OFFICIAL RIVERCLAN CHAT/PLOT THREAD!

thank you for telling us about this, onomato :( i'm really sorry that you've had to deal with this again

guys, i'm about to leave RC so i can focus on school and i've been dealing with this issue since january. i can't be here all the time and won't be here at all very very soon, so it's not possible for me to welcome everyone or respond to every thread when we're active. there have been multiple things done: we made a separate plotting thread that people decided to forgo in order to use this one, so it was deleted last week. we made an "overlooked" thread that people tracked and promptly began to ignore. we've made announcement after announcement. please save northern downpour from having to be ever-vigilant for people being excluded and please please please say hi to newcomers on your own and make them feel welcome!!! after all, every one of us used to be in their shoes :((

in case we gotta say it even louder

･ﾟ✦ ——---- gdi I legit thought RC had really improved while i was inactive considering all of the new characters and activity boost etc but I guess not?

So sorry to hear that ono :^( but I guess a couple of the other recently joined people didn’t know about this problem in the past

I hope you find luck elsewhere </3

maybe we could try something else? i don't know what's been done and what hasn't, but if we don't do something this is just gonna be swept under a rug :(

- welcome every new character in meetings (hard to do with monthly meetings ik but we've gotta try, or maybe do shorter meetings biweekly? dunno how this would go bc i've never been a leader)

- reminders every meeting both ic and ooc (the summaries would work i think) to welcome new characters and players warmly

- just overall encouraging each other to actually post in the chat thread to welcome people and such instead of just liking their post and leaving it at that, that just seems rude and brushing people off

do you guys have any other suggestions???

Doe and I were thinking of a welcoming committee, specifically to welcome new members into RiverClan both ic and ooc.

the meetings thing is a bit difficult to do, because we don't have a consistent way to track every single new person (some people don't post on the registry, some people don't say hi in the chat); the reminders don't really work, and because of the continuous flow of newcomers here, everyone's only aware that there's a problem at all for a few weeks or so after an incident like this, despite the problems persisting for months at a time as activity comes and goes :/ we've tried a lot of things, and it won't hurt to try them again, but be aware that it has been done before!!

dittoing north about that :)) everyone who welcomes a certain number of people IC and OOC get points for a badge or something like that!

sorry if i seem a little pushy about this, but this has been a problem since i played rookpaw here and had to take over ooc when shit hit the fan because of site drama and all that. i'm just... tired of it, i guess, and i'm not sure what to do about this all.

i do like the idea of a welcoming committee though.

The only thing we can really do is keep working together as a group to respond to newcomer's threads and try to welcome them into the riverfam. The welcoming committee is something new that we haven't tried before, so I'm hoping for some positive changes and results in the future.

I think one big issue is that "random" clanwide plots come out of no where without ooc discussion, and then everyone invests their time into those without actually checking the board and welcoming people.

what did i come back to what's happening everyone is writing paragraphs are we plotting or is someone upset if we're plotting i'm nosy i want in but if someone is upset i'm sorry i'm busy and kind of an idiot i love you

people are being ignored again. It's really fucking upsetting that this is a consistent problem. I get school and muse but when you deliberately skip over a thread to post somewhere else, that mess can be really hurtful. it's happened to me before not necessarily here but in other places

honestly this chat moves so dang fast it's hard to tell when someone is ignored or when it's missed on accident. in my experience, RC has improved a lot with welcoming people. i kid you not we have a whole army of people welcoming new members when they post here and i've seen in time and time again recently, so i'm hoping whoever was missed had it happen on accident.

i'll tell you this, i don't even know who was missed because i posted and then come back and i've been flooded with about five pages.

either way, i'm sorry it happened. it kinda just... happens sometimes. i know it shouldn't, but it does every now and then. we'll still work hard to fix it though. don't worry. i'm sorry to whoever was ignored.

yeah. It's a big problem in all of the trad clans but RC gets called out the most because it's been an ongoing issue for months now. I've had at leastv5 people tell me that they didnt feel welcome here and they've tried either once, or multiple times. Like I'm doing the best as I can but as yall very well may or may not know, beepaw isnt just gonna wonder out of camp for a joiner. it's just out of his character. we def gotta have more threads like meet and greets, and more open discussions about cliquey problems because cliques in trad is worse than cliques in extended at the moment.

We are planning to put the welcoming committee into action sometime soon, so hopefully we can clear up some of the problems.

As a group, we definitely have been doing a better job compared to where we were a few months ago. There's really not much more to discuss but in the future lets all try to look out for threads that may be looked over