Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-24325144-20141001194150/@comment-17114085-20141003143240

Goddy5890 wrote: 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. I agree, this could happen. Something similar did happen before. When the ESRP Wiki was first created a lot of RPers tried to post links to the RP Wiki on their RPs to get people to come over there to RP, but most people said "screw it, it is too much of a hassle to move there". The thing was people didn't want to go over because they wanted to stay here and they thought that posting links to it on the RPs was just shameless self-promotion on the RP Wiki's part. But if the whole RP community were to adopt the HC then this shouldn't happen. And I do agree that people might still think it is a hassle to go to another Wiki, that they aren't a part of, that is hosting an RP and might say "screw it, it is too much of a hassle to move there". But I hope that creating this Hub, this network of RP Wikis, would bypass that problem. It is just that the whole community can't agree on what RP Wiki to be the main, and if we bring up a vote or chose one over the other it would cause resentment amoung the RPers for us not picking their Wiki.

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.