Something That Never Should Have Happened But Did.

[Matsu]

WELL THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE TITLED 'Something That Never Should Have Happened But Did Anyway,' but proboards is a BITCH.
THIS SITE IS DYING. SO I DEVISED A MASTER PLAN.
WE NEED A CRACK THREAD.
YUP. CRACK RP. EVERYBODY LOVES CRACK.
OKAY. SO.
Basically, use whoever, or whatever you want, OOC or not. Naturally, this won't have anything to do with the storyline. That's the beauty of it.
OKAY, GUYS? READY? GO.

[nickbo]

AS MUCH AS I LOVE CAPS I AM GOING TO BE THE FUN RUINER.

how will it revive the site if people are only posting in one thread? :c

[Brebread]

But where is it? I want to unleash HyperLance on the world again but I don't know where to unleash him onnnnnnn

[Matsu]

FIRST OF ALL.
Yeah, yeah, whatever, nickbo. At least we'll be typing something. If someone gets an idea, then they can make another thread, and tadaaa! Activity!
SECOND OF ALL.
I was just going to start crackin' it up here, actually XD

[happi]

Something that will only keep one small section of the site alive...

Yes, people might enjoy it.
Yes, people will type.
But, as both nickbo and I said above (and as you admit), it will only be keeping one thread alive. That is not the whole site.

But oh! Your solution is that they might get an idea and then make a thread? I highly doubt it people would. Even if they do, the thread that they create wouldn't live.

Because people would always have the option of going back to the 'crack thread', they probably would/will. Why? Simply because they want to. They could escape putting any and almost all effort into a post. Again, this presents the problem of people always posting in one thread. According to your logic, this doesn't matter because they can always, upon getting an idea, just make a new thread. What does this do for the site? Give it a pathetic sputter of activity for the duration of about five days at the most is what. That's it.

If someone doesn't want to roleplay as a particular character, then they shouldn't apply for them. If they do not want to use a character that they have already applied for, then this person would drop said character. The point that I'm getting at is that if people want to use a character and do it correctly, then they should at least attempt to apply. Yes, crack roleplays could be fun. But as for character development? Nothing.

Really, a crack thread would do nothing for the site. It would be somewhat like the 'mafia' thread, if you will, of the old site. People were interested for a bit and then nothing. It got boring. No matter if you enjoy crackplaying, if that is all you post (and yes, I am implying that this is mostly what people would post), it will eventually get boring. If you are thinking "if it gets boring, then use a new character!", then please don't. Eventually, that character would become boring to you too. Even if they did not, others might grow tired of the constant 'ooc' use of the character in question. "But it's crack! Being in character doesn't matter!" Sure it doesn't. But this relates to those children who believe saying words like "cookie", "pie", "taco" and whatnot make them random. Even they get tired of their own behavior after a bit.

because my opinions on the situation don't matter anyway, I'll wrap this up.
my points are:
1. despite what you say, little to no activity will continue to be the problem.
2. people will give up on trying/just not want to try for the most part.
3. why bother?

now it's fine if people aren't interested in the site anymore. I'm just suggesting that if you want it to live, perhaps people should use the site for what it was made for. roleplaying. note that i did not say "no crackplaying". I just think that it should not be the focus of the site at this point in time. go ahead and get irritated with me. go ahead and say i've wasted my time. I know I have. I just... Hm. Whatever. c: It's not like anyone will pay attention to this anyway. go ahead and crackplay. but don't expect it to revive the site.

[nickbo]

what Haribo has said is completely and utterly true. :c
honestly? i think a lot of people have lost muse and moved on, i'm sorry. it's a really lovely idea, that this will make everything live again, but somewhat hopelessly idealistic. i'm sorry. :c