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[Super Postman]

I have been asked to post this, The views in this post may not reflect my own. This has been a public service announcement from popple

[Frozenwinters]

1. I agree with getting rid of RPOT, but not because of badwidths. I think if we get rid of RPOT people will be encouraged to act more in character in other places. Maybe bring more life into RP? Of course people will go emo for half a day and commit e-suicide and cry as they slit their e-wrists, but I think in the long run it would work out.

2. Yes.

3. Well I don't want to talk about games all day, and you can't force people to. We still talk about games and stuff, I don't really see how this is a problem. :/

4. Yes that's true. If you're going to be hard on members that have been bad in the past, then you should be just as hard on member's who have been good, or are often over-looked. Also, I've learned that mods are harder on emos and angry people. :/

5. Yeah I guess, shit should be censored.

6. I like the community aspect. I like hearing about other's problems and life. I don't see why that brings digibutter down.

Singling a member out is definitely bad. Even if it is positive, you're going to make some other member feel unseen, unnoticed and maybe leave?

[Pure-???]

I agree. WITH EVERYTHING.
RPOT and OT are sucking up all of the posts. It's stupid, we don't need them.
Digiblogger is just pointless, you wanna rant about things? Get a blog on a site devoted to them. There are a few. Google it! Emo stuff... just... blarg. There's no point. this is the internet. few people, if any at all, care.

And it's true, this is a gaming site. Let's try and keep it that way.

[Tayl]

1) I think RPOT needs to be...revised. The mods need to be more strict on spam there, and move appropriate topics to RP. I see too many topics that really belong to RP, and have the potential to bring in back to life. Other topics are too spammy, and should be deleted or whatever. {I'm guilty of both, I believe.} But getting rid of it wouldn't help, because then any and all spammy RP posts would end up in RP, which would end up in a lot of strikes. RPOT is supposed to be Off-Topic, with character. For non-serious RPs. Like Alt Introductions, or other random threads that are in-character, and aren't spam. I think that the border between RP and RPOT needs to be realized.

2) Agreed.

3) We can't just talk about games all the time. Sure, more gaming discussion would be nice, but some people just have nothing to say about it.

4) I've noticed that, too. But I think the members are responsible at the same time, because there's a report button hanging above every post, waiting to be pressed. It's ultimately up to the Mods to decide if it's bad or not.

5) Members should have the option to pick which words are censored. Some people aren't okay with swearing, other people are. Some people have parents that don't really care, and others, like me, have parents that would ben them from the computer if they saw someone say the word "suck".

6) FW pretty much summed up what I was going to say on it. But people need to keep any and all "drama" secluded to digiblogger.

Yeah.

[Captain Blue]

1. Getting rid of RPOT would just make RP the new RPOT. Getting rid of RP would destroy pretty much the entire site the way it is now.

2. Yes. Very Yes.

3. Gaming isn't everything, man. I like talking about games alot, but even I have my limits.

4. See 2.

5. See 4.

6. See 5.

[Pure-???]

[Rusty Shackleford]

[Captain Blue]

[Chin Fish]

1. What Tayl said. Move the actual plots to Role-Playing.

2. Delete the topics that have no purpose and I'm happy.

3. Get rid of the forums for each game, and add a forum for each series. I mean, give us a forum for all the Mario games, all the Zelda games, and so on and so on. We don't need both a Super Paper Mario forum and Super Mario Galaxy forum. This should even make less gaming-related posts in Off-Topic.

4. I don't pay enough attention to topics that are and are not locked, but if this is true, then I agree.

5. Censors do need to be fixed. The F-word and the R-word are censored, but shit, dick, rapist, *cragged*, and so on are not? We have a problem with our censors. I thought we wanted 13+ for our forums.

6. I agree with this, pretty much. Maybe not getting rid of Digiblogger, but something.

DO IT, FRANCIS.

[Aran Ryan]

1. I disagree. Sure, RPOT can be spammy at some times, but I find it fun. If you want to get rid of an RP forum, get rid of Miyamojo. That place is more dead than a Deceased Headcrab. This site can save a WHOLE lot of space if Miyamojo was gone. It was only good once it opened up. A few days later, it died. Getting rid of it (and sparing our posts, coins, etc.) would save space.

