Important announcement regarding gimmick accounts [edit]

Hey all! 

The gimmick accounts are awesome, and we love them. It's great that everyone is having a lot of fun roleplaying, and we don't want that to stop! However, it's starting to take over the forum, and interfere with regular user's ability to use the forum like well, a real forum, and since that's the original purpose of the forum, that's a bit of a problem. Especially so considering on more than one occasion, I have had difficulty telling the difference between a gimmick account and an actual spam bot account, which obviously interferes with the ability to effectively moderate.   

In order to find a good balance of "not ruining the fun" and "still having a usable forum", we've decided to expand the Roleplay board by giving it it's own Introductions subboard, and create a new rule regarding gimmick accounts: all gimmick accounts must stay within the Roleplay board and subboards. This does not mean that normal users can't interact with them! Anyone, gimmick account or not, is allowed in the roleplay boards. But please, no gimmicks outside of it. In addition, all currently active gimmick-heavy threads will soon start to be slowly moved over to the roleplay board.

Exceptions to the rule may be made for club houses, depending on the group (Organization XIII for example seems to be in some small part a roleplay group, so gimmick accounts may be allowed there) 

I know that for some of you, you may consider acknowledging that you are roleplaying by sticking to a roleplay board to be akin to breaking kayfabe, but unfortunately there's no way to avoid that while also having the forum be usable to everyone else. However, roleplaying can still be fun even if you acknowledge you're doing it, and we encourage people to do so! 

This thread is open to replies, so if you have suggestions for how to improve the roleplay board + subboards to better accomodate gimmick accounts, feel free to share it!

Edit: Since many gimmick accounts are only partially gimmicks and do use the forum normally, accounts that are only partially gimmicks are allowed to post outside of Roleplay, as long as theyre using the forum normally and unobtrusively. However, accounts that are exclusively gimmicks should keep to Roleplay, and all gimmick-focused threads and posts from partial gimmicks should also stay in Roleplay.