forum Thoughts requested on improving the Roleplaying forums

Started June 09, 2018 by @andrew health_and_safety flash_onAdmin

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I think Rating and Genre stand out the most in terms of importance… but hear me out.

Is there a way we could do separate boards for OC's? Like an OC board, a non-OC board, and one with both? Just a thought.

Do you think we can have some sort of chat notification like a notification pops up on your screen whenever someone has chatted on your rp and you click on it to take you there, kind of like pinterest?

For me, I write in a lot of different genres, in rps and in my personal writing, because #1, it's really interesting and #2, it challenges me and it stretches my horizon and strengthens my writing, so I can see myself using several different genres. (All that information seemed highly irrelevant but whatever.)

Honestly, I would probably jump from genre to genre. I don't mind switching boards though

Genre to genre.

Genre to genre. Staying within one genre seems a bit boring and repetitive. However, I would not mind switching boards.

I would probably jump genre to genre. Also, I like the idea from @BBC_Fangirl about the kick and un-kick buttons, because if someone breaks the rules already set for the roleplay multiple times and you want to kick them out, the option would make it easier.

I guess I'm find with either, but I kind of want a faster method for getting board to board and rp to rp for people who are load with them.

I'd say definitely by maturity level and genre, that way we don't have 9 year olds in a complicated dystopian involving heavy romance/gore/language. not saying that's ever happened but it easily could i think?

I don't think we should separate it by age, but I do think it should be by age rating. Like we can have a PG section, and PG13 section, and R section, and so on

Yeah.

Having a set of labels would be good too! A rating system ir tagging system, cause sometimes people get upset over gore roleplays. Familiarity and Genre would help most for me. There are a bunch of one on ones that have popped up recently, and I hope that there can be a tab for those. Maybe separate tabs for open roleplays and closed ones? Just a couple thoughts. Or sorting roleplays by number of posts or members. Some roleplays only want a certain number of people in them.

Strong agree with the kick/unkick option. There have been several instances when people were harassed in a role-play and there was nothing anybody could really do about it except fight back. It ruined a few RPs. However, I think there should be a vote option (if possible) where somebody can only be kicked if the majority vote on it. That way, nobody can abuse the kick/unkick option.

I also strongly agree woth the kick option, but maybe we can have one section for familitary and they can be sorted by pg and that sort of stuff, but I think that the genres dont have to be sorted, like if you clicked og, there will be all kinds of genre rps for PG)

I'm leaning towards genres right now, perhaps also with an any-genre board for beginners.

I really like this idea, however I definitely agree that if the RPs are split up, it would be useful to have notifications popping up. (cos I'm lazy like that)

Also, when you create a RP, it would be useful to be able to put an age rating on it? and @andrew (Our Supreme Lord and Overseer) could pin a thread to the top of each section explaining the age ratings?

Strong agree with the kick/unkick option. There have been several instances when people were harassed in a role-play and there was nothing anybody could really do about it except fight back. It ruined a few RPs. However, I think there should be a vote option (if possible) where somebody can only be kicked if the majority vote on it. That way, nobody can abuse the kick/unkick option.

I think that only the person who created the roleplay should have the power to use the kick/un-kick option, not just anyone

I reckon these categories would be good

1. One on Ones
2. Fandom RPs
3. Fantasy RPs
4. Romance RPs
5. Dystopian RPs
6. Adventure RPs
7. Other

Obviously, there will be a bit of overlap, but it should work
(Just throwing my opinion out there again XD)

There could also be sub-categories inside those categories, like there could be a section for gore in each roleplay and a section for fluff, etc

I do like both of those ideas, however, that would be a lot of clicking to do to get to just one roleplay. So maybe an auto-button thing that could take someone to their roleplays quicker if they're in like, 3 or more and between genres and so on and so forth. Someone mentioned a button like this earlier.

I think that having the categories is a good idea, but perhaps it would be best to keep them quite general to prevent having to click through a lot of sub-categories to get to a single roleplay. I think that having too many categories to click through would become quite tedious in the long run.

I agree. I think pick one thing to organise them by, and leave it at that. Although I still like the idea of the age rating tags.

Do you think we can have some sort of chat notification like a notification pops up on your screen whenever someone has chatted on your rp and you click on it to take you there, kind of like pinterest?

Im just going to repost this again because i strongly would want this if we were to seperate the rps into all sorta of things and it qould also take lots of clicking.

What if we have a sort of seperate screen where all the Rps we are part of are? Kind of like an inbox for Rps. And if that does become a thing then maybe an option to sort them in our own categories. So when I log in, foexample, I am shown my ‘inbox’ in which I can see all the Rps I’m in. Then there is another button than will take us to a separate screen which shows us all of the categories from which we can choose a new Rp to join.

What if we have a sort of seperate screen where all the Rps we are part of are? Kind of like an inbox for Rps. And if that does become a thing then maybe an option to sort them in our own categories. So when I log in, foexample, I am shown my ‘inbox’ in which I can see all the Rps I’m in. Then there is another button than will take us to a separate screen which shows us all of the categories from which we can choose a new Rp to join.

I agree. I think it would make it easier to find the groups we're apart of if maybe there was an option to go straight to it. (I apologize that my example is not well thought out, but it's the easiest way to wrap my mind around it.) The first example that comes to mind is Quotev. It will show you what quizzes and stories you've bookmarked/ liked that you can later click back on to enjoy or check on updates. I don't mean to seem like a Quotev sponsor; it was just the first thing to come to mind. Also, a notification icon would be very helpful. Sorry if I don't make much sense, I've never been good with words. @Firesky did a great job of explaining, though. Thanks for your time.

Oh, I actually really like that idea! Sort the rps by joined and not joined.

And like how @AmericasFavoriteFightingFrenchGirl_LAFFETTE! jas states more than once, it would also be nice to have a way to see when someone has commented on your Rp. That way we don’t have to constantly refresh the page. I also would like it if we could see the other massages without refreshing the page. It would be nicer if we can see what other have written so we don’t write the same thing

Another thing I would like is if we could use normal keyboard functions like italics and bold by pressing ‘ctrl B’ instead of using asterisks ‘*’ or having a way to know what symbols do what.

wait guys,,,,,,,,,,,,,, idk if it's hard or difficult or something, but being able to roleplay on mobile would be nice EDiT: okay, just discovered you technically can, you just have to type in the direct url

I feel like this has already been suggested, but what if instead of separating entire rps by rating, there's an option to rate it when creating the rp, like the title. That way you could change the rating if it goes in a different direction than you'd expected, and there would only be one grouping mechanism (probably by genre), but the rating of each rp would show up next to the title.