RE: New Subforum for an MSPAFA?
10-21-2015, 05:10 AM
Welcome to the forum! From what I've heard and browsed you're doing something pretty neat with collaborative storytelling, so while I'm just one person I'd be keen to see the forum accommodate you!
If you're worried about monopolising a whole subforum for yourself and your webwork's followers/participants, Wheat and I had a proposal while talking the idea out - a Mediaworks™ General subforum (location in the existing forum structure to be determined). It'd be open to any web project that's politely asking for a place to start a discussion/organisation/character app/whatever thread, and a sticky could be made to index all threads by corresponding project. In your case:
-Fortuna General Discussion (stickied with an index in the OP while yours is the only project we're hosting?)
-Fortuna Species Apps, Planet Apps, Character apps, and Fauna apps
If other web projects (forum adventures/reader-input heavy webcomics are the main examples, but we could be a hub for podcasts or whatever else folks fancy too) wanted a community hub, a Mediaworks™ General subforum would be the place. I don't know if you were around way back when MSPAFA had a Meta/Misc subforum, but I envision something along those lines.
As for the "keeping people in line", best case scenario of course is that it's completely unnecessary (or in the case of people being offtopic, folks have free reign in General Chat and even lower-quality free reign in Hawkspace, our Premier Shitposting Subforum).
I'm well aware that leading a creative project is quite a different beast from leading a community that gathers around a creative project, so as an Ostensible Leadery Type on this forum I'd like to help out with the latter where I can. It seems the kind of discussion though that we can play by ear as we see how the incoming community interacts.
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Eagle Timers, how do y'all feel about a Mediaworks General subforum? Where would be the logical spot for it? (I'm thinking Projects but will totes take user input). Does my suggested name suck eggs? (Y'all can send me your opinions privately if you'd rather as well, obviously).
If you're worried about monopolising a whole subforum for yourself and your webwork's followers/participants, Wheat and I had a proposal while talking the idea out - a Mediaworks™ General subforum (location in the existing forum structure to be determined). It'd be open to any web project that's politely asking for a place to start a discussion/organisation/character app/whatever thread, and a sticky could be made to index all threads by corresponding project. In your case:
-Fortuna General Discussion (stickied with an index in the OP while yours is the only project we're hosting?)
-Fortuna Species Apps, Planet Apps, Character apps, and Fauna apps
If other web projects (forum adventures/reader-input heavy webcomics are the main examples, but we could be a hub for podcasts or whatever else folks fancy too) wanted a community hub, a Mediaworks™ General subforum would be the place. I don't know if you were around way back when MSPAFA had a Meta/Misc subforum, but I envision something along those lines.
As for the "keeping people in line", best case scenario of course is that it's completely unnecessary (or in the case of people being offtopic, folks have free reign in General Chat and even lower-quality free reign in Hawkspace, our Premier Shitposting Subforum).
I'm well aware that leading a creative project is quite a different beast from leading a community that gathers around a creative project, so as an Ostensible Leadery Type on this forum I'd like to help out with the latter where I can. It seems the kind of discussion though that we can play by ear as we see how the incoming community interacts.
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Eagle Timers, how do y'all feel about a Mediaworks General subforum? Where would be the logical spot for it? (I'm thinking Projects but will totes take user input). Does my suggested name suck eggs? (Y'all can send me your opinions privately if you'd rather as well, obviously).
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clouds is shaky love | broke as hell but i got a bunch of ringtones
eyes blood red bruise aubergine | Sue took something now Sue doesn't sleep | saint average, day in the life of
woke up in the noon smelling doom and death | out the house, great outdoors
staying warm in arctic blizzard | that's my battle 'til I get inanimate | still up in the same clothes living like a gameshow