some info has been removed, and information is out of order so one place doesn't correspond to the next. only one answer was deleted, because it was completely useless and likely a troll given the responses. this means between twenty six and twenty five responses were logged. i will not be cataloging individual responses, although i might point out some common trends from this at the end!
feel free to post/chat about problems/solutions/etc! discussion is highly encouraged <3
[spoiler=Are there things you think WindClan is doing well? Thing that impress you, things that draw you in, and so forth?]
QuoteThere is nothing that draws me to WindClan. It seems WindClan has stuck fairly close to it's counterpart in the Warriors books. Nothing really draws me to it aside from that.
QuoteThere are so many Advanced/Semi-Advanced role players it's so fun!
QuoteThe flow of the Clan is superb, everybody develops their characters with one another and it's very comfortable to be there, especially with the constant events.
QuoteActivity
QuoteThey're active.
QuoteI really really love the diversity of characters and ranging levels of post lengths so everyone sort of fits in regardless of how little or how much they write
Quotethe welcoming atmosphere
QuoteI really like the activity and how friendly the community is towards each other once you get in.
QuoteNo, but I still plan on joining
QuoteThe leadership and the ic community definitely draw me in, but the OOC community keeps me out.
QuoteThere is always something happening basic event-wise.
QuoteThe activity impresses me
QuoteThe OOC community is incredibly welcoming bad nice, and I like the fact that promotions are fair.
QuoteProbably good reviews that people have given when successfully getting involved into the clan.
QuoteAs I said before, the community seems to have gotten much better since the last time I joined, but I can't confirm for sure since, again, I haven't actually joined the place in a while.
QuoteI just love the activity and the things we do sometimes, it's also a pretty accepting clan. And, I don't see a lot of cliques (maybe some), which are pretty common these days, so that's nice.
QuoteThe insane amount of activity in it.
QuoteI think Clanmate relationships are being established very well
QuoteThe whole diversity of characters there! And all the museful posts!
QuoteThe friendliness of everyone here c:
QuoteI like the community and the overall kindness of the roleplayers
Quotebeing open icly and oocly
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QuoteI don't see events there often? I wasn't there long though, so idk.
QuoteSometimes things become rather stagnant because of the lack of replies by high positions, which could be solved by either introducing or encouraging less dependency/need of presence of high positions being present or more challengingly, having high positions be more present.
QuoteMost of the characters don't have much development or diversity from each other; the Clan feels like a sea of the same prototype of character with some minor altercations between them.
QuoteThe community is pretty hard to get into both IC and OOC which is a real turn off.
QuoteHP Activity: I feel like there are HP's that are inactive & should be demoted. Events: We're starting to get some more events in the system, which is good, but I think we still need to improve.
Quotethere are a lot of events that go on, but nothing that really affects character development. i would like to see more disasters, interactions with other clans, and stuff that will have an effect on all the characters.
Quote[expunged], I felt like it was a bit hard to approach the characters and roleplayers who had been there longer and had already made friends.
QuoteOOC cliques because they are a very big problem and pull me back from joining the clan in the first place, & character diversity, development, and more events to see things become more interesting there. If I see a well-developed character, I'll probably join.
QuoteWe tend to see characters post a lot, but the characters don't develop with each post (or even with half of the posts made) and yet they are praised for that activity.
Quotenot a lot of HP activity/muse inspiring events
Quotewhen i was there i was heavily ignored by roleplayers, icly i was ignored by the undertale characters, and i remember that the medical field was inactive for a while, with people deserving of it not being promoted. that could have changed, though
QuoteActivity is self explanatory. As for events, I mean that there's next to no interactions with allied clans.
QuoteAt one point, there were a lot of Undertale characters, so it was a little intimidating at that point, and I think I generally assumed that they'd flock together like in the game. The chat I believe is closed, and kinda hard to get into. When I was there, I rarely saw Hps around, except for maybe the leader and I believe deputy. Events like character bonding would be good, but then again, I haven't been there in like a few eeks.
QuoteThe lack of decent open threads makes the clan seem a bit...boring, in my eyes, I guess? Constantly having to reply to only joining threads does not seem very fun to me, especially when, even though it's not my only goal, I'd still like to receive some sort of high position eventually. Having private threads be the only real "fun" you can have, honestly just sucks the life out of any sort of muse I may be able to muster up. And after every other stressful thing in the clan, and in real life, I seriously cannot stay in WindClan for more than a few days.
QuoteI'd like to see WindClan no longer be an activity-driven Clan. It has activity, of course, but there's really very little that ever happens to help character development.
QuoteI do think we have some OOC cliques, though. I'll go into the chat sometimes and get flat out ignored, but that's barely, so it's something that isn't too terrible, in my opinion.
QuoteI haven't been in the clan that long so I'm not really sure yet.
QuoteI hate to see threads from 2-3 days ago on the first page of the board. And it's also great to have events, though I think we are really stepping it up with that lately!
QuoteEh, I kind of miss old, super super active Windclan. Sometimes I noticed the board moving really slow nowadays. And cliques are just well, cliques. I've seen some OOC ones because no one really felt welcoming to me, and I could tell that they had formed groups already.
QuoteI feel that Windclan is lacking in events right now. Maybe if we had more ally events, we could advertise Windclan more to roleplayers that are thinking of joining it.
Quotethere have always been a lack of events and clanwide things so
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QuoteIt's very active.
QuoteEarlier in the year, a lot of the characters sort of cliqued together because they all had characters based off of one theme. These characters held high positions while others did not, but all tended to only interact with each other and only develop their characters with each other's. The entirety of the problem diminished because of the lack of appearance of this group.
