Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4536066-20140111214741/@comment-4536066-20140111215957

Pros: more possible customization, mods are members of the community who understand what is spam and what isn't, promotes the wiki

Cons: Less legitimate, less publicity, mods are members of the community, could lose forum recognition

Overall, I think cannibalizing our own RS forums would be a bad thing. If we stopped using our in-game RP forum, JaGex would probably take it away because it's not in use. Since RSRP wiki isn't an official fansite and might not ever be (we have a lot of gray area), losing the forums would sort of mean we have even less of an official presence. On top of that, it would be more difficult to get new players than it already is, just for lack of knowledge that we exist. Since we aren't allowed to discuss third party websites on forums (or really, not in-game either, but it's harder to regulate that), we couldn't tell people to "go to the official rp forum and read the rp guide" like we often do now, and we couldn't tell them to "go to the forum and fill in an application for your character" either. I think it's best to take advantage of them separately.