No.6 Discussion Board
Moondrop => Conference Room => Topic started by: Ahiku on October 22, 2014, 11:13:01 am
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Just like I've already said in our sourcing post, I thought we could also have a "blog of the week".
I will draw a picture for it and we'll post it each week... (maybe each friday) just with another blog on it, we recommend to visit (or to follow).
I thought, that we all could do suggestions here who should be blog of the week. I mean that's something simple we could do... find a nice blog, write 2 nice sentences about it and post it. We could also queue those posts, and everyone could give us suggestions. We could also ask the people to give us suggestions via forum or via ask.
First I wanted to do this on my own blog, since I guess I'd reach more followers... but I mean we can still reblog it and use our No. 6 blog for this stuff, too.
What do you think about it?
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Lol I've just answered you in the other topic.
I agree that with your blog we would reach more followers, but maybe it would be nice if you'd reblog the post from the shared blog. If we want to advertise the shared blog, we might as well make the first post there. And when you reblog it to your blog, you could add a personal message to your followers for example? (if you want). I think if we're going to have all these things on the shared blog, we should always post first on it, otherwise it has less meaning.
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I like the idea as a whole but I think it probably would be kinda difficult to do this every week. Because sometime soon we'll gonna run out of blogs (or I'm just a pessimist here ... don't know xD) Maybe it would be better to do this every month?
I wouldn't mind including this into our No.6 blog ^^
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Ok, you're right. That might be too much. o.o There will be a time when we run out of blogs and stuff.
I like Yuneyn's idea, to make a nice post with "Blog of the month, fanart of the month, fanfiction of the month, AVM of the month and maybe also cosplay of the month."
I thought about drawing a banner we could use then... People can submit suggestions, because I think that would also be interactive. (Even though I guess we won't get many suggestions in the beginning...)
We could post it on No. 6 Day. Or rather inbetween two No. 6 days?
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Hmm, why not do it at the end of each month? Like some kind of conclusion to the past month.
I have an idea how we could do this using the forum but I'm not sure it would work.
Like have a "suggestion post", where people would just suggest blogs, fics, etc. Then every month, we would randomly pick out like 10 of these, and have a poll post, where people could vote for their favorite. The winners would be the blog/fic/etc of the month.
But of course, that can only work when people actually use the forum...
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Yeah, that would be cool, but that's also a lot of work. XD Hmmm... yeah, we could do both things, they could send fanmails or asks (ok that's difficult since you can't send links there...) or they can use the forum... (If they sent asks we can copy them in here to analyze the results.)
Do you think it would be too much when we do blog, fanfiction, fanart, avm and cosplay?
Yeah the end of the month would be ok, too. ^^
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It might be a lot of work... I'm really not sure. I guess having people vote would be nice, but it might become complicated.
Or we could just ask people to send us suggestions, and then we'd have some kind of random pick? But that might be less fair... I don't know. Maybe someone else has an idea about that?
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Hm... we could take suggestions, number them and then we use http://www.random.org/.
I think this would be fair.
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So, first: I think we should totally invite people to suggest blogs and fanfiction for those. That would be great and would include the fandom. And if you mention that there might be a poll on this forum maybe some of them would make accounts to participate there? (Of course, if making a poll isn't too much work - no forum experience here xD)
Maybe we should start with blog and fanfiction (since those are the easiest topics) and if we feel that we could do more, we could include the rest. Of course, I wouldn't mind if we'd try all of these immediately as well - I'm just a bit worried about finding a reasonable amount of each to really have something to chose from ^^" (And of course about over-working ourselves.)
End of the month sounds fine for me :) Or the beginning? Depends - do you want to do this as a review or a preview?
And if absolutely no one uses the forum and votes, we could always chose someone with the random generator :D
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Hm, maybe we should take fanfiction, blog and fanart, and if it's going well we can also do avm and cosplay. I think we should use fanart, because not all people read ffs... and artworks are the main thing on tumblr.
Hm... I think creating a poll would suck... we would need 3 different threads each month... and 3 different polls if we do 3 things. I dunno.... oo
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Or... for fanfiction and fanart we could base ourselves on stats?
Like :
Most popular fanart on (art website) this month.
