So, it's me. Floob. The original captain of this Guild, it's founder.
Those of you who remember me - hooray. Those of you who don't - Oh well. I took a large, large, LARGE break from R Corp / Word Play / Roleplaying in general. It had lost it's spark for me, and I found that after a while, all of Gaia had become boring for me. I only came online for the storyline and the daily chance. Then I'd go off to play some sort of MMORPG. (I'm currently in love with Flyff. Anybody play it?)
But now I'm back. I've been entering roleplays in Barton Town a bit, hough they unfortunately, died. Then I got a PM from Flynn and I knew it was time to come back. So here I am. Now, I have some suggestions and thoughts. xD
The Name
It's great, I love it. That R Corp thing was a spurr of the moment sort of thing, and I love this. It's interesting and ehh...The banner looks pretty nifty. xD
The Inactive Members
We should definately get rid of [ban is such a horrible word] those members who aren't very active. They'll just clog up the members list and it's not a very good thing. So allow me to say what I think. We have two possibilities, in my opinion. Probably more but whatever. xD
1) From R Corp/Word Play mule thingy, we send everyone a pm. Those who wish to stay must reply within say, a week. Those who do not reply or reply asking to leave the guild, we shall get rid of them.
2) Go through the members list. Who have we never even seen? Those are the people we will either send a warning pm to, or just ban them straight away.
What do you think? I'm aware deleting members is quite a hassle, especially because we have so many inactive members, so I will gladly take it upon myself to do all the bannings and such.
Now that's out of the way...
Sub Forums & Stickies
The Sub Forums are good right now. I can't see why we'd have to change them - and in the future we can create more sub-forums. Not too many, of course. I personally think anything more than five is a little overboard. For now, our sub forums are great in my eyes.
The stickies and anouncements are okay now. Though in the main forum I suppose we could have some more. Maybe one sticky for an introduction. The stuff everybody should read and a brief history about Word Play (How it was previously called R Corp and such) and then maybe , a sticky for what makes good roleplaying. Having just one sticky crammed full with information could be a bit uh, horrible. Maybe attempting to seperate the stickies in to three sections like, introduction, roleplaying tips & something about being active and how if you make a roleplay it's a good thing.
And finally...
The Newsletter
This, in my eyes, is a great idea. Making special banners for the newsletter and a nice name for it would be fantastic - and we could have sections, like we used to. For the current roleplays. The roleplayer of the month - who, could win something? Maybe also have sections for new members. For opinions. And maybe for anouncements of new contests, or even a section for the members of roleplays to put in their notes! We could have a sticky in the general banter forum where people can post what they want to say in next month's newsletter. Maybe just little, 250 word tops things. Mentioning birthdays, quest threads, their own roleplays, whatever they'd like. ^^
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Well then, this turned out longer than I thought it would. If you read it all - great. If you didn't - Ah well. xD
Thanks for not running away from this Guild @ The captains and such.
Thanks for being here through rough times @ inactive members
And thanks to all of you for keeping this guild, slightly alive.
..Thank you to the inactive members? Ehh, I don't know what to thank you for. D;
~Floob.
Those of you who remember me - hooray. Those of you who don't - Oh well. I took a large, large, LARGE break from R Corp / Word Play / Roleplaying in general. It had lost it's spark for me, and I found that after a while, all of Gaia had become boring for me. I only came online for the storyline and the daily chance. Then I'd go off to play some sort of MMORPG. (I'm currently in love with Flyff. Anybody play it?)
But now I'm back. I've been entering roleplays in Barton Town a bit, hough they unfortunately, died. Then I got a PM from Flynn and I knew it was time to come back. So here I am. Now, I have some suggestions and thoughts. xD
The Name
It's great, I love it. That R Corp thing was a spurr of the moment sort of thing, and I love this. It's interesting and ehh...The banner looks pretty nifty. xD
The Inactive Members
We should definately get rid of [ban is such a horrible word] those members who aren't very active. They'll just clog up the members list and it's not a very good thing. So allow me to say what I think. We have two possibilities, in my opinion. Probably more but whatever. xD
1) From R Corp/Word Play mule thingy, we send everyone a pm. Those who wish to stay must reply within say, a week. Those who do not reply or reply asking to leave the guild, we shall get rid of them.
2) Go through the members list. Who have we never even seen? Those are the people we will either send a warning pm to, or just ban them straight away.
What do you think? I'm aware deleting members is quite a hassle, especially because we have so many inactive members, so I will gladly take it upon myself to do all the bannings and such.
Now that's out of the way...
Sub Forums & Stickies
The Sub Forums are good right now. I can't see why we'd have to change them - and in the future we can create more sub-forums. Not too many, of course. I personally think anything more than five is a little overboard. For now, our sub forums are great in my eyes.
The stickies and anouncements are okay now. Though in the main forum I suppose we could have some more. Maybe one sticky for an introduction. The stuff everybody should read and a brief history about Word Play (How it was previously called R Corp and such) and then maybe , a sticky for what makes good roleplaying. Having just one sticky crammed full with information could be a bit uh, horrible. Maybe attempting to seperate the stickies in to three sections like, introduction, roleplaying tips & something about being active and how if you make a roleplay it's a good thing.
And finally...
The Newsletter
This, in my eyes, is a great idea. Making special banners for the newsletter and a nice name for it would be fantastic - and we could have sections, like we used to. For the current roleplays. The roleplayer of the month - who, could win something? Maybe also have sections for new members. For opinions. And maybe for anouncements of new contests, or even a section for the members of roleplays to put in their notes! We could have a sticky in the general banter forum where people can post what they want to say in next month's newsletter. Maybe just little, 250 word tops things. Mentioning birthdays, quest threads, their own roleplays, whatever they'd like. ^^
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Well then, this turned out longer than I thought it would. If you read it all - great. If you didn't - Ah well. xD
Thanks for not running away from this Guild @ The captains and such.
Thanks for being here through rough times @ inactive members
And thanks to all of you for keeping this guild, slightly alive.
..Thank you to the inactive members? Ehh, I don't know what to thank you for. D;
~Floob.
