Come all ye theatrical!
For veteran RPers and the curious alike (anyone who likes to live la vida canon) please share your thoughts about advantages and disadvantages to roleplaying on the community beta platform here.
Ah... Is this working? Oooo, it is... Formatting Guide -click- omgomgomg Look at all this... format!
Ah... Let me try stuff... boop... Hehehe. boop Hehehehe... I'm like a giddy child, wanting ice cream... Uh... Is it me, or is the strike through function not working? I certainly like this preview thing... But I miss that ability to enlarge your... text... window thing.
I do like this though... Look! It's 
... Is it working? Ah... It's probably just me, but it does not appear to be working. Is something required to have this working?
None the less, I see a great visual advantage (perhaps) with this.
- "Do you, feel a chill?
- "Not at all... After all, I make cold look... hot."
This is entertaining me a lot however..
Though I know I'm messing this up however... Which brings up a question!
**Is there any reason why you decided to make the formatting more... different? Couldn't you have just simply went the normal way of [B]Text here[/B] ? **
Ooo, and you can edit this so quickly...
Biggest pain I can think of at this moment is how everything at the right takes up space that as far as RP is concerned could be better served giving room to the text itself. It's also somewhat distracting, though that's just me.
There's the matter of having no chronological sorting outside of the New Comment system, but I have confidence that'll be fixed by the time the platform fully releases.
I think one of the problems for me in general... would be, we use reply quotes in the current forum (And a lot of them in many of the Ask "Champion" theads) as a way to do big posts when we get behind. I see a few replies here and they seems a little weird. I have never used the reddit system, one of the things that kept me away from it honestly... was a format kind of like this.
Also, the new posts on top thing is kind of weird (To me at least).
I personally prefer the original forum layout as a forum usually is... Besides, I see too many ways Jinx could muck up this new system.
I admit, its nice to not have to open something anything else to post and being able to do it with a snap is nice. But the comments trailing when you are doing the "quoted response" is kinda annoying, and as mentioned before, the collapsing sidebars would be nice as well.
Don't blame me for saying the same stuff. Its just that emphasis will bring result in many occasions. Unless you're debating with LeBlanc and she just whisks you into the Shurima Desert without any clue. Than you're screwed for raising your voice.
Oh. And the preview before the comment on the same page is really, REALLY nice.
I am still finding it very hard to follow these kinds of threads. Especially when trying to approach them from a RPers perspective. I can't seem to to get the feel for it. Definitely form formatting point of view it feels very off.
It's good to see people messing with things. I like the new formatting options...but they ARE pretty clunky and awkward right now. At least Kam has more things to play with.
Any news or updates for us moltovcarrot?
I feel the need to re-state that having an upvote and downvote system will simply confuse roleplayers and drive many of us to other websites. Even on this thread The highest voted post is ten months old, then we get into stuff from nine months ago, then we get back to ten month old stuff.
Overall. I'm not a big fan of reddit style posting for roleplay. It would be nice to have our own seperate website, but I think that's asking a bit too much.
Overall, reddit style doesn't work for roleplay. We don't want to see this happening, do we? 
As I stated here...
http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?p=42084095#post42084095
...I agree with what Leo has said, and also that formatting could be made more simple and open.
As I see it now, the various boxes and buttons take up too much visual space on the right side of things, and it links me to various topics that I don't necessarily want or need. Having such things available via a dropdown menu or central hub easily accessible with a single click at the top of the page would be much easier and less intrusive. Hell, even adding a little tab on the side to just hide that boxy menu for the duration of your time on the forums should you choose to do so could be useful in fixing that, so long as the text boxes expanded to fill the void.
From what I can see already, larger posts will be squished and awkward, a problem for most forms of RPing that extend beyond a few small lines of text. The design feels very claustrophobic, as I stated in my above post. I suppose an image embedding code could substitute for an actual avatar, but it's still somewhat sloppy and clunky, nor does it have the elegance of the current, non-beta, forum layout.
Chronological order is also needed. As RPers, we don't need to have comments upvoted or have them "popularized". We need things in order to make sense of them and tell our stories. This current layout works great for the average GD discussion, as you might imagine, which is rapid. But it doesn't really deliver on those few things that are needed for RPing to work effectively.
EDIT: On another note, I like how easy it is to drop in and make quick edits to posts. I don't have to load another screen or deal with a transition, exactly. That is a good feature to implement regardless of the template that gets developed for the RPing community etc.
EDIT 2: The linking of recent posts in the profile is handy to allow quick transitions back into discussions in which you'd participated. However, I still think a "Subscribed/Favorite/Watched Threads" link would go a long way to keeping people on track for watching topics develop.
Seems like a forgottened thread
Is good to see that Riot actually cares about this problem.
How will stickies work? In the case of the RP forums we have a compendium that helps note the currently active champion, a link to their home thread. We also have a compendium of "locations" and a link to those locations as well. So I just have a concern that these will go away.
Another Question. What will happen to our currently active threads during this change over. There will be a lot of possible issues with missed RPs, missing RP stories. Things of that nature.
In addition to the RP forums, this question can also be applied to the Fan-Fic forums. Where stories are still continuing.
At this point, I think that the most important thing Riot can do for the roleplaying community is to just provide SOME kind of space for it, because right now there is nothing. Here is my request. Give us a roleplaying section styled after the old forums, with the best suggestions people have already provided for improvement. Monitor the quality of roleplaying life and listen to feedback in order to steadily develop the system into an environment where roleplaying can thrive.
Again, anything is better than nothing. Please give us something.
For those of you who want to remember what the old forums were like, here is the link to the archive.
http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/forumdisplay.php?f=56
Is there going to be a sub-community thread for role-playing as well? And I know that there are a few threads that have to be 'stickied' in the other forums, how would that work here?
"These forums MUST be a masterpiece."
Okay Okay. This is to be completely honest this is not bad by any means. However I can also imagine the huge 5000 post thread Quinn has on here. At that I shiver. I have looked around and I simply can't find any page system. Now as great as this best sorting is. I simply could not find posts in my tiny thread.
Now for my suggestion. Now I am not a webpage runner I simply am not much about it so this may be stupid. I would say give a search for key words or names of posters. Bring it to the top based on how recently the word or person has been mentioned or replied to the thread.
Your the master of artistic death Aatrox.
