You know what would easily be the worst punishment for me? You know how you'd get me to leave forever? Appointing me Discord Commissioner.

Because of my unrivaled passion for literally anything I'm assigned to do--in a borderline-personality-disorder, manic-depressive sort of way--I would have to oblige and actually administrate the Discord. It's in quite a state, and to be honest, the general SHL Discord has absolutely zero redeeming quality. There are memes and spam like any Discord, sure, but there isn't even any detailed conversation apart from a few people. Most people stick to their team Discords [or LR's, as I assume those are still in use for some teams].

But how do you improve communication between two media when most of the "action" of a text-based game occurs on one, and strictly commentary [if even that, because it's usually just drivel] appears on the other? The answer is, in short, you fucking don't. The longer answer is that we'd try to move some of that "action" onto the Discord through live events, PbP commentary, and activities while taking it away from the forum (as though that's a great idea). We would try to further incorporate the cultures that teams try to cultivate in their respective LR discords to improve the first couple of lines a new user sees (which as it stands now is Pingy having an intellectual stroke).

If the Draft Class Discord was the first one people saw, we might be better off. I know that forums are old school to most, but the value that one can gather from piecing out their thoughts on a forum is incomparable to running into a roadblock of shitposting from someone else looking at what you're typing as you're thinking it. We need to consider the rhetorical value of Discord's chat log versus the forum's history. I'll never win this fight, and I've obliged to joining team DIscords because it's convenient if everyone plays. At the same time, posting a line or two isn't activity. Until we fully integrate, both media have diminished returns.