RE: New Subforum for an MSPAFA?
10-21-2015, 04:37 AM
Hi, I'm the person who runs Fortuna and like Wheat said, if there's even an inch of doubt about the whole thing do feel free to say no to it. The last thing I'd ever want to happen is for me or the adventure to feel invasive. The whole story with the old Fortuna forums is that it ran well for awhile, and then suddenly spambots spilled in. I got a better captcha system, still had tons of bots, realized that the forums were somehow 2 years out of date, then proceeded to break the whole thing by updating it. Basically it was a huge mess I had no time to handle so I quietly put it down.
Fortuna is in a really awkward teen stage where it has too many fans to be contained on a single forum topic but it is much too small to have a whole forum dedicated to it. Even as a sub forum I figure it'd be pretty slow. As for topics it would have it could just have a main discussion topic, and then a topic for each of the applications (species, planets, characters, and fauna) so that people may post them there, get feedback, and thoughts from others on them. Maybe a few other things I can't think of at this moment.
It definitely wouldn't be a sudden wave of (active) people joining. In the last 2 months 48 different people have posted in the newest Fortuna topic, and I say that out of all those people maybe 5-10 might join and post here once or more a week, thus being an active member. While that lessens the risk of anyone new being a jerk, it of course doesn't get rid of it. In all my time of running Fortuna I've only seen 2 small arguments break out and both were ended with a basic "Knock it off, this argument has nothing to do with robots and/or aliens" or by asking to take it to pms.
No one will hopefully have to take any sort of mantle and I'll try my best to keep the calm, like I said, the last thing I ever want to be is a burden.
Fortuna is in a really awkward teen stage where it has too many fans to be contained on a single forum topic but it is much too small to have a whole forum dedicated to it. Even as a sub forum I figure it'd be pretty slow. As for topics it would have it could just have a main discussion topic, and then a topic for each of the applications (species, planets, characters, and fauna) so that people may post them there, get feedback, and thoughts from others on them. Maybe a few other things I can't think of at this moment.
It definitely wouldn't be a sudden wave of (active) people joining. In the last 2 months 48 different people have posted in the newest Fortuna topic, and I say that out of all those people maybe 5-10 might join and post here once or more a week, thus being an active member. While that lessens the risk of anyone new being a jerk, it of course doesn't get rid of it. In all my time of running Fortuna I've only seen 2 small arguments break out and both were ended with a basic "Knock it off, this argument has nothing to do with robots and/or aliens" or by asking to take it to pms.
No one will hopefully have to take any sort of mantle and I'll try my best to keep the calm, like I said, the last thing I ever want to be is a burden.