I've seen that when people get frustrated with the site, they're often frustrated because of the Setting Submissions process. I'm really interested in making this part of the site a more positive experience for creative SARPers who have graciously put their time and effort into expansion articles to Star Army's setting and lore.
So I've put together a plan to fix things:
Step 1: We're going to completely rewrite the rules for submission reviewers, with clear, thorough guides on how we expect them to conduct themselves. A key part of this will be positivity.
Step 2: Search for more active and positive moderators and aggressively streamline the overall process to make it faster with less frustrating wait times. Create forms for the submissions so articles and posts always have everything they need to succeed. You've already seen the start of this now that the forum asks for submission URLs and WIP URLs along with the post.
Step 3: Opening submission of new factions again - a date will be set soon. This is a very requested feature.
If you have specific suggestions I want to hear them.
EXAMPLE: Reviewers always should fix typos instead of posting about them in the thread.
So I've put together a plan to fix things:
Step 1: We're going to completely rewrite the rules for submission reviewers, with clear, thorough guides on how we expect them to conduct themselves. A key part of this will be positivity.
Step 2: Search for more active and positive moderators and aggressively streamline the overall process to make it faster with less frustrating wait times. Create forms for the submissions so articles and posts always have everything they need to succeed. You've already seen the start of this now that the forum asks for submission URLs and WIP URLs along with the post.
Step 3: Opening submission of new factions again - a date will be set soon. This is a very requested feature.
If you have specific suggestions I want to hear them.
EXAMPLE: Reviewers always should fix typos instead of posting about them in the thread.