Post by n/a on Aug 5, 2022 5:37:04 GMT
Since there doesn't seem to be many websites dedicated to traditional RPG games in general, it seems MyFarog and a multitude of other games are consigned to little patches of the internet and don't get any air-time on major social media platforms or forums. This is of course caused by the squidlike Redditor-like army of pedo rent-a-moderator manboys that subsist in their parents basements scrapping peanuts together volunteering their time for half-witted gaming companies and platforms that are just happy to have the media off their back so long as they acquiesce to the trend of manboy moderators.
So what kind of website can survive in this hostile post internet 2.0 shitscape? It needs to be obscure enough to not be niche but specific enough to keep out the riff-raff. It also needs some degree of tolerance for riff-raff because if you mow down degenerates like a madman with a weed-whacker you're going to be banning people before they even have a chance to learn what is right from wrong.
There is a platform that exists in this way that sticks out, which I will not name but, it's not really gaming/RPG oriented. Things that make it successful seem to be:
1. It has quite a large number of subforums that are active and not dedicated to a single theme, so there is this aire of 'topic safety in numbers'.
2. It has a lot of emoji support (eek I know) and the users have learned to tag idiot posters with emojis that the forum moderators understand the meaning of but, the general public isn't too aware of. So it's common to see threads that are de-railing get tagged with a clown or something like that, and if the mods see enough clowns get added to the thread and they believe it is a problem, it gets moved out of the high-quality forum area into the low-quality area.
3. Forum has a low-quality sub-section at the very bottom. Users who violate common sense don't immediately get banned, they get stuck in the low-quality threads with the other retards. If they get too retarded, then they are banned. So it's a good way to train your regulars about what is and isn't acceptable behavior, allow people to redeem themselves if they have screwed up, grow and learn, etc.
4. It has regular updates on various topics posted by the moderators (I can imagine an RPG forum featuring regular content from MyFarog reviewers, or other games & reviewers to keep the forum alive)
However, this website does take a lot of DDOS attacks and such. So, there is a lot of management, time, money involved in the idea, depending on how BOLD of an RPG website it might be.
Gab has a few gaming groups but they are all but dead and, content in Social Media type platforms isn't sticky. Everything is very temporal and lost in time after a month or so because you have to scroll through pages and pages of content to see what someone said a year ago.
Anywho, I've thought about it myself and probably don't have time for moderating a website like this but, if anyone is considering one these are my thoughts. So this is kind of a message to the future - maybe see you there! : D
PS hope it's going OK in the future and the clowns haven't eaten you all yet :honk: :honk: 
