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I feel this needs to be made.
Topic Started: Dec 13 2011, 04:54 PM (385 Views)
†Linkbean
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We have gone just about nowhere with our supposed "site reconstruction." Literally the only thing we have done is barely switch up the staff. We started reconstruction over 3 MONTHS ago, and we have had little to no progress lately. Nobody give any of that "I'm busy" bullshit, because it doesn't take more than 5 minutes to post something simple in the forums. We NEED to get this done. I've told people to get their butts in gear and hurry this up, but I've nearly always gotten ignored, so I thought it was time for a more formal approach. We need to get this over and done with so we can get to the being a community part, recruiting new members, and becoming a fully functioning site. Now let's get it together, and finish this job right.
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†Wolfy_Duh
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I've been a lot less busy, but I have not been brought up to speed, if someone could kindly bring me up to speed I can start taking action, I had school before, now I'm on break and ready to help lost in the sea of "to be done's" .

I know I should look through it myself, and from what I've gathered all the rules has left to be discussed is profanity, and I've slowly been putting opinion there, if there is more I'm missing tell me and I shall check again.

I am happy to see you care. but taking it to a more personal level, like getting in contact with someone one to one might help, it lets you pull people aside easily and quickly and they are not distracted by the main chat, which happens a lot.
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†Linkbean
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I have been trying to talk to people about it all the time, but lately I've just kind of given up. To me (and this is my opinion) it seems like no one really cares. We moved to a new site and have done nothing with it. We haven't had a new /active/ member in months. It seems like people are wanting to just let this site die, and yet its barely 4 months old. I don't want our community to die, I want it to grow, and flourish, and become awesome, like PMDRC was back in the day. I just want to get the community going again.
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†Wolfy_Duh
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Sorry for the quick reply but, I was at school for two of those 3 months, so I really wasn't feeling up to helping, not to mention drama in my life, what do you propose we work on? Because I AM NOT busy now.
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†Linkbean
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We need to narrow down to what we have left to do before we can call this an official gaming community.

We've already finalized the new staff.
We still need to finalize the rules.

What else needs to be done?
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Dec 13 2011, 05:21 PM
We need to narrow down to what we have left to do before we can call this an official gaming community.

We've already finalized the new staff.
We still need to finalize the rules.

What else needs to be done?
That's what I'm wondering. I have no idea what the hell we're actually trying to do right now.
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†Wolfy_Duh
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Flamewire
Dec 13 2011, 10:25 PM
Linkbean
Dec 13 2011, 05:21 PM
We need to narrow down to what we have left to do before we can call this an official gaming community.

We've already finalized the new staff.
We still need to finalize the rules.

What else needs to be done?
That's what I'm wondering. I have no idea what the hell we're actually trying to do right now.
this is how I feel, and I think a group discussion needs to be had.
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†Linkbean
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Well I've tried getting people to talk about it all the time, including last night. But once again, everyone ignores me. I mean come on, this NEEDS to be finished. We've been putting it off for far too long.
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KingAtRandom
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Or maybe its already done and we have been doing useless squabbling. Everybody just go in there, make a poll, and be done with it. Or I'll do it. Or maybe we can stop being lazy and take the final rule into our own hands and use personal judgement on it.
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+iliekmudkips
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And yet the cycle repeats itself.

Personally? I think its the chatbox keeping us from getting any work done at ALL on the site. Please, one of you tell me that you have been on the chatbox (as in actually ON, not just keeping it open in another tab) and still contributing to the site. No? Not to sound rude, then why not get rid of the chatbox for a little while? When people get on, it's fun and all, but /nothing gets done/. This also isnt drastic measures as we've had this idea BEFORE the move, and things that just barely even started after all this time.
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yeah, people spend a lot of time in the chatbox. But I think it speaks more to our priorities as a group than our distractability. Quite frankly, I think a lot of people don't see this "site construction" thing as an urgent issue - they're just here to chat with people.

A few of us have had ambitious ideas about the future of this site and its growth potential, but most of the users here are content with the way things are - and as recent episodes have shown, possibly hesitant towards the idea of adding MORE people to the drama clusterfucks.

Our community is having something of a schizophrenic bipolar identity crisis - are we a group of friends, or are we forumites on a mission? Do we care more about having fun or following the rules? Do we want to have as many people as possible or protect the peace? There's no clear way to resolve these issues and I don't think there ever will be until we have some sort of guiding principle - and how do we even decide on something like that as a group?

Before we start going on our recruitment crusades, I think we should take a good hard look at what we ACTUALLY want to be as a forum. And if this ISNT about being an active, driven forum, why do we need to have rules and leadership anyways? We're just a large group of friends in the end, and we should be able to handle our own shit like civil people.

I don't mean to rain on everyone's parade but overall this whole thing has looked like a lot of hustle and bustle with no goal in mind. I can do what I see fit for everyone and get le shit done, but then people will either not give a shit, or throw an absolute shitfit. I'm not sure which is worse.
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†Wolfy_Duh
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To be honest I try to combine those goals, I like our friendly nature, if I can call it that, and I want us to have more friends, more members, more people who we can have a good time with. So I want us to have more members, right now MY GOAL is making this place suitably fun, trying to make it a place worth going to, AND a place worth inviting others, so that when I invite people they find it fun on their own and I don't have to say "we're in construction" or "we used to play pmd" I want this place TO BE THE PLACE TO BE.
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Wolfy_Duh
Dec 16 2011, 08:33 PM
To be honest I try to combine those goals, I like our friendly nature, if I can call it that, and I want us to have more friends, more members, more people who we can have a good time with. So I want us to have more members, right now MY GOAL is making this place suitably fun, trying to make it a place worth going to, AND a place worth inviting others, so that when I invite people they find it fun on their own and I don't have to say "we're in construction" or "we used to play pmd" I want this place TO BE THE THE PLACE TO BE.
I want this to be a fun place too, try to be all friendly, but again I kind of want to see this place go somewhere, the hardest part is combining the two to make them fit. To be honest, I'm not sure if we can do it.
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we could always derive from oldsite and modify it's rules to see it fit, easier done than said tbh. Thinking up of new rules is more a chore, why not just set up a general rule, and branch as needed?
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the thing is then we'd only be going MORE into our comfort zone. hell, we're trying to stay in it as is right now: everyone knows the basic ruleset yet 6th (no offense intended) says 'ALRIGHT GUYS YOU COOL WITH THIS?' a few times by now and still nothing gets done. going back to the old site is a step backwards and we dont need that, at least imo
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