Most popular fic on (fic website) this month.
For fics this would probably just alternate between FF.net and AO3, but for art there would be Pixiv, Deviantart, etc, and also Tumblr.
I don't know how that would be possible, we'd have to like look at all the new fics/art every month and pick the ones with the best stats... but sometimes we could also pick an older one. Though I believe most of us know the old arts/fics... Or um, take an old thing which doesn't have a lot of stats and (unless it's horrible) take this opportunity to give it a little boost?
Just an idea I'm throwing out there^^ what do you think?
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Hm, that's maybe a bit too complicated.
I mean the fanfiction thing would work just fine. It's not that there's an immense flood of new ff's each month. But watching deviantart and pixiv, and tumblr to find fanarts would be way to complicated... I never wanted to burden us with a horrible huge task of statitics and so one...
The only purpose is to do something where other people can send suggestions, to be a bit interactive... to praise people's work and advertise it a bit... no matter if it's old or new stuff.
We don't need a complicated system to find the fanwork of the month. We should just keep an eye on it that we don't show always the same people's stuff... that the fanfiction's aren't too crappy when we recommend them and when it comes to fanarts... Art is extremely subjective. That's why I think it would be fairer to draw the "winner" by lots, to give everybody the same chances.
Just for the beginning. I mean when we have more people to work together with us... people who just want to do polls and analyze them later, it's fine to let everyone do polls to chose the stuff of the month.
I don't want us to drown in work... it should be fun for everyone. I mean I have a lot of ffs I'd like to recommend, a lot of favorite fanarts... and other people like other stuff. We're here to cherish them all without favoriting certain people (we can do this on our own blogs ;3).
We don't even have to chose 10 out of the suggestions... When we get 40 suggestions, we draw out of those 40. (But when there are so many we should maybe recommend 3 out of them... just like. Our recommended fanarts this month are: This, that and this here!
Just my thoughts, but of course I'm always all ears to hear your ideas. :3 But don't let us get this too complicated.
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I have to say, I agree with Ahiku. To do it like that would be immensely difficult. I'd say we'd just take recommendations from people following the blog, write it all down in several categories (fanfiction, fanart, blog, etc.) and
1. look if something get's recommended more often than the others (then that would probably be the best of the month)
2. keep track of who was already on the best to make sure it doesn't pop up twice in a short amount of time
3. if there isn't anything that's clearly more popular than the other's right now, I'd use a random generator on all other suggestions we collected until then.
That should be doable with a simple Excel table, don't you think? Just mark the ones already titled 'Best' with a color and keep all the others + doing a column for 'What' and one for 'How many recommendations'.
Yeah, if it gets really much, we could always draw several, you're right. And I would totally keep the ones that didn't make it into the 'Best of the month' yet to give them another chance ^^ This way, we'll have something to recommend even if people momentarily stop to suggest fanarts or anything.
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You're both right^^ I guess I get a little too carried away with my organisation/perfectionism issues lol.
I could take care of creating a shared Excel doc on Google Drive, with different tabs and all so we could keep track of recommendations. If that's ok with you of course^^
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Sure, go ahead :D (A shared document is a very good idea xD Wouldn't have thought about that ^^")
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@Lawl, that's a very good idea. We can do it like that. ^^
@Yuneyn: Oh, yes, please! That would be great! :3 You can put it in another thread then and make it sticky, so that we always see the important stuff first.
Thank you!
I'll draw the banner, we will use for this each month soon. ^^
Then we just need some kind of text source... So that we just need to add the "winners" then each month.
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I'm creating something, just figured out how to make the top 3 things with the most recommendations appear in green, so that we can decide later if we want to have a top 3 or just one depending on the number of suggestions.
Since I don't have everyone's email, you can send me yours by MP and then I'll invite you to edit the doc once I finished the template page!
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@Yuneyn, you should see the other's mails when you visit their profiles... o.o
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Lol, sorry, I didn't even think of that *facepalm* I'll do that^^
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Wow, I didn't even know it's possible that Excel does that on its own xD Apparently I still have a lot to find out about this programm ^^"
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Ok it's done.
