Ellri

Mahz's Dev Journal

oh, we will. Just figured we'd state our skepticism.

Mahz's Dev Journal

fair enough. A lot of people won't be able to spot that though, and it'll add extraneous characters to posts/signatures/etc for those people. Also, page titles show up in browser when you open them in any case, so what does this add other than more characters used?

Mahz's Dev Journal

not sure that's an improvement... Won't that change make it harder in the future to allow people to edit topic titles? Editing topic titles is something a lot of people want, and its not something that moderators should have to do.

Mahz's Dev Journal

That rabbit hole is mighty interesting. Till it gets charted out, it would still be useful to be able to tag others as GM too. We'd still suggest that permitting co-GMs to edit the RP's first three posts (first IC, first OoC, first CS) would be a very good start on such a system.

@Ellri

Good idea. I think here is where the roleplay system begins diverging from the topic system. Even these baby steps start pulling away from the topic system. For example, the naive approach would be to require GM(s) to make the first post in each tab. But that's obviously a pointlessly rigid constraint. One solution is to auto-create the first post of the three tabs when a roleplay is created. And that first post is a special wiki-style post slash info panel reserved for reference material and such. And the thing is that the GM and delegated Co-GMs can edit those special posts since they're for general information. If the GM(s) have nothing to say in a tab's special post, it's simply left blank and stays out of the way (doesn't show up). It's just an optional organization feature that many roleplays don't need, just like Co-GMs. - The special post in the Char tab could be a character sheet template and some character requirements/rules. The actual posts would be the character sheets and discussion related to them. - The special post in the IC tab could be the Roleplay's intro and/or an updated inventory of what's happening in the roleplay. The actual posts that follow would be the, of course, the IC posts. - The special post in the OOC tab could be some notes about how to join the roleplay, the overall plans, etc. Not technically difficult to implement or conceptually lofty, just a mild improvement over the current system.

@Mahz

Have you been digging into our heads for our theories? This is almost exactly what we'd imagined ourselves! Oh, and for the multi-user editable posts having a sort of backup feature as BBeast described could be wise. Might save those who don't back everything they do up offsite from loosing major stuff if someone goes crazy. Perhaps a backup system that maintains last five edits and/or past twenty-four hours? (Co-)GM range can be just as lethal on a small scale as a crazy moderator can be on the large scale with deleting stuff.

Mahz's Dev Journal

That rabbit hole is mighty interesting. Till it gets charted out, it would still be useful to be able to tag others as GM too. We'd still suggest that permitting co-GMs to edit the RP's first three posts (first IC, first OoC, first CS) would be a very good start on such a system.

Mahz's Dev Journal

Yes, expanding the system to allow Co-GMs would be nice. Also, perhaps that system could be later used for things like GM moderation of threads? Especially when there are more roleplay-specific features written for the guild. (thread-specific permissions, custom thread tabs, editing OPs, etc)

Mahz's Dev Journal

@Mahz: We just saw that nice "OP" tag you added on the upper right corner of your posts and thought... Would something like that be a nice sort of reward to give users in contests and such? for example: "RPGC winner March '15" Or would such dilute the effect of the OP tag?

Mahz's Dev Journal

we'd guess it is your ipad. Try to check its system time. It might be stuck in the past. Sounds a lot like it thinks "now" is two days ago.

What do you do when stuck in an RP?

We recently had (and solved this problem ourselves (for now, at least), but we know we're not alone in having it at times... So, what things do you typically do when you are utterly stumped in one or more of your RPs? By stuck we mean so deep into the rut that not even taking a day or two off is enough to shake the postwagon loose. Do you abandon all hope and jump ship? Do you dismantle the CS and build it up from the bottom? (that was our solution yesterday to a month-deep pit of no posting) Do you abandon the character and make a new one? Do you do something completely different?

The Relics

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