Because this is primarily a gaming forum, the only real reason for this one is because there were forum games & RPs filling up the off-topic discussion.TheBigBrain said:
Role-playing thread guidelines. UPDATE: 5 November 2010
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Fl@nked said:
Fire Daemon said:
Well, seeing as a sticky hasn't turned up, we could always just make one and ensure it stays on the front page - I'm more than willing to do that, but I want to check that people are okay with that option;Tsurugi said:
Should I make a thread? What kind of guidelines would we even want? Would we be able to keep it on the front page without going overboard? Would the mods even allow it?
Well the mods are sure to see that and will eventually comment. As for keeping it on the front page, for awhile I am sure people will be throwing out ideas enough to keep it there but will it last or will the thread sink and people will forget about it so we have to post constant refreshers?
Okay, I've been reading this thread, waiting for a general consensus on what we should do to make the RP forums better. So far it seems we have a few suggestions. In particular, a "RP ideas discussion sticky" and "moderators moderating for new thread content."
RP discussion sticky.
I won't make another sticky in this forum concerning RP, what I will do is approve a discussion thread for the community map, should a senior role player feel the need for one.
Thread moderation.
Moderators won't get involved in moderating RP threads. In fact the only thing moderators will do to RP threads is close them if they don't fall in-line with the guidelines we've put forward, or if people participating in the RP break general guidelines. If you have some suggestions about either of the guidelines, feel free to post them here.
RP discussion sticky.
I won't make another sticky in this forum concerning RP, what I will do is approve a discussion thread for the community map, should a senior role player feel the need for one.
Thread moderation.
Moderators won't get involved in moderating RP threads. In fact the only thing moderators will do to RP threads is close them if they don't fall in-line with the guidelines we've put forward, or if people participating in the RP break general guidelines. If you have some suggestions about either of the guidelines, feel free to post them here.
Gah, does this mean I need to find a veteran Escpaist role-player to support the idea?wilsonscrazybed said:
Putting it on the map would remove the need to keep it bumped, which would be great, but who counts as someone senior enough to show that it isn't a lame idea?
While I don't care about RP's(and all I want when it comes to Escapist's fun and games is that damn TF2 server), wouldn't be possible to give specific "Gamemasters" moding rights to their respective RP-threads?And if that's not possible,you could always give moding rights of an entire forum to more sensible rp-ers (e.g.DMobius), first forcing them to promise that they won't abuse it.
...yeah, I know this won't happen.
I don't think we should have any approval process. I set up my Escapist Election on a whim inspired by another thread, and I think it's doing alright. There are a few too many RP threads in my opinion though, so maybe we should encourage people to only run one at a time and remind noobs that they should play a game before GMing.
An excellent suggestion. One per customer policy? How does everyone feel about that?Larenxis post=362.63498.645033 said:
We just experienced a real life market effect. The Forum boomed due to extra reserves of fun and time but once that subsided, we didn't have the energy or creativity to run the overabundant threads. We have had about 4 or 5 very popular threads fall within a weeks time due to this effect, at least thats what I believe. Any other thoughts?
Well that sucks for me but it does sound good. Lately RPs that have looked like they had potential and were going to be really popular died down to no one posting anymore and maybe it is because of what Fl@nked said. Even though it is going to mean I will have to run one at a time and post pone the others I have planned it is for the better good of a non-cluttered Forum Games & RP.
You know it's a good policy when the gold-spammers agree with it.helenmary post=362.63498.646716 said:
