Post by Trixie Lulamoon on Feb 23, 2014 23:35:07 GMT -6
Going to go ahead and make it clear right now that I'm not making rule changes or anything else, but I just really felt like it was about time I at least wrote out some of the things I've been feeling in regards to the Cbox instead of just the occasional spurt of discussion about it in the past.
I'm sure by now you're familiar with me talking about how we need an OOC Cbox and all that that's separate from the IC stuff. Because really, I am glad you all enjoy the IC RPing stuff and want to keep doing it. Hence why we had gotten that second Cbox...that basically just turned into an extension of the RPing.
But here's the thing; the other day we had this discussion about how some of us felt like the Cbox RPing had started becoming "cliquey" and that it was hard for some of us to get involved. I was one of the people on the side that felt way, and a lot of it is because since I honestly haven't been that big of a part on a lot of stuff that now I feel kind of lost and behind it all and just don't know where to get myself involved.
Sad thing is, the only other times I tend to feel that way is if I've taken a risk and joined a big, active site with a lot of people. I normally leave those sites or stop coming pretty soon afterwards because often times I feel out of the group. And I'm getting that sort of feeling from the Cbox. That's just not really a good feeling to be getting from what is supposed to be one of the first ways for people to interact with the site.
Second incident I want to use as a starting point was the brief thing where I decided for a laugh to just throw Might Guy into Iron Will's session with Reed about confidence. I'll admit, probably shouldn't have stepped on Silver's toe there, but here's the thing; in almost every site I've been on for a long period of time in the past, being able to do random shit like that in the Cbox was one of my favorite things. The Cbox was just a fun place to hang out and be goofy; in-jokes, bursting out into randomness, spazzing out with my million icons. And to this day some of the fondest memories of those past sites were those random bits.
But now I can't do any of that stuff because I got to worry about rules and plotlines and making sure I'm not messing up the mechanics of the mall or a million other things that I should only really have to worry about if I'm doing it in the actual RP forum. I mean, I couldn't even just go around using that Trixie-bat icon without having to come up with some dang reason for it. I thought it was a cool image and just wanted to use it, but the seriousness of the Cbox RP meant that I had to make up a backstory. And now because I did that it set a precedent and what was supposed to just be a simple, fun thing because I thought it looked cool can become a source of debate.
Again, I'm not saying we need to stop the IC stuff; I'm perfectly fine having a box open for that kind of deal if you want it. But as it is, I feel like I'm just in the way if I try and do anything in the Cbox, and I'm the freaking admin of the site! None of my characters really fit in any of the groups, my usual tactics of just being spazzy and random can't work because that feels like a "no-no" (seriously, there is a reason I snatched up Discord because he's about the only way I get to mess around in that way), and there are so many plots and dramas and crises and storylines and stuff that really should be in the forum itself that I honestly don't even want to join in from sheer learning curve =P.
TL;DR: Even as admin I feel offput joining in and interacting with you all sometimes because getting involved in the Cbox feels like more work than actually posting in the RP forums =P.
I'm sure by now you're familiar with me talking about how we need an OOC Cbox and all that that's separate from the IC stuff. Because really, I am glad you all enjoy the IC RPing stuff and want to keep doing it. Hence why we had gotten that second Cbox...that basically just turned into an extension of the RPing.
But here's the thing; the other day we had this discussion about how some of us felt like the Cbox RPing had started becoming "cliquey" and that it was hard for some of us to get involved. I was one of the people on the side that felt way, and a lot of it is because since I honestly haven't been that big of a part on a lot of stuff that now I feel kind of lost and behind it all and just don't know where to get myself involved.
Sad thing is, the only other times I tend to feel that way is if I've taken a risk and joined a big, active site with a lot of people. I normally leave those sites or stop coming pretty soon afterwards because often times I feel out of the group. And I'm getting that sort of feeling from the Cbox. That's just not really a good feeling to be getting from what is supposed to be one of the first ways for people to interact with the site.
Second incident I want to use as a starting point was the brief thing where I decided for a laugh to just throw Might Guy into Iron Will's session with Reed about confidence. I'll admit, probably shouldn't have stepped on Silver's toe there, but here's the thing; in almost every site I've been on for a long period of time in the past, being able to do random shit like that in the Cbox was one of my favorite things. The Cbox was just a fun place to hang out and be goofy; in-jokes, bursting out into randomness, spazzing out with my million icons. And to this day some of the fondest memories of those past sites were those random bits.
But now I can't do any of that stuff because I got to worry about rules and plotlines and making sure I'm not messing up the mechanics of the mall or a million other things that I should only really have to worry about if I'm doing it in the actual RP forum. I mean, I couldn't even just go around using that Trixie-bat icon without having to come up with some dang reason for it. I thought it was a cool image and just wanted to use it, but the seriousness of the Cbox RP meant that I had to make up a backstory. And now because I did that it set a precedent and what was supposed to just be a simple, fun thing because I thought it looked cool can become a source of debate.
Again, I'm not saying we need to stop the IC stuff; I'm perfectly fine having a box open for that kind of deal if you want it. But as it is, I feel like I'm just in the way if I try and do anything in the Cbox, and I'm the freaking admin of the site! None of my characters really fit in any of the groups, my usual tactics of just being spazzy and random can't work because that feels like a "no-no" (seriously, there is a reason I snatched up Discord because he's about the only way I get to mess around in that way), and there are so many plots and dramas and crises and storylines and stuff that really should be in the forum itself that I honestly don't even want to join in from sheer learning curve =P.
TL;DR: Even as admin I feel offput joining in and interacting with you all sometimes because getting involved in the Cbox feels like more work than actually posting in the RP forums =P.