Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-24947676-20170726211438

The wiki's userbase consists mainly of RPers. Their RP skills tend to vary, usually based on how long they've been RPing, whether it be here or elsewhere. This can be frustrating for many people, whether it be advanced RPers annoyed with the ineptitude of some beginners, or beginners being intimidated by the lovely walls of text the advanced RPers churn out.

So, I suggest that we have multiple RP boards.

'''You, maybe: But Crystal! What'll happen to the original board if this passes?'''

It'll be renamed to "The Graveyard" and closed (not deleted, as deletion also requires all threads to be moved, and deleting every single individual thread is a hassle), for archival purposes. Any ongoing RPs would be continued in one of the two new boards if this passes - for any individual RP, this will depend on what format the majority of the RP's participants use, Script or Paragraph.

'''You, maybe: Okay, that's fine. But how will the new boards be organized?'''

There will be two new boards if this passes: "Advanced Roleplay" and "Beginner Roleplay".

"Advanced Roleplay", as the name implies, is for advanced RPers. As I've observed, these people tend to use "Paragraph Format". Paragraph format is what you typically see in books written in a third person perspective. These people, as you may have guessed, have been RPing for a long time. Also, to avoid beginners plaguing the advanced board when they aren't supposed to, script format would be banned here, as paragraph seems to be the standard amongst advanced RPers.

"Beginner Roleplay", again, as the name implies, is for beginners. Beginners tend to use "Script Format". This is the format you'll see most often - it's what you see when reading scripts for a play or movie. This is generally the place to start learning.

'''You, maybe: What about the in-betweeners? Y'know, the ones between beginner and advanced?"'''

In the scenario in which the user gets bored of beginner, they could try advanced. RPing takes practice to get good at, you know, and the best way to get gooder (yes this fuckup is 100% intentional) is to try more advanced techniques when you've mastered the familiar ones.

So I think that's all the possible complaints that might arise from this?? Or at least, the ones that don't involve "But I wanna play with the big kids!", or anything like that. Since it's obvious why you'd support, if you vote oppose or neutral, please explain why as it is not obvious to me and I won't know what's wrong with this if you don't tell me. Thank you!

 