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  1. I like Discord. @Morrigan taught me to like it. I would like to implement it on my site too, but I wonder if I should do it or not, when neither the c-box is active enough on certain days. Strangely our members aren't very keen on communicating. Some because they aren't online at the same time with the others, and in the rare occasions when it happens, they are talking. Some are talking with me in e-mails or on FB messenger but not with the others. Some others even might have never talked in the c-box and they post on invisible - and not because they had any quarrell or bad experience with communicating with the other members here (on previous sites they had been on, I can't know). They are simply and obviously here to write and not to socialize at all. When in need of a PM to clarify something about a thread, they can talk, of course. Of course I would like it to be different, to encourage the members to talk more together, about the site, plot and characters but about life in general too... however I think in my particular case Discord is not a solution. It won't change anything and it will remain unused. I don't know how to encourage them to talk more even in the c-box, because I guess this has to come from inside, and no outside incentive can work.
  2. So, what methods do you guys use for avoiding the dreaded burn out if you're solo administrating on your site. I've set it up so that in a notes area on the site I have different days I do different jobs, so I'm not just posting roleplay threads all the time.
  3. Just a quick poll on what you use. You are free to give any reasons on why you use it but I'm looking t find out what people prefer now. After this poll we may come up with others for more preference items (more skin specific etc) we want to see some general likes of what you like to see on some basic information on RPs for now.
  4. This is something I've noticed in the short time I've been running my board, and I've recently seen it on other boards I've looked at, where a 'guest' comes to a site, and posts rude stuff in the c-box, usually an argument over an ad you've placed somewhere. They don't bother leaving any contact details, don't bother telling you which forum they are from (or if they do, they don't bother making it easy by linking their site - I wouldn't mind that, to be honest, because although it may look like they're advertising, they aren't, they'd just be telling you that there's a problem.) They usually try to be anon by calling themselves 'guest' or something, and proceed to tell admins how to run their site. I've also had guests who show an interest in the board, ask tons of questions which would be answered if they read through the information you've already posted, and tell you they don't like a certain rule, or concept you have on your site by claiming it's unfair or something along those lines. I was wondering how you deal with stuff like this because it seems to me that they like trying to get under the skins of admins to cause a fight. I'm not going to get upset with someone because they missed a rule, or haven't read something yet because I understand that sometimes people can be over enthusiastic when they come across a new site, but what is annoying is the attempt at being anonymous or telling the admins how they should run their site. Usually, I've just deleted such messages because they don't look nice to people when they first come to your board.
  5. The age-old debate over roleplay terminologies and what they mean exactly. On my board, I have Character Bazaar which is where the wanteds, adoptables, and exchanges go. I have these three as their own separate subforums and it's causing some confusion, which suddenly has me confused too though I had very distinct definitions in my head. Now it is an ongoing debate and one that I think might over-complicate things. To me, wanted ads are like classifieds. Looking for a tutor! Someone is looking for arranged marriage! You know, that kind of thing. Adoptables are characters within a group or family that already have some history, some background, name/age and some of their personality decided -- kind of like this orphanage of poor characters who just need a player to pick them up, dust them off, and love them. However, being new to RP, this seems to not always be the case. One of my friends is saying that an adoptable doesn't always allow room for the player to grow, therefore even a fleshed out character can be a wanted ad for a player to pick up and make that character their own. I think that's where the distinction is for many roleplayers? The ability to flesh out the character further themselves. If this is the case, I may just combined wanted/adoptable subforums into one, but it leaves me wondering why use two different terms for something that may basically be the same thing? How do you guys treat this? The way I set this up makes my friend and also my admin have to figure out more on how to split up her wanteds/adoptables which makes more work for her, I think. A few of the adoptable threads from my members have a mix of wanteds/adoptables which is fine to me. For instance, one person has two fleshed out characters for a retinue, with a few open wanted positions listed at the bottom. *shrugs* This doesn't bother me but it does make me think, ah, maybe time to combine.
  6. In the last 48 hours, our site has been hit by spam posts originating from Rusian Federation based IP addresses. Anyone else getting hit? We have reported all hits to JCink admin and it's being dealt with as an ongoing issue atm.
