http://www.kickstarter.com/pro... Help us finish development of this gamification wiki / FAQ site for hardcore RPG fans! Hello everyone, this is Carey Martell host of The RPG Fanatic Show on YouTube!
The RPG Fanatic community website needs your help! I started this project over a year ago, and it's been at a stand-still since we lost the developer working on it. I need to hire another developer to complete the site so it can be used for its original purpose; to help hardcore fans of RPG videogames have a community designed for fun and intelligent discussion about these games.
Why This Site Is Good
There are many forums for people to discuss videogames, but threads about RPGs (especially Japanese produced RPGs) tend to get derailed by trolls. Hardcore fans of RPGs tend to not fit in as well with fans of more mainstreams audiences; our genre is very under-appreciated as anyone familiar with the cliche "JRPG vs. WRPG" forum debates knows.
Even worse, many wiki sites give volunteer moderators too much power with too little oversight, leading to unfair bannings and unnecessary drama.
In my experience many forum moderators also tend to ban people for very silly things like posting links to your own YouTube videos or blog articles, even when the content is relevant to the thread. This is true for many sites, especially GiantBomb and GameFAQs.
By comparison I designed my video game community website as a place where users are rewarded for posting content rather than punished. Nobody will ever get this kind of message from me for doing my site a favor by posting high-quality content for our users to enjoy.
The RPG Fanatic site is designed to be self-regulatory; users can vote on if they like another user's post, similar to the way sites like reddit work. The main difference is we have a weighted voting system that works like a RPG; your account gains XP by using the site, and levels up related classes like Web Warrior, Videologist and Word-smith. Each class has unique abilities that give an account more voting power as they reach higher levels, and even unlock special areas of the site meant for veteran members.
Also by submitting good content your account earns a virtual currency called zenny that can be used to promote your posts so they get better visibility, and you can also use zenny to virtual goods to improve the look of your sprite avatar.
Furthermore, unlike wikis there is a system to ensure that edits made to a game title's wiki page (example here) are verified by the community as good additions before these submissions go public. Users gain XP in the Wiki Keeper class for screening these submissions, and they gain XP in the Wiki Walker class for making the edits. This gamification of web design encourages the community to constantly improve the quality of the listings on the site.
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