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What Can We Do to Make ZEJ More Active?

Discussion in 'Suggestions' started by Eebit, May 8, 2012.

  1. The title itself is self-explanatory. If you frequent any of the chatrooms which are constantly mentioned, and as I will get to, hoarding away the activity (in my opinion), you'll know that a bunch of people are a little disheartened by the fact that everything around ZEJ seems to be solely focused on sporadic posting in the RPing section. I don't know about you guys, but when ZEJ was created, Jonno, Zantok, and I all thought that we would try and grow a family-oriented hangout forum, with RPing being a nice little distraction.

    Obviously, times have changed from those simpler days, when chats/Skype were far-off notions, but I still want to try and maintain a nice, casual forum air. RPing is great! I love writing with you guys. It's honestly tons of fun to see everything that everyone comes up with. But the problem is, I don't want to restrict this place to JUST Roleplaying. There are members around, such as Flame and Nyumi, who aren't here to RP. I'd like to spark up a debate or two, and I'd like to get community interest going so that there's something to post in around here besides just RPs. Make ZEJ worth coming to, you know?

    I don't really know what to do, anymore, though. I've tried putting the focus on RPing, and I've tried posting threads here and there... Everything seems to end the same way, with everyone holed up in their individual chats. Does that seem like a fun, exciting community to you guys? Because I'm kind of iffy about that. I'd like something to bring us together.

    So now's the time for YOU GUYS to post. Do you have any input on what we could do? A community spriting contest? Artist of the month? Community collaborative game creation? Monthly 'featured debate'? Spam Day? Online game tournaments? I don't know! The sky's the limit. Let me know here what you guys want to see from ZEJ, and I'll do my very best to implement it.
     
  2. We need more forums! Relative to the ZEJ you want, the fora are underdeveloped and not properly differentiated. Maybe make a section under MiscCon for Video Games and one for Media. That will help reduce the chaos if/when we ever get around to posting a lot more.

    Second, I think we should do ALL of this! I mean this stuff:

    It all sounds really fun and I've had great experiences with this kind of thing in other places, so I think these are great ideas. Maybe not all at once, trololo, but individually.

    Also, last I checked there was a plugin for MyBB to embed a chatbox in a portal page. Maybe do that instead of having an external chat site like Chatzy/ParadoxIRC?
     
  3. I think the Online game tournaments would be cool, although weekends is when it would have to happen.
     
  4. Been there, done that.

    Don't know why an announcement wasn't made, though. Chatboxes suck and chatrooms are much better. :x We've been using Chatzy because I can't get to IRC, though that'll change when I get a laptop.
     
  5. Espy, the thing about those embedded chats is that they suck. (and so does chatzy but that's the only thing that Jase can use so yeah...) Anyway, I'm all up for a community spriting contest. While I would much rather just participate, O would host one if nobody else is available.

    Also, I did start that pokemon challenge thread to try to get a little activity outside the RP section ~

    (not saying anymore because annoying phone.)
     
  6. Eh, I see what you mean. It's not working for me in any of my browsers.

    Anyways, I'm all for graphic art contests. Spriting, splicing, banners, etc - we can arrange something!

    In fact, I'm willing to set up a SotW like Nate had up on Acan. Sounds good?
     
  7. Random question, but could spark more discussions, anyone here play any TCG? From MtG, to Pokemon, even Yu-Gi-Oh, TCGs are fun. Sadly, playing them through forum would be nearly impossible, although I have an idea how, it would be insanely annoying, but we could still discuss them in general. And it could get others interested in them. I used to play Yu-Gi-Oh, have been collecting Pokemon for ages but only started playing online a little while ago, and me and a friend play MtG, but if you know others I'd be happy to hear them.
     
  8. As far as roleplays go, Trophy Strife sounded cool, and an Ultimate Tournament (That we could hopefully finish. :p) would be pretty cool as well. As far as other things go, maybe someone could try to make some kind of fan fiction, or someone could make a very popular thread. I could always bring Crossover Avengers, ZEJ Vs Capcom, or heck, maybe even ZEJ Vs Fighters back from the dead, but I'm currently working on Crossover Task Force at the moment, which might bring up activity itself if it's good enough. If any of this sounds good to anyone, please let me know. :p
     
  9. *Uses Reviver Seed on self, comes back to life*

    *Deposits 2 cents*

    Well, if it can spark some interest, I can always post discussion/update topics for the boatload of projects I've got going on. Red Diamonds & Blue Pearls has already been started, and I am still working on it (if sporadically). I could set up topics for my fanfictions or something, along with other writing proj... WAIT, perhaps we could have a "Writer-of-the-Month" contest? Entrants could write up a random short story (original, fanfiction, whatevs; we might have contests based on themes), and the best can be voted on or something. Just a suggestion...

