Bunch of Suggestions/Feedback

[Mirra|Robin]

Hey peeps, thought I'd make a few friendly suggestions and give a bit of feedback. Hopefully this won't break any toes.

OOC Events/Events in general/contests
I think it might be nice to see some ooc events (events/contests where we're not in character but just having fun). Examples would include a 'caption this' contest or a 'fall festival' event, or a Easter egg hunt.

Along these same lines, it would be fun to have some in character stuff as well (whether or not it counts for a person's story can be decided upon creation/personal discretion). Some examples include big party threads, using a randomizer to toss people into threads together, a caseno event, or a speed date event (/shot).

This would keep things active, give people stuff to do while they wait on slow posters (like me), and maybe toss them a little monetary compensation for taking part.

Newbie Friendly?
Sometimes I get confused as to whether or not this place is friendly to newbies. I mean, some people try to explain and help, others shy away, while yet others seem to be more interested in heckling and grouching on people. It's not always to newbies, either. Kinda sad, really.

I witnessed someone telling a newbie to find another forum and accused them of being a power player before they even created a character. This just because they were interested in having a devil fruit. Is this really how this forum, as a unit, feels about newbies?

I'd really like to see everyone greeting and being helpful to a newbie. As far as established members go, one should try to follow the golden rule: treat others the way you want to be treated.

The layouts
I love them so much <3

More for Bounty Hunters
I'd like to see more chances for bounty hunters to become organized. Perhaps an in character convention of sorts where they can swap bingo books. Not many people make hunters but it would be fun and possibly draw more people to the classification.

Monthly News Letter
Would be fun to showcase of of the goings on on the forums. you know, like what's happening in threads, events/upcoming events, reminders for activity checks, maybe spotlight some random active characters, ect.

[|The SHAKINATOR|]

This is good. I like it when suggestions get thrown out there in the open. A shame people don't respond to them.

The OOC Events/Contests - Do it. Don't sit around waiting or wanting someone else to do it. It's open to the members. If you want to do something, get with it and go for it. You have my blessings. Have fun and all that. Be creative. We used to have a lot of that stuff but the old members seem to have gotten bored of it but with the fresh new blood that's come in, why not. I'll join in. I love that stuff... For a while.

Newbie Friendly? - Well spotted out. We are and we aren't. Sometimes there is a balance and we like to keep that balance. We can be super friendly and then we can be jerks. Depends who gets the new member first and what the new member's personality type is. Sometimes certain people will like you and certain people won't. Sometimes everyone will like you and sometimes everyone will hate you.

Truth is, we as members need to work together and make this place friendly to the new guy. If you see someone being mean, then let Kuro know. If she's not around then Char or myself or one of the other senior staff members. Even if it is another staff member, don't be shy. Its important people feel comfortable at the site. We're not here to heavily criticize or scare people away.

Layouts - AWESOME! 'nuff said!

Bounty Hunters - I noticed and I want to do something for them, right after I finish sorting the Marine System out which is one its way, I swear. Went on holiday and got delayed. Sorry.

Monthly News Letter - We start and we stop. Wish we could get a dedicated team on this job because it is awesome when it gets done but with the staff so busy, we need a member lead team to do this. Any volunteers, speak up and create a 'News Reporter Team' or something. Again, you have my blessings.

Any more suggestions, bring it on because I'm all for suggestions. Good or Bad. But please not really bad because then it just makes people look really bad and I don't like it when people make themselves look really bad.

[Mirra|Robin]

I'd be happy to host the events and contests with proper staff backing. I've got an old events calander I've altered a few times for different sites, but it never got used. Pretty much it has a little something going on every month. There's one or two without anything but with One Piece, that would be easy to fix.

I'm so glad you understand where I'm coming from on the friendliness issue.

Looking forward to what you are planning for bounty hunters.

So, a News Coo team would be appriciated. Perhaps posting up a recruitment thread, a little 'hey who wants to do this?' might work.

