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finalfantasyland2011-02-24 12:40 pm
chacusha) wrote in finalfantasyland2011-02-24 12:40 pm
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Team comm combining?
Yet another issue that I'd like to put to a community vote (can you tell I like polls?): ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
roax suggested that it might be a good idea to couple team comms so that, for instance, Dragoons would join the Soldiers team comm, and Soldiers would join the Dragoons team comm so that there's less burden for the mods and people can communicate with and support the other team.
The mod team was undecided and wanted to leave it up to individual members to choose whether they wanted their own alliance to combine. So here is some more information about what the change would entail:
HOW IT'D WORK
I'll use my class as a Black Mage as an example.
• Black Mages would get an invite to join![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
curaga_casters (the White Mage comm) but without posting access
• White Mages would get an invite to joinfiraga_casters (my comm) but without posting access
• I would be able to see and comment on posts in both communities.
• I would only be able to post entries infiraga_casters.
• Newly sorted Black Mages would get invites as described above -- a normal invite tofiraga_casters, and an invite to be a member without posting access to curaga_casters
• When the game ends (April 30th) I would be booted fromcuraga_casters and the communities would return to how they were before.
The above changes would only be implemented for the team alliances where the majority of people say they would prefer it. So if you're a Soldier or Dragoon, you'll be voting specifically on whether you want the Soldier & Dragoon team comms to combine. If you're a Thief or Monk, you'd be voting on whether you want the Thief & Monk team comms to combine.
Some benefits and drawbacks to think about when you make your decision:
BENEFITS
• Team mods could work together when posting reminders. For example, rather than two mods posting one or two reminders weekly, they could trade off. Obviously this is more useful in the team comms that are headed by a single mod.
• Closer inter-team communication, teamwork, collaboration, etc.
• More activity in team comms, which is obviously more helpful for quiet team comms than it is for team comms that have a good amount of activity already.
DRAWBACKS
• The members of the other team would be able to see your posts, so it might make people feel uncomfortable, for example, to be talking about FF thieves, when they know the Monks are also seeing that post on their f-list. (Or it might not. It's really up to each individual member to decide.)
• People might feel equally uncomfortable commenting on posts from the other comm; it might feel intrusive, in which case the second and third benefits above would be mostly nullfied.
• Just in general, better inter-team bonding would come at the cost of same-team bonding
So here's the poll:
[Poll #1709505]
EDIT: You can also put "No opinion/Don't care" or "Undecided" if that's the way you feel.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
roax suggested that it might be a good idea to couple team comms so that, for instance, Dragoons would join the Soldiers team comm, and Soldiers would join the Dragoons team comm so that there's less burden for the mods and people can communicate with and support the other team.The mod team was undecided and wanted to leave it up to individual members to choose whether they wanted their own alliance to combine. So here is some more information about what the change would entail:
HOW IT'D WORK
I'll use my class as a Black Mage as an example.
• Black Mages would get an invite to join
curaga_casters (the White Mage comm) but without posting access• White Mages would get an invite to join
firaga_casters (my comm) but without posting access• I would be able to see and comment on posts in both communities.
• I would only be able to post entries in
firaga_casters.• Newly sorted Black Mages would get invites as described above -- a normal invite to
firaga_casters, and an invite to be a member without posting access to curaga_casters• When the game ends (April 30th) I would be booted from
curaga_casters and the communities would return to how they were before.The above changes would only be implemented for the team alliances where the majority of people say they would prefer it. So if you're a Soldier or Dragoon, you'll be voting specifically on whether you want the Soldier & Dragoon team comms to combine. If you're a Thief or Monk, you'd be voting on whether you want the Thief & Monk team comms to combine.
Some benefits and drawbacks to think about when you make your decision:
BENEFITS
• Team mods could work together when posting reminders. For example, rather than two mods posting one or two reminders weekly, they could trade off. Obviously this is more useful in the team comms that are headed by a single mod.
• Closer inter-team communication, teamwork, collaboration, etc.
• More activity in team comms, which is obviously more helpful for quiet team comms than it is for team comms that have a good amount of activity already.
DRAWBACKS
• The members of the other team would be able to see your posts, so it might make people feel uncomfortable, for example, to be talking about FF thieves, when they know the Monks are also seeing that post on their f-list. (Or it might not. It's really up to each individual member to decide.)
• People might feel equally uncomfortable commenting on posts from the other comm; it might feel intrusive, in which case the second and third benefits above would be mostly nullfied.
• Just in general, better inter-team bonding would come at the cost of same-team bonding
So here's the poll:
[Poll #1709505]
EDIT: You can also put "No opinion/Don't care" or "Undecided" if that's the way you feel.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
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(a) If we move everyone to the new joint communities, the individual team comms would be abandoned and I'm not sure I really want that, especially since I want people to feel like their original team comm is their homebase.
(b) If we instead make people join their home team comm AND the new joint team comm, I foresee that people will be a bit confused which comm they should post entries to. I can see that either the same situation as (a) will end up happening (everyone using the joint comm exclusively), or the opposite -- that people continue to post in their separate comms and the joint comm ends up being useless.
I guess I just felt that keeping people in their same comms but allowing both teams to see what the other is posting was the best way to keep content in the original team comms but allow collaboration as well.
Does that make sense?
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