Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-24947676-20160912201219/@comment-29917814-20160914233642

Neutral, I guess? I think of a general chat as a party in a small room with assigned seats. Everyone'se close together so we can all hear each other. Some people have to talk around others to get the conversation. However, for the most part, the main event is on one course driven by the entirety of the group. Some lovely chat boxes have extra tabs that allow you to talk one-on-one with a person, as if you've leaned back and whispered to another person beside you. This is great for a one-on-one conversation, but not benefitial for everyone. A forum, however, is like when a person gathers up a whole party and they, all in different places (perhaps not even in the same building), talk on Facebook. It's great for talking to a select few people, more than one but less than all, for more concentrated discussions while a main board is still open for people to chat freely. However, things take a little while to post and the converstaion can get hindered.

Now, I know for a fact that RPing is fun to some but annoying to anothers. I'm not a fan of it, but I won't hunt it down and kill it. I just shrug it off and leave people be. However, being in a crowded room with a party of people in assigned seating can make it difficult to block out the noise of 3+ RPers. On the flip side, it could be very hard for 3+ RPers to properly play and have fun while 3+ people in main chatter talk over them. If we all were in the Facebook scenario, we'd all have fun talking to each seperate group (perhaps all at once) but time could become combersome. So, what will we do?

I propose that instead of banning RPing or banishing it to a forum, I think that we should encourage it somewhere else. Just like any living thing, saying "no" and "you can't do that" will not help. It will only frustrate it. What you can do, is provide a place for the living thing (or the idea/group/etc.) to go where they can have a lot more fun. However, we don't want that place being the same place as the main chat. That would be rude to the main chatters and the RPers. There should be two different chats. Or, perhaps, a place that can link to Discord. I've been on Discord before; it's pretty fun. You can have your own chat box and your invite people to a personal one-on-one chat. It's fast paced so people won't be waiting for posts to snail through. It's clean and divided so people can switch from one place to another without stepping on anyone's toes.