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| Which of the following ideas for a new subforum do you like the best? |
| A Holiday/Special Events subforum |
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19% |
[ 45 ] |
| A Sports subforum |
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2% |
[ 7 ] |
| A subforum that's similar to Gaia's new "Heaven" forum |
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5% |
[ 14 ] |
| A "b***h about your life" subforum / a subforum for rants |
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20% |
[ 48 ] |
| A homework help subforum |
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11% |
[ 27 ] |
| A subforum for one-on-one counceling & advice |
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10% |
[ 25 ] |
| A fashion/style subforum |
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11% |
[ 28 ] |
| A subforum for threads you'd post in the main forum if we were like "normal" guilds & let you post there |
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8% |
[ 21 ] |
| Just keep the "Blogs" subforum instead of replacing it with a new one |
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8% |
[ 20 ] |
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| Total Votes : 235 |
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 Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 4:50 pm
oh my gods, a homework help subforum! what a concept! gonk I'd be all over that one. crying I'm like 6 pages behind in my music class, my MUSIC class! that was supposed to be my favouite! stupid piano! scream
so yeh... I'm so voting that one.
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Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 4:50 pm
Matasoga elyzia 
What the whatttt...?! You have to actually GET ACCEPTED into Heaven... ON GAIA? Seriously?
I had absolutely no idea that people who had received "warnings" or whatever from Gaia weren't "allowed" to post in that forum! I just figured it was open to everyone... I mean, I don't know, it didn't occur to me that that wouldn't be the case, since every other forum on Gaia's like that, & the first I actually heard of that forum was when someone suggested that we create a subforum just like that in Burn & other people were in favor of the idea...
If that's actually what that forum's all about then ******** that forum & ******** that idea for a subforum. It all just sounds like a bunch of Elitist crap to me.
As for the Blogs subforum, I'm quite frankly really starting to get pissed off at how so many people want to keep it around yet practically nobody ever even posts in it, & perhaps more importantly nobody has come up with much of anything in the way of ideas regarding how to increase activity in that subforum & make it so it's NOT entirely dead.
I mean, how is it that 16 people voted to keep that subforum when 16 different people haven't even POSTED in that subforum within the past THREE MONTHS. Literally.
I mean, don't get me wrong, I'd love to somehow make the Blogs subforum work out. As I stated from the very beginning, I've held off for as long as I possibly can on getting rid of that subforum because I love the idea behind it so much. But the fact of the matter is is that the Memorable Threads subforum might even be more active than the Blogs subforum, & the Memorable Threads subforum is for dead threads. How can so many people want a subforum to stay if they don't want to post in it?
Yeah. Try creating a new account. Heaven won't show up. Maybe you have to reach a certain post count without getting banned, first. I dunno, but I know that not everyone gets in, automatically. As for the sub-forums, I dunno. Like I said, I voted for the Holiday thing, but the support is there. Has it being threatened not boosted activity? I haven't checked it out. I'm not a blogger... So don't keep it for me. To tell you the truth, though, I'm going to check into Crew now and then as I'm supposed to, try and keep up with the Art and Extended Discussion and Debate but aside from that only post on something that shows up on the queue. I may not get around a whole lot more than that. No, the fact that its existence is being threatened hasn't changed a damn thing as far as activity goes, that's perhaps what annoys me about the situation the most. There's actually a sticky in there that's been there ever since the thread was created called something like "Feedback, Suggestions, etc. for this Subforum", & I recently posted in it that if people wanted to see this subforum stick around, they were going to have to give me some suggestions as to how to make it work out better etc. , & that if nobody responded then that would be fine too since I'd know as a result that nobody seemed to care enough about the Blogs subforum to help enable me to keep it around, & that if that was the case it clearly would need to go. As you may have guessed by now, nobody responded! So, yeah, unfortunately that's the end of that subforum. Right now I'm really torn between the "b***h about your Life" subforum & the "Holiday/Events" subforum. They have the two highest number of votes currently, & even though the Events subforum has a couple more votes than the Bitching subforum, I like the idea of the latter better. The truth is, I really like both ideas, & I'm almost tempted to create a whole new subforum just so I could make both of those, but I know that 99 percent of the time I wish Gaia would let us DELETE subforums that have already been created, so there's no way that creating a brand new one could be a smart idea.
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Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 5:21 pm
I don't get it though... why would you make a b***h about your life subforum if you already have the you.. which is basically what some people do if they feel the need to actually post.
It seems like the same thing..
The holiday one sounds good.. but would it just be the guild held events or can members do it as well?
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Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 5:24 pm
Homework. I be good with anything besides my own courses in Uni right now pretty much... besides Math. And Physics.
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Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 6:32 pm
Lady Kira X I don't get it though... why would you make a b***h about your life subforum if you already have the you.. which is basically what some people do if they feel the need to actually post.
It seems like the same thing..
