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Post by Mari Moonshin on Jun 19, 2015 2:57:29 GMT -8
I´ve tried yes to contact her but nothing she has been busy but why offering her help if she even can't be on.
I dont understand.
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Post by Mari Moonshin on Jun 19, 2015 14:34:23 GMT -8
I don't even get any members to be online only guests and its rather sad i trusted people that don't have time
what to do.
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Post by mmhmm on Jun 19, 2015 19:57:00 GMT -8
Your forum is very new, Mari Moonshin. It takes a lot of patience to build a forum from the ground up. Getting members is the first order of business and the most frustrating, in most cases. You'll need to advertise your forum wherever you can and talk it up among friends and family to get it going. You can even register several characters for yourself and start with roleplaying among those characters until you've got a few members to work with you. Patience really is the keyword, along with a lot of effort and dedication. Good luck to you with your forum! |
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Post by Mari Moonshin on Jun 20, 2015 9:57:34 GMT -8
Thank you so much i might just do that thanks.
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Post by mmhmm on Jun 20, 2015 10:19:37 GMT -8
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Post by Willow on Jun 22, 2015 22:05:51 GMT -8
Great thread! I have learned so much just skimming through it.  I originally came to proboards to create a fan site. I was originally on the "official forums" for that product but they changed their entire site and made some really draconian rules. So a few of us left because we didn't like the new one and I created a site with proboards that I am happy to say has done very well and we are going to reach 25000 posts soon! WHOOT! I had never heard or proboards before so it was a great find and I ended up joining some forums as a member. I am especially fond of RP sites. So I joined a few here at PB and other places. I like being a member but I have ran into a few things that really annoy me about being a member at RP sites. 1. The "in crowd" in many of these sites there are people that have been there for a long times and they are like a clique of popular kids. Which in itself does not bother me as I am a good writer and always find plenty of people to RP with. My issues is that the rules of the site are not evenly applied across the board esp with new members vs the popular crowd. The crowd that has been there get to break the rules and get away with stuff but if us newbies accidentally say boo we get chastised. 2. The next thing is what I call the "cannon fodder effect". Say I join a Star Trek or HP RP site. After I take all the time to go through the app process and get approved (usually with a character that has to be dumbed down) I find out what they are REALLY looking for is new characters that the established characters can bully and boss around. Its no fun. Basically in these situations, the sites have most of the good roles taken and are looking for people basically to impart their will onto. I really dislike this to such an extent that I have created a few of my own RP sites and I always make a point to not give myself the best "roles" because I want new members to have good characters to play. For example I had a Star Trek RP site for a while and I didnt have any characters myself that were in the top five in the command chain on the ship. Which worked out great! 3. Power hungry admins and mods. (Nuff said) 4. Admin and mods that insist on running everything but take DAYS to reply to threads holding up whole groups of other people from replying. 5. Other members who post two sentences in threads replying to a post I made that was 4-5 paragraphs. I can go on but you get the idea. So I now admin a few RP sites but like everyone else its hard to find members at all, even to come by and look much less join. So the past few weeks I have been looking for a few RP sites to join as a member knowing it will be full of frustration but I have noticed something pretty significant. There seems to be two types of RP sites. Those that have a huge amount of members with no decent roles left and those that have too few members. Its very hard to find any that have some good roles that are available and at the same time have enough members to keep it going. Why is this? There is not a lack of people who want to RP but there seems to be a disconnect (here on PB) at getting people who want to be members and those who want to admin on the same page (pardon the pun!). As an admin and member this drives me nuts! Anyway just wanted to add my two pence. |
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Post by Mari Moonshin on Jul 10, 2015 10:35:13 GMT -8
My forum is dying and i need someone to help me to figure out what i can do get members to join my co-admin has left me alone with it cause she been busy and without laptop, and now when she got one she lost interest.  Feeling sad. |
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Post by Former Member on Jul 11, 2015 15:31:41 GMT -8
It seems to me that a lot of people who are making forums don't have the proper personality to run a forum and would probably be better off as a member of another forum and helping to make it more successful than to be an admin of their own. So before you create a forum, ask yourself; are you an admin or a better member? How many forums have you looked at to come up with this analysis? |
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Post by Mari Moonshin on Jul 13, 2015 7:56:16 GMT -8
