Branwen Morcant
Jan 10th, 2002, 07:31:51 PM
From now on, I intend to bring up one of these threads whenever something is up for debate. I'll offer my thoughts on a subject, and we can choose to discuss it or let it go or do whatever with it. Anyone else can do the same, of course... lol.... this is just to make a start.
Now, there are several things that need to be mentioned before I can come to any suggestions. These are the ideas of Jimi and Hollie when they were making this board - the purpose of its existence. So they stand here as I understood them:
1) The Queen Ashiva is our leader - In Character. OOC this is Hollie's board, and as such she has full power over it at any time. Assistant Administrators have been chosen, but their roles need to be discussed in the future.
2) This group is essentially a family of people, not a mere number of members - it follows that all that become members are automatically equal in their say, regardless of what their rank is elsewhere or here. As such we have to take great care of who we chose to accept as new members, but also have to be open to each others' problems with any given subject (yes, in both IC and OOC areas).
3) The main goal of this group is to have fun whilst RPing - we are not at any time in competition against any other group or people about any matter that would destroy our fun (IC, and OOC). While Real Life will always be more important to any matters in RPing, we should try to leave RL problems of any nature from infecting our behaviour or actions on this board.
From that follows the following (in my opinion):
1) The amount of people to apply will, in all probability, remain small - it is wise to keep that in mind rather than plan ahead for great masses of people arriving on our doorstep. Accordingly, we should try to fashion our structure after that thought - not go and make big plans for a future that might not turn out that way.
2) We are not TSE, we are not TBH, we're not any other group already out there. Hence if we have rules, we need to make them up from our own ideas - they might be influenced by those of other groups, but we need to keep in mind the first 3 facts I stated before, and mould our ideas around those.
3) We have to make a list of topics that should be up for discussion:
Membership (joining procedure, approval system)
Ranks ( levels within as opposed to outside)
Training (apprenticeships, learning levels)
Group Structure (Voting, Positions, etc)
Affiliations (Allowed?)
Well, that's all I can think of for the moment about just the basics. My suggestions will come in another thread.
Any comments / additional ideas about any of this?
PS: Very important first rule: Let's keep the sigs in hre to a minimum. We all know what we look like - we don't need to show them around in here as well. It saves space, and makes threads in this forum faster to load. I could disable the Sig options in here therefore.
Now, there are several things that need to be mentioned before I can come to any suggestions. These are the ideas of Jimi and Hollie when they were making this board - the purpose of its existence. So they stand here as I understood them:
1) The Queen Ashiva is our leader - In Character. OOC this is Hollie's board, and as such she has full power over it at any time. Assistant Administrators have been chosen, but their roles need to be discussed in the future.
2) This group is essentially a family of people, not a mere number of members - it follows that all that become members are automatically equal in their say, regardless of what their rank is elsewhere or here. As such we have to take great care of who we chose to accept as new members, but also have to be open to each others' problems with any given subject (yes, in both IC and OOC areas).
3) The main goal of this group is to have fun whilst RPing - we are not at any time in competition against any other group or people about any matter that would destroy our fun (IC, and OOC). While Real Life will always be more important to any matters in RPing, we should try to leave RL problems of any nature from infecting our behaviour or actions on this board.
From that follows the following (in my opinion):
1) The amount of people to apply will, in all probability, remain small - it is wise to keep that in mind rather than plan ahead for great masses of people arriving on our doorstep. Accordingly, we should try to fashion our structure after that thought - not go and make big plans for a future that might not turn out that way.
2) We are not TSE, we are not TBH, we're not any other group already out there. Hence if we have rules, we need to make them up from our own ideas - they might be influenced by those of other groups, but we need to keep in mind the first 3 facts I stated before, and mould our ideas around those.
3) We have to make a list of topics that should be up for discussion:
Membership (joining procedure, approval system)
Ranks ( levels within as opposed to outside)
Training (apprenticeships, learning levels)
Group Structure (Voting, Positions, etc)
Affiliations (Allowed?)
Well, that's all I can think of for the moment about just the basics. My suggestions will come in another thread.
Any comments / additional ideas about any of this?
PS: Very important first rule: Let's keep the sigs in hre to a minimum. We all know what we look like - we don't need to show them around in here as well. It saves space, and makes threads in this forum faster to load. I could disable the Sig options in here therefore.