Ninja
Well well well
Throwing my two pennies in the pot as well.
Since this is the post that started the initial discussion, I'll just weigh in here. I am not opposed to increasing the post count requirements, I disagree with including Mafia/Roleplay. Spirit made a great point that some Mafia threads are so popular, that they can get hundreds of replies very quickly. If we were to scale general requirements to that, the average user that doesn't play Mafia/RP would have a hard time gaining that status.
There was someone that mentioned getting rid of the Legend/Champion stuff. I disagree with that, because it's just a fun, cosmetic award that we give out to encourage activity. Jimmu does an amazing job at counting these up each month, which is a large dedication of time.
Mafia/RP stuff, etc.
Now, let me get this out of the way, I have no ill will towards those sections at all. For me personally, the more people that get involved with the forum the better. I'm all about having a large, thriving community, and I understand that there will be sections of the forum that people dedicate themselves to, but as long as each side gets along, there shouldn't be any issues.
Well, scratch that. There should be no "each side". What is the definition of community? Without going to Google, the first thing that comes to mind for me, is a group of people with a larger shared interest. For us, we all share one thing in common, we love Zelda, and we are joined together in a forum that not only is based around Zelda, but has other outlets for discussion as well. Each outlet is important to the site. There are dedicated Mafia players, Roleplayers, social groups, gaming groups, small groups of friends, etc. It's like we're a big city with different neighborhoods and cultures.
There is a clear divide of the forum when it comes to that. We should be talking about what we can do the blur the lines, but I think that is a discussion beyond the "let's make post counts go towards those sections". Someone brought up the argument that TOYM, annoyed thread, what are you doing right now thread, etc shouldn't be counted towards counts either. I wouldn't really mind either way. I feel that those threads have more discussion and conversation potential than those threads that are in Forum Games.
What about having one of the Mafia/RP mods do their own version of the Legend/Champion usertitles, and one of the graphic artists here can make them, and the admins/cc's can place them under the usernames? This way, members that thrive in the Mafia neighborhoods can be recognized for all of the work that goes into that area.
Just a thought.
Maybe up the required posts for ZD champion/legend to 40 or 50 posts, but allow the Mafia and Roleplay sections to count towards it. It makes it a little more difficult (the current post a day isn't that hard), but opens it up to more members of this forum who mostly post in the Mafia and Roleplay sections (I think the posts here tend to be creative and well thought out still). Idk, just a thought.
Since this is the post that started the initial discussion, I'll just weigh in here. I am not opposed to increasing the post count requirements, I disagree with including Mafia/Roleplay. Spirit made a great point that some Mafia threads are so popular, that they can get hundreds of replies very quickly. If we were to scale general requirements to that, the average user that doesn't play Mafia/RP would have a hard time gaining that status.
There was someone that mentioned getting rid of the Legend/Champion stuff. I disagree with that, because it's just a fun, cosmetic award that we give out to encourage activity. Jimmu does an amazing job at counting these up each month, which is a large dedication of time.
Mafia/RP stuff, etc.
Now, let me get this out of the way, I have no ill will towards those sections at all. For me personally, the more people that get involved with the forum the better. I'm all about having a large, thriving community, and I understand that there will be sections of the forum that people dedicate themselves to, but as long as each side gets along, there shouldn't be any issues.
Well, scratch that. There should be no "each side". What is the definition of community? Without going to Google, the first thing that comes to mind for me, is a group of people with a larger shared interest. For us, we all share one thing in common, we love Zelda, and we are joined together in a forum that not only is based around Zelda, but has other outlets for discussion as well. Each outlet is important to the site. There are dedicated Mafia players, Roleplayers, social groups, gaming groups, small groups of friends, etc. It's like we're a big city with different neighborhoods and cultures.
There is a clear divide of the forum when it comes to that. We should be talking about what we can do the blur the lines, but I think that is a discussion beyond the "let's make post counts go towards those sections". Someone brought up the argument that TOYM, annoyed thread, what are you doing right now thread, etc shouldn't be counted towards counts either. I wouldn't really mind either way. I feel that those threads have more discussion and conversation potential than those threads that are in Forum Games.
What about having one of the Mafia/RP mods do their own version of the Legend/Champion usertitles, and one of the graphic artists here can make them, and the admins/cc's can place them under the usernames? This way, members that thrive in the Mafia neighborhoods can be recognized for all of the work that goes into that area.
Just a thought.
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