Edit: I was too busy typing this out. I agree with Tayl and Homeo/Logan. ... And yeah... I better get the serious stuff to RP rather than RPOT. Because that's where I have been posting it instead. Damn...

2. Hell yes.

3. What Captain Blue said.

4. Yes.

5. Yes.

6. Eh...... I agree with getting rid of the emo threads and crap but getting rid of the positive discussions... no. Because I happen to be known for posting that kind of stuff (example: the "in-character" topic or whatever... even though it went totally out of hand). But... whatever.

[Super Hario]

Personally, I prefer the air on the issue of Roleplay boards, I think that there are 3 solutions;

1) Do nothing. Not very preferrable.

2) Move all actual, deep plot Roleplays into the actual Roleplay board, and keep the other stuff in RPOT.

3) Simply kill the dead Roleplay board and merge it with RPOT and Miyamojo, creating one Roleplay board. Though this would cause the real, hard-worked-on Roleplay topics to sink over the spam topics.

I would prefer number 2. Take for example the Oress plot or whatever, that's an example of an actual, deep Roleplay plot that should be taken to the real Roleplay forum.

[Abstract]

1. I agree... for the most part. RPOT is kind of pointless, considering that it's supposed to be used for posting in-character, which you can do in other forums as well. Plots can be moved to RP.

However, there are members out there who absolutely loathe people acting in-character, and they might BAWWWW about it, causing major drama, which will cause more shit, and bleh. I dunno. :\ I think RPOT can stay, as long as it's fixed up a little. I mean, it's *crag* boring, imo... and the style of roleplaying there doesn't exactly appeal to me.

2. Agreed.

3. Yeah, we need more game talk, but, that doesn't mean you need to remove parts of the site to force it upon people. Maybe making the whole gaming concept seem more interesting than OT and RPOT might help in some way? I mean, the only reason people don't post about gaming is it's less interesting than spam and other shit on this site.

4. Agreed. I don't care if the mods are human too, or if they try their best, it makes no difference, they HAVE to be heartless asses when it comes to striking and jailing members, no matter who it is. It's their job.

5. Agreed. Actually just allow different "strengths" of filtering. That way, people who want to see all of the bad language can, and people who are offended by swearing can turn it off.

6. Agreed, but don't kill Digiblogger, just make it against the rules to post drama completely. Digiblogger could be used for members to talk about themselves, so it doesn't clog up the other forums.

[Francis]

Most of Popple's issues come down to things arn't exactly the way he wants them to be. Well, there are ~800 other members I have to consider, and there will be compromises.

1) RPOT is popular and I have plenty of bandwidth. It is not harming you. You need to acknowledge that other people enjoy different things. There are ways to co-exist.

2) You say you want stricter mods, but your idea of spam is personal opinion, which can not be expressed in a rule for mods to follow. The only fair way is to draw up clear rules, but then things like your Penny Arcade post gets striked. You can't have both ways unless all the mods follow your exact ideology, but thats impossible.

3) Gaming is a huge aspect of the site. I see many game-related posts in OT and RPOT. Maybe its just that people enjoy different games than you do (Mother, TWEWY, etc). I would say your obsession with TF2 falls into Fad territory. A war on fads is like a war on drugs.

4) Most strikes come from reporting. Many times, if something is not reported, it goes unstriked. So it's really an imbalance of who gets reported by the members. Oh, and its not the mods fault that some people are louder than others. Compare your huge neon-sign-like post in Feedback to someone who makes a more sneaky post in OT.

5) I want to censor as little as possible. This is not NeoPets. I don't understand your problem with the censor.

6) I disagree. Community can remain, it just needs to be segregated into smaller groups.

[MALAK]

RPOT should be removed. But why I want it gone is so everyone will migrate to RP. :U Honestly, they're the same, but people get the wrong view of RP. Go look at the original posts in there.

[lovegod703]