Thread: POSSIBLE FORUM TWEAK - FEEDBACK WANTED! : )

Magic Breeze said FoxWriter said Oh my gosh this is a brilliant idea! just perfect! this would make searching for particular request threads so much easier. personally, i think there should be tags for preferred post lengths. a lot of people tend to get frustrated on both ends, when one person posts a few sentences and the other ten paragraphs. it can be hard to match skillstyle when you can't be sure what the other person writes and there can be misunderstandings. not sure how you'd arrange that but it's an idea. Click to expand... See, this came to mind to me too. But, honestly, I feel it's one of those things that's hard to work out? I've seen many places and many ways to do this - the ol' one-liner, semi-para, para, multi-para, going with word counts, number of paragraphs, number of lines... but in the end nobody's really very happy with it. At the end of the day you get people who think it's best done another way what does para mean?!, word counts vary too much!, a paragraph in my monitor looks like a line in another! , people who just don't like getting into a category or don't feel there's one that reflects their style, people who actually write an amount that would go in a certain category but are intimidated by it, people who DON'T write enough to go into a category but say they do... I know it'd be an optional thing that no one would be policing, also since you could use more than one it wouldn't be too bad, so I guess I'm not 100 against...Though, from previous experience, it seems a little pointless. Click to expand... I've seen this happen too. Word counts are a bit esier to work with, because it's an actual count that can't be mistaken for anything else. Sometimes paragraphs need to be 10 sentences, and sometimes they only need to be 3 sentences. And that's perfectly okay. I've also seen some forums group it based on effort, development, and grammar level rather than writing length Free, Casual, and Advanced. The three levels are more about how much detail is put into each post, how detailed and developed you like your roleplays to be, and how much you care about proper grammar. I think the reason most people set paragrgaph limits or literacy standards is because what they're actually looking for are people who are detailed and well-developed in their ideas and writing. And to ensure that, they set these totally arbitrary paragraph limits that their partner must fulfill every post, regardless of whether that length is necessary or not. I've seen that system work pretty well, mostly because people already know how much effort they're willing to put in a roleplay regardless of how much or little they write. I guess this is another question I have how many tags would a person be able to place on their request thread? A lot of them like mine include general genres and fandom lists, so aside from the F4M, Threads, and PostLengthHere tags, I could easily be racking up to 10 tags with all the available genres I'm interested in writing. Also for clarification, are we tagging the actual roleplays as well? And I guess for right now, is the main goal to come up with closed sets? The ones I can think of now would be post length, roleplay duration longshort term, gender pairings like f4f, f4futa, etc, and roleplay medium threads, IMs, PMs, Email, other offsite options... I'm sure there are others.