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Eukara Vox -> RE: RP and Fourm Game Change Ideas? (4/21/2014 16:11:56)
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The RP forum and the games forum will not be merged. The logistics in such a move is beyond do-ability. The game forum AKs and Moderators are in no position to moderate an RP forum. It is separated for a reason.
The forumites aren't scared of the RP forum as much as they come in, get approved and then, mysteriously disappear, or are talked into disappearing by forumites who are trying to get them to go other places. I've had two RP partners just... vanish, even though we had a lot planned. I get to watch the approval process first hand since the RP staff use my L&L channel on IRC to discuss business. It's not as hard as everyone is making it out to be, and is constantly being tweaked when something does come up. You can bring a horse to water, but you cannot force it to drink.
Casual RP cannot be "casual" if there are rules. That goes against the very nature of casual RP, and... the amount of moderating that it would require is not exactly ideal. Those "casual RP" instances in game forum threads that are allowed require almost 3 times as much attention as anything else in those forums. And they had rules, the Forum rules, and they STILL violated them and got shut down.
As to adoption threads, if someone needs to be absent, or is leaving indefinitely, they are supposed to elect someone to carry on. That is up to the creator. If someone leaves an RP without appointing someone, the RP staff has the right to appoint someone new if there is enough desire to continue without the now long-lost GM.
There are already forum contests. Trust me... they don't work as well as you might think. I've been trying them for years. [>:]
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