Opticraft Community

Hello.

It's been going through my mind, that we have 'cities' and 'city' related things under 'projects & creations'. and those threads.
I've also noticed that people post things like 'arbotorium's school' under general discussions, and to be realistic, they are all community groups, gatherings, or events with no real rewards, other than the company of others.

This would be a child board under "General Discussion"


Organization of the board:
[spoiler=General use of the board]It would be for the discussion of general community gatherings, or events, such as "Arbotorium's school" or events that people would be holding, such as spleef arenas, mazes, or other types of events.
So in all technicality, it would be an easy place for people to find, and organize such long-term events. [/spoiler]

Childboard :Community
[spoiler=Childboard. "Community:Cities, and towns"]
This childboard will be used for the explicit use of cities & towns (And provinces). It will contain all the threads made by players about their cities/towns/provinces. They will be allowed to create their 'city' threads here, as a designated location for people to find, instead of just clouding the "Projects & Creations" section of the forums, where the main focus of the board, is directed towards cities instead of things like "Eifel tower" or "Sphere's in the sky" Of course, Cities & city owners could show off their constructions in the projects & creations thread. but it will not be where they have their main thread. so people can focus a bit more on the creations, as opposed to the city's community.

Also, this(the Community: City/Town Registry (list) exists, so at least the list of cities & towns is already ready![/spoiler]



Now that you've read all of this. give it a thought. The point of this is to distinguish groups, or cities, towns. Or quite simply "Community" related things.
Cities & towns have evolved into their own thing

This new board, will have a place for the unlisted subjects, and it will be used just as much (if not more) than the 'Projects & Creations' board. AND it would have a place for topics that aren't really projects & creations, nor general discussion, such as 'arbotorium's school' (I only recite that one, because it's the easiest to remember)

I hope you've started to think that we could use it, It's not just something to have, but this could be a great improvement on our forums!
Please reply to the thread, and please voice your opinions, suggestions, and objections!

I'll add a visual aid in a few minutes, to demonstrate what this may look like.

Hmm sounds like a cool idea. It would definately optimise the forums a little bit. I know of a few other forums that have this kind of setup as well.

Seems like a great idea. It would determinately be helpful.

I suggested this a while back. My argument wasn't nearly as planned or thought out.

But i got the response:
"Cities run by players are considered projects. Adding another section would just clutter the forums"

Or something along those lines...

But I support this 1000%. It makes us look really unprofessional when the few sections we do have are overly cluttered with a bunch of cities and such. Its for projects and creations, which in my mind, is not city threads.

Also, I think we could utilize child boards MUCH more efficiently. Currently only support and applications have childs, but they're for more "technical" things. Having childs under a topic is not a bod thing, must forums even have childs in childs.

Next to lastly, I think a "recruitment" child could be added. This would be for anyone who is looking for a job or people looking for help in projects.

Lastly, I would like to see a "Marketplace" child. While people argue we have a chat channel for trade, the minecraft chat client is awful, very inefficient, and your message last 2 seconds sometimes. It would be for people doing long term sales (auctions, mass supply purchase, etc etc). This would also free up the General discussion board.

Overall, I think the entire forums needs a reorganization. While it worked great for a period of time, I think the way the community is shifting means we need a new structure (not completely new, just a fine tuning) for the forums. And maybe "forum-only mods". It is NOT a new rank, its just people who have mod status in the forums only and can devote more time to keeping it clean, organized and on topic. Yes it would be staff, but in many other gaming forums I've been on these "Forum Mods" were very helpful and kept things tidy.

Just my 2 cents...

-Nate

I've added "Trade" in there.
for the 'recruitment' childboard... that would just go under "General use" of the board, I'll add that there, after I'm done the visual.

Quote from: tabooti on May 17, 2012, 12:46:14 AM
I've added "Trade" in there.
for the 'recruitment' childboard... that would just go under "General use" of the board, I'll add that there, after I'm done the visual.

I helped! 

But am I the only one that is tired of hearing "We have a trade chat channel, therefor our trade system is perfect and could not be made better in any way"?

Sounds like a very great idea 

Here's the visual aid to how this board (or childboard of something) May look like. It includes 15 real topics, that I found in 'general discussion' that would be used in this scenario.

In addition, as I was scouring the pages of general discussion, I cannot help but see that almost every page there is riddles with auction, and trade threads.

You can go to the general discussions board, and see click on the threads of each topic I used in the visual aid.

Oh, and I used the layout provided in "Moderator, and City applications"

[spoiler][/spoiler]

I personally like only childs in the section, so it would have "Events, Cities & Towns, Trade, And General Discussion" (not in that order) and have nothing else on that screen. Idk I might like it or not

We don't need a child board for the general discussion of the board
At least, I don't think so. But if this was ever implemented, it would be the Admins & Optical's call.

Tabooti for president. If it's not Tabooti, it's not enough.

Tabooti 2012.




On topic, sounds good. Again I show my full support for this.

I totally agree with this, this will help keep things and the forums more organized.

Yeah, Hopefully our dear admins & almighty Optical notice it
For everyone else that reads this, please leave your input, just so the thread isn't cast into page 2

Well I like the webauction plugin idea
And I like the "community events" idea here