Before we move beyond this post, I'd like to touch on how Dreamwidth roleplayers keep track of the tags they receive.
By default, when someone replies to a comment you've made, or makes any comment on a post you've made, you receive a notification. Also by default, that notification will go to two places: your Dreamwidth journal's inbox, and to the email account you used to set up that journal.
Dreamwidth allows you to make an unlimited number of accounts with the same email address, so most players that play multiple characters rely on email notifications to know when they've been tagged. This has two advantages over using Dreamwidth's own inbox. First, because all journals' notifications flow to one email, there's no need to log in and out to see your outstanding tags. Second, because the most popular email clients automatically refresh, there's no need to reload the page to see whether you have new notifications.
Notifications
By default, when someone replies to a comment you've made, or makes any comment on a post you've made, you receive a notification. Also by default, that notification will go to two places: your Dreamwidth journal's inbox, and to the email account you used to set up that journal.
Dreamwidth allows you to make an unlimited number of accounts with the same email address, so most players that play multiple characters rely on email notifications to know when they've been tagged. This has two advantages over using Dreamwidth's own inbox. First, because all journals' notifications flow to one email, there's no need to log in and out to see your outstanding tags. Second, because the most popular email clients automatically refresh, there's no need to reload the page to see whether you have new notifications.