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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sanhael" data-source="post: 4953044" data-attributes="member: 85513">I know that I'm just another user, and that Magi Siani has already answered this, but I'd like to give some feedback from the perspective of a one-time, long-term ISRP user who's returning after a few years' hiatus. I've played in a lot of roleplaying chatrooms over the years. Some of them allow players the ability to create their own rooms, set up a description, and then govern their use as they see fit. For reasons that Magi Trelian has pointed out, however, this causes trouble in a setting that is organized and moderated--particularly one with this level of detail and background information. There aren't a lot of places where one can actually reap the benefits of moderator attention and setting development. A lot of freeform role-playing chats are pretty much chaotic firestorms of people who are not only detailing themselves as they go along--without any kind of structure involved--but who are also detailing each other, and describing other players' actions, and even establishing what "the setting" is as they go. Each person attracts one or two followers who go along with their particular interpretation of things. Any semblance of overall socialization is out the window, and then there's a fair number of trollish types who do things like create bathroom-humor names and type misspelled variations on a variety of slang terms for both genders' genitalia into the public chat. There is no sense of community, and no feeling of a shared experience.I'm not saying that *every* totally un-moderated chatroom is like this, but it's a deplorably common situation; furthermore, I'll tell you what no other chatroom I've ever encountered is like: the ISRP. The benefits of years' worth of dedication from the WizO/Magi are almost, if not totally unique to the ISRP. With that comes the additional "fringe benefit" of long-time loyal players providing additional stable bedrock for new role-play. I'm all for new rooms being added as the Magi have time, but I for one (I do realize I'm only one voice, here) would not like to see the ability for patrons to be able to add rooms at a whim. If you'd like to see something enduring and solid added to the setting in a Magi-supported, highly integral fashion, play it up in role-play for a while first; I think you'll find that the Magi will be quite open to at least taking your feedback in with strong consideration <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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