Great thread! I have learned so much just skimming through it. I originally came to proboards to create a fan site. I was originally on the "official forums" for that product but they changed their entire site and made some really draconian rules. So a few of us left because we didn't like the new one and I created a site with proboards that I am happy to say has done very well and we are going to reach 25000 posts soon! WHOOT! I had never heard or proboards before so it was a great find and I ended up joining some forums as a member. I am especially fond of RP sites. So I joined a few here at PB and other places. I like being a member but I have ran into a few things that really annoy me about being a member at RP sites. 1. The "in crowd" in many of these sites there are people that have been there for a long times and they are like a clique of popular kids. Which in itself does not bother me as I am a good writer and always find plenty of people to RP with. My issues is that the rules of the site are not evenly applied across the board esp with new members vs the popular crowd. The crowd that has been there get to break the rules and get away with stuff but if us newbies accidentally say boo we get chastised. 2. The next thing is what I call the "cannon fodder effect". Say I join a Star Trek or HP RP site. After I take all the time to go through the app process and get approved (usually with a character that has to be dumbed down) I find out what they are REALLY looking for is new characters that the established characters can bully and boss around. Its no fun. Basically in these situations, the sites have most of the good roles taken and are looking for people basically to impart their will onto. I really dislike this to such an extent that I have created a few of my own RP sites and I always make a point to not give myself the best "roles" because I want new members to have good characters to play. For example I had a Star Trek RP site for a while and I didnt have any characters myself that were in the top five in the command chain on the ship. Which worked out great! 3. Power hungry admins and mods. (Nuff said) 4. Admin and mods that insist on running everything but take DAYS to reply to threads holding up whole groups of other people from replying. 5. Other members who post two sentences in threads replying to a post I made that was 4-5 paragraphs. I can go on but you get the idea. So I now admin a few RP sites but like everyone else its hard to find members at all, even to come by and look much less join. So the past few weeks I have been looking for a few RP sites to join as a member knowing it will be full of frustration but I have noticed something pretty significant. There seems to be two types of RP sites. Those that have a huge amount of members with no decent roles left and those that have too few members. Its very hard to find any that have some good roles that are available and at the same time have enough members to keep it going. Why is this? There is not a lack of people who want to RP but there seems to be a disconnect (here on PB) at getting people who want to be members and those who want to admin on the same page (pardon the pun!). As an admin and member this drives me nuts! Anyway just wanted to add my two pence. I totally agree with you Willow i couldn't had said better myself that on some sites i been member off their like popular kids and can do anything but new members not its not fair how some sites are run by their admins and i left forums because i thought it to much how they created multiple accounts and role-played among them selves, and me as a new one was left in a corner.  |
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Post by Keira on Jul 13, 2015 10:29:53 GMT -8
Personally whenever I see members make multiple accounts or rp with a select few others it's because when they try to include a new member they sometimes get screwed over in a plot. I am all for including ALL members but let's not place all of the blame on admins or mods. Sometimes it is also the members fault for either not giving the site a chance or simply 'forgetting' about it and leaving their plots in the dust that when they come back? Most of their partners have moved on. I myself, have had to do that many many times and it's frustrating beyond end.
Also I don't think it's fair to say that people who make multiple accounts just roleplay with themselves LOL I make characters and plot with everyone. I don't make a character unless I can handle it either, if you're one of those people who can't handle characters and just like to steal face claims then yeah they probably shouldn't be making 50 characters on every site they join.
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Post by Mari Moonshin on Jul 13, 2015 11:46:41 GMT -8
Personally i don't approve when members have many accounts instead of making one character unique they give more
time and effort to that character and for me as a role-player i want to make one character and just do her or him better
justice then many and they die a slow death because i don't have time to role-play them all i think members who create
multiple accounts are taking all the face claims from others who might want to play that one but instead they take all
the good ones , Canons for example...i rather have all of them open and take only one for myself and then i might do
an original but not many accounts 20-50-100 thats to much and many sites that affiliate with others don't want those
forums with multiple accounts count when it comes to their standards, they say 1 account per member and 20 active
every day...its far out sometimes over summer time but am just saying what i personally think.
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Post by Keira on Jul 14, 2015 23:16:00 GMT -8
Maybe for some rpers that's true, but I don't think it's fair to say that all members who want to play multiple characters are stealing face claims. There are thousands of face claims out there to be quite honest, and while I can understand that it's frustrating when someone takes a popular face you might as well say that any player who takes a popular face claim even with one character is 'stealing'.
I don't think of it as stealing if they keep that character active, posting regularly with said character. If they can't be active with said character then they need to give it up simple as that. But that's just my personal opinion on multiple accounts and characters.
