(*was going to provide some sort of non-official response here based on the answer for a similar situation in the past, but ended up not being sure whether or not this topic would end up taking the same path. Figured I might as well post the rest of this post, though, in case any part of it ended up being useful*)

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Random thought: What about a topic containing "RP profiles" for people who want to post profiles of their MF board/chat RPs? Sorta like character profiles, only for the RPs themselves. For example, a profile could contain the RP name, decription, type of RP (ex: board/chat), and link/useful links. That way the topic could serve as an index of sorts. (note: started out thinking of this for just MF chat RPs, then generalized it, so dunno of it's more practical (if practical at all) one way or another. If it turns out it'd still fall into the category of advertising or otherwise not work out, then nevermind.)

Perhaps one of the main things is simply about awareness that there is a chat room for RPing at the Mobius Forum, if anyone wants to use it o.o

Posting it in the RP Guild doesn't target the right audience either. You're talking about a slippery slope there. If we allow them to advertize offboard chat crap, then why not offboard RP's? or fanfiction? If they can do that then that nullifies much of the reason we have carnival island. Which would probably be a better place to discuss projects like a chat roleplay session.

As for the guild? We really don't need yet another thread in there. I'm debating removing the character profile sticky as they SHOULD be introducing their characters IN the story. Especially since they have to mold their character to the setting, so the profile in that thread is moot anyway. Let us moldy old people have our archaic and tl;dr paragraph and pages of exposition. *waves cane*

~Tobe

"Chat crap". Right... notice I said any that is on the MF Chat. If the MF Chat is not part of the board, why is it called the MF Chat and still linked on the board then? (serious question) And how would it exactly not be the right audience as it is RP related? Also, in that case, all Rps should take place in CI as it's for creative things, and nto even have their own forum. Just because the format is different, does nto totally nullify it as an RP. How is ONE sticky in the guild going to be some major pain anyway like it's made out to be? It would be something like Ari would suggest, and if it would make you happy, people would have to be posting members of this board or something, just people from out of nowhere who want to use the chat, or something inbetween.

Perhaps one of the main things is simply about awareness that there is a chat room for RPing at the Mobius Forum, if anyone wants to use it o.o

Yeah, the point I'm trying to make...

I was under the impression that the guild is for all MF-related (that is, in the MoFo, not MoFo RP setting) RPs. This not the case?

The target audience in this case would be MoFoer RPers. MoFoer RPers tend to be in the ...MF RP Guild.

Did I miss something? o.o

Ok, here we go. Ari is right, my position on this hasn't changed on this. Basically you want a thread in the Guild to IM each other about some chat that really has nothing to do with the Guild, since I've watched you kick people outta your little group because you don't like them.

If you're asking for the Guild's endorsement? No way. You don't want to be open to everyone? As the meme states? GTFO

If you want Vec's endorsement? Well you've seen how that's accomplished. No reason to make a post, just IM him and beg.

If you want a sticky somewhere? I'll be more than happy to put one in Carnie, MFC, or SPA. I misread the first post and since this is the MF Chat there is no reason one can't go in those places. But the guild has it's own rules it adds ON to the mofo's. And even though an RP starter can dictate further rules, they cannot ban certain people from their threads. I remember that fight and I dislike invite-only RPs. Banning from the RP? Is the same as banning guild. Which is the same as banning from the board. A majority of the admin's have to approve it.

If you want to actually start moving toward the Chat RP being part of the guild discussion and such? I'd be delighted. But we need to really DO IT. Not just allow a few people to use the guild to post memo's to each other, that could be done in MFC, SPA, Carnie, IM's, any other board for fan projects, miscellaneous stuff. If you want to write up so background on your storyline for newbies to catchup (similar to what we did with the last episode of Evalc's RP), allow people to join and accept them regardless of their popularity level, (yes that means SX, SS, Terg, Trans and whoever else was caught up in the last round of drama have to get along). My huge issue from a RP Guild standpoint is that drama crap where you say certain people can't participate because "we said so". If you want to be part of the Guild, cool. But banning people from your RP's? Sam, Terg, and I don't do that for the story's in the guild and you can't do it in the chat based ones. If you remember I've joked about a class "F" ban, aka a Forum level ban. But short of bobcow, who was actually a staffwide decision and was a boardwide ban not a week later, it's never really been done. But I'd be more than happy to put up announcements and such on the guild page if that RP group was open to anyone. Right now I think it's too elitest.

~Tobe

*breaking the rules because as Stair can tell you Admin's are above the rules, lol*

SX has contacted me and actually showed me what you guys have going. Read through the wiki, which whould be ALL means posted in a thread in the Guild. This is a far cry from the last time I saw a chat RP going. It's documented, referenced, described, and already has enough info for people to attempt to join. SX says that it was just started so that's even better.

What you need to do is make a topic in the guild, give people an short outline of your world and post a link to the wiki and the chat room if you think you need to. Maybe clean it up with bold, underline and junk so people will take more notice. Should be no problem with sticking that if it's even needed, lol.

Trans you really need to work on your delivery. If you'd posted up you had this RP chat going, had this wiki started, and were looking for more players? Even I can't find fault with a RP Chat that has a wiki with their background written down.

~Tobe

*takes all the credit for the wiki idea* 😀

Ha, I can see you had a large part of it at least.

~Tobe