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Post by Sharp on Sept 7, 2008 11:30:44 GMT -5
So, here's the deal... and we're going to do this without any drama or delving into anyone's personal activities or name calling or whatever. We will not have a repeat of the last thread like this. X3
I'm off to school in a few weeks. October 6th is the first day of classes. College, as everyone knows, is A LOT of work. So is running a forum, and I'm worried that all of my many forums are going to get in the way of my studies, something I simply cannot allow. I love role-playing, I love my rp friends, I love it all, but my art and future career status will ALWAYS come first, not exceptions.
But I would really like to keep and manage both school and forums.
So, he's the thing. I am the main admin of two forums right now: this one here (obviously) and another one I started/revised with about seven or eight of my closest friends. My other forum, which we'll call HR to make it easier to identify, is a joy to have. Because there's a whole massive group of us, no one is particularly weighed down with staff responsibilities. Everything is easy because the work load is distributed.
This forum, GDO, not so much...
It's very time consuming, to check bios all the time. The bios are long and a bit of a pain and is highly taxing on the staff. More importantly, I can't find enough staff members confident enough or willing/able to help me check all those bios every single day (that's why there is a bit of a backup of bios needing acceptance right now).
But that's not even the entirety of it. This forum, to me, is fairly boring. I'm not really doing anything, outside of checking bios. No one is really forming packs or doing anything with the site's plot and everybody is just kind of... sitting there, leaving me and my characters nothing really to do either. I try to start stuff, but I don't have the time needed to dedicate myself to a single plot idea, nor do i seem to have the attention span.
I'm not blaming anybody for anything, so don't go on a guilt trip about how much stuff you may have to do in your life. I understand. I'm not expecting you to drop everything and go make a pack or start a plot or something... I'm just saying that, for whatever reason, this forum is boring. And I need help trying to figure out how to make it so it isn't.
Or something. I need to do something with this place, maybe forfeit my ownership of it to someone else, appoint more staff members, get rid of the overly complicated character acceptance system (as important as it is to me, I don't think I have many other options), something. So I'm not quite so obligated to spend quite so much time here doing admin stuff, so I can relax and get my work done once I head off to school.
And so I don't have to close it down. This is probably the only active ginga forum on the net so I'd rather not close it. But I don't know what else to do with it.
Anyone have some ideas to share?
((This is very poorly written because my thoughts are like all over the place but... I dunno what else to tell you.))
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Post by Shadow on Sept 7, 2008 15:52:59 GMT -5
I think that all your ideas will really help (not just saying that) Its very hard for some one like me to make a character, lazy, short attention span, yeah.
The hardest part is trying to balance the character, it take out of the member and you. Like how I could never get Slash >_< he was a pain!
The staff is a good idea also, you don't have to do EVERY thing, you don't have to forfeit your ownership, just appoit more staff, I the staff could take care of bios and affiliates and other thing you would have such a big job.
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Post by Ginshin on Sept 8, 2008 15:54:08 GMT -5
Oh no! D: I'm sorry Sharp! School is always the first priority, it's your future, I wish you luck!
If there's anything I could do to help, let me know!
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Post by Sandi on Sept 8, 2008 19:04:38 GMT -5
*Whines* I have school, and I take the blame for not doing my share as staff. =/
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Post by Sharp on Sept 8, 2008 23:56:21 GMT -5
No one's blaming anyone Sandi. That's not the point. ;3 The point is that I just need more staff members. Even if you weren't so busy, I don't think your presence alone would be enough to completely turn the coming situation on its head. We need more... like a huge group of staff, where the more experienced members can guide the lesser experienced ones and everybody sort of works together to get certain things done. Like a nice, big, well-oiled machine made of staff peoples.
That way, one single person's inactivity would not make so much of an impact on the site's functionality.
I need to go back and survey my staff recruitment thread to see who offered to be staff and is still active. And then maybe we can work on some sort of training thing to make sure those staff know what they're doing and what their responsibilities are.
