Most of the activity on Diatribe is currently taking place in private forums with restricted access.
I just had to make something here 'cos the last post (although it was a very good post) was over 3 days ago.
The danger is, of course, that people will think nothing happens here. Not the case!
Please don’t forget the public forums while you’re here 
I’m not cool enough for privacy. 
Actually, that reminds me of something I though about the other day.
Might be a good idea to close down/lock the Random forum in the Mordavia forums and migrate everyone over to the Diatribe forum. There tends to be a lot of cross posting between those two anyway, and its a good way to actually motivate people to visit these forums and end up getting interested in another larp project they happen upon.
Comments?
oh yes, in addition to my reply on what scotty had also said regarding this in the mordavia forums, my theory is that after the last Mordavia game people will start to loose interest in the mordavia site so if people have made this one their main not as many people will drift away.
It’s been suggested before, including by Ryan. The end result was that we decided to keep both, but it’s worth bringing up again now. I wonder if we should move before Endgame while there’s still momentum. Moving later might make people “flag it” and never move. Having the gang end with Mordavia would be tragic.
Thats kinda what I was thinking too. Not really an issue before, but now that Mordavia is winding down its worth doing.
I mentioned it because I’ve noticed that a fair few people on the Mordavia forum don’t really make much of an appearance on Diatribe and I’d really like that to change. I think if they spent more time here then they may be attracted by another Larp they may not have even known was running.
Sure, I think now’s probably a good time to migrate Random stuff to Diatribe.
Or given that some people still prefer to hang on the Mordavia forum for now, perhaps as soon as the campaign ends.
I’m kinda on the fence about this one. Don’t want to take the baby’s toy away and replace it with another similar one if it’s gonna cry about it… whatever toy makes it happy is fine with me. 
How can we make Diatribe the cool place to hang? Maybe that’s the question at hand. I’ve asked on the Mordavia forum why people don’t come here.
here is one idea:
we could move the mordavia forums to diatribe, it’ll be a fair bit of hard work but its more likely to suceed.
Next idea please?
I didn’t know there are hidden forums in Diatribe. Well, this is how it’s supposed to be, I guess 
But what’s the reson for hiding stuff? I mean, if I come and see lots of interesting things going on - I’ll be willing to join. However, currently I’m wondering around trying to understand why it looks so empty in here. Your discussion on that is one of the most interesting topics I found 
Being happy about turning my green layout to silver one, I’m wondering - why many forums are hidden? (according to what is said above). So if you can encourage people speak openly (ah, I know, this sound terrible, but how else to formulate? excuse my English) - that can make Diatribe more lively.
P.S. Of course, I don’t know the motivation for hidden discussions, maybe you guys have a top-secret larping order here with special initiation ceremonies and behaviour code…
There are plenty of public forums just begging to be talked in. That’s not the problem.
Closed forums are for generally for specific event organisation where it’s tidier to work in small, closed teams rather than “with everyone”. But hang around here and you’ll find opportunities to join those groups come up all the time!
Plus theres alot of plot discussion in there…and if you read those you’d ruin the games 
Ok, understood and accepted 8)
I’ll probably just should start reading all around as some topics concern things I have no idea about - so not interested… Knowledge is power, eh.
This brings up the idea of promoting games and other stuff to make people interested enough to come to forum and read about it. You guys do it well with banners, but may wanna think about other promotions as well. What I personally really like is to watch a particular website for particular game - like the one for Mordavia. Ok, I know that making site is difficult, and maintaining it for longer time is just a hell work (me myself still has a site hanging on me to be updated, poor me… and poor site), but it doesn’t need to be something as luxery as Mordavia (which is just gorgeous). The idea is that it’s not just “there is a game like that…” (ok, yes, there is, and so what?), but that a particular place exists for this game in the Web (because forum thread is not a particular place - it’s just thread).
What I’m trying to say is that website is a certain and solid thing which may attract people. Maybe some game maintainers/GMs/fans/whoever wanna make it for their games… Me myself may think of that if can sort out some webdesign things… (not promising anything!!!) And the stuff doesn’t even need to be paid for - there are heaps of free hostings in the Web.
Well, it was just an attempt to provide creative idea… I’ll now go around and look, maybe someone has site already…
We host stuff right here on nzlarps.org - so hosting is not an issue.
Any active forum is bound to be overwhelming at first. Before long it should be very easy to follow, just hang around
Thanks.
I agree strongly with this. A well-produced website and a well-produced rulebook are the two main things that make a larp feel “solid”, both to players and to those running it. That solid feeling of quality inspires many people to higher achievements in relation to the larp: in their writing, playing, creation of gear, recruitment, etc. It’s not just a shiny gloss, it matters to the larp itself.
Larps that are projects or associates of NZLARPS have the option of having a web page hosted by the society. At the moment these web site are all fairly simple, but they could easily be more sophisticated. Here are the sites that are up so far:
nzlarps.org/ogpage/og.html
nzlarps.org/nightmarecircle
And there is also a separate site for the Pirates larp:
Apart from websites, I would also like to see some larps other than Mordavia going to some effort to create well-produced rulebooks. Being able to hand someone a nice-looking, well-written larp book and say “here’s something I’m into” is cool, and it brings up the level of the larp.
Thanks for the links!
Now I know what Og is, cool 8)
The Pirate site is really nice, lots of info and pretty-looking
The Nightmare Circle - I followed the link and found beautiful dark page where I failed to find the entrance to the site. Where exactly to click?
I’m planning on making a pretty PDF of the Ravenholme rulebook sometime this week, but as far as making a website goes I’m in the dark.
I to wsh to be freed of this website darkness that assults my abilities. A web site would be very nice. And a merry go round, but that has nothing to do wih my needs for a website.
R