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Naming!! And forums!!
Well, ladies and gentlemen, it is the weekend. The weekend I wanted to start work on the official HPU reunion board. Replies have been sparse so far, but I expect that has been because of the topics. It's been more of a case of me informing you of whats going on, rather than asking opinions, for the past couple of posts, and those opinions I have asked for have been on things most of you don't know about or haven't been relevant to you. But now this stops!
The most important thing I am asking is for name suggestions. Nothing can get started until we decide upon a board name, so I hope you'll all be prompt in your responses, and suggest something or give feedback on other suggestions.
Secondly we need to decide on the areas the board will cover. I don't want to end up with hundreds of forums and sub forums, so lets not go mad, but we need a basic level of forum formatting so the Rps can take place in the appropriate place and threads do not get missed or lost.
On that level I am suggesting this kind of layout:-
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Section One - Mod and Admin forums.
This will contain the Announcements forum to deal with announcements relevant to the site, and the Moderation Discussion forum. For official use to discuss threads OOC, what you're happy with, what could change, to ask questions of members and point out anything that needs attention.
I will set up a 'Anon' account, which all will have the password to, so that complaints (if there are any) can be posted in the knowledge there will be no backlash to the user. I doubt it'll be needed, but as we have seen in the past users can do things to offend others without intending to, and it's best to have a way of dealing with this.
Section Two - The Wizarding World
This will contain the following...
Azkaban
Diagon Alley (with the subforum 'The Leaky Cauldron')
Knockturn Alley (with the subforum 'Gofien House')
Hogwarts (with the subforum 'Hogsmede')
The Ministry Of Magic (with the subforum 'The Department of Mysteries')
Wizarding London (with subforums 'St Mungo's Hospital' and ' 12 Grimmauld Place')
As you can see I've not bothered with sub forums for Hogwarts and Diagon Alley, there are just too many. I'm suggesting that Gofien House and 12 Grim Place be locked forums for their members, which of course will be those leaning to the Dark Side or the Order. Also, the D of M will be locked for ministry emplyees only.
Section Three - The Muggle World
This will be out 'OOC' section, with of course a RP Discussion forum and a General OOC forum.
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So, let me know what you think, what should be added, and what should be taken away.
xx
Fe
[Edit 1: 1/9/6:Moved the LC]
[Edit 2: 2/9/6: Added 'Wizarding London', moved 'St Mungos', added '12 Grimmauld Place', added 'department of Mysteries'. Updated paragraph about them.]