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I was thinking something along the lines of an activity thread, to post where and when we would be going places so we don't get questions like "Where's so and so? They didn't say ANYTHING!!" or like that.

*edges away from scary chipmunks*

Anyway.

The main thing we need is to boost activity, whether it be through new recruits or the resurrection of old ones. I have a few ideas for this:

The PM cleaning discussed in the OOC Chat wouldn't be so hard. All we need is a copy and paste message, like... "This is a friendly warning from the Literate Role Player's Association: we have begun to clean out inactive users and have noticed (or rather, not noticed) your lack of activity. You applied for this guild to roleplay and to chat with fellow roleplayers; if you would like to do so, we suggest posting on the "Roll Call" thread before (date) to avoid a ban. If you don't, then there's a handy "Quit Guild" button that we suggest you employ... (Et cetera.)"

Of course, you might want to end it on a more positive note, but whatever.

We could also hold an event. If nobody thinks that I'd run off with the tickets, I'd be willing to organise a drive (whoever donates tickets gets a chance to win a prize bought by them; the more donated, the better the prize). Or, I have an idea for an elimination prize game thingie. Hard to explain, but yeah. >.o;

To get new members, we could start a freeform RP in its name in Barton Town and a recruitment thread for it in Barton Town OOC. That's how I found the guild, through an RP.

Anyway, this is just basic stuff. But there's nothing wrong with a little initiative. x3

*EDIT*

Oh. And I think that the stickies could be looked over, and perhaps condensed or reorganised. x_x;

Shazz, I like the idea for making a freeform Rp. That sounds excellent. It'll certainly get more people who will actually be ACTIVE.

Mass PM's would be difficult, but managable. We should also create a new Roll Call thread for people who pop in and out but don't actually post in any active Rp's. I think that's a good idea, actually.

Stickies do need to be condensed. Some of them can be deleted as well.

We used to have a contest thread that Blue started where you had to write a poem or a short prose sample. I think we should take that idea and make it so that there's a new contest every month or something. The funds for it could come out of the guild's account (LRPAcrewmembers).

I was also thinking of making a 'who's gone on vacation' type thing. It's a good idea so that people don't forget to post that they're leaving and get banned for inactivity or something.

Yeah, I miss the Roll Call thread...

Also, maybe for any RP's that any of us DO start in barton and such, we could put a link to the LRPA in it and have a little quirk or comment saying something like..

"Brought to a viewer near you by the LRPA" ^^ We could get 'creative' ninja

I suggest we change the title of OOC Chat to:

OOC Chat: A Place for Wonderful Surprises.

I beg to differ, actually. I found that those tags made things very efficient, so long as you knew what they meant. That was probably the biggest problem and why I don't use them in the creation of my roleplays (even though they die within days).

So yeah. Maybe if we made a thread just for the roleplay tag breakdown, stickied/announced it and locked it, it'd be easier for people to use them to make sure people knew what was required.

Yeah, go ahead and delete both of them. I think we need a new contest thread and a new banner.