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Mark Phillips


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I've had it with these wonky homemade bulletin boards.

They offer one advantage: they tie into your player account to allow easy posting IC as one of your characters.

If we replace them with a proper Web-like system, we can get searchability, threads that work correctly, private messaging, lots of granular permissions. If I work at it hard enough I can create single sign-on, so that when you're signed in to the SM web site you can get to the bbs. Have a google of "jforum" for an example.

But, we'll lose the ability to post IC. Posts will be as you, not your characters.

Do you care?

Bartle quotiet: E80, A67, S47, K7. TriadCity characters: Mark, Poobah, Occam, Abelard.
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Betsy G.



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Personally? Nope, not at all. If I really want to say something "in character" I could probably work out some way to do so within a post. Honestly, though, I don't think the in char vs out of char makes that much difference - the important thing to me is keeping the lines of communication open.
Soubi Kuk



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While I like the idea of an in-character board, but it truly is not necessary. In its own way, it seems best to keep in-character in-game. I think its a little less stressful.
Though, there are ways around not having an in-character specific message board depending on the type of boards you are looking into having. A lot of the boards I am used to seeing have different sections, such as your suggestions and general and such might be. You could still create one for in-character and have one of the general rules be that players must have the first word in it be the character speaking, ex:
Etna - Why is it that everyone keeps crashing in my home?! OUT EVERYONE!
Just a thought on that though Like I said, it seems a bit more of a fun-side-thing rather than a necessity.
Victor Nguyen


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I don't personally care. I'll just do what I usually do on gaiaonline, post in a script like format.

Vanila: W-What's going on h-here?

RoboVanvic: We're deciding how important the IC boards are.

Vanila: B-but we only exist in c-character. W-where will we g-go?

RoboVanic: Who cares don't think about the meta stuff too much it'll only give you a headache.

Vanila: W-what do you think Vector?

Vector:...

RoboVanvic: Kukuku wise words, Vector. Wise words.

Vanila: Um t-this post w-was sponsored by the Vanilla Corporation. W-we're here to supply your n-needs and do things in the n-name of Science.

RoboVanvic: For Science!

Vector:*stoically holds a up a sign with the Vanilla Corporation logo*
....Science.

Mark Phillips


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Very cool!

Bartle quotiet: E80, A67, S47, K7. TriadCity characters: Mark, Poobah, Occam, Abelard.
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Mark Phillips


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OK then, feedback so far is unanimous that the IC boards can evaporate. First attempts to get jforum integrated into the web site have failed, but, I'll plug away at it.

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Soubi Kuk



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Oh yes... thank you for that reminder, I really should make sure you haven't brought too much chaos to those lands
Nina Tantarimaki
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While IC bbs can be fun, I very much like the idea of improved searchability of events or concepts.
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Nina Smith



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Sorry, just checking if my name was really changed.
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