[quote=@Lady Amalthea]
[@Odin] Yeah there was talk of a mentor style program a while ago - long while ago. Don't think any of the staff was in on it though. More of several of us just general Rpers discussing it. 

When I was modding for Adventure Quest on the Battle-On Forums, we started what was called an RP Academy which taught the basics of Rp. People could start out there and were taught the ropes - How to develop characters, we gave them scenarios to post to and then we dissected the posts to point out things they missed or metagamed or bunnied. Walked them through battles post by post. Ect. Once they got through a certain amount and had a good grasp they were moved to general and then if they grew from their they were promoted to Advanced Rper - each level of Rper had a different area they could post in. 

Now it was a smaller community of Rpers - which was easier to keep up with since it was just a sub section of a larger forum for a game. So I doubt that would work here. But the part I do believe would work was having RP Tutors. They were the teachers, ones that fielded the questions, taught, took people under their wing, etc. (They were appointed by the RP Staff. Not mods but not general Rpers)

I would love to see that here but it is a LOT of work. (Took a lot more to mentor than it did to mod over there.) - If we had an Academy section in the RP - omg, that would be awesome! Not a place to Rp but a place where people could post asking their questions and such. Example - Can someone take a look at my CS and see if the back story and skills line up? How can I better develop the personality. I want this character to get from here to here, tips? I have writers block, help me break it. And so forth. 

Yes we have an RP Discussion area but that is a general thing. And the Tutorials are all the way buried at the bottom of the forum (Which I still say needs to be moved up and either placed in the top section with Newcomers and New - or in the RP section at the top.) - Though if we had a sub section (A new one like Expanding Horizons got) - We could have an RP Academy and the Tutorials there.

But again, if we could just get a "Mentoring" tag that would be awesome. 
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A forum I posted at long ago had a mentor system as well.

While I wasn't particularly involved with the program nor do I remember it in great detail, I liked the spirit of it.

Definitely lots of work though. One thing I do remember was the high rate of newcomers simply vanishing which wears away at the energy of the mentors, but that's the nature of forums.

As usual, I'm always willing to build something if someone can pitch me a detailed game plan.

Regarding the Mentoring tag, any further ideas on it? I think it needs to involve something more interesting than just creating yet another tag and hoping people figure it out.

For example, something I want to do with the 18+ tag is hide the tagged checks/RPs except from users that have opted-in to the 18+ system. Basically a feature that's connected to a single tag.