MC Banhammer Posted:

@onli: I did put readme stickies at the top of each forum, indicating which rules apply in each one. But since that didn’t seem to work for you, I’d love to hear any ideas you may have on what would make it less confusing, either in this thread or via tubmail. Thx!

Indeed and I’ve looked at some of the stickies. Not every single one as I get bored. lol

That said though I would wager I read a lot more than most people do before I jump into forums.

Having looked back through again I think my first impression was that it was allowed in a far more widespread manner than it actually is.

Another issue I think I had is that there seem to be a lot of in-jokes based around the game. Which isn’t really a problem as you’d expect it but again I found it a little confusing.

For example I have tried the INCIT thing a couple of times and people have written captions that other people loved and yet to me it seemed completely unfunny and irrelevant. Now having played the game further through I have then experienced things that the jokes were based on and hence they make more sense.

As said this isn’t really a problem but it did create a feeling of being on a different wavelength to the people here and hence could make it more difficult for people to engage with any discussions if they experienced the same thing.

These really are just fairly standard things when joining a new, unfamiliar forum environment.

I think partly this is just me getting the wrong end of the stick and putting more emphasis on the role play side of things and believing it to be more widespread than I thought.

Also though, now forgive me if there is one and I missed it, there doesn’t seem to be a simple ‘introduce yourself’ thread. Something so simple and yet it’s an instant start point. Somewhere people can feel relaxed to just start off getting a sense of the forum interaction. Particularly if they are possibly worried about being flamed elsewhere on the boards.