I've sent both of you invitations, now I'll also send one to everyone who said they wanted to help with the blog, but since you two are here now I wanted to know your thoughts beforehand.
Basically, the conditional formatting only works if there are at least 3 entries. But I guess when there's less it's easy to see for ourselves the best ones^^
I've tried in the last column to have 3 entries with the same number and another higher one, and the 4 do appear in green so this is taken into account.
For now I've only put a limited amount of lines, but if we get a lot of suggestions it's very easy to add the formatting to more lines.
Then we can create a new spreadsheet for every month, and here we go^^
Now though, it's also possible to have only one spreadsheet per art type, and add new columns for each month. I chose the other format because I thought it would be easier to have directly all the results for the current month in one sheet, but if you prefer something else it's easy to change. (Excel was probably the only thing I liked at my former job lol)
I'm not sure about a sticky post though, as we will directly invite people to the document when they are part of the blog, right? If we let it viewable on the forum, it will ruin the suspense ^^ As you want!
(It's a little less sexy than with a real Excel file, but Google docs has less formatting options *sighs*)
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I really like it :D It's great that the top three are green, really ^^
If only my laptop wasn't so agonizingly slow ...
Okay, I see. Yep, I'd go with spreadsheets for each month - makes the whole thing more clearly. And it shouldn't be too hard to copy and paste the suggestions that didn't got to be "Best of the month" to the new sheet either.
Apparently we're all children of Microsoft Office xD
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If only my laptop wasn't so agonizingly slow ...
I think something's wrong with this hoster, too... it's incredibly slow oO and the header is gone. ^^°
@Yuneyn:
Wow, thanks, that's really cool. XD Hah, I absolutely have no clue when it comes to Excel. Never really worked with that program, just a little bit. ^^° It seems to be pretty useful.
I'm not sure about a sticky post though, as we will directly invite people to the document when they are part of the blog, right? If we let it viewable on the forum, it will ruin the suspense ^^ As you want!
Ah, you're right... but we could have a post for suggestions... When people want to suggest something, and also for us to preorder befor putting it in the excel sheet. ^^
I think it's great to see all results of the current month. (Why is it Nov 13? o.o)
Thank you for your effort!
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Thanks :-)
Well, as you like it, I'll also send it to Weisel, Curiousscarleteyes and Listenforthelove. And then anyone who wants to join^^
Ah, and November13 for November 2013 ^^ But I can change it if it's too confusing?
Ok for a sticky suggestion post then... in this category as well?
EDIT: WE ARE IN 2014 I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT HAPPENED MY BRAIN HAS ISSUES I'M SORRY
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I'd say Nov for November is enough. Makes it shorter ^^
AND DON'T WORRY ABOUT YOUR BRAIN I DIDN'T NOTICE EITHER UNTIL I READ YOUR EDIT xD
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Tab names changed^^ You're right, shorter is better ;)
(And thanks! I'm not even 30 yet it can't be old age dammit!!!!)
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It's alright XD 2013 was better, anyway... since Nezumi and Shion had their first meeting then. ^^
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If we're going to be exchanging documents, maybe we should set up a Google Drive or something?
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Do you mean like a joined Google Account? But then wouldn't freak out if like 10 different people from different locations log in at the same time? (I know mine freaked when I did Japan - New Zealand - Japan - France in like one month)
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It would just be the documents that are shared, not the account. I've had google documents open at the same time as other people who were in other countries and it was no problem.
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So basically the shared doc I've made is fine, or should I do something else?
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I think it's fine though... not sure how to access it?? ^^;;;
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Ah I've put the link in the private administration forum - The thread is "fanwork of the month" and the link is in the second post!
Let me know if it works for you, otherwise I'll send an invite.
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And if we do the blog posts by lots rather than a subjective voting system, we could still feature art and things? You know, post a piece or two or a link to a fic that person has written. That way we can still acknowledge and enjoy people's hard work? I dunno, just an idea :)
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@skiesinlove
Ah, good to see you here! Welcome! *-* Your first post!
Oh, blog of the week is already old stuff... o.o We already have a voting system and we're also drawing lots. ^^
If you wanna be part of the rc committee and help, just let us know. (http://no6.createaforum.com/conference-room/join-the-restructural-committee!!/)