[quote="WildSimba"][quote="Azdgari"]I mean, do I really need to have someone else to decide I'm a good enough writer to join a group for it?[/quote]
^ this[/quote]
IF you pick a decent and fair leader for the group, he/she is going to accept you as long as you are actually a fan fic writer, its not really based on skill. We are letting ALL gamers into the gaming group who want to game at pre scheduled times and dates so everyone can be on at the same time etc... I mean, if that one is not based on skill, I doubt the other groups would be.
[quote]You must be invited into the group, it's run by others, has a ridiculous structure[/quote]
What the hell? It is a group with scheduled events, and that = a ridiculous structure? o.0 To be fair, this is why other group forums are not open yet, we weren't really finished setting it up and it was opened in a rush. But as Moka said, its a completely separate group to the others.
[quote="DGFone"]Ah, I get it now. But I have to say this then: the whole point of the groups is to get members more active in them. So say you are in the RP group, it's to make creating new RPs easier, and even to just talk about the RP process. But what's so different then now, where you simply create such a topic in the appropriate subsection? is it to somehow get more advertisement for members who don't go to other sections? (Seems more counter-productive to me then).[/quote]
No. Literally the only thing user groups currently do is show that a member is a (for example fan fic writer). Or in the case of Wiki editors, to show they like pink names. Anyways, that is all they do, just let you know that member apparently does that activity more than he/she does others.
With the new groups thing, you get a proper section to discuss with other fan fiction writers, your new story idea, get feedback from them first, make amendments etc. Then, you could improve on it before entering it into the public forum.
I mean threads like these -
viewtopic.php?f=101&t=21567viewtopic.php?f=48&t=10406 and other tutorial threads from the graphics section
viewtopic.php?f=100&p=631924#p631924Those are the kind of threads that would work better in the actual groups forum, not out in the public. So take that thread where I looked for a PRP buddy, hypothetically speaking anyone could have seen that, who does not even RP at all and gone "Flip! He sure is a guy!" and PMed me to join up. But having it in the forum, means that only people who actually do role play would reply to it, ya see? =)
EDIT cause I have moar to say "Finished, I aint."
Remember this is the staff ASKING FOR OUR FEEDBACK guise, but this is a trial and error type thing, if it does not work out well there is nothing to say that we cant got back to the old system later.
[quote="KopsTheTerminator"][quote="FlipMode"]LoL and then we can elect a leader for the new admin group... Now that would be interesting lol![/quote]
Problem is, how are we gonna promote them when they get elected?
ANARCHY![/quote]
1. Members vote for FlipMode to be the new admin
2. Moka promotes me
3. ???
4. PROFIT!