An-chan
11-18-2009, 02:14 PM
So, the other day, I noticed we have a calendar. At that time, the calendar only showed members' birthdays. However, the whole thing sort of pushed my mind off a snowy cliff and ideas formed like giant rolling snowballs.
As you may notice, I started flooding the calendar with events a few days ago. NaNoWriMo is now marked down, as are Christmas and Halloween. I would have submitted Thanksgiving, too, but I have no idea of its actual date. But, trying to come up with things to mark down there, I got some interesting-ish ideas.
First of all, you know how some months of the year can feel quite of gloomy since all the holidays are packed into other months? I bet those months feel totally left out, and we should help them. We should make our own "holidays" to decorate those months that lack things to celebrate. I could think of some cool holiday-ish annual events, but I decided to post this thread to provoke some discussion about the subject.
My suggestions are as follows:
Admin Appreciation Day, sometime in March or February: Admins do all this work that never really shows to the regular users. I mean, sure, we can see mods locking threads and deleting posts and so on, but very rarely do we see the actual administration work that goes into running a board. Thus, I propose that we hold an annual event to remind people of that no, their favourite board would not work if it weren't for the admins. Something funny and special could go into this, but I have absolutely no idea how to tweak with the forums, so I have no suggestions concerning that.
The BBS Write-in or Fan Frenzy, in June/July: After participating in NaNoWriMo, I have come to the conclusion that doing stuff like that is really a lot of fun and very useful for you. However, writing is something not everyone can participate in, and November is the worst month ever to hold things like these. So, I propose we hold a Fan Frenzy (fan for "fanart", "fanfiction", and Pokémon-related RP, although original fiction would still pass, and frenzy for... um, well, frenzy) in the summer (of the northern hemisphere) to get more people to participate. And not to be unfair to people who don't write, we could add in a rule for "one piece of fanart per day", "30 pages of comic in 30 days", "30 posts for an RP in 30 days", and other stuff. I'm also thinking we could have two separate ways to do the writing: a short story per day or a longer chaptered fic that has to reach a certain word count.
We could then hold events in the Java Chat and on the appropriate forums that could include write-ins; brainstorming nights in for those who are in need of inspiration; word count and story snippet comparisons; real-time help sessions for those running short on time or ideas; and other such nice things that would really make people to get to know each other and feel the love. Because that's the thing that makes the BBS so great.
Also, those who reach the goal and win could get some prizes in either credits or as little icons to their stack of stuff on their profile, so this would do well in promoting the shop system, too. You could even sell some event-exclusive items during the month the Fan Frenzy takes place.
The Board's Birthday, be it September 20th or the day Kelly made this board in the spring: What's a better reason to celebrate that the birthday of someone or something? We could have a special thread that day so that people could give "presents" to the board, maybe in the form of art, maybe just by congratulating the staff. Credits could be given out in celebration, and some event-exclusive items could be put on sale. You could also offer special deals on the shop(s). We could also hold the kind of "member of the year" votings, but I've never been much into that, so I don't know how it works. Another special thread could be used for posting nostalgic memories or something to that effect. I'm just throwing some ideas here.
The others I thought of were mainly pointless but remotely fun, like the Annual Wynaut Day (during which, uh, I don't know. Name changes are prevented by shadow tag or something? I didn't think this through yet) or the BBS Official Christmas Party on the Sunday or Saturday before Christmas eve (unless it's the next day), on which we could have some christmassy special events - like art competitions - on the channel and on the forums. We could even have a one-day only party RP. *xD
So, what do you think?
I thought we could hold all the annual one-day events on a weekend, like, say, the third Saturday of March, so that people would really have time to participate.
Is this a good idea or am I shooting blanks here?
As you may notice, I started flooding the calendar with events a few days ago. NaNoWriMo is now marked down, as are Christmas and Halloween. I would have submitted Thanksgiving, too, but I have no idea of its actual date. But, trying to come up with things to mark down there, I got some interesting-ish ideas.
First of all, you know how some months of the year can feel quite of gloomy since all the holidays are packed into other months? I bet those months feel totally left out, and we should help them. We should make our own "holidays" to decorate those months that lack things to celebrate. I could think of some cool holiday-ish annual events, but I decided to post this thread to provoke some discussion about the subject.
My suggestions are as follows:
Admin Appreciation Day, sometime in March or February: Admins do all this work that never really shows to the regular users. I mean, sure, we can see mods locking threads and deleting posts and so on, but very rarely do we see the actual administration work that goes into running a board. Thus, I propose that we hold an annual event to remind people of that no, their favourite board would not work if it weren't for the admins. Something funny and special could go into this, but I have absolutely no idea how to tweak with the forums, so I have no suggestions concerning that.
The BBS Write-in or Fan Frenzy, in June/July: After participating in NaNoWriMo, I have come to the conclusion that doing stuff like that is really a lot of fun and very useful for you. However, writing is something not everyone can participate in, and November is the worst month ever to hold things like these. So, I propose we hold a Fan Frenzy (fan for "fanart", "fanfiction", and Pokémon-related RP, although original fiction would still pass, and frenzy for... um, well, frenzy) in the summer (of the northern hemisphere) to get more people to participate. And not to be unfair to people who don't write, we could add in a rule for "one piece of fanart per day", "30 pages of comic in 30 days", "30 posts for an RP in 30 days", and other stuff. I'm also thinking we could have two separate ways to do the writing: a short story per day or a longer chaptered fic that has to reach a certain word count.
We could then hold events in the Java Chat and on the appropriate forums that could include write-ins; brainstorming nights in for those who are in need of inspiration; word count and story snippet comparisons; real-time help sessions for those running short on time or ideas; and other such nice things that would really make people to get to know each other and feel the love. Because that's the thing that makes the BBS so great.
Also, those who reach the goal and win could get some prizes in either credits or as little icons to their stack of stuff on their profile, so this would do well in promoting the shop system, too. You could even sell some event-exclusive items during the month the Fan Frenzy takes place.
The Board's Birthday, be it September 20th or the day Kelly made this board in the spring: What's a better reason to celebrate that the birthday of someone or something? We could have a special thread that day so that people could give "presents" to the board, maybe in the form of art, maybe just by congratulating the staff. Credits could be given out in celebration, and some event-exclusive items could be put on sale. You could also offer special deals on the shop(s). We could also hold the kind of "member of the year" votings, but I've never been much into that, so I don't know how it works. Another special thread could be used for posting nostalgic memories or something to that effect. I'm just throwing some ideas here.
The others I thought of were mainly pointless but remotely fun, like the Annual Wynaut Day (during which, uh, I don't know. Name changes are prevented by shadow tag or something? I didn't think this through yet) or the BBS Official Christmas Party on the Sunday or Saturday before Christmas eve (unless it's the next day), on which we could have some christmassy special events - like art competitions - on the channel and on the forums. We could even have a one-day only party RP. *xD
So, what do you think?
I thought we could hold all the annual one-day events on a weekend, like, say, the third Saturday of March, so that people would really have time to participate.
Is this a good idea or am I shooting blanks here?