03-01-2010, 01:24 PM
Okay, everyone, here's what's up.
Pretty soon we'll be moving over to a new forum. I've done a second test transfer this weekend and things looked pretty good. After a final switchover, the Lounge will become a forum site - the front-end is going bye-bye. Let's face it, you come here for the forum, which is updated far more than any front page ever is or ever will be. With the way information flows around modern games and how quickly everything changes, static content can't really keep up. Also, since I lack the time to run a blog and/or keep a staff of minions to blog (ala MMO Champion or WoWInsider), I think a forum site is a stronger platform for Lounging. Take Elitist Jerks as an example of how this format works successfully. That site is essentially its forum, and it's one of the strongest WoW sites out there.
To that end, with the front-end area going the way of the dodo, there is information there that may need saving. The question is, what? Obvious things come to mind like Jarulf's Guide. Other articles in the D1/D2 sections may be hopelessly out of date and irrelevant now. I need your help. Tell me what's worth archiving in the front-end areas of the site, and the articles can be transcribed into forum posts in the new forum. Each game will have a strategy/theorycrafting archive area where key articles are stored as reference and maintained by moderators/authors.
I'm also going to need a new moderating team. People who want to watch over an area of the forum, ban spammers, keep it clean, maintain the forum focus, etc. If you're interested, let me know.
Furthermore, the guild forums can be expanded or merged. If you're an officer of the Terenas or Stormrage guild teams, let me know your thoughts on what we can do with the guild forums. One of the obvious first things I'm looking at are ways for the current guild leaderships to assign people access to the forums without having to go through me. Should there be more Stormrage / Terenas interaction? Should the guild forums include people not even playing WoW? Leave feedback to me in PMs, the Stormrage officer forum, or the Terenas members forum.
Thanks!
Pretty soon we'll be moving over to a new forum. I've done a second test transfer this weekend and things looked pretty good. After a final switchover, the Lounge will become a forum site - the front-end is going bye-bye. Let's face it, you come here for the forum, which is updated far more than any front page ever is or ever will be. With the way information flows around modern games and how quickly everything changes, static content can't really keep up. Also, since I lack the time to run a blog and/or keep a staff of minions to blog (ala MMO Champion or WoWInsider), I think a forum site is a stronger platform for Lounging. Take Elitist Jerks as an example of how this format works successfully. That site is essentially its forum, and it's one of the strongest WoW sites out there.
To that end, with the front-end area going the way of the dodo, there is information there that may need saving. The question is, what? Obvious things come to mind like Jarulf's Guide. Other articles in the D1/D2 sections may be hopelessly out of date and irrelevant now. I need your help. Tell me what's worth archiving in the front-end areas of the site, and the articles can be transcribed into forum posts in the new forum. Each game will have a strategy/theorycrafting archive area where key articles are stored as reference and maintained by moderators/authors.
I'm also going to need a new moderating team. People who want to watch over an area of the forum, ban spammers, keep it clean, maintain the forum focus, etc. If you're interested, let me know.
Furthermore, the guild forums can be expanded or merged. If you're an officer of the Terenas or Stormrage guild teams, let me know your thoughts on what we can do with the guild forums. One of the obvious first things I'm looking at are ways for the current guild leaderships to assign people access to the forums without having to go through me. Should there be more Stormrage / Terenas interaction? Should the guild forums include people not even playing WoW? Leave feedback to me in PMs, the Stormrage officer forum, or the Terenas members forum.
Thanks!
Quote:Considering the mods here are generally liberals who seem to have a soft spot for fascism and white supremacy (despite them saying otherwise), me being perma-banned at some point is probably not out of the question.