Ceaint
Moot Moose
LibeIIus
So with the subforums they are going to have veryyyy vanilla names so we can put roleplays that are similar to the name inside them.
for example.
Say we have a subforum labeled "School Role plays"
then in that subforum we would have any rp that has to do with any kind of school.
highschool, middle school. maybe even a school full of zombies!
also for the basic set of for our roleplays is very nice and very easy to use.
we have 2 forums per rp. one for the characters. and one for the story itself. the story one at the verrrry top will have an image of the setting and will have a back story and a very vanilla title. the forum for the characters will be were u will post ur character profile and we have a basic copy and paste profile to fill out.
eh, okay so you're doing the whole splitting and segregating thing.
This way, we get a more "organized" feel to it. If everyone were to post their character profiles in the same forum of the roleplay itself, things would get a little messy. haha! Imagine if a new character were to come into the story, having them post their profile in the middle of the story would throw some people off, I'd guess. (Did that previous sentence make sense? I hope so!)
First off if someone just walks into my RP and post a profile without first reading
the rules and following instructions is a damn ******** idiot and would never be
allowed into my RP in the first place . . . I mean common roleplay etiquette, you
never post to a roleplay you're not in.
BUT I understand the mindset, thing is to me the guild already feel segregated
and inactive. What little activity there is, is split across multiple sub-forums. Any
visual illusion of high activity is broken. There is one thread in the main forum,
the first forum people see when entering the guild, the main forum that opens every
time you open the guild.
The guild looks inactive, it is empty, where is everything?Guilds not only have the downside of having an outdated posting system, outdated
bbcode, outdated visual appearance, and outdated everything (and this is simply
because Gaiaonline are to busy money grubbing to bother fixing something that
has needed fixing for more years than we care to count --- which isn't your fault --
or remaking guild properly with updated code like the rest of their damn site).
This said I separating everything does a disservice to the guild, when guilds are
already so hard to recruit for and keep members (because of the outdated system).
Things should be made as convenient as possible for the viewer. The fewer sub-forums
I need to dig through to find what I need the better. I already have a bit of a task
getting to the guilds in the first place (outdated system again) so I want everything
in one place.
This is me though, I don't like having to dig through every sub forums just
to located all the activity of the guild, in many cases finding none because
certain sub-forums will be far less active than others.
For example IC-threads aren't as active, usually, as OOC threads so why not
keep OOC threads (ooc/profile/general threads/games/polls --- basically anything
that pulls activity) in the main forum. These threads are where people are actively
posting. If it is in the main forums the first thing a new member sees is activity.
You can totally keep IC threads to a subforum, that makes sense to me.
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