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" If you're going to accuse us of "deliberately ignoring and strangling out" new talent, then some specific examples would really be in order because that's one hell of an accusation."
I thought I was pretty clear in my post, but okay. A couple of people actually posts stories --> stories are completely ignored by those championing themselves as the only ones who care about/contribute to the site (because the authors are not forum members and therefore unworthy of response) --> authors realize they're writing for an empty, indifferent void and wander off ---> potential authors see the site is dead and don't even bother. --> Site remains dead until someone randomly wanders in and posts a story, probably because they're unaware of the alternative sites out there where their story would be read. --> Cycle repeats itself. This is a pattern that's been repeating itself for years and years, I'm surprised I'm having to explain it in such detail because we're surely all aware of it. Deliberate choice, and all. This is the sort of community that's been created here and the one you and presumably the others are so ready to defend.
Anyway, this whole topic has gotten massively derailed. Sev asked a question, Endmaster and myself were responding to it, and (I suspect) primarily because it was me posting, a simple suggestion I made got jumped on and shredded, and now we're in this whole, faintly ridiculous argument about the 'ideals' of the site and The True Meaning of IS, and What We Stand For. The site and 'we' in this case both meaning the three to five people still using the forum, or I guess just you, in this thread right now. So, whatever. suggestions withdrawn if that's what it takes to end this. I look forward to reading other people's posts giving details on similar sites and what new features are needed to stay on the level or ahead of them, now that we're back on topic.
As an aside, I got briefly re-interested in the forums with the redesign and with Sev posting and mentioning the possibility of more advanced features, but that was apparently a mistake. And with Sev not coming back since, and Endmaster and dreamshell the only regular members I've been able to discuss anything writing-related with without it turning into a battle, and my having a much more pleasant time chatting with them and Bucky elsewhere, I'll likely just wander off again until the situation shows some sign of change. I'd very much like for IS to be a viable writing site again, and I don't see any reason why it couldn't be just as popular a choice as some of the others out there, with a few of the features Sev is thinking of and just a little effort on the part of the community to encourage people to stick around. Most of the time, it seems the idea is to do the exact opposite, with that special IS-brand combo of neglect of the main site and bizarre hostility and just...bizarre everything, on the forums.
But I suppose that's just Infinite Story daring to be iconoclastic. Truly, a bold stance that will shake the IF world to its core.
I thought I was pretty clear in my post, but okay. A couple of people actually posts stories --> stories are completely ignored by those championing themselves as the only ones who care about/contribute to the site (because the authors are not forum members and therefore unworthy of response) --> authors realize they're writing for an empty, indifferent void and wander off ---> potential authors see the site is dead and don't even bother. --> Site remains dead until someone randomly wanders in and posts a story, probably because they're unaware of the alternative sites out there where their story would be read. --> Cycle repeats itself. This is a pattern that's been repeating itself for years and years, I'm surprised I'm having to explain it in such detail because we're surely all aware of it. Deliberate choice, and all. This is the sort of community that's been created here and the one you and presumably the others are so ready to defend.
Anyway, this whole topic has gotten massively derailed. Sev asked a question, Endmaster and myself were responding to it, and (I suspect) primarily because it was me posting, a simple suggestion I made got jumped on and shredded, and now we're in this whole, faintly ridiculous argument about the 'ideals' of the site and The True Meaning of IS, and What We Stand For. The site and 'we' in this case both meaning the three to five people still using the forum, or I guess just you, in this thread right now. So, whatever. suggestions withdrawn if that's what it takes to end this. I look forward to reading other people's posts giving details on similar sites and what new features are needed to stay on the level or ahead of them, now that we're back on topic.
As an aside, I got briefly re-interested in the forums with the redesign and with Sev posting and mentioning the possibility of more advanced features, but that was apparently a mistake. And with Sev not coming back since, and Endmaster and dreamshell the only regular members I've been able to discuss anything writing-related with without it turning into a battle, and my having a much more pleasant time chatting with them and Bucky elsewhere, I'll likely just wander off again until the situation shows some sign of change. I'd very much like for IS to be a viable writing site again, and I don't see any reason why it couldn't be just as popular a choice as some of the others out there, with a few of the features Sev is thinking of and just a little effort on the part of the community to encourage people to stick around. Most of the time, it seems the idea is to do the exact opposite, with that special IS-brand combo of neglect of the main site and bizarre hostility and just...bizarre everything, on the forums.
But I suppose that's just Infinite Story daring to be iconoclastic. Truly, a bold stance that will shake the IF world to its core.
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