauss
Gauss said: How do you define them as 'dead'? How do you know if the GM has left?&nbsp; - Gauss In most of the campaigns i linked, you can see that people have been posting for more than a month trying to join the game with zero response. I don't know about you guys, but i can't seem to see any GM listed for those games at all, just players without the GM tag. It seems pretty clear to me that those campaigns are dead. And in at least one campaign, the GM flat out stated months ago that he is not playing anymore and is not accepting new players, but simply never modified the campaign to say that he is no longer looking for players. What roll20 staff could do is send a notification(this could be an automatic notification) to the GM if there has been no activity detected for the campaign for a period of several weeks. If the GM does not reply within a certain time limit, the campaign is removed from the LFG list. One example : Let's say a GM sets up a campaign for LFG. He doesn't login for several weeks. He gets a email reminder asking whether he still wants to look for players, a week later if he doesn't respond, the campaign is removed from the LFG search list as he is no longer looking for players.
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Gauss
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Question:&nbsp; 1) GMs are not listed in the LFG campaign pages. The only location to see the GM for a given campaign is on the LFG listings. That is not an indicator of a 'dead campaign'.&nbsp; 2) Communication often happens in PM. I often respond to inquiries to my own games in PM. So, while a lack of apparent responses might be an indicator it is not a guaranteed indicator.&nbsp; Besides the GM making the statement do you have any other indicators for a 'dead campaign'?&nbsp; - Gauss
Well if you want to argue that the GM leaves half a dozen topics unanswered but is replying via PMs only...(not exactly likely) Then you might as well argue that it is impossible to determine if a campaign is dead or not. Unless you implement some sort of system that allows you to check last login times for the GM or last session played, stuff like that. Or just send some sort of notification to the GM asking them if they really are accepting new players because there's all these unanswered threads in their forum.
If the GM hasn't logged in to the campaign and made changes within the last thirty days, remove that crap from the LFG listing.
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Gauss
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Question, I was not arguing, I was stating that it is not possible to know how the GM is responding to people posting. As for your suggestion I do not comment on suggestions. I only comment on how the system currently works.&nbsp; - Gauss
An easy fix would be that campaigns are only added to the LFG for a certain amount of time. Maybe 2 weeks. After that it gets automatically removed from the listing. A GM can login to the campaign and "reset" this 2 week timer by clicking a button or something (or it gets automatically reset when he logs into the campaign). That way campaigns where the GM puts some minimal effort into it remain listed for as long as you want, others where the GM has vanished get removed from the list after 2 weeks.