Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-24325144-20141001194150/@comment-2124196-20141003152738

Harold Burned-Mane wrote:

Goddy5890 wrote: 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. The idea of the Hub would be that all the RPs from the different RP Wikis would be posted here. So if some RP catches someone's eye they would click over to follow it to its host Wiki. So this Wiki would become sort of a library for the RPs.

As for less people seeing the RP or joining them. That happens even now. There are a bunch of RPs that don't get much users. There are a bunch that are ignored and a bunch and end up dying because of it. This problem has always happened as will always happen, no matter if the Hub Compromise is adopted or not.

Like I said above depending on how this is handled it could end up inadvertently splitting the RPers up or not. The advantage that the Hub Compromise has over just plainly removing the Board is that users from different RP Wikis would be able to see the RPs taking place on the other Wikis without going to them, which some users might not do because it isn't the one they are a part of. But if they see something here that catches their eye, an RP that seems interesting to them, they would click on it and might overlook the fact that it might be on a different host Wiki than the one that are a part of. For example, if the HC is adopted all my RPs will go to the Sandbox. But if I see something here that catches my mind I wouldn't think twice before heading over to its host Wiki. To me I wouldn't matter where the RP is, if it looks interesting and fun I am going to join it. I just prefer that all my RPs be in the Sandbox, but I will still join ones hosted on other Wikis.

The set up is more of a network I get the understanding now. Now say this takes effect and gets implemented. Going off the top of my head there are three(?) wikis to link to. (Elder Scrolls RP, Skyrim RP, Sandbox). Now I would take it that our admins here would have to communicate with the admins of those sites to do this. I wouldn't see why they would disagree but if one wiki did obviously that would cause a problem (but let us save that for a different discussion because that problem is not here but it doesn't hurt to present it). Going forward we have our central network with the topics here sent off to the other wikis for role playing. Will this system require that all users must post there topics here to be sent to another wiki? Say I am only registered on the Elder Scroll RP and this takes effect, will I still be allowed to post my topics directly to that wiki or would I have to post my topic here, just to link it back to the RP wiki to start the discussion?

Question to the admins:
 * Is this even feasible to set up if you get all the other admins on board from the other wikis?

Question to all (including admins):
 * If this is feasible and we don't get all the admins from all the other wikis on board then what happens?
 * If this is not feasible once it is fully looked into then what?
 * Creating this network(hub) will essentially make this wiki the main server responsible for all the RP that goes on for the Elder Scrolls series. Is that what everybody wants?