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One Thousand Club
Hi!
The name is BluEs and I think most of the staff saw my name once in a while. I might be a returning newbie to the website but I've been around, saw lots of RP sites, judged it and found pros and cons. I haven't found a single perfect website, but I did encounter a few great ideas and saw how important a good management team is for the maintenance of the websites.
So, here are a few of my suggestions/remarks for this HUGE community of roleplayers. I will separate my opinions and ideas in topics.
So, that's all for my remarks, etc.
The name is BluEs and I think most of the staff saw my name once in a while. I might be a returning newbie to the website but I've been around, saw lots of RP sites, judged it and found pros and cons. I haven't found a single perfect website, but I did encounter a few great ideas and saw how important a good management team is for the maintenance of the websites.
So, here are a few of my suggestions/remarks for this HUGE community of roleplayers. I will separate my opinions and ideas in topics.
For such a large bank of role players, it's surprising how little interest you can find for not only your role play but others as well. So many threads with great ideas, bbcodes etc, yet not one interest posted. I was wondering why some of my RP ideas just weren't catching wind when in other sites it was literally The Bomb. And I wondered the same for some of my ideas and strangers.
Then I came to realize that it just all came down to the advertisement. The advertisement in RPN is very limited to the interest check and sending messages via PM in mass... But that's not very practical, to be honest. There is no visibility and your Rp just ends up amongst the bunch of garbage thread on page 25 in a matter of a day.
Suggestions
- A rotating banner system at the top of the page.
- Weekly/Monthly spotlight to the most promising role plays (that might create tension tho due to favoritism)
- Literally a clean up of the interest check area. it's very claustrophobic. I found a 2014 thread for some role play in the futuristic in page 254.... It's very overwhelming.
Then I came to realize that it just all came down to the advertisement. The advertisement in RPN is very limited to the interest check and sending messages via PM in mass... But that's not very practical, to be honest. There is no visibility and your Rp just ends up amongst the bunch of garbage thread on page 25 in a matter of a day.
Suggestions
- A rotating banner system at the top of the page.
- Weekly/Monthly spotlight to the most promising role plays (that might create tension tho due to favoritism)
- Literally a clean up of the interest check area. it's very claustrophobic. I found a 2014 thread for some role play in the futuristic in page 254.... It's very overwhelming.
I don't have a lot of complaints about this actually, except the fact that there is no writing competition hosted by the staff or anything. It's actually the only site which doesn't host any MISC. Sure, you can write stuff in the Creativity forum but that very forum isn't really organized into sections which make it overwhelming as well and not very encouraging to host it cause it will get lost like most role plays.
Suggestion:
- A few staff that fully focus on community projects to stimulate writing challenges or drawing with prizes like... example: Donator banner or Spotlight etc.
- Dividing the creativity forum into two sections: drawing & writing
* THUMBS UP THO FOR THE PALETTE CHALLENGE* But unfortunately... BBcode isn't really what is binding us all in RPN. Writing is So attracting the bigger population would be by making a writing contest.. *hehe
Suggestion:
- A few staff that fully focus on community projects to stimulate writing challenges or drawing with prizes like... example: Donator banner or Spotlight etc.
- Dividing the creativity forum into two sections: drawing & writing
* THUMBS UP THO FOR THE PALETTE CHALLENGE* But unfortunately... BBcode isn't really what is binding us all in RPN. Writing is So attracting the bigger population would be by making a writing contest.. *hehe
I have nothing to say negatively about the staff. So far, I have only good things. My only complain tho is... There doesn't seem to have enough staff to put the site in order. So, from what I could gather is that RPN underwent a change, switched back to some host... Threads are lost, reappeared, I get it... It's like moving from a house to another, things are just disorganized... But I'll be honest, I don't see any changes at the moment. I don't see a day down time to clean up all the dead threads, archive it... or converting old hosted projects into that new hp.
I don't see a mass recruitment of site managers (no need for moderators or anything... Just someone who can regularly archive threads that are dead for over a month or place misplaced threads etc).
Suggestion
-Host a massive recruitment dedicated to specific task. You will find help for sure.
I don't see a mass recruitment of site managers (no need for moderators or anything... Just someone who can regularly archive threads that are dead for over a month or place misplaced threads etc).
Suggestion
-Host a massive recruitment dedicated to specific task. You will find help for sure.
So, that's all for my remarks, etc.