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A Big Thank You for a great 2014 to the Open RP members
2014 has gone or at least on the last countdown of it's time with us. The Linkshell has been up five months and while I honestly expected only thirty or so members we rapidly grew after joining with the Intermission shell, and have been at max capacity for the last three months.
What went well
Well size has some benefits, but also activity. There was generally a lot of chatter going on far much more than any other LS I was in.
The Leaders did a great job of covering things through the time zones and blended in most of the time and appeared when things needed it.. a big thanks to them, Aysun Demiir, Faye Covington, Gospel Gestalt, Ilwe'ran Hlaiwa, Val Nunh, Xenedra Ambreaus
On a special note Ilwe'ran, did a sterling job with the RP event announcements and a lot of people really liked that. She scoured these forums and encouraged people to let her know if events were in the making.
The community has been that, and covers a broad church of RP, as well as some casual PvE and RL chatter, as you would get with 128 people.
We have cleared out inactive people on a 15day window which seems to work well, though i wish it was easy to check when people last logged as this is a non trivial task to do. Again, thanks to the Leaders for helping with this.
What didn't go so well
The initial idea was for RP focus and it is fair to say we fell short of that and the LS does default to a general channel at times. We have let this take up some space but sometimes we have had to bring it back to the initial idea. Overall after some rough patches we seemed to have reached a happy balance.
Some people have left because the LS is not for them, some have returned. I try to talk to those who leave to understand why and if we could have done anything. I have taken that feedback and fed it into how the LS has gone.
Excluding people (kicking) has been regrettably necessary on a few occasions. If I am guilty of one thing here is is giving people too much rope, I like to see if people will adjust to the feedback they are given and when they clearly wont there is only one alternative left.
What do I think we need more of in 2015?
I think in 2015 I would like to see more positive views about what people like, rather than dislike. Also more RP focus, I find that we RPers (maybe even MMOers) are very good at saying we will, but then get distracted and don't follow through. I am thinking that maybe some slight organisation may help this.
Also we might as well recognise that a large number would like to also progress through Primals and Coil, so maybe we can organise something around this.
Most of all I look forward to an active link shell in 2015... thanks everyone!
Char:Â [Nebula Stardancer] Â FC: [East Eerie Trading Co]
Link Shells: [Hugs & Cakes] Â [Witches' Wyrd Web]
