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How can we help improve RPGuild? Community suggestions and discussion.

Do the mods all like discord?

I'm asking because maybe in place of a report button, they could all be on a discord server. If something happens, we can link the post in question and write a ticket explaining things. Then the problem could be dealt with by any mod who opens up discord. One of the reasons why I never report is because I'm not sure who the best mod to report to is.

If the mods are unable to increase their presence on the forum, then maybe thy could designate an "in" person to sort of represent the mod staff. I always felt like section moderators were sort of like the secretaries of the higher mod staff. While I realize no one really wants section mods, I do think it's a way to give the mods more presence without the risk of giving an unruly member too much power.

@BrokenPromise

Reaction times for discord vary even more than on RPG. Out of the five times I have tagged @Guild Authority or even individual mods I've only ever received a reply on discord once. And that was today, and that was Kangaroo telling me he couldn't really help because his router was fucked. So I doubt that's a good solution. At least with a PM you're 100% sure they read it.

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@Raddum giving porn to a 13 year old smh ur right u should leave, please go away

How can we help improve RPGuild? Community suggestions and discussion.

Though in defense of the status updates I have to say they are a great tool of community engagement actually. When Hank rarely posts anything there people usually do reply/like reading it. And I like reading other people's statuses. Even if they're not 'update' statuses.

How can we help improve RPGuild? Community suggestions and discussion.

Something else I would like to see on the forum - A defined list of rules for the Status Bar. It gets treated as a black hole on the forum. It is spammed, people talk smut on it constantly, and more. Granted, I would also like to see a limit of updates allowed per 24 hour period but that is a coding issue and nothing can be done about that currently but a list of rules or the rules being enforced there would be wonderful. Though I think sometimes it is a blackhole is because it is looked at as a spam section? Maybe? I'm not sure.

But yeah, an enforcing of forum rules on the status bar over all, or a defined list that applies there would be huge.

@Lady Amalthea

No comment from me.

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@Raddum go away and take your buddha x reader fanfic with you

How can we help improve RPGuild? Community suggestions and discussion.

@Ruby I'd rather not try my luck at PMing you and getting warned for harassing you once again. That'd be a quick way to end my presence on this forum. You told me to not contact you anymore last time, so I'm not sure why that'd have changed now. So, if anything, I think we can publicly discuss what we need to discuss. If what you have to say has to be said in private then I'm curious why you can't say it here? Same way I told Kangaroo that I'd rather discuss this here than in private - if we discuss it here everyone can see and everyone can have input. In private it's just that. Private. Whatever I have to say I'm not afraid to say in public.

Arena Chat Thread

That's why you got an irritated reaction, the arena chat thread is here for anyone who has questions to come and ask everyone at once, you don't need to have a discussion without us in a different sub-forum, where few of us would even see it most of the time.

@MelonHead

The goal of the discussion thread wasn't to discuss arena thread. If I knew that you guys would hijack my thread for the next 4 pages I'd have wisely shut my mouth because the entire subforum existence isn't that important to me. If it exists or not isn't really important for me personally is what I mean. I was merely questioning the need for it to exist independently, because it doesn't seem to get a lot of activity (tournaments supposedly being the time when it does get activity, but I'm not holding my breath for that).

It just came up. I knew it'd never happen, but I was merely saying that I would think it to be a good idea. I'd rather see it become active but I still feel like you guys don't have the answers (and any acknowledgement that arena roleplay is slow comes hissed between teeth and that's not really helping us make arena RP more alive).

@Fallenreaper I'd argue that 5 out of 200 peak users isn't that much. Furthermore, there is indeed a sort of in between classification for people that do both arena roleplay and other roleplay, hence I might not associate them with arena necessarily. I know both Yoshua and Ganryu and neither of them strike me as hardcore arena roleplayers. So, in my mind, they don't come up. They still don't.

But I suppose you raise a fair point.

But I remain of the opinion that arena RP is too inactive for it's own good and have yet to hear anything that strikes me as a good idea when it comes to fixing that. Saying that the tournament will improve that is meaningless when there is (as Melon stated) 7 months between this one and the last tournament. Arena RP moves slowly, very very slowly. Perhaps this is not an issue to you, but it's certainly not doing you any favors, which is why I had also suggested something like a tournament master function with a title for people who want to help make arena more active by hosting tournaments (because tournaments were cited as a period when arena became alive again).

How can we help improve RPGuild? Community suggestions and discussion.

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I'll move the topic. It seems like a logical suggestion.

And, as always, please do report problems. When in doubt, do so directly to me -- I'll happily deal with whatever needs doing.

@Sherlock Holmes

The problem with this is that suggestions/problems never gets read. I specifically posted it where I posted it so it'd get read. But I suppose we have the traction we need.

How can we help improve RPGuild? Community suggestions and discussion.

@Sherlock Holmes then that leaves us at an impasse here. I'll pretend I believe that when Mahz returns he can at least use this thread as a measure of what is important to the community perhaps. But the realist in me knows that this thread will be left to gather dust and never read by Mahz if we abandon it now. So I'd rather continue to discuss grievances even if we know ahead of time that they can't be fixed now. Or ever.

Arena Chat Thread

@Doc Doctor I didn't. That was @Dynamo Frokane who also changed my mind on arena RP being like 1x1 and made me realize it was a bit more special than that. Me personally, I'm not afraid of offending the few with my views. At least I drew a reaction, which is special to me, because it's rare to see arena RP'ers outside of your subforum. ;)