Okay. I want to take a step back here. I'm not talking about doing nothing about seriously inactive canonmates. That would be ridiculous. If someone never posts, and you contact them (you can't just wait for them to contact you) and nothing comes of it, take that straight to the mods, because it is hard to deal with. But if it comes to that, and they get booted, or you get told you have to wait for them to get booted, yeah, you take the hit. Like I said, I've been there, it sucks, but you work through it. As far as I'm aware, taking that sort of inactivity to the mods has always been an option.

But a more moderate problem, like someone slow-posting to threads or maybe missing a thread or two, that should not be seriously messing up your ability to play your character. Especially in Damned, where it means maybe they're gone for a 'day' or less.