One thing I neglected just now, is that I myself tried to alleviate
that exact problem by following the example of a Star Trek rpg I am a
part of. In which players may continue to advance the plot by writing
for other characters in their posts. When they do, if the character's
owner takes exception to something the person wrote, then it is
altered or the post is declared void.

My attempts seem to have lasted, looking back, for about a day and a
half before everyone decided that my ideas weren't worth trying out.
So, you can maybe see why I'm a little sensitive about this.

-Sparf
--- In TheAuroraBorealis@yahoogroups.com, whitewolf_707 <no_reply@...>
wrote:
>
> It's reasonable to think that way Sparf, but moving to a forum would,
> at least in my opinion, cause people to post more often precisely
> BECAUSE they wouldn't get bottled up in dead scenes. Let's try a
> different analogy. It's like having one little road to get to a town
> center. When there's a traffic jam, nobody can get to their final
> destination because they're forced to go down this one, linear path or
> otherwise abandon their vehicle, which nobody wants to do. Now imagine
> building on several side-roads that go out to a couple of other major
> roadways. Now that same traffic jam isn't such a big deal, because a
> person can turn off at the next road and still be able to reach their
> final destination (a concluded roleplay scenario).
>
> Archiving every post on another forum may not be as hard as you think
> - there's software out there to help you do it so you don't have to
> manually save 3,000 web pages to your hard disk. Anyway, this place
> can always be kept open so that people can check past posts, even in
> the event that the old posts can't be uploaded onto the other server.
> I don't think this will be so daunting once it actually does get off
> the ground. I used to think it'd never work, but after having seen
> Myth (as John mentioned) formatted that way, I've seen just how
> effective it is. Anyway, if we don't try we'll never know, right?
>
> ---WhiteWolf
> *Who is also planning to become active again, resurrecting Tempestade
> from idleness*
>