@Aristo Since you've got plenty of time for interest-checking new RPs, but not enough to write a reply for this one, should I assume that Mobile Frame is dead?
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Fuck yeah, girlfriend. Sit on that ass! Collect that unemployment check! Have free time 'n shit!
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Apologies to all writing partners both current & prospective. Been sick for two weeks straight (and have to go to work regardless). No energy. Can't think straight. Taking a hiatus. Sorry again.
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[@Ralt] He's making either a Fallout 4 reference or a S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky reference i can't tell
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"Well EXCUUUUSE ME if my RPs don't have plot, setting, characters, any artistry of language like imagery/symbolism, or any of the things half-decent fiction has! What am I supposed to do, improve?!"
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Where's the personality? The flavor? the drama? The struggle? The humanity? The texture of the time and the place in which this conversation is happening? In a word: where's the story?
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@The Nexerus The Free section is a containment board. Without it, all those horrid roleplayers will scatter, and some of them will infiltrate Casual/Advanced for their daily fill of RP.
Just in case you weren't kidding, of course.
Just in case you weren't kidding, of course.
The people who say we're powerless are cowards tbh. They're trying to avoid the responsibility which inherently comes with the fact that we the ordinary little-guy players are the people in charge of the site right now.
Now, if Mahz and a strong moderator team come back to clean things up, that's different. But right now the players have been left in a power vacuum, and if we're not willing to clean up our site then no one will. Some of the people in this thread are offering their opinions on bringing some real change to this community and that should be commended, not criticized for hurting fee-fees and using strong language. Even though I disagree with some of them, the willingness to be outspoken about the changes they want to see on RPGuild is a virtue, not a flaw.
Now, if Mahz and a strong moderator team come back to clean things up, that's different. But right now the players have been left in a power vacuum, and if we're not willing to clean up our site then no one will. Some of the people in this thread are offering their opinions on bringing some real change to this community and that should be commended, not criticized for hurting fee-fees and using strong language. Even though I disagree with some of them, the willingness to be outspoken about the changes they want to see on RPGuild is a virtue, not a flaw.
>creativity
>coming from the people who can't get three pages into an RP before getting bored and moving on
>a large % of them probably browse 1x1 purely for the romance subplots too
You know that writing twenty "Chapter Ones" doesn't mean you've written a book, right? You have to actually follow through on some of your ideas or you're not really roleplaying, you're just writing character sheets and then taking them on a test run for a week and a half.
>coming from the people who can't get three pages into an RP before getting bored and moving on
>a large % of them probably browse 1x1 purely for the romance subplots too
You know that writing twenty "Chapter Ones" doesn't mean you've written a book, right? You have to actually follow through on some of your ideas or you're not really roleplaying, you're just writing character sheets and then taking them on a test run for a week and a half.
@NuttsnBolts Well, yeah. If they're not roleplaying then what are they doing here, and why is it the Guild's problem?
@NuttsnBolts If they're already quitting the RPs they join anyway then I don't see how one more form of absence will be noticed.
@Buddha send me dat shit
We do need to take note of skill levels. That's one reason I think we still need the subforums; Putting it all together would be extremely fucking messy and despite tags people would still try to join Advanced RP's with short CS's lacking detail, and then complain that they can't do any more.
I think most player problems transcend skill level, tbh. You'll find thread-deserters in Free and in Advanced alike.
Fun fact: if you remove the obvious outliers, here are all the RP subforums ranked with a ratio of posts to threads (the higher the better):
- Nation: 170.300
- Advanced: 161.67
- Casual: 149.446
- Arena: 64.002
- 1x1: 61.940
- Free: 28.141
Obviously I cannot measure how much of each thread on average is OOC compared to IC (not without resorting to a small, randomized sample size), but I found it interesting anyway.
@Raddum Yeah, I wasn't naming names but that Intchk is pretty obviously the one I was talking about in my earlier post. 
[@Also Raddum] I'm down for a blacklist. If it's willing to acknowledge different skill levels (ie. there's no "this person can't spell and is bad at writing" category), and if it can stay objective in its goal of cataloguing fickle RP-deserters and backseat-GMs and so on, then it might work out well.
We just need to determine whether it can stay here, where it would get more publicity; or if we need to resort to off-site methods to avoid incurring the wrath of Mahz.
[@Also Raddum] I'm down for a blacklist. If it's willing to acknowledge different skill levels (ie. there's no "this person can't spell and is bad at writing" category), and if it can stay objective in its goal of cataloguing fickle RP-deserters and backseat-GMs and so on, then it might work out well.
We just need to determine whether it can stay here, where it would get more publicity; or if we need to resort to off-site methods to avoid incurring the wrath of Mahz.
@Buddha That's the drawback of the freedom which the mods' absence gives us, it seems. We're able to shitpost and infight and not get banned for it, but the cost of this is that we've landed ourselves in a "jack of all trades, master of none" sort of situation. By trying to appeal to everyone, to welcome everyone, the site naturally loses a degree of standards over its community strength, and of course, its writing quality.
I think people, myself included, are afraid to take concrete steps toward solving this problem because the moment we do, Mahz and the mods will come back just long enough to put us in our place and remind us of who's boss. Then they'll fuck off again, having impeded our progress toward self-government but then refused to replace our system with their own. Some of us may be banned in the process, too, another large risk in taking any strong actions toward fixing this site.
I for one am willing to start a blacklist somewhere, even off-site if need be. I've discussed it intensively in the past, with the biggest projected roadblock being that it's probably not Fonz-cool for Guildsmen to segregate themselves and demonize each other for their stylistic differences in RP.
Once again, the site's willingness to accept everyone, and to never really enforce a standard of quality over people's RP habits (joining a thread and then never posting, Free leaking into Casual, Nation drawing players away from the tiny Advanced forum...), is what drives us into the ground in the first place. To rectify this we would need to establish whether Mahz is willing to draw new mods, active ones, from the player pool; and if he isn't, then go about deciding how we will govern ourselves henceforth.
@Grimhildr
>has been here for 6 days
>already planning a coup
kek
I think people, myself included, are afraid to take concrete steps toward solving this problem because the moment we do, Mahz and the mods will come back just long enough to put us in our place and remind us of who's boss. Then they'll fuck off again, having impeded our progress toward self-government but then refused to replace our system with their own. Some of us may be banned in the process, too, another large risk in taking any strong actions toward fixing this site.
I for one am willing to start a blacklist somewhere, even off-site if need be. I've discussed it intensively in the past, with the biggest projected roadblock being that it's probably not Fonz-cool for Guildsmen to segregate themselves and demonize each other for their stylistic differences in RP.
Once again, the site's willingness to accept everyone, and to never really enforce a standard of quality over people's RP habits (joining a thread and then never posting, Free leaking into Casual, Nation drawing players away from the tiny Advanced forum...), is what drives us into the ground in the first place. To rectify this we would need to establish whether Mahz is willing to draw new mods, active ones, from the player pool; and if he isn't, then go about deciding how we will govern ourselves henceforth.
@Grimhildr
>has been here for 6 days
>already planning a coup
kek
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