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Stephanie Brenner
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For All Members, Great and Small! Please READ!!!
« Thread Started on Jul 26, 2007, 3:12am »

Hello Everyone!

First off, as a new member, we would personally like to welcome you to Avondale Heights. The administration would like to give you a personal welcome note to the board, just a heads up of what we desire for our board in the future.

In the beginning, when High School RPGs and the like were new-fangled, when all and sundry found them to be stimulating, and the Administrators were awfully overprotective of who had claim over the original idea, there was just something about the whole idea of writing out the existence of a character electrifying. The prospect of logging on to find that you had a new post awaiting you in your thread, that people were pleasant and forthcoming and didn’t have any expectations of your abilities, and how people didn’t expect you to find your place in the writing scene before they got to know you personally.

How I, personally, miss those days.

Bringing them up means that I have a point. And that is that here on Avondale we want to bring back the warmth and welcoming to a board. We want people to mix and mingle in the General Discussion; I can’t remember how many games we used to play within on my very first RPG. ‘Older’ members always greeted newer members, speaking with them and interacting. But these days it seems that nobody wants to do that anymore. Everyone wants to judge you on your writing abilities rather than giving you a fair go by just chatting, planning out a scene and seeing how things go. We don’t want that here, we want people to hop into our chat and mingle with one another, to have fun and get to know one another in more than just a informal manner.

You can’t expect people to join a board and have nobody interact with them because they want them to prove themselves worthy. I joined a board, posted an extremely detailed and well thought-out thread, while everyone read it, noticeable by the read count, nobody bothered to respond. That’s how boards lose touch and most importantly members. People get bored; they want fresh ideas and people to play with. So, get out there and interact, don’t be shy! Introduce yourself, invent a fun game for people to play (that was a very common way for people to start talking and getting threads going on, again, my very first RPG experience) and just be you.

Another point to remember is that not everyone can put out a three page reply, but then there are plenty of people who can. Be open-minded about the people that you pick to role play with – who knows your abilities might just inspire them, or vice-versa. And if you think a suggestion in the right direction is needed then help them out – a lot of people forget that the beauty of writing a scene and making it inviting for everyone is that you need to be descriptive, to project what the warmth of the sun feels like or the feel of the sand underneath your toes on the beach as the cool, calm waves brush over them.

We want all members, current and prospective to enjoy themselves – after all, it’s all about giving it some heart and imagination.

Welcome once again,
Avondale Administrators - Hayley and Michelle.

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