  7. So I've never implemented a 'system' into an rp before (i.e. posts = points to buy things with), but I have always wanted to, and now that I don't have to work with the wants of people who don't like the idea..I want to implement a system for the site that I've been slowly building. I have a basic idea for where I want to go with it, but a few things that I need input on. With a system where points add up and people can purchase items/abilities/spells for characters is it most common to allow players to pool all of their earned points from various characters in order to purchase things, or more so keeping it to 'this character account has these points, which can only be spent on this character.'? If the second option..how does one work with species classifications that one must be 'born' into? (Example: the species lore I have for vampires allows them to be born (I know..most don't agree with this idea, but my version of vampires who are 'born' makes them less so undead creatures of the night..) or turned..but because of the way I have born vamps written I would prefer to limit the number of those that are playable. However, I suppose that the option of simply demanding that all vampires (wether born or turned) are still young enough to have to learn everything isn't entirely out of the question. What would you do/prefer to see?
  8. Ok so as I've made pretty clear all over the net I've made a Venice RP (1792) and so far it is already active and going crazy with happy plotting, but as I set up the IC boards I worry about a few things: 1. I know that sometimes a historical board can be super intimidating to join and I want to make sure that all my boards are easy to understand and jump in for new people (or new players that are over 18) but I am finding myself with this one using a lot of the Italian names that they are called IRL, and I worry that will be too confusing. 2. Using the original Italian words v. the English counterpart. I do plan to have a really nice table of contents set up that way people can read as they want info, but as we all know that doesn't happen. But what I really want advice on. Do I keep the Italian names and just hope that people will google what they mean, or would it be super tacky to name the forums something like this-- Arsenale (The Shipyard), Piazza San Marco (Saint Marco's Square) Or should I just find the English translation? HELP!
  9. S.H.I.E.L.D is primarily 3rd person, however for setting scenes on mission start posts, especially when its city sequences which are working undercover I'm finding I'm using 'You' more. Would you find this break from third person jarring or would you say it would add to immersion? As an example
  10. Fellow admins- how do you feel about voice chatting with your communities? Is this something you feel is important? Do you want to have a community where you all can call each other and have a chat? Why or why not? If this does not matter to you, why does it not matter to you? Personally, I do enjoy being able to voice chat with my members. I don't expect it of them and wouldn't ever force them into it, but it does feel a little more personal and close when you can talk with a person and hear their voice. There have been certain RP partners that I would call and talk with alone, but recently it has been more in group calls when we played games or something together. In fact, most of the time when we have a group call it is because we were playing a game- and in that case, having a call going on made it much easier for us to communicate with each other than it did to use text chat.
  11. This is mainly a question for those people who run fandom boards. When I set my board up, I assumed that people who are interested in joining would already be familiar with much of the history, storyline, characters, the setting, etc, but I have been told that I should add some lore to the site. I was just wondering what you think is essential to include when writing bits of lore, what would be too much information (I don't need to recreate all the information found on Tolkien Gateway or the LOTR wiki! I don't have the time, nor the inclination to do that.) I just need the minimum and to be able to point people in the right direction if they wanted to know more details of something that isn't commonly known, etc. And also, when making canon wanted ads and lists, what information should be included there? This is mainly to spark people's interest in taking the character up, but again, I don't want to create a "Guide to characters" level of information, just the basics for the character.
  12. so I'm contemplating posting up daily weather reports on SHIELD - something a bit joking, and I can't decide the best place to put the actual board. I'm going for a board because that way people can reference the dates and stuff through tags etc and it gives a more permanent reference then if I was posting it in a side area. Any advice though? Should it go in SHIELD Mainframe - Tutorial Loaded (where I have my rules and plot stuff etc) or in the SHIELD Mainframe - Present ID (aka Character stuff)
  13. When it comes to forms of communication on your forums, how do you prefer to do it? What do you make the most use of? On my forums, we always have a cbox.ws cbox, but it does not get used as often as I feel other sites use their cboxes. The majority of our communication gets done on Skype, mostly because a lot of us are out and about much during the day and it's easier for us to chat with each other that way.
  14. I recently had an issue that I thought I'd ask people's opinions on. Long story short, it is one member pretending to be multiple people. It started out by two people joining and telling me they had the same IP because they lived together. Fair enough, don't mind. Then a third joined, using the same IP ranges as them (must be dynamic because all their IPs change daily, but there are more than one that multiple combinations of the group has used, same ISP and country, all that stuff). Then there was a fourth, who introduced themselves by taking up a wanted ad from one of the others. This person was apparently from a different country entirely, was a stranger to them (they responded to their introduction thread greeting them and stuff), but the IPs were the same yet again. Not only that, but posting style and grammar is exactly the same for all four of them. All figure stuff out at the same time. One of them might PM me saying they had discussed various things with the others and what not. Now don't get me wrong. None of the above would really be an issue, except for the following problems. Between these 'four' people there are over ten characters made in less than a week, all from the same family, all fairly important, and they blatantly ignore other member posts, forming a closed off little clique. I have raised these issues with them and they are receptive toward them. However, I'm still pondering whether to call them out on their sock puppet accounts. So I ask you guys for your wisdom. My question: In your guys' experience, what do you do regarding the whole pretending to be other people thing? To call out or not to call out? And how to go about it if yes?
