What’s up, party people?

There has been some discussion over the last while over the idea of a more strict RP subforum, in which RPing in your character’s gimmick or clbum is actually enforced.

This would still go under the RP side, because it’s hard to keep it “civil” when most posters are trolls. However, posting in ARP (or whatever we decide to call it; suggestions welcome) means not “breaking the fourth wall.”

In other words, it’s cool to post Goatse, but alt-revealing is not cool because it breaks the illusion of RP. Similarly, comments like “you suck” are fine as long as it’s not “you suck at role-playing,” for similar reasons.

Note that we wouldn’t have to enforce Forumwarz archetypes for your RP. Although that’s a good fallback for your characters, you could still play a hard-boiled detective while technically being clbumed as a Re-Re, for example.

As you can guess, modding this experimental subforum would be very subjective and would require keen knowledge of the community. We might bumign only select mods the ability to deal with issues in ARP. It’s also likely that punishments for ARP violations will be more lenient — at least in the early days.

No, this isn’t going to “save” Flamebate. It’s just an idea. But it’s fairly easy to implement, it might be fun to play around with, and it might be an interesting challenge for our more bored mods. And if it fails, we can all have a good laugh about it.

So how about it, Forumwarriorz? Are we gonna do this? Vote and/or comment here.

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Voted no.

Uh, if you want to encourage role-playing other than trolling how about a RP subforum where you have to role-play but trolling is forbidden? I mean Trolls troll in all other forums on the RP side of the board and not only there. It would be difficult to draw the line and impossible to prevent more subtle trolling but then real trolling isn’t subtle.

Amasius Posted:

real trolling isn’t subtle.

It can be.

I’m much better at subtle trolling than I am at non-subtle trolling.

I’ll probably get shot down, but how about two new subforums; a clbum RP where you play as your forumwarz clbum, and a non-clbum RP where you can take on a different persona per thread? I’m really not to into that, but I’ve seen some people pretend they’re fake characters (super heroes, science fiction characters, whatever) and write an entire interactive story about whatever the plot is and plan it all out beforehand throughout private talks, like one mbumive collaborative book.

I’ll just post an example of how it would work as I’ve seen on other forums:

Somebody will come along and get a great idea for a story (or a not so great idea) and try to start a story with one long, well developed post introducing the premise of the world they’re living in, their character name and description, and what’s so unique about them/what powers they have. An example post for a description would be:

Name:

Age:

Description (Hair color, facial structure, clothes, style, talents, other important information):

What powers they possess if relevant to the story:

I personally think RP like that (which is actual RP) is a little lame, but the outcome of the good ones is incredible; some get 10+ pages long and it’s like a full-out novel.

This would have to be heavily moderated, because I’m sure most people who create not so great stories will be trolled to death and people will create a character just to say “AND THEY ALL DIE AND GET SKULL-****ED BY ZOMBIES THE END” or something, but it could possibly work and if advertised correctly, bring a lot of people who into animes/cosplaying into that specific forum and give them somewhere to talk without being harbumed like in the current RP forums.

Just an idea, but I’d honestly like some feedback on this.

Amasius Posted:

Then you aren’t a real troll by definition. Log in to see images!

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YES YES A MILLION TIMES YES

(It should have been obvious that this should have been done ages ago before this happened)

This is a great idea Mike Crotch. Possibly the best idea you’ve had since making forumwarz

-=Dysnomia=-

we are being trolled by jb. it is hapening. right now.

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Mazzon Posted:

megazeroexe Posted:

Well played, Amasius.