nauthiz:
This is not entirely accurate.
I don't know what the trigger is (I suspect it's when a player is assigned a character and then posts as that character to the RTJ thread), but at some point a private thread started by a visitor, can become attached to a character.
It then becomes visible in its entirety to whatever player may get assigned that character if it changes going forward.
Yes, this is true. Also if that Player remains but the Character is removed from them, that Player loses access to it, even if they remain in the game (with a different Character).
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That doesn't shed much light on SunRuanEr's question of what happens to an RTJ thread if you reassign the character while converting the player to a Lurker, but I figured I'd point out that PM thread ownership/visibility can get wonky.
Do they still control a Character if they're a Lurker? If so I'd imagine they'd keep access to their Character threads... if not I imagine they'd lose access.
This is why I prefer to assign my Players two Characters, themselves (I.E. a Character with their username) for Private discussions that don't involve the Character (and so they can post OOCly as themselves, I find it helps to keep IC beef IC and not spilling into the OOC*), and the Character for, well you get the idea.
* I learned long ago that people in general have a hard time separating IC and OOC in PbP (also in Face-to-Face games to a degree, some are really good at it, some are terrible at it), but having a name change, they more readily mentally separate the Player from the Character, even if they're the type of Player that doesn't do that in face-to-face games. It's like there is a greater degree of mental separation between Player and Character in a PbP than in FtF.