Member support chat {thread}

[~The Mockingjay~]

I'd be happy to rp with any one who wants to! Here is my list of cats.

Riversplash: Riverclan, she-cat, silver tabby green eyes.
Russet: The Elite, she-cat, russet-colored white muzzle with stripe leading upwards yellow/green eyes.
Gina: Skull, she-cat, light brown tabby she-cat white paws, muzzle, and tail tip blue eyes.
Appleblossom: Thunderclan, female, calico green eyes.
Hawkpelt: Windclan, she-cat, brown tabby yellow eyes.
Moonwing: Shadowclan, she-cat, black blue eyes.

[Leaffern424]

I can rp with anyone, just PM me and i'll join when I get back on. PLEASE do read my screen name because it does fit me totally right now, I am inactive and can only or mostly get on  Saturday and Sunday! I got to go right now but I will be back later!!!!

[--wYnNiNaT0R--]

If any of you create a RP thread for someone in here, or have one already that is inactive {and I don't just mean "not a lot of activity" I mean NO activity} you can post it here.

[spottedcougar]

I have a Clan everyone went inactive in and is not being roleplayed:
http://warriorcatsrpg.com/roleplay-resources-clan-joinings/lionclan-clan-darkness...high-positoins-open...not-first-come-first-serve-198582.msg4260685.html#msg4260685

I also have a group that enteracts with foxes:
http://warriorcatsrpg.com/warriors-free-roleplay/demons-night-191203.msg3995139.html#msg3995139

[--wYnNiNaT0R--]

Almost no players not even new ones have come in here yet! I'm surprised

[spottedcougar]

Ya that is suprising... Hi wynn how are you?

[luellen]

In all honesty it's quite hard to get involved and it's not so much a problem of not understanding the site but just being sort of... locked out? Yeah. Cause all the public chat threads are less chats and more like G-rated 4Chan, so it's hard to get to know anyone... compounded by the fact that my threads are all lagging, IC. Like all the cliques have already formed and it's "oh well, no more room for you!"

I like the site, but I have a lot of issues with how it works, socially, which to a degree maybe can't be helped. It's like everybody tries to be friendly and says that if you have any problems talk to us ETC but isn't actually willing to do anything beyond that.

Those are my main issues getting involved with the site, which admittedly might have more to do with my being so socially backwards than the way it works. Not trying to insult anyone.

[--wYnNiNaT0R--]

No I'm glad you brought that up. I know that it is hard for a new player to break through, but not due to anyone's malice. I think actually that people are friendly here. The problem is that that doens't seem to be enough. If you feel friendliness is an issue though, by all means let me know. But yeah--the chats are just goofing off, they are unregulated. I think it's important that they be so. But I highly value your views on this because you seem very much a typical "victim" of the difficulties involved, yet have stuck around in the hopes it will improve. Would you be willing to takl to me by AIM about it? Maybe we can study this and work something out. I really want to improve the situation because I know just what it's like to have a hard time fitting in socially.


Cliques will form in ANY place. That can't be avoided, that is human nature, and I don't think we should try to avoid it. We need to work on helping people enter into those cliques. This is a reasonably big site, at least, large enough that it has multiple cliques, there is some hope there that people coming in will have some choice.

It's like everybody tries to be friendly and says that if you have any problems talk to us ETC but isn't actually willing to do anything beyond that.

This is why our newbie helper prorgamme failed. There is just a lack of follow through. Most of the members who join and initially post drop off and quit before they hit 50 posts and Luellen, you seem typical of that, though you're at 45 posts and hanging in there hoping it gets better. {By the way I'd love to plot with you...I play mostly loners so if you have one maybe I have one too that could work well?}

[luellen]

Oh no, I wouldn't mind talking about it. It's a bit too late for me to go on AIM tonight, right now, unfortunately - but it'd be okay tomorrow if you don't mind.

A lot of it I suspect is being unable to post constantly IC like some people are... there doesn't seem to be much of a medium between making a dozen posts a day and making a post a week. So I either get flooded out or left hanging.

[--wYnNiNaT0R--]

It can be hard to find a happy medium, yes, though at least with slow threads you can join several. I really do want to discuss this because it's been plaguing us for so long. We get like 50 people signing up and posting each day, yet, almost none stick with it. Those who do stick with it praise it to the high heavens {usually } so I know it is not a lack of good plots.


As for the quality and type of chats, I could actually create a board with advanced settings for more "intellectual" types of chatting, if people wanted.

[[S m u d g e]]

I'm happy to see a thread like this around- I think it will help new members get satisfying roleplaying experiences before they can decide to leave. Of course, trying to get new members to use the things you put out to support them isn't easy, but still. I probably shouldn't be talking about new members as if I wasn't one, considering that I joined about a week ago.
 
I've been having a hard time finding a mentor for my SunClan apprentice Smokepaw. He's the type of cat who probably would have a hard time finding a mentor, but even so, I've done all the things that I can think of to do. I've made a thread in the requests/plot discussions, I've posted him trying to find a mentor in the main camp thread, and I've recently created a thread where he's going to raid Twolegplace to try to get the attention of the warriors so that they'll mentor him. None of which have worked very well.
 
Also, I've been having a hard time finding good threads in the Clan boards that aren't private apprentice training or mate threads. I seriously think there's an overpopulation of romance threads, so if anyone could direct me to good threads in RiverClan and SunClan that don't involve romance, I would really appreciate it.

[--wYnNiNaT0R--]

I did create the find-a-mate board to help centralise those romance threads. Obviously there's a huge demand for them, we just need to get them the right place on the site. And also, apprentice trainings will be private.


I'm in a thread in Riverclan myself, with Snowy and a couple other people. It gets a handful of posts a day. I play Poolpaw, an apprentice tom, and the thread revolves around his and his sister's family. Not sure if that would be what you are looking for.


Looks like I really could stand to recreate that find a mentor or apprentice request board!

[ClouÐ]

If I may suggest, maybe you should create the boards for private threads in the clans? I know it would be a lot, however, it really helps in ThunderClan, and I think it would be a good addition.

[--wYnNiNaT0R--]

You see a lot less exclusion in Thunderclan due to that board? Our plan is indeed to add those boards to the rest; but I want to hear back on how good it really is in opening up threads.

[ClouÐ]

It found it did make a difference. I just think it went a little unnoticed. I know a lot of newer members go there, so I try and make a habit of going in every few days. Before that board, all of the threads were buried and it took a lot of digging, and you rarly got replies because the members had disappeared. However, with this board, I find they're on the first few pages, and there isn't many threads with no replies, usually under 10. Plus, I'm more prone to getting replies on these threads, even if it's only 3/10.