[quote:24dc114e9e="Kat_in_the_Hat"]
I think role-playing threads should be ok in the 'Boardanian Role Play Group' Board. Even if they aren't started by Garner :P[/quote:24dc114e9e]

Might wanna rethink that one, bucko.

Could you be more specific about 'role-playing threads'? You mean threads based on proper roleplaying games played by board members, or slapstick *whacks Bob* stuff?

The 'Boardanian Role Play Group' board should be for the Boardanian Role Play Group. That doesn't mean just for the people who are involved in the current campaign, because I think it's already been said somewhere that future games will be open to anyone in the community who wants to play. I think that forum should be for discussing or writing about the current BRPG campaign or planning/suggesting stuff for future BRPG campaigns.

However, I don't think that it should be filled with threads where someone has decided it would be fun to start a roleplay where someone writes a bit with their character, and then someone writes another bit with their character and so on. I think roleplaying like that should be elsewhere. Maybe in a forum of its own (because I'm personally not to keen on having numerous threads like that in the Boardania forum)?

:? I would love to be able to comment on the FAQ Buzzfloyd posted at the start but as a newbit 90% of the post went right over my head.

Freya you are most kind it is great to hear that I am not the only person to take awhile to understand, if there is a place newbits can go to learn the ropes feel free to point me in the right direction.

As a newbit who really wants to be able to fit in with the community if I make a mistake I would prefer to be corrected than left in ignorence of my blunders.



Tabatha.




(If at first you don't succeed try try again)

*shrug* If you're THAT keen, and have about a week with nothing better to do, you could go check out the old site and trowel through the wasteland that is our old archives.

In a nutshell, however: After years of community growth and learning, we're at a point where we need to revise and update our 'code of conduct', 'guidelines', or '101 reasons why you should give garner your money'... whatever we decide to call it.

For right now, just be a decent human being and you should do alright. Once we've got the new 'guidelines/faq/commandments' thingiebob written, your opinion on it, as a newbie, will be much appreciated.

You know, following on from that, an idea occurs to me... When Fatman showed up on the old site, he was full of very insistant suggestions for how we ought to behave that were clearly NOT in line with what the community wanted, and as it turned out, Fatman was only there to cause trouble anyway.

I wonder if the guidelines/FAQ should also be considered a bit of an advertisement/Public Relations piece for the community.

sort of, 'If you don't like what you see here, you MIGHT want to move along'?

[quote:8b6db4e024="chrisjordan"][quote:8b6db4e024="Kat_in_the_Hat"]
I think role-playing threads should be ok in the 'Boardanian Role Play Group' Board. Even if they aren't started by Garner :P[/quote:8b6db4e024]

Could you be more specific about 'role-playing threads'? You mean threads based on proper roleplaying games played by board members, or slapstick *whacks Bob* stuff?

The 'Boardanian Role Play Group' board should be for the Boardanian Role Play Group. That doesn't mean just for the people who are involved in the current campaign, because I think it's already been said somewhere that future games will be open to anyone in the community who wants to play. I think that forum should be for discussing or writing about the current BRPG campaign or planning/suggesting stuff for future BRPG campaigns.

However, I don't think that it should be filled with threads where someone has decided it would be fun to start a roleplay where someone writes a bit with their character, and then someone writes another bit with [i:8b6db4e024]their[/i:8b6db4e024] character and so on. I think roleplaying like that should be elsewhere. Maybe in a forum of its own (because I'm personally not to keen on having numerous threads like that in the Boardania forum)?[/quote:8b6db4e024]

You know, I found that original comment to be quite snarky. If anyone's got any problem with me having started a role play group, I'd like to know WHY? And let's not hear any more of that "Only people Garner invites" bollocks, because it's patently not true.

Now, I don't like the kind of message board role playing that chris described. We've tried it in the past before, and it doesn't often work very well with us. There are other sites that do it better and where the entire community is built around it. Buzzfloyd used to post on a Discworld role playing site, and it used to be pretty good until the intellectual average on the site nosedived with an influx of bad role players. Ba is part of a couple of other communities where they do super hero and other role playing games.

I have no problem with this sort of thing existing on our forums, provided its confined to specific threads, does not spill over onto other threads, and hopefully doesn't showcase anyone's emotional problems, like we saw with a certan lycanthropic disaster a while back.

Personally, I don't want it cluttering up "my" role play group forum, but I wouldn't object (much) if it were in a sub forum.

Since these things aren't very common, i don't think they'd clutter up the "Boardania" forum, and that's where they'd have gone on the old site.

[quote:53ba2e9f90="Garner"]You know, I found that original comment to be quite snarky. If anyone's got any problem with me having started a role play group, I'd like to know WHY? And let's not hear any more of that "Only people Garner invites" bollocks, because it's patently not true.