  15. How do you build a community on your forum? And by that, I don't mean how do you go about obtaining members- but what do you do with your members to create an identity that is unique to the forum? What do you do to make your forum the forum that it is? This is something I'm extremely passionate about and have felt for a while that some RPs struggle with. I know it's pretty normal to have event sign ups and things like that, but from what I have seen they tend to require either a lot of time or for the member to have some sort of skill, such as coding or graphics abilities. For people who don't have a lot of time to do things ICly at the time of the event or can't code or make graphics, they can easily be left out. So, I've spent a lot of time trying to figure out a way to help build community that doesn't involve that kind of thing, and have recently started up an experiment of sorts. What I've done on my forums is create three kinds of events: forum holidays, community events, and weekend quests. Forum holidays happen once a month and are just days where we have a silly theme, such as Talk Like a Pirate Day or Impersonate a Movie Character. Community Events are events where we all try to gather around and do something together, such as watching a movie or playing Cards Against Humanity. Weekend Quests are basically like silly scavenger hunts, where members are given a set of tasks to complete and if they've done that they get a little reward. The tasks are always things to encourage OOC activity and for people to interact with each other (like posting in plotters, putting up wanted ads, using the comment system, etc.), or are goofy things like "find 4 gifs of squirrels." Participation in these is always optional. Generally, I'm satisfied with the results of this experiment. Although most members do not participate in every kind of event, almost every member will participate in at least one type of event. So some members never do a weekend quest, but they will always do the forum holiday for example. We also have a Minecraft server that we play on together sometimes. But! What do you guys do?
  16. Hello everyone! I'm here hoping for your opinions on how to handle claims of one of your members using plagiarized characters for your site. I've never run into this particular problem before, and I think that's because for the most part, we all consider RP characters to be pretty personal. We put our time and effort into them, and as such we respect that others have done the same for THEIR characters. I know that for me, personally, the idea of stealing someone else's character never occurred to me to do, and I'm sure it's the same for a lot of people. Anyway! Last night, a guest popped up into our CBox and made a claim that one of our members had stolen her character from another site. The guest did not back up or substantiate their claim, and when we inquired about it, the member in question was adamant that the character had always been HERS, and that SHE was the victim, not the other way around. Personally, I know that plagiarism is a serious accusation. But I have also been accused of art theft on images that I myself drew from scratch (and spent hours on, no less!) and posted. People would see the image posted in two or more locations, and assumed that one of those was a thief. Taking that into consideration, I took to Google and searched for traces of this character on other sites. I tried copy/pasting the app text into the search, including the most commonly used strings of text. I visited the link the Guest had provided in the CBox to check for a copyright date, a "posted on" date, or similar, but found nothing except that it was last updated in June of this year. The earliest iteration of this character I could find was December 2015, using the same RL name as the person on my site, even though the OOC tag she's using differs from that. Someone suggested checking IP addresses, but as I personally know, that can change for a number of reasons, including switching from mobile access to PC, from PC to laptop, from home network to work or school, and so on. It can occur with a change in internet service provider, or sometimes even by moving houses, AND if you have a dynamic IP address, it can change from day to day. So checking IP isn't the best way to go about that, unfortunately. So, given all that I've listed above, how would you admin handle a situation like this one on your forum? I'd like to avoid placing blame or pointing fingers. At this point I have asked the member for evidence that this character is hers, such as logging into existing apps and making a note which contains our site name so that we know they are indeed hers. I've also made it clear that while we value her as a member, we cannot condone plagiarism and she may need to re-write the app from scratch as opposed to copy/pasting it directly from another site. Thanks in advance for your input!
