Alright. I had half a mind to post links but out of respect for the forum rules I refrained. Since the creation of this thread I've been looking over various sites. Reading suggestion, tips and overall observing their rate of growth and success. I know it's easier said than done and far easier to blame than take responsibility but the bottom line is. There are sites right now continuing to run or just beginning that since the time of this threads creation have been able to accumulate members in the double digits and create numerous threads with multiple replies. Sites where people openly seek partners to interact with and Staff replies and updates as easily and almost as fast as Meer was able to change my characters ability from water to ice.
This is not because their sites are prettier, or their coding is superior because beleive you me. I want to learn how to hack just to shut half of them down. Not because of their success but for the simple fact that chat boxes stretched the page, the content was shitty and over complicated or people went through the trouble of coloring text and using different fonts and styles for other peoples characters just because they did it in their posts before.
They are seeing success because these members, staff or not are positively contributing. Both ic and ooc. I'm not saying post once a day, but if one of you posted tuesday, the third guy wednesday and some other guy friday, that along with mirena and kathreda or w/e and i posted with shun and mza, that's more active than we've been in a while. Thats a whole weeks worth and that's only 7 characters putting down a post a day. With all the registered accounts here imagine what we could do if we got more.
There are claims staff isnt slacking, theyre just relaxed because theres no work but then the opposing side argues well updates don't get done. Remember back when more things needed to get updated? When to edit your account profile, format or add a move you needed an update? Or even when members had to post a link to show you were active to get tp? Remember how things still managed to flow? How despite the claims and accusations and all the drama of losing contact with a host screenshots were still taken of roster pages and the database was transferred so that people still had their join dates post counts and actual post history linkage.
For fire to form there needs to be friction and oxygen. For rivers to flow a source and a current.
We can bring chubbs back to life and even exceed what we onced accomplished. It was all fine and dandy when things were in motion. People were excited, then one thing led to another and I feel like we forgot why we even joined in the first place. The concept hasn't changed, some of your characters haven't. And if they have it was through storylines you developed over time. choices you made.
Let's stop linking back to look at the failures and use that ability instead to remember how we got this far. The host is reliable and our knowledge of the worlds both real and fantasy continue to expand. Let's make chubbs fun again. Sure it's not perfect but it never was. Why let that stop us now?
Edit: What ever happened to this? There were some pretty solid ideas here. http://www.cdbzrpg.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=118
This is not because their sites are prettier, or their coding is superior because beleive you me. I want to learn how to hack just to shut half of them down. Not because of their success but for the simple fact that chat boxes stretched the page, the content was shitty and over complicated or people went through the trouble of coloring text and using different fonts and styles for other peoples characters just because they did it in their posts before.
They are seeing success because these members, staff or not are positively contributing. Both ic and ooc. I'm not saying post once a day, but if one of you posted tuesday, the third guy wednesday and some other guy friday, that along with mirena and kathreda or w/e and i posted with shun and mza, that's more active than we've been in a while. Thats a whole weeks worth and that's only 7 characters putting down a post a day. With all the registered accounts here imagine what we could do if we got more.
There are claims staff isnt slacking, theyre just relaxed because theres no work but then the opposing side argues well updates don't get done. Remember back when more things needed to get updated? When to edit your account profile, format or add a move you needed an update? Or even when members had to post a link to show you were active to get tp? Remember how things still managed to flow? How despite the claims and accusations and all the drama of losing contact with a host screenshots were still taken of roster pages and the database was transferred so that people still had their join dates post counts and actual post history linkage.
For fire to form there needs to be friction and oxygen. For rivers to flow a source and a current.
We can bring chubbs back to life and even exceed what we onced accomplished. It was all fine and dandy when things were in motion. People were excited, then one thing led to another and I feel like we forgot why we even joined in the first place. The concept hasn't changed, some of your characters haven't. And if they have it was through storylines you developed over time. choices you made.
Let's stop linking back to look at the failures and use that ability instead to remember how we got this far. The host is reliable and our knowledge of the worlds both real and fantasy continue to expand. Let's make chubbs fun again. Sure it's not perfect but it never was. Why let that stop us now?
Edit: What ever happened to this? There were some pretty solid ideas here. http://www.cdbzrpg.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=118
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