I think it's a nice way to make yourself think about "what would encourage people to write on my site?"

For my site's setting, the world is covered with endless water in every direction, and humanity ekes out a living on these drifting islands that seem to have a will of their own. There are habitable islands ("World Vessels") and uninhabitable islands ("Destruction Vessels").

The distinction is made by Destruction Vessels being enveloped by a strange mist and the presence of vicious creatures. When in a Destruction Vessel's mist ("Destruction Zone"), some humans are granted supernatural powers they can use only while within the Zone. Whenever World Vessels draw close to a Destruction Vessel, these people are thus tasked with protecting their Vessel from invasion by these creatures.

This has a few levers. If I want to focus on slice-of-life, I can just cut out the Destruction Vessels entirely and focus on how humanity makes a living on these World Vessels, and perhaps add some exploration into what these Vessels are, and who even named them that. (I have backstory, yo)

For those who like powers, the Destruction Vessel mechanic means I can let them have those without having to answer awkward questions of how a society is transformed by the presence of super-powered individuals (like in Hero Academia) without diminishing the role of "normal" people. If I want to lean into Dungeon-esque mechanics, I could have World Vessels anchor to Destruction Vessels to enable exploration on these mysterious islands.

I'm having a lot of fun considering what could appeal to this sort of writer and what could appeal to another, and a lot of "what would personally excite me" and the plots you could theoretically have on my site. Some of those plots I will be able to carry over to other sites too, so I'm already laying groundwork for future characters here.

Nothing gets the creative juice flowing like doing something creative.


EDIT: It looks like halfway through I lost my train of thought and just started rambling, but I'm going to leave it up anyway.