QuoteI definitely felt included when I was there last!
QuoteI feel like the OOC Cliques really died out once members brought up ways to eliminate the harmful cliques!
QuoteI think WindClan is very active, diverse, and easy to get into!
QuoteI really liked the activity while it was there, although it was a little fast for my preferences. The events were pretty good though, and I participated ih the Secret Santa organized by Sam recently.
QuoteHP activity should of course be steady, but the activity they are currently at is good, you don't need a completely ridiculous amount of activity to be promoted. I find that we tend to be very open ICly and OOCly, though themed characters tend to stick together and that can cause trouble.
Quoteeveryones really friendly
QuoteEveryone is welcoming in character and out of character, and it's easy to start conversations and it's not intimidating at all. Not sure what category it would fit in, but from what I've seen, promotions are fair.
QuoteI feel like everyone there is active, but perhaps a bit too active for me at the time.
QuoteThe activity in general, is fine. I don't want you guys to have to change the pace of your clan just to [expunged]. I don't see any cliques. Though, I can't completely confirm this, since I'm not a member of the clan. I see quite a few different and interesting characters, so I don't believe the diversity of them is a problem at all. I can't really confirm at all if you guys need more events. With the whole "character development thing", I'm not stating that not enough characters have development. I'm pretty sure it's fine right now, actually. I'm just bringing up what I said earlier about not feeling like I can develop my character at all, outside of private threads (Which again, terrify me in many ways.) There just aren't enough interesting open threads for me to want to retry WindClan. It's basically like the final nail in the coffin in my eyes. Regardless of how "accepted" I am OOC, it doesn't change the fact that I can't find a way to have fun there anymore. And there's no point to roleplaying if you can't have fun, right?
QuoteI don't see many IC cliques, the activity in the clan is great so far, we have a lot of different characters which is lovely to see, and character development in the clan goes pretty smoothly!
QuoteI think the cliques are getting better, and character diversity and development is always improving
QuoteLike I said, there's so many different characters and so many museful posts lmao
QuoteFrom what I've seen, the hps are more active than the actual members.
Quoteits gotten better icly, with ppl replying to threads and such
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QuoteFrom past experiences, I saw WindClan does have a reputation and it is a bad one. Atleast, in my own opinion.
QuoteI always think of Windclan as a fairly peaceful clan with a strong military... Idk why though. And I love that.
QuoteA neutral one, I believe it's known for its massiveness and higher activity, which for some can be fantastic, and for others can be a total turn-off. Personally, I think there's a good connotation to WindClan and its community.
QuoteA bad one - generally cliquey.
QuoteI don't think so!
Quotenot really, I guess it is known to be active though, even if it is less so right now.
Quotegood one ICly
QuoteI feel like it kind of got the rep of having a lot of cliques and being difficult to fit into. So yeah, kind of negative.
QuoteGood one
QuoteIt's an okay one? Like, a good one, but once you get into the place you realize that it's actually really tough to get into.
QuoteEveryone says we are very clique-y, however that is usually stated by people who aren't in the clan and haven't been for several months (in which case they really shouldn't give an opinion).
Quotegood/neutral?
QuoteFor a while I was personally very apprehensive about joining, since the last time I tried I was thoroughly ignored OOC. But it's a lot better now, and I don't know if anyone else thinks that.
QuoteI think its relatively good/okay, once you get into it, etc.
QuoteI do, actually. A good stigma, yea, maybe it's just the overall popularity from the books? Wow, I'm bringing the books into this. Windclan is just that kind of default clan people go to and are attracted to in my opinion, considering the pretty stable reputation it has.
QuoteI think there's still a bit of the "We're intimidating because of our posting speed!" thing going on.
QuoteYes. It's a good one c:
QuoteI guess it's known for having many betrayers (characters that were originally members but do something to get exiled)
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many comments were removed due to simply being "no" or some variant
QuoteI really love how Windclan when back to the moors.
QuoteThe group is way too fast for me personally, even though I would say it is medium paced (I just have no time lol) but I really love it a lot and wish I had more time to rp in the group!!
QuoteI'd like to see more IC consideration for promotions. For example, time between promotions, age of those promoted, etc. You wouldn't make a kitten a Head Bodyguard for example (not that it has happened).
QuoteI really do enjoy being in WindClan, and my only actual problem is the lack of open threads or responses to them.
QuoteI just wanted to say that I'm sorry if I came off as rude at all during this. I'm only giving my exact opinions on this, with no sugar coating. I'm generally a very blunt person when I'm not given rules against "being rude" (in like, fifty quotation marks), and I hope it doesn't come off that I'm a complete asshole or anything. Anyways, I hope whoever reading this has a great day, and I wish ya'll luck on fixing whatever problems in WindClan that you feel like fixing.
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now then!! discuss away, or create another thread, or whatever really!! below i've compiled some trends from looking at the individual votes and comparing them to each other.
[spoiler=an observation of trends from looking through individual responses]
- members outside of windclan funneled most of the votes toward windclan needing to improve character diversity & development, whereas members inside of windclan funneled most of the votes towards windclan being fine on that aspect.
- the only votes for "none of the above" was from the same person who pretty much only filled out the mandatory bits. they should not be considered in the grand scheme of this.
- people already within windclan found that windclan has a clique-free ic community, whereas those not in windclan were more inclined to vote that windclan has ic cliques.
- votes of windclan having a problem with ooc cliques had a startling demographic of those already within windclan
- overall activity was generally highlighted by those outside of windclan & by quite a few within, and only those currently within windclan had a problem with its overall activity.