Has your board plot fallen apart?

I have been lucky enough to be admining on a board where this has not happened. I am not saying it hasn't come close to happening but we have a strong enough admin team over there that we have been able to save our board from throes of death on more than one occassion.

Some of the reasons that board plots fall apart is when you simply run an idea into the ground, you exclude members, you have key members leave during a pivitol point in the story, your admins are not all on the same page, you simply just get lost in your many subplots, you get bored. I am sure there are many other reasons people can add in here. The point is, boards are more often than not, faced with this dilema. Some survive it and some don't.

On the board I admin on, we are all pretty quick on our feet when we start to see some edge in our plot about to crumble. We have tools in place (like Admin controlled Town Folk, Newspapers, etc) that will guide a straying or cracking plot and usually get in back on a steady course.

We have had a key player leave and it was pretty darn tricky to handle that one, but with the help of some other members on the board, we redirected the plot to eventually gracefully explain that key players abscence. Inviting other members help also helped to really include them in the story making process and just seemed just generally good for the board as a whole.

We also take hiatuses from the more heavy plots. We might run a pretty serious plot and then give everyone a bit of breathing room with some lighter event. There is a larger general plot that players are aware of but that plot doesn't touch every member all the time.

How do some of you face crumbling plots? What have you done that has worked? What about what didn't work?

Ahh, I've had stuff come close to this before. If my plot falls apart altogether, I sometimes say, "Okay, I'll write up a summary post on what SHOULD have happened and then we'll move on." That way, I can get to something new but still have the history of the other sub/plot.

Or I sometimes add other subplots that focus on a different character group to bring in others that haven't been involved.

I usually start a new chapter on my RPG. It's the easiest way for my board since the members are really dedicated anyhow.

But I do like your admin controlling idea.