    As for RPs, I really don't lean toward that direction much. :p I would if I had more time on my hands, but I sadly do not. And as much as I would love to participate in Online Game tourneys, I rarely have access to a good internet connection. Not that I'm against it or anything; I just wouldn't be able to participate. (Not that I care about that or anything but yeah.)

    ...And hey, does anyone remember Pokemon Steel? Y'know, the fangame of mine whose forum is linked in the 'Affiliates' section? The one that apparently is long-since deadified? ...Perhaps I should revive it again, and bring it to ZEJ. :D A project that the community can gather around, or...something. It's been far too long... (And yea...maybe I should be more active as well. >_<)

    @Zar'roc: I play TCGs too! :D Both Yu-Gi-Oh AND Pokemon, actually. Haven't played MtG though...
     
  10. ^I know how to play TCG's, although the only one I play regularly is Magic the Gathering
     
  11. The writing thing would be fun.
     
  12. Well, now that the forums are back, I suppose it is time to revive this thread as well... and how better to do so by (finally) addressing the posts that I neglected to answer before we, well, died.

    One of the main problems is that there isn't enough of a steady flow of incoming posts to have a need to segment the small flow as it stands. I see your point, but the problem exists (in my opinion), not in the organizational aspect, but the lack of interest in posting. If I saw an increasing postflow, I'd definitely consider reorganizing, but I hope you see my point.

    This, on the other hand, sounds lovely. You should probably gauge interest in how many people would be interested in a spriting contest, though! I think people would enjoy honing their skills, so that we can all increase our skills as spriters. I don't exactly know how the Spriter of the Week thing happened at Acanthite, but please, by all means, set it up!

    I think there are a few clients out there that let you play TCGs over the internet... in fact, I distinctly remember a passing craze in which Shadow and a couple others played YGO, and then later on, Flamezone, Zantok, and Jonno picked it up as well. Maybe a thread for organizing that sort of play (or PMing the respective members) could be set up?

    Trophy Strife... is a pretty unlikely thing right now, in my opinion. If I were to run it, I wouldn't know where to begin, so consider it abandoned for now. If anyone else were interested in picking it up to adapt to whatever they'd like, I'd absolutely sanction that. Hell, I'd even ENCOURAGE someone else to step into it, since it has so much room for improvement. If anybody is interested in taking over, shoot me a PM and we can talk about ideas or something.

    Ultimate Tournament... well, a new one could always happen, but after the colossal flop that was UT3, I'm not sure how much community interest there is.

    As for the rest of that post, ANY activity is good activity, in my eyes. All power to you, Brawly, if you're willing to do anything with that!

    I've been reading Red Diamonds and Blue Pearls, so I'd absolutely love you to continue updating us on that front! I know from reading the responses of a couple of the others that they quite enjoy the comics as well, so please, do keep us posted!

    As for a WotM contest, that would be pretty cool too! Magnolia Roleplays (our main affiliate and generous host while we were down) is also looking to start something up there on that front, so perhaps we could do a bit of a joint thing with them? I'll talk to their staff about it~

    YES PLEASE! Absolutely game for some Pokémon Steel revival. I think that a game project would be something cool that we could all follow and contribute to, and it is definitely something that I've seen bring people together in the past (as in Acanthite and Scarlet forums). Good times were had back then, so I would be thrilled to see Steel make a comeback!

    AND with that, let the discussion continue~
     
  13. "What Can We Do to Make ZEJ More Active?"

    Me.
     
  14. no jnonoo i bant uuuuu
     
  15. Bumping and pinning this thread.
     
  16. Poking this thread even though it's pinned.
     
  17. @"Espeonature", the other day you'd mentioned that you had a plausible explanation as to why the activity of our community was so heavily oriented towards the chats. Could you possibly explain in here what your reasoning was?
     
  18. D-d-did I…? I don't remember, I'm sorry. D=

    EDIT: hang on, didn't we discuss it already?
     
  19. I think he means to bring that up here on the forum is all.
     
  20. Make an entire forum cotegory based on videogames, not just a tiny thing under MiscConj. I can talk about games for forever, but not about politics, RP's, or other stuff. Videogames are what united us all in the first place (Mercurious), and though some may not be interested, it seems like a good starting point.
     

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