The holiday one sounds good.. but would it just be the guild held events or can members do it as well? That's another thing that I mentioned earlier... I think that post was overlooked... But ah well. No matter, I suppose. It would make a fine thread, in the "You..." sub forum, but it doesn't seem like the kind of thing that would justify a whole sub-forum... Not unless we have some seriously chronic whiners and drama mongers. Don't get me wrong, everyone needs a good b***h-session once in a while (which is why I stand behind what would surely be a fairly active thread) but it's way too niche for a sub-forum. It would only slightly divert traffic from "You..." and in the end, we'd he right back to this thread, thinking about what to replace it with.
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Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 6:42 pm
Matasoga Lady Kira X I don't get it though... why would you make a b***h about your life subforum if you already have the you.. which is basically what some people do if they feel the need to actually post.
It seems like the same thing..
The holiday one sounds good.. but would it just be the guild held events or can members do it as well? That's another thing that I mentioned earlier... I think that post was overlooked... But ah well. No matter, I suppose. It would make a fine thread, in the "You..." sub forum, but it doesn't seem like the kind of thing that would justify a whole sub-forum... Not unless we have some seriously chronic whiners and drama mongers. Don't get me wrong, everyone needs a good b***h-session once in a while (which is why I stand behind what would surely be a fairly active thread) but it's way too niche for a sub-forum. It would only slightly divert traffic from "You..." and in the end, we'd he right back to this thread, thinking about what to replace it with. We should already have a rant thread.. I believe I've seen a few since I've been here. but yes.. I agree n.n;
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Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 6:59 pm
i like the ability to b***h about life and the Holiday idea also tho.
tho i voted for the rant. i love bitching about me life.. xD
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Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 7:55 pm
I agree with Matasoga and Kira. I think the rant subforum would only divert traffic from the You subforum, and I think the two just overlap too much for the rant subforum to serve as an enduring solution.
I'm not huge on the idea of a holiday subforum.
I don't want to sound like I'm shooting down any ideas we have - I'm just trying to solidify foundations - but I'm fairly certain that at one point or another we actually did have an event subforum. It was quickly dumped and replaced (I think with International?), because there were so few people posting in that subforum and because you felt it was too similar to NSTG's. We just couldn't produce enough events and threads to bring in enough people for that subforum to be active.
I myself am partial to the homework help subforum (so I ended up voting for that one), but even I have concerns that that subforum wouldn't end up being very active.
If you and enough people are interested in a Fashion/DIY subforum, I feel like we should go for that instead. I don't think we should worry about gender biases, because I think there are also a fair amount of guys interested in that same area as well. I get what you're worried about, but I don't think you can always create a subforum that caters to everyone - I mean, think of the Technology & Gaming subforum, the Roleplay subforum, and the Arts subforum, to name a few. I think I've stepped into those subforums maybe once - they're just not up my alley - but do I think that Burn is lacking as a guild or being too biased just because it has some subforums that I don't often go to? As if.
I think, instead of creating subforums that each appeal to everyone, it's more realistic to create multiple subforums that cater to a variety of different interests, to create a guild of diverse individuals - so that we have a guild for everyone, not necessarily a subforum for everyone.
edit: & to state the obvious, we'd need to send out a guild announcement about the new subforum, no matter how popular we hope/expect it to be, because hardly anyone in this guild ever notices new things until it's pointed out to them xD
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Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 7:57 pm
Lady Kira X I don't get it though... why would you make a b***h about your life subforum if you already have the you.. which is basically what some people do if they feel the need to actually post.
It seems like the same thing..
The holiday one sounds good.. but would it just be the guild held events or can members do it as well? Well, because that's not what the You subforum was originally intended to be about. It was & still currently is considered acceptable in the You subforum, but I've always wanted the You subforum to be primarily a place where people can go to ask for advice about a problem, or talk about things in their life that they can't talk about anywhere else... I want it to be about support & acceptance & openness & help & advice; I want it to be where people can make real friends & truly connect to others... sort of like real life discussion on a much more personal, deeper, & serious level. You do raise a very valid point, though, about how those two subforums are bound to overlap in ways, both in actual content & in their structure & designated focus/purpose, & that definitely makes me much more in favour of going with the holiday/events idea instead. The two problems I currently have with that idea, though (or perhaps one & a half problems, since they're interconnected) are: 1) I hate holidays, lmfao. Hell, I frequently forget about them entirely. Like, for example, the closest holiday to now is Easter. I have no ******** idea when Easter even is, & I really don't want to plan events for it, I'm not even sure if I'd be able to plan events for it since I have no ******** clue how to host an Easter event, let alone a subforum full of them. 2) No matter what, the creation of this subforum would require significantly more work on the Crew Members part. Even if I absolutely adored holidays & creating holiday events that would still be the case. The fact that that's nowhere near the truth, however, means that even MORE of a burden would land on the Crew. Which is fine with me in principle, but at this particular moment in time I don't know if I can trust our Crew Members to take on the extra responsibility that that subforum would inevitably entail; I mean, I'm still waiting to see how well/how many people are actually going to follow through on completing the main responsibilities for their subforum focuses. The thing about a Holiday subforum is that having it be specific people's subforum focus wouldn't make much sense, since they'd spend the majority of the time having to do nothing whatsoever for that subforum, & then when holidays & other events (like Burn's Anniversary for example) come around they'll suddenly have to do a TON. I mean, the more members that would actively participate in that subforum & host events, the easier it would be on our crew & the more likely it would be to actually be active. However, I have a feeling that the overall result would end up in simple inactivity, though. You do make an incredibly good point though, & I suppose I am currently leaning towards making that subforum the replacement for Blogs. I mean, after all, if worse comes to worse, we can always just change the damn subforum again.
