News. Points. Feedback. Ideas?

Couple of random ideas I had, feel free to add your opinions / rip mine to shreds:

1) Friction news feed - AFW is awesome, but there is so much of it that it is difficult to keep track of it as a coherent thing... Personally I am aware of around 1% of what happens in the AFW universe (at most). I thought it would be good if there was a thread that summarises recent events and matches, that you can easily scan for quick updates.

Obviously - this is way too much to ask of one person to maintain / update. So I thought, when someone completes a hot match or important backstage thread, they could have the option of writing a quick news feed summary of the events. They could then pass this to a mod / news feed editor, who could post this on the updates thread (or they could just post to the thread directly). No one person would have to read / write everything.

This would be purely optional, reserved only for the times youâ€ve just completed an awesome RP you feel like advertising to others.

Aside from your opinions whether this idea is either good or workable, there are other issues that would need to be agreed:

- news reports vs. teaser trailers - would the updates describe what happened, or act as ‘teasers†so people can read the matches without knowing the outcome?
- written journalistically or in character - or through a journalist character (that can also be used in RP)?

The incentive for writing little summaries of your matches? Maybe each post in the news feed would be worth 1 AFW celebrity point to each character involved. Compete in more featured matches, earn your chars more points, maybe have a top-10 rankings system for ‘Media Profile†that is open to everyone? A glance at the rankings would show you the actively used chars and big names in AFW.

2) linked to this - a second incentive to get people reading your matches - we could make it a rule that it is okay to post any feedback on a completed match thread? That the space below ‘X Wins by pinfall†can be freely used for anyoneâ€s comments, either in-character reactions to the result, or genuine feedback? It probably wouldnâ€t get much use, but still. There have been a few times I have read other peopleâ€s matches and felt like leaving positive feedback, at least.

like this: [url:177z09vh]http://afwrpg.informe.com/forum/afw-promo-f44/afw-news-t457.html[/url:177z09vh]

I guess the problem I had back 3 years ago when doing this was that no one actually posted updates from their matches to me so the whole of the news thread was mainly about things relating to my characters. Maybe it would be different now, dunno

Ya, I think I've brought up things like that before too.

Another problem is that it's not like an actual wrestling fed where there are like 20-30 main carders and a handful of main eventers. We have over 1k characters, mostly unused, but if you try to straighten them out and make something coherent I think it will start to fall apart.

Well, if it's just a news feed sort of thing, that can certainly be done... like no more than a couple lines about things that happen.

Keeping it as a news feed or something and only allowing 2 or 3 updates from a member at a time should be good (and hopefully get around the problem of there being so many wrestlers listed on the roster).

Maybe a suggestion, maybe have it be like a member blog ? each person can write up their own " News feed" if they want, and do it as such, maybe have it be an extra thing if you have time " title="Razz" />

I like the idea at least ^_^

willing to give it a shot.

Short, moderated posts in a communal feed, as long as you want on your own blog. That seems to be the way.

Okay, thanks for the feedback. I guess that the communal news feed should tell everyone the match results, with a few lines of narrative. I assume no one is too bothered about the potential ‘spoilers†of giving away match outcomes?

I guess the idea of ‘celeb points†is a bit awkward. Should still be able to use news feed updates to gauge the most active / popular characters.

I am happy to start trialling this, though I donâ€t have that many recently completed matches. Unless a mod would rather start it, for greater control? (obviously the existing news thread is locked up in announcements). It might be good to have a ‘News Editor†char that had nominal control / provided the odd update and comment?

btw I quite like the name ‘Friction Burnâ€, if the thread was going to have a blog / fanzine style.

well, I guess that some stuff you've written ( like in-character reaction to the match ) just needs to be written on the actual match thread. the news feed is an interesting idea, but I don't know if it's too much work or not.

I think the main issue is that people here are at different levels and views of approach at RPing. some see this forum as a videogame where you choose a character and pick an opponent for a match, with little or none storyline, character progression or relationships.

and others make lots of backstage and non-match stuff, huge posts, etc.

I think that everyone should write on the profiles of the actual characters the matches they had, the outcome, and how they reacted/changed to the match. that would make stuff more simplier for writers and readers ( the storyline and profile would be on only one topic ).

It happens all the time, it's not a board specific problem. You can't really force people to update their bio, matches or stuff like that. For some its just boring to do that, they're glad when their bio is approved and the fun is instantly available.

I think a different way(Character is important, Who is who is important, Continuity also), but this may be the thinking of a either a small majority or a vocal minority of gamers and persons in general.

I think the majority likes the idea, but we are too lazy to implement it.