Community Feedback/Suggestions Part I

[chacusha]

COMMUNITY FEEDBACK PART I
(ff_classchange & ff_land)

Here's how this is going to work:

- There's going to be two phases to this whole community feedback process. During the first phase, I'll have you fill out general polls asking you to rate various aspects of the comm and make suggestions. During the second phase, I will collect all reasonable/feasible ideas that were suggested and put them to a vote.

- This series of posts are part of the first phase. The polls here are to help give me a general idea of how the comm is going, but mostly they're here to to jog your memory on various aspects of the comm that might need improvement. You're encouraged to make suggestions in the comments as you think of them and to respond to other people's suggestions.

- Comments are unscreened. However, anonymous commenting is allowed in case you're uncomfortable voicing your opinions with your name attached.

- Not all suggestions will go on to be voted on in the second phase. Some suggestions will be rejected without vote and some suggestions will be accepted without vote, at mod discretion.

- The mods have already put some thought into community improvement. Here's a list of things we've come up with so far:

Suggestions that will be voted on in Phase 2:

• [GENERAL] Add Vagrant Story to the list of accepted FF games
• [GENERAL] Add original Kingdom Hearts characters (e.g. Sora, Terra, Organization XIII, etc.) to the list of accepted FF games
• [GENERAL] Use (different) alliances again in Game 2, or switch to individual teams

Suggestions that will be implemented without vote:

• [GENERAL] Track & reward member participation with a fanworks incentive system
• [FANWORKS] Allow people to set up "shops" as part of the above
• [FANWORKS] Rework the moogle_workshop fanart scale
• [SORTING] Remove the leader/supporter dichotomy from the app as it's made redundant by question 4

If you have concerns that would be fixed by any of the above, you do not have to mention them here.


- All suggestions (here and in the comments) are open to debate, so if you want to make an argument for or against an idea, you are encouraged to do so.

Onto the polls!


[Poll #1737741]


Polls/suggestion box will be open until Saturday May 21
If you need to change your vote, click on the "Poll #______" link at the top of the poll, then [ Fill out Poll ], then change your answers and resubmit.

Comments

[chacusha]

I'm going to be pretty stubborn on this point, so bear with me for a moment:

White Mages are also happy and cheerful and usually pretty talky, and I don't think their apps are any terser than average -- right now they're on the same level as the Soldiers & Dragoons as far as participation goes.

My major issue is with personality being picked out as the main reason for the Soldier/Dragoon inactivity. I don't think that's so, and I want to avoid it because I think it's unfair to say certain personality types are less likely to participate. There are many other reasons for the inactivity including:

1. The three comms (Soldier/Dragoon/White Mage) each have only one mod. Honestly, I'd prefer all three of these teams (well, Soldier & White Mage, since Dragoons already have one) to get co-mod -- it's not an issue about whether a mod can handle the work of modding but just having one other person who is on good speaking terms with the main mod and who is equally responsible for encouraging participation.

2. The Dragoon team makeup literally got messed up mid-game.

3. Two of the least active teams were accidentally paired with each other (because of the Dragoons' initial pwnage) -- linking doesn't do much when both teams are already suffering from inactivity -- and the third was never linked with its more active ally. I agree, inactivity DOES breed inactivity, just like activity breeds activity. But I think the reason behind the initial inactivity is not personality-related, or at least personality doesn't play as big of a role.

If there ARE flaws in the sorting process that's putting people more likely to be inactive in certain teams, it actually makes more sense to me to examine Soldiers and White Mages as the recipients of those people, instead of Soldiers and Dragoons, since the Dragoons HAVE been active in the past.

[breyzyyin.livejournal.com]

1. The three comms (Soldier/Dragoon/White Mage) each have only one mod. Honestly, I'd prefer all three of these teams (well, Soldier & White Mage, since Dragoons already have one) to get co-mod -- it's not an issue about whether a mod can handle the work of modding but just having one other person who is on good speaking terms with the main mod and who is equally responsible for encouraging participation.
~Actually, regarding this, I just recently talked to tjemd4 about being a co-mod over at mythril_swords...since he's usually commenting on most of the Reminder Posts there, I know that he's familiar with the team going-ons and he does participate in a lot of the challenges and min-games as well (and we're on each other's f-list, so we know each other well enough that we can talk about mod stuff/team information pretty easily!). He said that would be fine with him, so if it is all right with you I think tjemd4 would be an awesome one. ♥ Wasn't sure where else to put this, so I hope this will be okay!

[chacusha]

Awesome! :D I'll add him as a maintainer and send an invite to judge_magisters! I always thought tjemd4 was a girl. ._.

[breyzyyin.livejournal.com]

She is! O_O ZOMG, I fail at typing when I'm tired. I can't believe I did that. *feels horrible now* :/

~But, thank you for adding her! I think having a co-mod there will really help. XD