Thread: Off site roleplay requests

While we do try to make the members experience as easypainlessenjoyable as possible we do also have to consider what we as staff can ACTUALLY manage. Staffs not much use if we can't keep up with site as WHOLE. Everyone on staff, its all volunteer work on our part and we still have our own livesjobsfamiliesschooling to deal with, we can not spend all of our time on here just moderating. The suggestion of getting more mods is a case of sounds 100x easier than it actually is. Keeping staff filled out is probably one of the hardest things to do because the workload for staff tends to be too much for most people to handle for long periods of time especially as Real Life automatically comes before the site but the site comes before ANY RPing. So we have people leaving because its too much, leaving because lifes just gotten hellish, leaving because they can't do staff work AND keep up with their stories and then people leaving because of disagreements etc etc. So we are constantly looking and trying to fill the staff out. One time, just ONCE in all the years I have been on staff did we ever have a full staff team and it did not last. So the likelihood of us finding More mods for the project are slim to none. And currently we are already trying to fill other areas on staff with 0 success. As for percentages I can't say, there seems to be a fair amount of the different pairings. I mean, I've heard complaints from all quarters about how there isn't many requests for what THEY want. From Guys talking about not finding any MxM or any good FxM, Women complaining theres not enough FxF or not the right TYPE OF F x M or no F x Non-binary to Non-binaries saying there isn't many requests there so...I can't really say with any certainty. The sites got a pretty even mix of all different kinds of pairings and the like so I'm not sure what the percentages are for each one. But in terms of the request sections, we also get people who complain that we should separate out Original Ideas and Fandom Ideas as well as separating out Sexual threads from Non-sexual ones, which, would adding those help in the search for a RP, probably but again, not something we could keep up with in any way. So just for what this thread has mentioned, this would be what the request areas looked like Offsite requests Female Requests for F x M Female Requests for F x F Female Requests for F x F F x M Female Requests for F x Non-Binary Male Requests for M x F Male Requests for M x M Male Requests for M x M M x F Male Requests for M x Non-Binary Non-Binary request for Non-Binary x F Non-Binary request for Non-Binary x M Non Binary request for Non-Binary x Non Binary Non-Binary request for Non-Binary x F Non-Binary x M Non-Binary x Non-Binary On-site Requests Female Requests for F x M Female Requests for F x F Female Requests for F x F F x M Female Requests for F x Non-Binary Male Requests for M x F Male Requests for M x M Male Requests for M x M M x F Male Requests for M x Non-Binary Non-Binary request for Non-Binary x F Non-Binary request for Non-Binary x M Non Binary request for Non-Binary x Non Binary Non-Binary request for Non-Binary x F Non-Binary x M Non-Binary x Non-Binary So with just the suggestions in this thread this is what the request sections would look like just on their own. We could do sub-forums for each but that would only help the main page from ending up hella long. It wouldn't help with the requests. Awhile back we did switch up the Request section, created ones for Short Term RPs and Long Term ones in each Male Female Non-Binary with the Long termshort term being sub-forums in each of the Male Female Non-binaries and we had to stop because no one was paying attention and kept posting it in the main area instead of the side areas where they were supposed to. So outside of all the work we'd need to put in JUST to create and separate the threads we'd ALSO have to deal with EVERY single member who isn't paying attention and posts in the wrong area. When that last change to the Request areas was going on, we had workreports every single day, getting up to 30 reports in a couple hours time and we'd get it down and come back to find just as many or more. So with this system it would 1000x worse on us.