The Factory Floor

5:01 AM

@FoxElemental I don't see a reason for either

11:28 AM

Does worldbuilding have a discord or something like that? I honestly think we could create all sorts of fun stuff if we had a server. Note: just one of my crazy ideas in the morning

Secespitus

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Q: Worldbuilding Discord Server

In case you don't know, Discord is somewhat of a chatroom. (I know that Worldbuilding already has them). Discord is much more polished as a communication medium, you can create different 'channels' within the main server and switch between them with a click. Roles may be given to users and permi...

Kepotx

11:50 AM

the answer pretty much nail it. what advantages have discord that the curren chat can't offer?

FoxElemental

12:35 PM

@dot_Sp0T If you say so

Celestial Dragon Emperor

12:49 PM

Only real advantages I can think off is hosting different channels on a single server (you can even create networks of servers)

I would say admins and moderation, but we are a civil crowd and self policing should be good enough

Personally I think discord would go really well with some of the people here seeing as I not only want to ask questions I also want to discuss and dabble with role-playing. Things that are easier and fluid on discord.

Secespitus

1:21 PM

@CelestialDragonEmperor Roomowners and mods have special privileges in chat already. And we often direct people to chat for interesting open–ended discussions. You can also just create your own room, similar to the story–go–round room. Like I said in my answer to the linked discussion: I don‘t see any advantages, but you are of course free to create your own discord channel and ask if people want to join.

FoxElemental

Planning on wrapping this up today any final edits I should make, anyone?

@CelestialDragonEmperor You mean like Role-playing Games?

Sure they'd have a chat

Celestial Dragon Emperor

1:38 PM

@Secespitus noted. I'll just see if anyone else is interested eventually

@FoxElemental well I usually do world building and role playing alongside each other on discord. The "usual" is a single channel role play usually between two people and a few characters. Larger ones I normally dedicate a category

Ex: your character explores the streets of The Markets

FoxElemental

2:22 PM

@CelestialDragonEmperor Got it

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HDE 226868

3:03 PM

@CelestialDragonEmperor In addition to @Secespitus' awesome answer, I'll add that there have been cases on other sites on the network with cliques of users using off-site chat rooms to circumvent SE policies about conduct and moderation and such, and that's been a problem.

Now, the vast majority of people on Worldbuilding are fantastic, and I don't think those issues would arise in our community, but it still makes people . . . nervous.

Gryphon

Given that we've already had people ranting about "voting cliques" on meta, I don't think a discord server would be a great idea. I'm fairly sure that that sort of thing wouldn't actually happen, but it would be a lot harder to defend the site from such rants if a discord server existed. The SE chat only requires 1 rep to view, and 20 rep to comment on, so it makes it a lot easier to "disprove" the existence of such "cliques".

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Yep. I think everyone's a lot more comfortable with the open chat system. Although I believe chat transcripts are public - so you don't even need an account to view them. Private rooms are an exception, but those are for mods in 95-99% of cases, and those are for handling sensitive information, for the most part, and private matters.

Celestial Dragon Emperor

Well one way to solve those issues is to not make voting matter on the discord ex: trying to get upvotes, reputation, or any other cliques are banned and you kick people off of the server that attempt to do something like that

Gryphon

@CelestialDragonEmperor However, at that point, you need moderation for the discord server, and we need a way to pick the moderators, which there would be arguments over, and given that the SE chat works well as is, I don't think that it's worth the effort.

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@CelestialDragonEmperor Yeah, but that would require that all (or most of) the mods for the site be on the server - largely because we're the only ones who can confirm that that sort of dodgy voting is actually going on. That's another level of monitoring.

Celestial Dragon Emperor

3:12 PM

Now personally I don't think it would become a issue of you make the discord mainly around talking and role playing (as well as posting links to projects and stories)

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Ah, Gryphon beat me to that point.

Celestial Dragon Emperor

Yeah maybe just a server from a specific project would work better

*for

Gryphon

@CelestialDragonEmperor You are, of course, welcome to create a discord server for that purpose.

Just don't call it a server "for worldbuilding.stackexchange.com".

Celestial Dragon Emperor

I will in a few days once I can get on my pc. Anyone is welcome to join.

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@Gryphon This. This very much.