Quote Originally Posted by Jiro View Post
Honestly the thing that stands out to me is your comment about events. You're probably right. I mean, the Events Committee has been dead since like forever, but we tend to have a bunch of events that fizzle. I don't know what it is, but maybe you are right about the organisational aspect. Build ups are good; generally I think spending time waiting for people to be ready is time wasted, but when our active memberbase is small and sporadic, planning might be useful.

Good work man
I don't even think it's just a matter of waiting for people to be ready because that may or may not happen when you want. Even if we left everything as it is but had a place where people could say we're starting this around this time, and then post the link when the event starts. And if there was more of a staff push to get the word out that'd help as well. I've missed the start of events before because I literally did not see them in the mess of threads in a forum I rarely visit, or where it's one stickied thread among many stickies that sat there for months or years. Links in signatures, forum announcements, special icons in the titles of event threads, and maybe even threads announcing the event in General Chat for those who don't frequent other forums might be a good boost to events.

Hell, I'm in the Gaming forum every single day and I missed/forgot about the babes tournament until I got a PM reminding me. That's how easy it is to miss this stuff sometimes.

EDIT: Yeah, Freya, I'm definitely not talking about this event. I'm talking about things like the census which get about the same 20 or so people every time and have the same staff members consistently not participating. Or my gaming competitions which have seen participation drop off recently (admittedly I will take much of the blame for the hiccups that has experienced), or the screen name competition which I didn't even realize was happening until Proto mentioned this would conflict with it. I just think we could be doing more to promote these smaller events than necessarily happens right now.