Muaddib wrote: |
what are your specific plans to spur activity on the site? |
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Another thing with the city is the sheer volume of new posts makes it where keeping up takes a distant second to some of the other sites I follow. http://www.google.com/reader/view/#stream/feed%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fnovel.oddsquad.org%2Ffeeds%2Fposts%2Fdefault - Posts per week: not enough to list http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.princerevolution.org%2Ffeed%2F - Posts per week:1.4 http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2FEvolvingExcellence - Posts per week:3.7 City of IF - Posts per week:95.9 |
Muaddib wrote: |
Hmmmm.... so more of the same? |
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BRINGING BACK THE IFYs and even inter-guild competitions of various kinds.
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Vikas Muralidharan wrote: | ||||
A mayor is not a dictatorial tyrant who can take decisions on his own, you know. Nor can any one single person be expected to have all ideas that will work and strike gold. Any suggestions are welcome |
HalfEmptyHero wrote: |
Okay, so you are bringing back the IFYs. I'm fine with that, but that's not enough. A once per year awards ceremony will not stimulate activity; that has been the main complaint as of late, has it not? As for inter-guild competitions, this has already been attempted. Guilds have already proven to be rather unpopular, how are you going to change this? With the population of if so small, and everybody being able to join three guilds, will it not just be folks competing against themselves? How will you make the guilds more active and more useful? |
Muaddib wrote: |
F5 or F4 HalfEmpty.
Things might not change as hoped for, but I would like to see the mayor keen on trying different things to increase activity. Also, the candidates should all ask themselves how active are they as a non-mayoral members of this site currently? And not just as authors but as readers. Do you read as many stories as you write? Do you read stories of all genres or do you usually stick to just one or two genres. And more so, if you were elected mayor would your participation change and/or increase? |
Vikas Muralidharan wrote: |
In response to HEH. You have brought up some great points, but the fact remains, IMHO, that authoritative and administrative changes will do HARDLY ANYTHING to improve the activity of IF as long as the IFians are sleeping. The guilds were a great idea, competitions are a great idea, bringing back the IFys (which should attract activity) is a good idea IMO. Personal pages, flash games, ads, expanding IF to include Arts, Poetry and even mature content are all great ideas. My point is simply this: I WILL try to increase activity. I can try all I want, but what we are aiming for cannot be acheived by one single person on top with brilliant ideas. |
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True, we need more members, but we need more members like Myself, Vishal, Vikas, misterbiz, Andolyn. |
PopeAlessandrosXVIII wrote: |
Many of the inactive members have left E-mail on the site, so I'd like to formulate a genaric e-mail message to advertise to these members about what's new, what's going on, and how we'd love to have them back. Things like that. The love of pictures and bright colors seems to be rather universal among humans, so at the least, i would like to come up with some bright, eye catching banners that IFians can use on other sites to advertise for IF. Simple, but I believe it could be effective. |
PopeAlessandrosXVIII wrote: |
I also had the thought of back when I was a kid, my curch held attendance competitions. The person who brought the most new visitors per month got a prize. It was a cheap toy, but it did inspire people to invite as many people as possible. I was thinking that here we could so somewhat the same thing, and each month the top three people could get an honorable mention in the IF Quirer, and the person who invited the most each year could get a trophy of sorts on their user page. To qualify as a true invite the one invited must at least be active for a week. Now, this will bring more people, only if the IFians feel this would be something they'd like to do. But like with the church competinion, only about 10% of each month's invitees actually stayed permenantly, but still, it was an increase. |
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You seem to be missing my point. I am confident that all of the candidates are able to moderate the forum, and that need not be put up for debate. The real question is what makes you any different than the other two candidates. Why should I vote for you? |
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Why do you think you're qualified and worthy to be Mayor of IF? What is it that you hope to accomplish that makes you better than the rest of the candidates? If you feel it necessary to bring up your past activity, please do so and point out specific examples. |
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Love it or hate it, T-Bird made a lot of changes around here during his term as mayor, and there is a lot of evidence of his work throughout the city: the guilds, the subforums, the dark zones... But when you are elected mayor, the city will be yours. What will you do with it?
How many of his changes will you leave in place? How many of his changes will you tweak? How many of his changes will you reverse? |
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What are your plans and opinions regarding the guilds structure? Are you planning on keeping them? Dissolving them? Changing them in some way? Winging it as you go? |
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is there anything in your foreseeable future RL that would inhibit your duties here on If? |
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does everyone still think that the current layout of the site is the most efficient? What I mean is that the site seems to be too vast for the level of activity we've seen. We have different forums for all different genres and most of those forums haven't seen any activity for months. I liked the more compact layout of the old Interfable site. It was more inviting because you felt that the site was a lot more active even though the number of active members was around the same.
Another point in favour of reverting to a compact site is that it would be more manageable. Also, a compact site would mean that people wouldn't necessarily ignore certain SGs just because of their genre. They might begin a story without knowing the genre and realize they like it. We might see a lot more user participation that way. Another thought: maybe the next mayor should put a chapter limit on SGs. We can't pretend that SGs are comparable to novels. After a certain number of SG chapters new readers get put off by the size of the story and don't want to catch up. This is certainly how I feel regarding a lot of the older stories on this site. |
misterbiz wrote: |
HEH: I've got a simple answer to yours. Because a vote for Biz is a vote for the best there is. In all seriousness though, I may not be the most active reader or commenter but out of the three of us I really am the most active. Pope's activity is very sporadic and V is on/off it appears. I know the RL can do that and I understand. Another thing, V is not old enough to read the stuff in the dark sections, and thus might therefore be able to mayor over his those sections. I am of age and am on the sit every single day (with some weekend exceptions). I think the mayor should be someone who is actually here on the site. |
Muaddib wrote: |
I've decided to wear a Guy Fawkes mask and call myself V. |
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Now, now . . . that was two days ago Wink |
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the other will take up post as High Lord Chancellor along side Anolyn who will have the post of Co-High Lady Chancellor.
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We feel that this would be the most beneficial towards helping IF to move forward. |
Andolyn wrote: |
Remember, Remember, the 5th of November. The Gunpowder Treason and Plot. I know of no reason the Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot! |
PopeAlessandrosXVIII wrote: |
I would like to make an announcement.
Through mutual agreement, Misterbiz and I have decided to run together in a coalition. What this means per our agreement is that if either of us is elected, the other will take up post as High Lord Chancellor along side Anolyn who will have the post of Co-High Lady Chancellor. We feel that this would be the most beneficial towards helping IF to move forward. *Bows* Thank you for your time. |
Vikas Muralidharan wrote: | ||
Wow.. Nice :/ Never. Give. Up. Still running for your votes.. Any more questions I need to answer? |
HalfEmptyHero wrote: |
To all candidates: If you were elected mayor, would those who voted for you get any sort of special treatment, perhaps monetary? |
Andolyn wrote: |
actually, after giving it quite a bit of thought, i'm refusing Pope's offer of a co-vice mayoral position. one assistant mayor is plenty. i'll still be more than willing to help with anything the winning candidate needs, but as i said, one official assistant is plenty, and since Pope has shown interest in the position, i'm stepping aside. |
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