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Post by redape on Aug 1, 2015 15:00:16 GMT -8
I have tried in many instances to open my own forums. All have failed for one reason or another. This has led me to believe that I am personally better off as a member.
To build a forum from scratch takes a lot of time, patience, and creativity - most of which I don't have. Where as joining a forum takes a couple of minutes to simply create your own personal account. (Plus the time it takes to create a bio for all the RPers out there.)
However, I personally feel there are too many of the same thing out there. How many Warrior cats or Harry Potter or Hunger Games roleplay forums are already in circulation? How many gaming or general chat forums do people really need? I don't necessarily understand this sort of mentality people seem to have. I get that a lot of people create their own forums to play as the "canon" character they want to play but if one isn't going to take the time or effort to keep the forum running than why do it at all?
I understand if someone has a specific type of forum they are looking for that they simply just cannot find and therefore must go and attempt their own. I've been there. In all my time using the proboards service I have never seen a Planet of the Apes roleplay, or a Hellboy roleplay, or a forum specifically made to discuss animation in a broader spectrum (I see a lot of anime or mlp or whatever focused forums out there). I strongly believe in the saying "write the story you want to read" and I believe the same goes for forums. But, honestly, if there are already hundreds of Harry Potter sites out there then what's the point of making another one to be lost in the void? If there's nothing to set it apart from the others I believe the creator should just sit down and consider becoming a member of an already established site.
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Post by Mid on Aug 2, 2015 11:32:18 GMT -8
However, I personally feel there are too many of the same thing out there. How many Warrior cats or Harry Potter or Hunger Games roleplay forums are already in circulation? How many gaming or general chat forums do people really need? I don't necessarily understand this sort of mentality people seem to have. I get that a lot of people create their own forums to play as the "canon" character they want to play but if one isn't going to take the time or effort to keep the forum running than why do it at all? I understand if someone has a specific type of forum they are looking for that they simply just cannot find and therefore must go and attempt their own. I've been there. In all my time using the proboards service I have never seen a Planet of the Apes roleplay, or a Hellboy roleplay, or a forum specifically made to discuss animation in a broader spectrum (I see a lot of anime or mlp or whatever focused forums out there). I strongly believe in the saying "write the story you want to read" and I believe the same goes for forums. But, honestly, if there are already hundreds of Harry Potter sites out there then what's the point of making another one to be lost in the void? If there's nothing to set it apart from the others I believe the creator should just sit down and consider becoming a member of an already established site. I'm an awful member. I create an account, make a character application, then I rarely, if ever, actually roleplay. I cannot invest myself into a forum that I did not create. It's just... not there. I've tried a million times before in the past 4 years, but I have a very hard time creating any sort of emotional attachment to a forum I didn't create. I created a Warriors forum back in 2011, in spite of there being thousands of them out there. Why? Because I wanted to run one. Because I wanted to try being an administrator. I wanted to see if I could make a successful one. I wanted to make friends, I wanted to be in control (awful reason, never make a forum for that reason). It worked. My forum is now one of the most active Warriors roleplays on ProBoards. Most people who start forums on subjects that are already (arguably) overdone do it because they want to run their own. They want to see what it's like. They want to see if they can make theirs better than, more active than, more fun than, the ones they could be joining. They have their own ideas (it's rare to see a Warriors roleplay that allows canon characters). If someone can do it, and the idea that they can do it better than other people and make it more successful, they will. How many paper towel companies are there? How many different fast food chains that sell the same things (burgers and fries, pizza, whatever) are there? There isn't really a need for more, per se, but people still go out there and try to make successful businesses. They want to make money. On the forum spectrum, they want to have fun and make friends. |
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Post by Phear on Aug 4, 2015 15:44:12 GMT -8
While I love being a member of forums, my true passion lies in being the Administrator. I love working on the design, adding new features, and just building forums up. Even if they don't succeed I know that I had a great time putting in that work, and usually learning more about that system. I've worked with so many different community softwares (IPboard, vBulletin, phpBB, Vanilla, Discourse, SMF, Zetaboards, InvisionFree) - and each time, I learn something new about that software and what makes it tick.
My latest board (signature) has been an absolute delight just to build out, add plugins, design, and make a feature-rich community from the ground up. Getting members is always the most difficult part, but when it pays off, it really pays off. It's a rewarding experience to witness, and be a part of.
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