Weeeeeelll... In absence of any sort of rules specific to this forum (At least at time of posting), seems like we'd do well to organize the forum until we get some sort of official blessing from Mods or such.
The long-term purpose of this topic is to alow those interested in Roleplaying on the forums to connect with those interested in similar roleplaying scenarios, styles, or otherwise serve as an organizational utility to keep most of the Out of Character chatter to a smaller number of topics. This is NOT supposed to be a General Discussion thread! Be friendly, but if you just want to shoot the breeze, there's other subfoums for that.
In the shorter term, I'm hoping to encourage some discussion of rules and practices unique to this forum to help it function better. (Obviosuly, if mods have plans for this or would otherwise not like members trying to legislate, feel free to close the topic or remove the relevant paragraphs, or what have you.) Establishing shorthands, catagories, organizational tags, that sort of thing. For example, sorting In Character and Out of Character threads--my idea, as I've followed with this topic's title--is to make it a title designation in parentheses, as well as a tag. That way it is always immediately clear whether a topic is intended to be an active RP topic, or an Out of Character topic, and doing a forum search will show relevant topics.
Another thing that may want to be addressed is how to sort RP catagories--free, anyone-can-join, single-location RP topics are going to be very different from RPs intending to carry a certain number of characters through a story arc. I'm open to suggestions, but if there's a small enough number of catagories, I could see this being added to the parentheses at the beginning of a title idea I suggested for labeling OOC vs IC topics.
Handling characters will also probably be a thing to sort out. Should we create a designated character list thread where characters can be posted and linked to for renference in IC topics? Should characters be handled by each individual RP topic? Do we want to try and establish a semi-consistent format for posting a character you're going to be RPing as? I like the idea of having a topic designated to housing characters, with having 1 post per character, and no chatter--then you can link to the post of a specific character when joining an RP, rather than having to manage multiple profiles over multiple topics, and cut and paste write-ups you want to use in multiple places. (I'm also assuming this would make them easy to find for you through your post history... But I'm assuming that's something you can find on your profile somewhere. Hm. Should probably check that.)
Anyway, that's my ideas so far. Discuss if you're interested in helping sort this out!
-Tolan
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