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What about really specific subforums such as

Romance Highschool RP,
Fighting School RP
Village RP,

Stuff like that

And if I didn't say the following, I would be a liar,

I do like having power...but occasionally I get un-active when I do that...but now I own a guild...and am a moderater in 2 and active in all...so ya...(PS I am gaia the most in my family)

err i really havent been here long enough to make this offer and have it accepted however i've got a large amount of experience in moderating forums websites and chat room . I use to moderate the Red dragon inn wich is a huge site.I was the RDI Den mother. I would be more than happy to help out when i can mostly a little in the evening when all my kiddos are asleep.

If you'd like to discuss it further your welcome to message me..

blessings

Dude, you CAN be a teacher. xd Our moderator has a sticky because his project is going to be a large one, but if you go into the Questions subforum you can see other members helping out there in very important ways.

Lady Kalimar, what I want to see from any potential moderator is an idea of what you would do if you were a moderator. What I mean is that you can do a lot just as a member. Moderator powers, as I'm sure you know, mostly involve moving threads and making stickies. There is a lot that you can do without that. But if you have a project or specific job in mind then PM me and I will consider it.

lol i never meant i needed mod powers dear simply that i was here if anyone needed me. I've found that most days the moderator title simple helped people find me to ask questions or verify rules and regulations. Although theres always the occasion when one had to remove certain unwelcome guests as well however it was anopen forum concept wich makes it harder to mod than a group of people who were accepted into a private area.

An idea you might try is to simply break up different groups of individuals into teaching and or moding certain areas of your forums. It makes it more organized if each person knows they are in charege of X or Y and not just hopping about willy nilly.

I think that you should make sub-forums like some other people. I would donate to the guild for those subforums but I forgot how much they were worth, so if someone could tell me then I'll donate for atleast one extra sub-forum... My specialty would most likely be creating advertisements for the guild.

We have plenty of money because the subforums only cost 2,500g. We just added two subforums and still have plenty of money for more. I have no problem adding more subforums if someone has a suggestion that I like for what that new subforum would be.

PS. I believe that Gaia is planning to make it so that you can change the order of the subforums which will be a relief

Thanks, I find your suggestions at least interesting and may consider them more seriously at a later date. I'm saying no to the OOC one though because people are allowed to create a second thread for their OOC chatter if they wish. I think it's better to have the OOC thread in the same place as the RP.

Now, a random chatter subforum? Maybe. Eh.

Guild Contests? Not right now. I would love to do contests, but we have so few that they don't warrant their own subforum right now. Right now they go in the main forum. Since we are moving most of the RPs out of the main forum, it should be less cluttered and I think that having the contests there or in their appropriate subforums (like a character contest in the Character subforum) should work.

Writing? I love writing. I have to decide if that is a can of worms or not. I used to moderate the writing forum and people can get kinda pissy about their work. But maybe we can keep it kinda more related to RPing (rather than just duplicating the writing forum) by focusing on stories and story fragments related to RP characters. It's kinda an argument of semantics at that point, since every character is a potential RP character. But if we had this we would be more accepting of story fragments than the writers forum because that is more conducive to and results often from RPing. We have a couple of threads now where people are supposed to critique each other's posts (story fragments, really) and some other threads that are about improving your writing... I'll think about it.