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@Shuri-the-Floof-Doggo

Thank you so very much andrew (Our Supreme Lord and Overseer), it means a lot to us that you really acknowledged that we're trying to change, and better ourselves and the website. You're pretty rad yourself, honestly.

@RedTheLoveless

Are you able to move threads? I've been on some other forums where admin and mods have that ability. And since we have so many threads in the wrong sections it might be beneficial to just move some to the right place rather than just locking/deleting them (or allowing them to continue since that's kind of not really addressing the problem).

Yes! People can totally move chats on their own to different forums! All you have to do is for the creator of the thread to click "Edit Topic" and then there will be a small pop-down menu that allows the creator of the thread to move it to a different discussion board.
The only problem is notifying everyone to try to move things around as a community. And the fact that some users who have made chat threads have become inactive or deleted users.

@Starfast group

Huh interesting. I guess I don't edit my forum threads enough to have noticed. Actually, to come to think of it, I don't even think I make enough forum threads to have noticed. Thanks for pointing that out though. Good to know that feature exists.

@Mojack group

I’d be interested in an arts sections!

I remember, while not the same, I was in a forum for a game called Spore for a while. Unfortunately the forum is read only now, but it had a big arts thread for people who wanted to post all things art there; stories, drawings, anything counted.
If I see any new users, I’ll look to becoming a little more interactive with the community.

Deleted user

That’s amazing! But I hope this doesn’t overwhelm him at all…

Deleted user

I’m just glad this isn’t doing anything serious to andrew (Our Supreme Lord and Overseer) at least I hope it’s not. I’m kind of sad really, he made this site with passion for writting, and after a while people took advantage of his kindness and forgiving attitude… I know how it feels, I used to get walked over still do by some people but growing tough skin to stuff like that is very helpful none the less.

@andrew health_and_safety flash_onAdmin

Hey all, thanks again for this feedback. Most of the suggested boards above are now live with this update, and there are a few other minor tweaks to polish up the forums as we move forward and continuously make things better.

Thanks everyone for being along with the ride. I've got a lot of exciting plans for Notebook.ai and love that the forums can bring everyone together in new ways. :)

@Shuri-the-Floof-Doggo

Yeah, of course man! It's truly a pleasure to be on this site, and to interact with everyone on here! It has been a wonderful ride, hasn't it? And I'm glad I was fortunate enough to take it!

Deleted user

Another quick reminder from Connio. :3

I think we should all do our best to put as many as the worldbuilding chats to use. I believe that putting ourselves to work and pushing our use of the general chats to a minimum would help clear away toxicity and integrate new users in smoothly.
Another thing, I think overall we should take into account that this sadly is the internet, and things will be misinterpreted. Toxicity is something that will never disappear, we all help create it, I'm very guilty of this myself.
I want this beautiful site going back to the way it was before when I, and probably many others, could think about this site and not instantly wallow in sadness, regret, anger, and other emotions. Another small note, if you have toxicity or unwanted feelings, the Rudeness chat and Venting chat (which I couldn't find to link, rip) are there for that use.
Words are a powerful and dangerous thing. We're writers, we're learning to wield them into our own weapons, whether it be to change the world, become a journalist, or to spread a story throughout the minds of many. But we need to gain a resistance to them as well, what good is offense without a defense? Sometimes, we need to brush those toxic words off and move on.

Guys, this is so cliche, but if we can change this site, we can change the world.

@Shuri-the-Floof-Doggo

I believe you are right, we can change the world, and the site for the better, sometimes you just need to vent, and that's how it is, and was Andrews new remodel of the site, things are going to be a little easier for all of us. Things get toxic, and it's all of our faults. I'm just glad so many of us are hell-bent on fixing this problem, and in fact, I think I'm going to use the other forms a lot more than I already do.

@Starfast group

Ok, small rant ahead and I hate to revive a thread that hasn't been active in several months, but I do believe it's becoming relevant again :/ Most of this pertains to the character forums but guys…. please put things in the right subforums. We have threads for critiques and for drawing requests. andrew (Our Supreme Lord and Overseer) literally made the latter because of this thread, and he didn't do it so that you guys could just ignore it and keep cluttering up the character forums.

Before someone tells me that they didn't post in the right thread because of visibility, maybe consider the following:

  • I counted 8 character critiques and 7 draw my character threads on the first page alone. I feel like half the reason why people don't use those forums is because no one uses them but if we moved those threads to the right place then that's 7-8 people would would be using that forum.
  • If you're still worried about no one seeing your thread, @Shuri-the-wholesome-boi started a thread for advertising threads in forums that don't see much activity. It's been dead for a few weeks, but maybe we could revive it. Link here.

Another issue is all the character Q&A threads. Right now, I don't think there's really a good place to put all of them (character chats maybe but idk) but there's a lot and it's frustrating having to wade through all of them sometimes. There's another site that I go on that used to have a universal character Q&A thread, where anyone could jump in at any time and ask or answer any questions they wanted with as many characters at they wanted. It was a lot of fun, but if myself (or literally anyone else) started a thread like that would you guys use it at all?

Sorry for the long post, but this has been bugging me for a while and I needed to get it off my chest.

TL;DR put things in the right subforum like God andrew (Our Supreme Lord and Overseer) intended.

Deleted user

I'm gonna have to agree, too. A lot of people are putting chats that belong in the Character thread forum, and most of them are too young to understand that there's more to this website than that. It's really frusturating (to me) to click on something that might seem like a cool character thing, only to see some kid introducing themselves.

@HighPockets group

I double agree, some posts about fun character-related things (aka my child) are being pushed down because of a million critique and drawing requests, which makes it hard to find character development posts

@Starfast group

It's really frusturating (to me) to click on something that might seem like a cool character thing, only to see some kid introducing themselves.

Yeah, and I love that Notebook is pretty lax about forum etiquette, but times like this make me wish that maybe we had a little more moderation than we do. On other sites that I frequent, threads that get posted in the wrong place usually get locked by a mod and are told to start it again in the right place. Technically, we could tell people to move their threads, but I feel like it might come across the wrong way since I'm not a mod or even affiliated with the one person who is. Like, I don't want people to think that I'm being bossy, or trying to police the forums but god it's just so frustrating having to wade through like 50 near identical threads.

Also, since people are still making character Q&As, I'm wondering if I should just go ahead and make a universal character Q&A thread? I think it might help if we could confine them all to one thread, but I don't want to do it if people are just going to ignore it and make more. Thoughts? Concerns?