mr.bob
2005-04-15, 02:43 PM
The IC board tends to be a bit biased agaist people who's posting habbits might not fall in with the posting habbits of the people they are playing with.
What I mean is that when someone is DMing a PbP RPG, and they post, say at 10:00 at night, when no one they are playing with is on. Then in the morning a bunch of people post who are not in that person's game, and that person's game gets pushed down to the bottom of the forum.
Becuase people who are playing multiple PbP RPG's at the same time post in their RPG's in decending order, (well sometimes, it's first the ones that they are DMing, in decending order, then the ones they are playing in decending order), they might not get to that game, becuase it might not look like it has been posted on. This is especialy a problem is at 10:00 at night the posting goes:
DM, P1,P2,P1,P2,DM,P1,Dm,P2,DM. Becuase it ended with DM player 3 and above think that there are no new posts, becuase by the time they get around to posting, it's at the bottom of the board.
I have personally had this problem both as a player and as a DM.
There are several ways this problem could be fixed. The first one is to have an idicator as to wheather or not there are new posts in IC threads the person is participating in. This already kind of exists the in form of Emailed replies. But that is a very cumbersome method. The second method is to have a IC threads with new material to be put at the top, but have the ones where you are the last person that responded to them at the bottom. A third method is to have an indicator showing how many posts have been made sience your last post in a thread next to the thread. (these are all variations of the same method, but posting them might help anyway).
The problem is that YaBB 1 Gold - SP 1.3.1 probably doesn't support anything like this what so ever. So basically I'm just ranting about petty annoyances.
What I mean is that when someone is DMing a PbP RPG, and they post, say at 10:00 at night, when no one they are playing with is on. Then in the morning a bunch of people post who are not in that person's game, and that person's game gets pushed down to the bottom of the forum.
Becuase people who are playing multiple PbP RPG's at the same time post in their RPG's in decending order, (well sometimes, it's first the ones that they are DMing, in decending order, then the ones they are playing in decending order), they might not get to that game, becuase it might not look like it has been posted on. This is especialy a problem is at 10:00 at night the posting goes:
DM, P1,P2,P1,P2,DM,P1,Dm,P2,DM. Becuase it ended with DM player 3 and above think that there are no new posts, becuase by the time they get around to posting, it's at the bottom of the board.
I have personally had this problem both as a player and as a DM.
There are several ways this problem could be fixed. The first one is to have an idicator as to wheather or not there are new posts in IC threads the person is participating in. This already kind of exists the in form of Emailed replies. But that is a very cumbersome method. The second method is to have a IC threads with new material to be put at the top, but have the ones where you are the last person that responded to them at the bottom. A third method is to have an indicator showing how many posts have been made sience your last post in a thread next to the thread. (these are all variations of the same method, but posting them might help anyway).
The problem is that YaBB 1 Gold - SP 1.3.1 probably doesn't support anything like this what so ever. So basically I'm just ranting about petty annoyances.