  17. (First of all, if I put this in the wrong area I'm sorry.) Recently I have been debating whether I should move to Jcink. I am currently using ProBoards, and I LOVE ProBoards. I find it very easy to use and easy to navigate. I have always loved it, however, they are updating soon, and from what I've heard this update is going to change a lot. So I've been panicking on what I should do if I don't like the update. My brain's solution: Jcink. I've never been a big fan of Jcink, but I've heard a lot of good things, so I assume it must be alright. I have been messing around with a test site recently and have found everything to be to my liking. The other staff members on my site are fans of Jcink and have some experience with it, so they could definitely help me figure things out. The more I research about it, the more things I like. The idea of being able to have a rating higher than 2 1 1 would be amazing! Also the ease of switching between accounts. So all in all, it sounds great. The problem is, on the site I currently have, we have over 5,000 posts and 150 accounts registered. I hate the idea of uprooting so many people and having to recreate everything over on Jcink, but in the long run it might be worth it. So I'm looking for an opinion. Is it worth it to switch to Jcink if we have to move everyone and lose what we currently have? Thanks in advance for taking the time to read through my panicking.
  18. So something that I'm doing for a site that I'm on is creating an event. It's something that I will need to find a theme and preferably images to help the visually stimulated people that are a part but I'm curious, how is it that you go about, personally, finding this sort of thing? The example, in context, is I'm about to run a ball, it's a modern day ball and I need to find images of a banquet hall, preferably with decorations etc. But I have no idea where to start? Any suggestions?
  19. Has anyone else witnessed this growing trend of listing affiliates on a separate page? As in not in a box on the main page, but in a list which people have to physically click a link to view? This, in my opinion, is ridiculous. When I check for our button I have to go on a treasure hunt multiple links deep just to find my banner? Uh, no. I've noticed this trend a lot during advertising sprees. I'm not sure if it boils down to the most popular premade templates using this system or what (almost could have gone in the skin trends you dislike thread) but it's another 'innovation' I do not like. Mini meltdown complete.
  20. Continuing on my tirade of questions to get an understanding of newer site standards/wants/hates etc. How do people feel about stats. Now I know that most staff members have to manually update things and that can get tedious but I'm just talking in general. How do people feel about a site having them? Things like: How many characters of race/class? Gender Ratios? Players vs Characters? If you like them, do you prefer they are in a graph or pie chart? What sort of statistics do you like to see? If you don't like them, do you care if they exist? Would this be a deal breaker?
  21. So something I'm okay with on sites like this are signatures. It makes sense, it's there for you to be able to express yourself. Now, for a roleplay I find very little use for them. Most people use it as a way to express their character more fully or show more images of them or advertise their plotters or whatever but I've never really understood that. Does that really need to be shoved in everyone's face every time that person posts? That being said I'm considering getting rid of them on the RP I'm working on right now. What are your thoughts or opinions on signatures and their use within RP?
  22. So something that comes across the table every once in a while is account or character purges for inactive characters or players. My question for people is, do you do it? If you do why do you do it? Does it help or hurt anything?
  23. Since I'm building a site (have been for a while) it always brings up the standard development questions, in this case it is whether or not I should put a sidebar on the site. While I know you can put all sorts of site information it always feels like it over clutters everything. I will warn I'm not someone that likes information in the banner so that's a no go. As an alternative I was thinking something on the main page of a carousel that auto scrolls, probably something that regular members can turn off if they want. It would be under the banner area but above the content. Thoughts opinions?
  24. So as a staff member, when you are setting up a site you normally have a method to your madness. A specific means in which you set up your site in which works for you to get to completion. As weird as it is, for me? It's the skin. I start with the skin and work on the information as I design it. I like to come up with unique skins that really fit the setting. I mean from LCARS Star Trek sites to Star Wars Pads it is always an adventure to make a skin. It's likely one of my favorite jobs as an administrator to do even if I don't do the standard ones that people get so much praise for. I think mine are awesome. In the midst of this design I will also start the information. Once both are done I go through the information. If at this point I'm still interested in the original subject matter I release and start posting on directories. How about you?
  25. For me, I'm drawing on a lot of inspiration for my (still a) work in progress Sci-Fi site. Now there are a lot of things that I'm drawing the inspiration from and will suggest people watch/read to really get a feel for the setting but the overall setting is one hundred percent my design. I know it's not a pan-fandom as the fandom's themselves aren't included nor is their canon information or characters. So for me I'm pretty confident that this would be considered my unique idea but it brought to me the question: Where does Panfandom end and Unique story begin? For me it's when you don't actually use the information from any given fandom and draw/give inspiration from it. That's where I draw the line. What about you?
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