Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-24325144-20141001194150/@comment-2124196-20141003140422

Harold Burned-Mane wrote:

Goddy5890 wrote: Here is my question, will the main/original forum be locked to prevent new users from just posting on here instead of clicking on one of the links? Also I believe one of the arguements was the splitting up of the RP community, wouldn't having different wikis instead of one do just that? It seemed like moving to another wiki was a problem but since the original forum gets to stay and now there are links to the other wikis to RP now it makes it better. It seems to me that this is just one step ahead of moving the board anyway which was what the OP was about. I get where people are seeing the "compromise" but it doesn't seem it. Before everyone jumps all gung-ho about this I think it needs to be discussed more. Even though the original discussion resulted in a lot of flaming, anger, and arguing there was days of discussions and more discussions on this vote forum. No it won't be locked. But if someone, who is unaware of the Compromise(should it be adopted), posts directly on the thread he will be directed to the Wiki that is hosting the RP. One post isn't going to cause a problem.

The split between the RPers would've if this wasn't the Hub. But since it is going to be, meaning most if not all of the RPs taking place on the different Wiki's will be linked to here, it shouldn't split it up. The problem was that if the Board was removed people would go to the different Wikis and stay there, no longer interacting with the other groups of the RP Community due to 'rivalry' between the RP Wikis. I think that if the HC is adopted then it wouldn't be about which Wiki the RP is taking place it, but the RP itself.

The thing is a lot of the RPers are already a part of another RP Wiki and they don't want to be forced to join the ESRP Wiki or any other Wiki that would been chose to move the Board to. Giving people the choice to choose which Wiki their RP is hosted on is only right. They shouldn't be forced to go to one Wiki that they don't want to be a part of. And if this stays the hub they will see the RPs that the other Wikis are hosting and it should get people to warm up to the idea of being a apart of more than one of them and it should keep the RP community together because of it.

I agree the Compromise is not perfect, but it does solve almost all the problems both sides were having. So far there hasn't been a better compromise proposed. If one were to be proposed that would be better than the HC then I see no problem in adopting that compromise. But like I said before unless something changes with the Board the problem of the divide between the community won't go away. It my seem like it did but it will only be pushed aside and grow due to resentment between the Wiki's user base. So unless something is done now this problem will come up again and be worst than it is now. Yes I know one post will not cause a problem obliviously. But just like with vandals it would have to be in check that is the easy part.

What I am looking at is your two middle paragraphs. Like I mentioned about a split I still see one but worded different. Hear me out. You wrote:

''The thing is a lot of the RPers are already a part of another RP Wiki and they don't want to be forced to join the ESRP Wiki or any other Wiki that would been chose to move the Board to. Giving people the choice to choose which Wiki their RP is hosted on is only right. They shouldn't be forced to go to one Wiki that they don't want to be a part of.''

My support vote of moving the board would have done that, I know this. Now I still see that this hub does the same thing except maybe that its more by personal choice now than a forced move. Say I want to take part in your role play but the wiki you picked I am not a part of, but I am a part of others. Just that fact only could be enough for me to say screw it I'm not going to do it. Now I know it can be said that I am stretching it a bit here, but wouldn't having it in one place be much easier than many different sites. It would cause people to have to check more links and more places which I remember was one of the reasonings for not moving the board as well. Also from this CT and the discussion board the topic of convening ideas together within the RP community would slow down because of the move. This was said because the move would spread everyone out to different wikis. Isn't this hub going to do just that, move different RP to different wikis? Less people are going to end up seeing all of the RPs, all of the ideas, all of the works, than if it was moved to a single place. Again the examples is more of a personal choice of not wanting to go to the hosting wiki then by force, but the outcome could still be the same. Which is a loss of people and a split, which was what the RP community was trying to avoid.

P.S. I answered the phone midway through typing this and loss my train of thought for a little bit, I believe I remembered what I was going to say and I believe it makes sense, if not let me know I'll explain it.