Privately run forums are just that - privately run. RPoL does not run them, nor do we have the time to do so. Basically, if you want a forum for your favourite game, you will need to set it up and run it yourself.
Setting it up is just like any game board on the site. Set it up, advertise it, recruit members.
When you think you can show us that it can sustain itself (ie: it has plenty of members, frequent posting) then you can contact us about making it into a forum in the Discussion section (note that this only applies to
gaming related forums - if you want to discuss knitting patterns, then you are free to do so, but we will not give you a discussion board to do it in).
If we agree that the game is sustainable as a forum (and does not duplicate an existing forum), then you have two choices
- An open board, just like Community Chat where any site member can post.
- A closed board, where membership is required before somebody can post.
Beyond that initial proving period, there is no need to qualify for either type of forum.
The new forum will be under the control of the original GM and co-GMs. They will be responsible for moderating it, and enforcing their own rules (though it should go without saying that those rules must also comply with rules of the site).
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That's why I would advocate that a list of Private Forums should be included as a direct read-only public forum (like Rpol Announcements), rather than being buried as a sub thread in another forum.
The
Heaven list is the response to previous requests for a place to advertise these privately run forums, and was only implemented when Skald started running the forum a couple of years ago. Considering how few people seem to read the
Announcements (in spite of that board being on everybody's sticky list) I seriously doubt that posting the list there would make the slightest difference.
Note that the
Heaven forum is
also "a direct read-only public forum (like
Rpol Announcements)", and any ads posted there would still be "in a sub thread".
This message was last edited by the user at 15:41, Wed 29 Nov 2017.