TheLoveBandit
Retired Never Was, Coulda been wannabe
Hello everyone, and thank you once again for your participation with the FESTIVUS forum. We'd like some feedback on how well it served it's purpose, how we might use it in the future, or if there are other things we should do instead.
The basic question was - did it work, and is there a better solution? For some, there is the thought that the LOUNGE is intended as a 'global community section' and perhaps we should simply do such events in there for the future. The facts to this are that most members still view the LOUNGE as Americentric, and the EA and AUS crowds tend to stick to their regional social forum more than the LOUNGE....whereas the Americans tend to visit the LOUNGE more and their regional social forum less. Using the LOUNGE for this purpose may help increase the global participation and use of that forum for it's intended purpose.......or it's current stock of content would simply drown out the occasional celebrational things that Festivus can address in a cleaner way. Additionally, there is the belief that moving this content to the LOUNGE and holding it there will improve the content of that forum in the long run (queue never ending whinge of old skoolers how the forum continues to decline, but nobody does anything about it....whereas this would do something about it).
There is the option to combine this into the LOUNGE, do the colours and themed threads there. There is also an option to simply kill Festivus, and go back to allowing the members to do themed threads wherever they choose (not that they couldn't, or wouldn't do that anyways). And, of course, there is the option to keep Festivus as a special place for special events as we did recently. What are your thoughts on this?
IF we keep Festivus as it is, the next question would be when do we open it? For what occasions? Winter holidays and NYE was an obvious point to launch it, but do we keep it open for Chinese New Year? St. Patricks Day? Aussie Day? My birthday? Where would we draw the line? To answer that, we again turn to those who would be using the forum and ask YOU! Can you give us dates you'd like to see the forum open, and provide reasons why it would be the right place to hold that event? Ideally, I'd see us gathering the input from everyone over the next 2 weeks and then putting a poll up to allow our members to vote on which occasions merit being open, and which are only to appease a few persons; reason being IF Festivus is kept as a special place, we wouldn't want it open year round ... at that point it may as well be the LOUNGE, wouldn't it?
So what is your feedback? Your thoughts?
The basic question was - did it work, and is there a better solution? For some, there is the thought that the LOUNGE is intended as a 'global community section' and perhaps we should simply do such events in there for the future. The facts to this are that most members still view the LOUNGE as Americentric, and the EA and AUS crowds tend to stick to their regional social forum more than the LOUNGE....whereas the Americans tend to visit the LOUNGE more and their regional social forum less. Using the LOUNGE for this purpose may help increase the global participation and use of that forum for it's intended purpose.......or it's current stock of content would simply drown out the occasional celebrational things that Festivus can address in a cleaner way. Additionally, there is the belief that moving this content to the LOUNGE and holding it there will improve the content of that forum in the long run (queue never ending whinge of old skoolers how the forum continues to decline, but nobody does anything about it....whereas this would do something about it).
There is the option to combine this into the LOUNGE, do the colours and themed threads there. There is also an option to simply kill Festivus, and go back to allowing the members to do themed threads wherever they choose (not that they couldn't, or wouldn't do that anyways). And, of course, there is the option to keep Festivus as a special place for special events as we did recently. What are your thoughts on this?
IF we keep Festivus as it is, the next question would be when do we open it? For what occasions? Winter holidays and NYE was an obvious point to launch it, but do we keep it open for Chinese New Year? St. Patricks Day? Aussie Day? My birthday? Where would we draw the line? To answer that, we again turn to those who would be using the forum and ask YOU! Can you give us dates you'd like to see the forum open, and provide reasons why it would be the right place to hold that event? Ideally, I'd see us gathering the input from everyone over the next 2 weeks and then putting a poll up to allow our members to vote on which occasions merit being open, and which are only to appease a few persons; reason being IF Festivus is kept as a special place, we wouldn't want it open year round ... at that point it may as well be the LOUNGE, wouldn't it?
So what is your feedback? Your thoughts?