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Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 8:01 pm
Oh nvm about what I just said. I see your point about the You subforum, and we were already on the same wavelength about the Holiday subforum.
Come to think of it, I'm not sure who I was responding to with my last post ^^;
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Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 8:08 pm
IvyStarling
I think, instead of creating subforums that each appeal to everyone, it's more realistic to create multiple subforums that cater to a variety of different interests, to create a guild of diverse individuals - so that we have a guild for everyone, not necessarily a subforum for everyone.
Dammit, Ivy, stop being so smart! That used to be my role, mine! gonk rofl Obviously, you have a very good point with everything you said, as always. What might interfer with the Fashion & DIY subforum, though, is that I'd like to turn the Resources subforum into a subforum for real life resources as well as just Gaia s**t. In retrospect, I feel like I should have done that forever ago. Gaaaahhh, this whole thing is getting to be such a ********! I wish we could just have a "conference call" or something, lol, that would make this process a bizzillion times faster. Ivy, do you have Skype? ... Wait, nevermind, you don't have any of that sort of stuff *fondly remembers your list of Contact Information in the Crew Sub with the entire thing crossed out blaugh * I'll rephrase... Would you perhaps be willing to step outside your bubble of elusiveness to download skype so the Crew Members can actually like, talk talk about all this & make it go a bizzilion times faster? (No pressure, of course).
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Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 8:11 pm
WhiteWingtip Homework. I be good with anything besides my own courses in Uni right now pretty much... besides Math. And Physics. Personally, I'd LOVE to do some people's homework! Preferably homework for people who are like, high school freshmen, lol. I honestly miss school, in my own twisted way.
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Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 8:16 pm
HOW BOUT WE ALL JUST COMPROMISE & AGREE ON A b***h ABOUT HOMEWORK DURING THE HOLIDAYS SUFORUM :ROFL:
I think I'm losing my mind. I'm going to go take care of my other guild now... Or maybe just go to the bar or masturbate or something rofl
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Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 8:20 pm
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Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 9:24 pm
elyzia Trina-Bell I voted for the fashion thread. It seems to be keeping up quiet well with the other sub-forum ideas as well, but my own honest idea for a sub-forum, would possibly be a Fashion/DIY sub-forum. It's my personal favorite hobby, and my own form of therapy. DIY stands for 'Do-it-yourself' if you didn't know.
DIY comprises of home-made fashion, and other projects around the home, and even environmental up-cycling (Takes the crap around your home and turning it into something useful, or something that you will enjoy again). The thread could be showing tutorials for DIY's and or asking for help. I could help a lot with the thread since it's my favorite thing in the world to do..
This is just my little idea, I figured I would put it out there :]
Speaking solely from a personal standpoint, I'd actually love a Fashion/DIY subforum, since both those topics are really right up my alley o to speak. (I make & sell jewelry to help compensate for the fact that due to medical reasons I can only work a part-time job, so DIY is actually part of my daily life.) As much as I personally might enjoy that subforum, though, I just can't see it being super popular. I mean, it's clearly a good idea & one that I'll certainly keep in mind for the future -- since Burn does change up its subforums like a couple times a year or something... I'm really not sure how often we change a subforum since I've never really thought about it, but it certainly happens here more often than it does in most guilds.
The main reason I'm so hesitant to make a Fashion/DIY subforum is because I feel like it would definitely be catering to females, & that's bound to greatly impact its activity level.
It does really bother me, though, that I've just now realized that if I were to create a DIY thread I wouldn't even know what subforum to put it in.
Perhaps I can find a way to integrate DIY into the Resources & Guides subforum, since DIY would of course primarily consist of guides & tutorials & whatnot, & there's no reason that the Resources & Guides subforum should be limited to Gaia-related Resources & Guides. Naturally, how to rework all that is something I'll have to give more thought to, but I'm thinking I'm going to try & incorporate it into there (as well as resources & guides pertaining to any other real life stuff besides DIY)
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