Thanks for the reply, I was sitting here wondering what I said wrong for a while, haha

[PlatonSkull]

That Monthly Newsletter thing sounds like an amazing idea! Not only does it mean new stuff for people every month, it's also a great opportunity if users want to direct attention to upcoming plots or events, and the thing with the character spotlight is a great idea too!
I would gladly contribute to the newsletter if need be

[|The SHAKINATOR|]

Sounds great... Any more volunteers?

[Tay]

A news coo team, sounds cool. Id join it. Especially if I get a title on my profile like graders. Not only could the news coo team post about events, but they could create some NPC bounty posters for bounty hunter characters so that they could start some threads up and get rewards. The news coo team could also check out recent threads that have been completed, and post news about certain OC pirates being seen here and there, or causing an uproar somewhere, and also post their OC Bounty posters if they become famous enough.

Not to mention an RP of the month type thing.

[PlatonSkull]

Yeah, and we'll add pretend-adds to Kane's Tech Shop and such, and we could advertise special offers!
There might also be a column with tips and tricks like "How to choose the right mission" or "A step-by-step to toppling an Organization in Role Play" and so on.

If the staff want to highlight something about the forum like, say we're being rude to new members, they could request it be posted in the monthly paper.

Om my god...

[Mirra|Robin]

So here is what we'd need for the newsletter:
*Current Events
*Recent Anouncments
*Sales in the shops
*Tips and Tricks
*Word from the staff (an interview if nothing else)
*Rp Spotlight
*Character Spotlights (at least three, include bounties/ranks/successful or failed hunts. Perhaps interview the character.)
*Open Threads

What I'd like to see:
*A graphic for this, or maybe just some banners (I can play with this if no one else is game).
*Maybe put in a canon request section

How I see this working:
We each take two or three catagories every month. For that month, we research them and work on the article. At the end of the month, say the 29th, someone posts the introduction and first article. After that everyone posts their articles in a specific order. THIS WILL NOT WORK IF SOMEONE BAILS ON US. And it will put more work on someone else as they will not have time to prepair a replacement article. I already see how to space it up but I'll let you guys have input so as not to be a controlling shrew x.o

[PlatonSkull]

So basically we have the categories: News, Tips and Discussions and Roleplay
Works fine for me, Mirra for director ;D

We might need a forum for the newsletters to be posted as threads as you suggested. We could have a sticky thread where people can notify us of open threads, upcoming plots etc.

Which categories should we each take? I could take any of them, but the Tips and Discussion section sounds good for me.

[Mirra|Robin]

I'd be willing to take on any of the sections, as well. I have no preferences at all. So, I'll wait for a reply from anyone else interested in being part of this before I chose mine.

[Tay]

I'd take character spotlights and NPC bounty posters

[Mirra|Robin]

So here is our lineup:
Mirra- News (Current Events, Recent Anouncments, Sales in the shops)
PlatonSkull- Tips and Discussion (Tips and Tricks, Word from the staff (an interview if nothing else) )
Tay- Roleplay (
Rp Spotlight, Character Spotlights (at least three, include bounties/ranks/successful or failed hunts. Perhaps interview the character.), Open Threads)

What we need from staff:
A good place to post our threads.

What I need to do:
Obtain some graphics and get them to you guys. I've got images I can use, but it will take time and hard work. We also need to agree on a format to post in. On the theme I'm using, black does not show up very well. I like the idea of centered posts. What do you guys think of the colors I used to highlight the different categories a couple posts ago? Do they work well on other themes?

[PlatonSkull]

I don't think we should be using the text colours for anything other than headlines as an indication of what type of article it is. Too much text colour can be an eyesore...

[|The SHAKINATOR|]

I'll get you your own board or sub-board. Leave that to me once you get things sorted and I don't mind supervising the project as staff member. I'm liking how you've organised this amongst yourselves. Well done guys.

(Two Thumbs Up)

[Mirra|Robin]

Thanks Shanki~
I'll start trying to dig up some news here soonish.