Originally Posted by
Garron
To begin this post, I just want to say, you nailed it on previous posts here, Philomel. We all truly love Althanas for whatever reason it may be. I also want to say thank you for all your hard work to take care of us in all sections and for your feedback. I/we really appreciate you for it. Thank you so much, Philomel. I think Dirks and his staff members over the years have done an amazing job with evolving Althanas to all of our personalities, writing evolution desires, and enjoyment for whatever reason we all come here.
But, anyways, with that said. To why I'm posting here with a suggestion. I was thinking back from when I was asking an Admin about post limits and post word limits to turn in a thread for judgement or no judgement type thing from a long time ago and it recently got me thinking about ways to boost participation and membership if only in a small way. It also got me thinking about past/current/and future member involvement pushing on with 4.0. Life kinda kicks us all in the ass sometimes and it hurts our participation and love of writing.
My suggestion is that something could possibly be done about it in light of word limit shrinking of Vignettes and the Writing Challenges Hysteria hosts. Maybe cater to those that have found time problematic to write like we love and are used to here by opening up a special sub-forum, or allow shorty-type stories in somewhere among the World of Althanas and Freeform sections. Something like 1,500 to 4,000 word shorties, instead of 5,000+ word 8-10+ post threads for those that just don't have the time to pump out longer threads, but still participate, and still nurture their love of writing, with optional gain for the same RPG reward-type continuation people enjoy, but only as a No Judgement type thing. I mean this as strictly solo type threads. I know it'll be more work for our staff to add everything up with these threads, but it may boost things here.
To add to that, I dunno if something like my suggestion is already in place, but just figured I'd post it. It's all just a thought and there is a lot of room for improvement with it.
Thanks to the staff for taking time out for reading this. You guys are awesome!