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what can we do to help improve roleplayer guild?

I would prefer to have user elected moderators. But I fear the outcome would be even worse. But I don't trust the community or the moderators to make that call anymore.

@Buddha

Agreed. This site's greatest draw for me has been that the mods aren't power-hungry. Other RP sites, other forums, a certain anime streaming site, have all been ruined by mods who care more about becoming god in their little internet-societies than about actually making the sites better for everyone. I'd sooner have no mods at all than a force of them who, given Mahz's inactivity, can run rampant without any checks and balances to limit their damage potential. Personally I know there are at least three people on this site who would want me banned just for existing with a different opinion near them. I think I'd be a fair mod but there are people who'd fear for their safety on the site, because they and I have had our spats before, and it's much too easy for players to hold a grudge, especially when the opportunity to retaliate on those grudges presents itself.

But then, @BrokenPromise brings up a good point: if the mods control the rules of the site, then the players control its culture. If we want a certain type of roleplayer (e.g. people who go AWOL on the RPs they've joined) eradicated from this site then it's up to our GMs to enforce these folkways. And if the guilty parties don't like that, well, they're free to make their own RPs here, or to go somewhere else. The absence of the mods only punctuates the idea that we the players are responsible for creating the site which we want to play on: if we want more diverse plotlines then we must be the ones to write them. If we want problematic players to leave then we must be willing to publicly acknowledge them as problematic. And so on.

Waiting for other people to effect the changes we want to see on this site isn't working. As players, and especially as GMs, we must be willing to be the changes we want for the Guild, especially if the mod team make it clear that they're not looking out for us anymore.

what can we do to help improve roleplayer guild?

@Grimhildr There are people on this site who, when they mean to say "bored," instead say "board" and "bord." In the same damn sentence.

Never doubt the depths of Man's stupidity.

what can we do to help improve roleplayer guild?

@BrokenPromise Pretty solid advice, even if I don't like it. (Catch-all rules tend to be a GM's excuse to abuse his power, so I've avoided using them hitherto as a gesture of goodwill.)

Of course, people forget that the GM is already given these rights in the universal forum rules:

• GM Autonomy – in most matters pertaining to the thread, the GM has the final say, as it is their plot and we do not wish to interfere with running RP's. Who is in, who is out, calls regarding the storyline and the rules by which RP's run (including how many paragraphs, post rate and order, etc, etc...) who needs to leave and so forth. The only time the moderators tend to step in is when the rules listed above are being violated, otherwise the GM is left to sort it out and deal with their problem players.

@Guild Mods

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

Does RPGuild Need More People?

Is it productive to create established blacklists though? I get not favoring working with certain individuals, but there is also the need to ostracize them from the community by “warning” directors of prospective RPs. Where is the line of “Hey, this is a problematic player, here’s their reputation.” and “I hate this person, it’s me or them. You need to remove them or else.”?

@Inkarnate

That's the simple part, really. The blacklist's stewards need only demand evidence of wrongdoing: screenshots, and if it's a public (non-PM) thread, URLs.

The difficult part is drawing the parameters of guilt. Some people, for example, would think that leaving an RP for any reason, through any method, earns the player a black spot. I, for one, would argue that if you announce your leave, you're innocent, whereas going AWOL is blacklist-worthy. Others would object to the blacklist itself as a matter of principle, believing that RPers should be allowed to come and go as they choose. We as a community would need to agree on these boundaries before any real progress is in our reach.

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

@Raddum thanks bae

@Mr Allen J There are times when I think it's my fault. Like, maybe I'm misleading people with my IntChk, or I'm doing something egregious in my RP which drives others away. But then, this entire community has commitment issues, so idek.

Does RPGuild Need More People?

What we need is people without commitment issues. Don't fucking post if you are going to drop without a word. If you are going to post stick with it.

@Burning Kitty

This.

We've got the same number of active players as everyone else. At this moment Aniroleplay has about 300 members online, for example. And we're significantly larger than others like rPol. You just feel like the site is smaller than it is because:

• No one posts often enough.
• When they do post, it's in a larger range of short-lived roleplays, instead of fewer threads which last longer.

I do think that we need to start culturally shaming the abandonment of RPs, if not punishing these players officially in some way. As it stands they face no consequences for their actions and that's why nothing ever changes.

The 'Explain The Appeal Of......' Thread

The 'Explain The Appeal Of......' Thread

@Dynamo Frokane You don't have to invent a new word from scratch for it to carry new meanings and connotations through your propaganda, you know. It existed in 2010 but it wasn't prevalent until Hillary's speeches in 2016. They found a fringe word and assigned it to anyone they wanted to demonize as a bunch of filthy racist-sexist-Islamohomotransphobes trying to hinder that sweet, sweet progress of getting a person with a vagina into the Oval Office.

It's the Red Scare: 2017 Edition. Anyone who likes U, V, or W, but doesn't like X, Y, or Z, is a communist sympathizer alt-righter.

At this point "alt right" has become the "Yankee Doodle" of the current year because a small number of people have chosen to wear the label proudly, believing that doing so will disarm it of its negative connotations. But at its heart it is a term which the left appropriated to lump them all together into a single, easily-attacked entity.

The 'Explain The Appeal Of......' Thread

Can someone explain the appeal of the Alt Right?

Now that trump is elected shouldn't they be obsolete?

@Dynamo Frokane

It's a term created by the authoritarian left to describe anyone who disagrees with the authoritarian left, so really what you're asking is, "What is the appeal of having an opinion which differs from the mainstream?"