Now, I don't like the kind of message board role playing that chris described. We've tried it in the past before, and it doesn't often work very well with us. There are other sites that do it better and where the entire community is built around it. Buzzfloyd used to post on a Discworld role playing site, and it used to be pretty good until the intellectual average on the site nosedived with an influx of bad role players. Ba is part of a couple of other communities where they do super hero and other role playing games.

I have no problem with this sort of thing existing on our forums, provided its confined to specific threads, does not spill over onto other threads, and hopefully doesn't showcase anyone's emotional problems, like we saw with a certan lycanthropic disaster a while back.

Personally, I don't want it cluttering up "my" role play group forum, but I wouldn't object (much) if it were in a sub forum.

Since these things aren't very common, i don't think they'd clutter up the "Boardania" forum, and that's where they'd have gone on the old site.[/quote:53ba2e9f90]

I agree with that.

Oh, and speaking of the werewolf game, did anyone notice Doors got away with not completing the last one? :P

So long as there are no more than, say, four active roleplaying threads at any one time, putting them in Boardania should be fine. When the number reaches five, then thought should go into giving them their own forum.

On the whole, I think the FAQ are (is?) very well thought out, and should nip a lot of potential future arguments in the bud. Also, as a newbie, a code of conduct like this makes the board more attractive to me, because I can see straight off that if I post here I shouldn't have to deal with too many morons, or at least not for long!

I also agree with points already made about role playing and hijacking. I post on another board with similar rules, which are taken very seriously. When a thread is hijacked, it is often instantly locked. In my opinion this is taking it too far, as it can be both frustrating and insulting to be prevented from continuing a conversation; making a separate thread is a much better idea.

Regarding changing avatars and sigs if asked - I don't know if this is just the way it was temporarily phrased, or me being too picky, but I think it should be made clear that a moderator has to do the asking, or there may be some annoying person who decides to cause trouble in this area.

ehhh. there's plenty of folks who'll take extreme afront to being asked by THIS moderator to do any damn thing.

i don't think that a moderator is supposed to carry any extra authority *because* they are a moderator, and there are plenty of people who are vital to the community that aren't mods, yet who should be listened to just as intently.

If rinso says "That avatar is (annoying/offensive/actually my mother, how did you get it), so please change it", it should be just as serrious and meaningful if Mynona says "That avatar is ... "

but of course, mynona is having internet troubles lately, and can't stay on long enough to finish a single post!

I think a request to change an avatar/signature doesn't necessarily have to be made by a moderator, but the request should be made by more than one person, just in case the requestor has extremely puritanical views that don't reflect the majority of the community, or the requestor is just trying to cause trouble by asking people to change their avatars/signatures for no legitimate reason.

There has to be evidence that the avatar/sig is really annoying or offensive to more than just one person.

[quote:0cbda8ebcd="Rincewind"]Be honest
[b:0cbda8ebcd]Use proper English [/b:0cbda8ebcd]
Maybe add no l33t or net abbrieations. In the explanation –(can we have expandable/flip down stuff,mal?)- we should mention that many of us are foreign or Dystarded and do not understand what many of these things mean.
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I think the wording in that still needs tweaking. It may give potential new members who do not speak english as a first language a completely wrong idea.

How about "Do not use l33t, net abbreviations or chat speak; not every member here comes from an english-speaking country"?

OK, evidently my first clarification did not make things clear enough. My post was not intended to be anything like the final wording of the FAQ. I tried to list the rules we already had as succinctly as possible, knowing that you guys would all know what we mean by 'Use proper English'; we could then spell it out more fully in the first draft of the FAQ proper, assuming you approved of the rule, which you already have a full grasp of.

So, by "Use proper English", I meant all the things that have been suggested, and I knew that you would know what those things were, and I assumed you knew that I was implying all those things in my [b:4764503046]brief summary[/b:4764503046].

Wording is not what we're quibbling over here. We need to sort out if we want an actual rule about each item. We will sort out the wording in the next go-round.

If all the things on the list are OK to be included in a rule in some shape or form, great. I will write up a more complete version, and [i:4764503046]then[/i:4764503046] we'll pick at the wording. But if you have a problem with something being on the list at all (or not being), please say so now.

I like the idea of specifically Terry Pratchett FAQ to which we can direct newbits who ask "obvious" question.

This way they can be assisted outside quickly and quietly, before bottles and chairs start flying.

If it needs to be written, I volunteer to do so.

The rest of the rules sound good.

P.S. I understand no flirting on Message Boards - is it okay to add "if you must, use chat rooms"?

how about, "if you must, use chat rooms, but not the ones on this site. go somewhere else. like IRC, or preferably the 9th circle of hell"