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Ender_Sai
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1/11/06 5:03am
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Ideas on cross-forum interaction
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We're starting to branch off into ideas about cross-forum interaction int he other thread, so I thought this was probably a better idea than mixing up our goals in that thread.
What I really want to try here is floating some ideas by you here, to get an idea of what sort of things may help change the territorial attitudes people have, even if it's 1 in 10 users?
For example, do you think a YJCC v Senate v Ampi v Census (maybe) trivia contest would be a good idea?
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epic
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i doubt the Census has its own unique populace.
a trivia game is a good idea. YEARS back i did a 'great debate' between the JC and jedi.net which worked really well, too. i forget the topic but it was Star Wars related. you could have Senate v Ampth v Community in a tri-series. or just Senate v Community as a one off and then do an Ampth v Community later on, whatever. each forum votes on their own 3 representatives. could be fun.
edit: it's more about getting the actual individuals of the forums to get involved in something together, as opposed to an 'us v them' mentality.
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Kimball_Kinnison
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epic posted:
edit: it's more about getting the actual individuals of the forums to get involved in something together, as opposed to an 'us v them' mentality.
Exactly.
As I suggested in the other thread, I think one of the best things we could do is pick a good "gray area" topic and start a thread on it in one of the forums. Then, each day, move it back and forth from one forum to the other. As it gains responses, and then moves, it will encourage users from each forum to interact. At first, it might be only someone replying to a comment the previous day, but after a little bit, some people will choose to follow the thread between the two forums, and hopefully get to know a bit more about the other forum.
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droideka27
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i doubt the Census has its own unique populace.
Yeah, but you also never post in census, so I highly doubt you're an expert on this matter 
I'm not really sure if I am allowed to post in here or not (sorry guys if i am not) so I'll just make this one since Census is involved.
Census has its own social thread, which has collected a group of regulars, small though it may be. So if you wanted a contest, I bet i could get those guys to participate. Depends on how many forum participants. Don't discount us just yet, though.
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Ender_Sai
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epic, I agree with the sentiment; perhaps have teams of 4; each person being from one of the forums?
Kimball, could you expand on that idea?
E_S
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Captain_Typho
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droideka27 posted:
i doubt the Census has its own unique populace.
Yeah, but you also never post in census, so I highly doubt you're an expert on this matter
I'm not really sure if I am allowed to post in here or not (sorry guys if i am not) so I'll just make this one since Census is involved.
Census has its own social thread, which has collected a group of regulars, small though it may be. So if you wanted a contest, I bet i could get those guys to participate. Depends on how many forum participants. Don't discount us just yet, though.
As one of those census regulars, I can say for sure that there are quite a number of people who frequent census that would love to represent it in a trivia bowl should it occur. Thanks in large part to Tracy's efforts, census is starting to build its own little community.
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MariahJSkywalker
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I post sometimes in Census it's slowly but surely gaining regulars there. A trivia game is a great idea.
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Kimball_Kinnison
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Ender_Sai posted:
epic, I agree with the sentiment; perhaps have teams of 4; each person being from one of the forums?
Kimball, could you expand on that idea?
E_S
Well, stop and think about it for a moment. Simply having parallel threads doesn't really address the root cause of the issue, breaking down the barriers between the two forums. The only way to do that is by encouraging interaction between users in the two forums. If there are simply parallel threads, then there's really no major incentive to interact.
However, moving a thread back and forth between the two forums helps make it so that users in the Senate will see posts from the JCC, and hopefully reply to them. When it moves back to the JCC, JCC users will hopefully respond to the Senate users. Once they atart talking back and forth, it will provide encouragement to visit the different forums.
Again, interaction is the key. That's why a trivia contest is a good idea (although I might suggest mixing the teams up so that each team is required to have one user from each forum), but hosted discussions aren't. Anything that gets people to interact with people from other forums will break down the barriers, while anything that doesn't won't.
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Obi-Wan McCartney
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If I go to my last posted messages, and the thread has moved to a new forum, will it direct me to the new forum?
Also, if a serious senate thread goes to the JCC, doesn't that mean the spammers and detractors can start the spamming and detracting in rules free YJCC?
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gabe
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I can dig that. Very similar to the moving social thread concept really, only more interactive, and specifically designed to lubricate Senate/JCC relations. A trivia contest sounds like the right way to go. It tends to bypass the tl;dr aspect and get straight to the point. Which will appeal to those that have no interest in Senate because of exactly that (misconception).
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gabe
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1/11/06 8:46pm
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Obi-Wan McCartney posted:
If I go to my last posted messages, and the thread has moved to a new forum, will it direct me to the new forum?
Yes.
Obi-Wan McCartney posted:
Also, if a serious senate thread goes to the JCC, doesn't that mean the spammers and detractors can start the spamming and detracting in rules free YJCC?
Not at all. The JCC isn't nearly as bad as you seem to think it is.
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epic
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droideka27 posted:
Yeah, but you also never post in census, so I highly doubt you're an expert on this matter
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o okay, fair enough. now get out of here! *wink
the one thing i think we should all note is, um, not to be TOO OBVIOUS about all this. too obvious 'advertising' is not only an insult to the jcc populace (who know what is going on, know what the Senate is, etc) but an actual deterrant to the Senate itself.
example
especially at the moment when people know this FG is going on, and as i said in that thread in a jocular manner, it makes the Senate look too needy and desperate. people don't want to bother with such a thing, it's offputting. a lot of all this 'forced interaction' comes off in this manner and it is not becoming at all -- it is a bit of an insult, to be honest, to the current Senate populace -- like what they're doing isn't good enough... sort of thing.
the moving thread isn't a bad idea although it again might be too obvious -- people are going to know that this threads main, underlying purpose is to get people moving between forums and not for the actual thread discussion itself and that may mean that people, perhaps, will take the piss a bit. but who knows, it may work for others. it's just whether that risk is worth the possible further tarnishing of the Senate as its own entity.
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MariahJSkywalker
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the one thing i think we should all note is, um, not to be TOO OBVIOUS about all this. too obvious 'advertising' is not only an insult to the jcc populace (who know what is going on, know what the Senate is, etc) but an actual deterrant to the Senate itself.
The posters were not impressed with that. The advertisement shouldn't be rubbed in their face. Otherwise it'll just be made fun of by the JCCers.
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Ender_Sai
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Look, I'm going to agree that posting was probably not a great thing. It was meant well but ultimately not phrased in a neutral enough manner to be taken seriously; it came across a tad, I guess, elitist.
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LostOnHoth
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I think a pre-existing thread like this one would serve as the perfect vehicle for a thread that may move from forum to forum as there is more flexibility in terms of the focus of the discussion, which is designed to change as current events come to light.
http://boards.theforce.net/the_senate_floor/b10320/21898399/p1/?308
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TheBoogieMan
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I think a cross-forum debate along the lines of what Kimball described would be good. I also think that a cross-forum trivia contest would be fantastic - I actually think that if it was all inclusive as opposed to just the "community" forums it would be best. For example, we have the mods from SWC, JCC, Senate, Amp, CT, Music etc all contribute questions along the lines of their forums and then people from all forums have to answer all questions.
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