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Post by Klomonx on Sept 9, 2008 17:25:36 GMT -5
I have seen this place getting boring ymself as well-I'm horrible at keeping other forums exciting and..well.. having any active members. *cough 15 some forums and only one member *cough Cough*. But, I really don't know, I don't wanna see this place go, only because that seems to be a running trend with all the forums I've been joining latly..
Sorry, not much help, am I?
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Post by Sandi on Sept 9, 2008 20:08:26 GMT -5
sandi knows her responsibilities, but I DO blame myself. I'm neglected the site, when I promised I'd be a dedicated member. I think, we should get a nice juicy plot, and spiffy new layout, and turn this inactivity upside down! I'd help with the layout, but my color-match coordination is suckish. xD Seriously. But, I'll do my best to help with my free time from now on!
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Post by Sharp on Sept 9, 2008 21:38:47 GMT -5
A new skin isn't a bad idea. This one was premade anyway and isn't very interesting.
I have no idea what to do with the plot. I mean, we have a plot. It's just that no one is participating in it. Originally, I thought it was because mine might be boring (which it wouldn't be if people would join some packs and start warring with each other), but even when I'd try to start some side plots and mini-stories, like the one you and I have going Sandi, there seemed to be very little interest in them. o.O
I don't know what else to do, honestly.
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Post by Sandi on Sept 10, 2008 5:44:44 GMT -5
I'll look around some other sites for plot ideas, and we could have another advertising contest to be popular again! =3
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Post by Shadow on Sept 10, 2008 17:00:09 GMT -5
I was going to join a pack but I have to wait till Kylie finds Slash and Fuzz is going to be in a pack and..... I could HELP with a new layout if you want, but Im kinda out of idea's so like i said just help ;D Ginga Makeover!!! lol XD
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Post by Sharp on Sept 10, 2008 17:57:48 GMT -5
I would do another advertising contest but I'm afraid that I can't really offer my artwork as a prize anymore. I'm trying to get away from dogs in my work, since it's becoming a huge limitation for me as an artist and animator. Variety is a good thing and I currently have almost none. >< Plus, with commissions, my work has a new sense of worth for me. So I only really give it away in trades or as birthday gifts.
But I guess this is where the money system comes in handy. X3 There could be some sort of cash prize instead?
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Post by Shadow on Sept 10, 2008 18:33:56 GMT -5
Oooo yes, never thought of that ><
I too also revole around dogs....or wolves, but none of my work really looks like what its supposed to like yours Sharp, so I have to work on detail and many differant posses.
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Post by Klomonx on Sept 10, 2008 20:06:24 GMT -5
Maybe its not the fact people aren't creating packs, maybe its that no one is joining them. So far, only the Shrine Dogs, and the pack Wint3rheart has have any dogs in it.
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Post by Sharp on Sept 11, 2008 22:25:08 GMT -5
Well those are really the two packs we need Klomonx. We just need one to basically wage the war against the shrine dogs. The problem is that neither of these packs are really doing anything. They barely have any dogs in them and most of the dogs in them aren't doing anything. They're just sort of... there.
it also doesn't help that no one is even attacking the shrine at all. I think there may have been one aggressor so far and that's it. We need something to get more people involved in the shrine and get people to stop ignoring its presence. The plot of this forum extends WAY beyond the initial war over the shrine but since we can't even get to the war portion, people don't even know or seem to care about that aspect of things. I thought that adopting out the leaders of the shrine and getting other members involved in running it would help but it doesn't seem to.
I really don't know what else to do, other than completely revamp the site's plot. But that would involve a pretty extensive revamp of... a lot of things.
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Post by Sandi on Sept 12, 2008 14:57:16 GMT -5
I never really realized if you made something for my birthday in August. =/. If not, It's COMPLETELY understandable, and you shouldn't feel bad or anything. You don't have to make it up to me either =3
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