Post by mdf2711 on Aug 31, 2014 14:33:55 GMT
We'll be undergoing a change here folks. It's not entirely drastic but it is new and noteworthy and you should read this to learn why the new forum arrangement is happening and how to locate previous threads which will be in new locations.
Following a suggestion by Wyndi, Jaime and I have agreed with her ideas regarding the creation of a new RP board. This move occurred a few days ago when the RP Corner subboard was transferred into a new board dubbed 'Roleplay' which now contained four other previously unseen boards with reconstruction notices and warnings not to post yet. If you wish to read more on why Wyndi and I felt this new board was important, you can check out her original post in the Suggestions subboard and read through all the comments and discussion we had going back and forth to come to this point.
Regardless, it's important to note that as of later today, the RP Corner will cease to exist. Rather, the entire Roleplay board will take its place and doing this will allow us to organize, separate, and add new features to the experience. I will personally be moving all the threads from the RP Corner over to their appropriate sections in RP or OOC Threads subboards to make sure everything is transferred properly prior to the deletion of the board. This will not ruin any of your progress, work, or writing and it should all stay intact.
As an added note, we now have sections for Characters and Resources within the Roleplay board. For now, those will be off-limits until I can find some time to work on them more thoroughly though mods and admins may be granted access to the boards to add their own threads as examples to other members. Character profiles will remain a feature of OOC boards if the GMs of RPs so choose but the Character board has some different features. Rather than searching all characters of a single RP, the Character board will have threads specifically member-centric, which means you can search for your favorite RPers characters instead. The Character threads will also have some more added freedom than a regular OOC board because it's up to the RPer which characters to include in his/her thread. For example, a member could include every OC they've ever used, or only the ones they currently are using in an RS roleplay, or perhaps skeletal profiles or character outlines for new OCs, or even characters they haven't used in a while but still love or those used on other sites/mediums. You are also granted more freedom within the threads because you can choose whether it is a personal account with no posters other than yourself or perhaps make it interactive and allow members to chat with OCs they love or want to get to know. Go nuts. The other section that will have new features is Resources. The Resources board will be a series of member-created guides that can include anything that a member wishes to share their own experience with and that may add to the atmosphere of a roleplay. References and guides to cultures, time periods, story-writing improvement, fashions, character development - it all goes here. Once again, go nuts...after it's officially opened, of course.
Now that I've finished discussing the new addition of the Roleplay board and the purposes each of its subboards will entail, I have a few more final deletion notices. The subboards known as General Pokemon, Wifi Room, Movies, and Youtube Channels are so unused, it seems pointless to separate the threads at all. If it ever gets so popular to the point that people need separation for orderly, structural purposes, that may be brought up again then but for now it will be better to get rid of the mostly unused subboards in a fairly barren category and move all threads that were placed in these topics to the main subboards where they exist instead.
We are also happy to announce the almost-official opening of the Foreign Languages board. This long-awaited and long-discussed board has been a pet project of mine for a while now and it will finally be open starting very soon. The E4 and League Champions will first need to discuss an updated version of the rules that accounts for a mostly English/English-only forum with the obvious exception being this new board. Of course, members will still be subject to the same rules as for the rest of the board so don't expect to be cussing out users in other languages or being extremely lude. We will do our best to patrol and I'm fairly certain that no one would actually try to circumvent the rules in this way but we just need to be sure that this is an explicit policy. The Foreign Languages board will be a place for everyone to commune or teach in other languages and find others with whom you have another language in common besides English. You can detail your own language-learning exploits or for our non-native English speakers, discuss the challenges in learning to RP and communicate regularly in English. I hope you'll enjoy the new board, I know I certainly will~
Thank you for reading and understanding, bear with me as I take the time over the next few days to enact all these changes, and enjoy your day~
Following a suggestion by Wyndi, Jaime and I have agreed with her ideas regarding the creation of a new RP board. This move occurred a few days ago when the RP Corner subboard was transferred into a new board dubbed 'Roleplay' which now contained four other previously unseen boards with reconstruction notices and warnings not to post yet. If you wish to read more on why Wyndi and I felt this new board was important, you can check out her original post in the Suggestions subboard and read through all the comments and discussion we had going back and forth to come to this point.
Regardless, it's important to note that as of later today, the RP Corner will cease to exist. Rather, the entire Roleplay board will take its place and doing this will allow us to organize, separate, and add new features to the experience. I will personally be moving all the threads from the RP Corner over to their appropriate sections in RP or OOC Threads subboards to make sure everything is transferred properly prior to the deletion of the board. This will not ruin any of your progress, work, or writing and it should all stay intact.
As an added note, we now have sections for Characters and Resources within the Roleplay board. For now, those will be off-limits until I can find some time to work on them more thoroughly though mods and admins may be granted access to the boards to add their own threads as examples to other members. Character profiles will remain a feature of OOC boards if the GMs of RPs so choose but the Character board has some different features. Rather than searching all characters of a single RP, the Character board will have threads specifically member-centric, which means you can search for your favorite RPers characters instead. The Character threads will also have some more added freedom than a regular OOC board because it's up to the RPer which characters to include in his/her thread. For example, a member could include every OC they've ever used, or only the ones they currently are using in an RS roleplay, or perhaps skeletal profiles or character outlines for new OCs, or even characters they haven't used in a while but still love or those used on other sites/mediums. You are also granted more freedom within the threads because you can choose whether it is a personal account with no posters other than yourself or perhaps make it interactive and allow members to chat with OCs they love or want to get to know. Go nuts. The other section that will have new features is Resources. The Resources board will be a series of member-created guides that can include anything that a member wishes to share their own experience with and that may add to the atmosphere of a roleplay. References and guides to cultures, time periods, story-writing improvement, fashions, character development - it all goes here. Once again, go nuts...after it's officially opened, of course.
Now that I've finished discussing the new addition of the Roleplay board and the purposes each of its subboards will entail, I have a few more final deletion notices. The subboards known as General Pokemon, Wifi Room, Movies, and Youtube Channels are so unused, it seems pointless to separate the threads at all. If it ever gets so popular to the point that people need separation for orderly, structural purposes, that may be brought up again then but for now it will be better to get rid of the mostly unused subboards in a fairly barren category and move all threads that were placed in these topics to the main subboards where they exist instead.
We are also happy to announce the almost-official opening of the Foreign Languages board. This long-awaited and long-discussed board has been a pet project of mine for a while now and it will finally be open starting very soon. The E4 and League Champions will first need to discuss an updated version of the rules that accounts for a mostly English/English-only forum with the obvious exception being this new board. Of course, members will still be subject to the same rules as for the rest of the board so don't expect to be cussing out users in other languages or being extremely lude. We will do our best to patrol and I'm fairly certain that no one would actually try to circumvent the rules in this way but we just need to be sure that this is an explicit policy. The Foreign Languages board will be a place for everyone to commune or teach in other languages and find others with whom you have another language in common besides English. You can detail your own language-learning exploits or for our non-native English speakers, discuss the challenges in learning to RP and communicate regularly in English. I hope you'll enjoy the new board, I know I certainly will~
Thank you for reading and understanding, bear with me as I take the time over the next few days to enact all these changes, and enjoy your day~