Xyro

This is just a list of examples of changes that we may want to consider. All of these are opinions and idea, so please don't take any of them as an offense towards any existing thing to AF atm.

Competitions:

• As everyone was speaking of different competitions, we could set each one to be both community and staff based depending on the seriousness of the contest.
   
   
  
• We could do separate contests for different categories, which we can create when competitions actually start.
   
   
  
• Prizes are one of the most “difficult” things to apply to these kind of contests. Although we can't really give physical prizes (since you and me both know that none of us are just made of money ) we can always increase the competitiveness of the badge and level up system on the forum in order to get a much more active event criteria. (i will get onto badges and the level up system later)
   
   
  
• Ideas of contests: Drawing (can involve anything from anime genre all the way to games and movies, exedra), Writing, scripting, making a play, writing a song, devising your own game, best role play, performances, best meme, best post wins, cuteness contest….. Yeah, we can have a lot of contests. That's less of a concern to me then most, since we will always be able to gain contest ideas.
   
   
  
• I would say that allowing maybe 2-3 members of staff to work on these projects, since overcrowding it may get a bit too complicated and it kind of ruins the fun of a “contest” if you have 10 staff members working on it and only 12 members (meaning that staff are more likely to win )
   
   
  
• I was also wondering if we should make a new subsection on the anime forums for the different competitions so it's easier to keep progress. I don't know about you all, but when ryuji did the old writing contests it got pretty confusing on where you had to go to check the results and see the old posts and whatnot
   
   
  
• As always with these kind of things, we will need to take upvotes on who would like to see these kind of contests go down and whatnot, so i may make a thread to tally up the amount of people who would vote for this kind of thing (remember, although most of us want this kind of thing, i was wondering if we should make it more public as well, since let's be fair, a contest has to have at least 10 or more contenders to feel really tense and more of a competition! Obviously we can still do it with less, but it's more likely you will win out of 5 people )
   
  

Community builds:

• As far as the community side of things go, we have made a pretty good name for ourselves. So, what i was thinking, is we could kind of show that off a bit
   
   
  
• Now, for a front page style show off, we could do a couple of things. One of these which i was thinking off would be an upvoted member of the month (or even random, just to make people feel special more than anything ^w^) and that member will have a little crown for the month .
   
   
  
• Another thing that could be added is stuff like AF’s best moments of the year, and highlight a couple of your personal things that you loved optic this could also be a good use of the chat, since we can make “ AF’s top 10 sentences of the year”. Let's be honest, this kind of thing would happily spur up memories in existing members whilst granting newer members an insight into our craziness
   
   
  
• This can also be extended with things such as showing off the most active community members and so on.
   
  

Posting on the forums:

• One way to increase the amount of posts i feel would be to give some people more creative elements in the forums creation section. This could include allot more of a tool-system which they could use to monitor over and make individual threads with.
   
   
  
• Although this part is not as big of a concern, i also think it would be amazing if we could just upload images onto threads or the chat rather than using the URL. it takes WAY too much effort to go and look for a url when you could just copy and paste or upload an image.
   
  

Individual sections: (IK, but hear me out ):

• When i said about my own corner, i got an even better idea. Since we already have the anime forum team, how about we make a subsection for individual members to post their stuff and manage their own part of AF in order to give out a creative freedom. Obviously, before everyone goes on about “ each individual member means so much space” thing, i was thinking we do a system where the individual has to ask optic to become a member of staff for this section (not sure what to call the staff members yet. Maybe the corner crew or something). Once you have proven you are worthy to work in this section, you get your own little bit that you can manage and create what you please in. this could provide a lot more creativity and feedback side of things to the forum for the off topic section, and allow small things to grow. E.G: Kirys signature art, metro’s photography… exedra.
   
   
  
• Now, i can also understand the obvious argument of : THis not being anything to do with the original point of AF being an “anime forum”. Well, i can kind of counter this with the argument of this allowing community members who are willing to dedicate the time into AF to try and give both a better draw and to feel apart of a community. It also allows us all working on this segment to have the ability to teach people things like the anime artstyle and whatnot as well as scripting or photography or blah blah blah.
   
   
  
• Also, i cant stress on the fact that members here have to be dedicated and kept to a minimum, since i can easily understand that with too many members it would just get overcrowded quickly. This would also mean allowing only the member responsible for their bit to be able to post threads there. So allowing us to kind of moderate our own bits will be crucial, but also means that those given this opportunity MUST be trustworthy and upvoted by both optic and the community.
   
  

Well, that all i got for now sorry that it's not much.

We could also do things with AF steam group as well. Like competitions and so on.

Yesssss!

I already have games in mind we can do contests for

Confession: I'm not a good person.

My longest trip out hunting in Cyprus took me two weeks since we found a pretty large group of deer. We tracked them down for ages and caught five out of 15 of them. In the end it took two weeks to drag them back to the village square to sell the meat, furr and whatnot

Let's keep this thread focused on the main topic at hand, goobers.

DW, it is Kirry

Most of the pure opinions will come tomorrow in the form of a list, don't worry

Every time I giggle at something I can't stop which leads to a full-on laugh festival

Story of my life.

 

I also find everything funny. I am also easily amused.

My favourite kinds of people!

We can laugh to our hearts content!

....

Poop

*sniggers to ones self

or Donut's Box

*sniggers again a bit louder

This is what I mean by I need a place of my own

I'm AF's main meme generator now!

I have a hard time not talking to everyone about random things.

Same.

I need another poop

I don't mind drowning at all. The idea of water filling my lungs and stopping my breathing has never been a fear to me. Intact, that would be a welcome death to me tbh.

Idk. There is just something peaceful in my mind about drowning

I love all every animal out there (not spiders I hate spiders *shivers*) I have way to many pets to name off but I can say that I might be getting a bearded dragon soon which will be my first reptile so excited! :3

My first reptile was a chameleon. All I'm saying is don't get one if you want to handle them allot. They stress super easy and don't like to be touched much.

Bearded dragons on the other hand are amazing pets. As long as you make sure to handle them often and care for them, then they end up being increadibl chill.

You can even sit back and watch a movie with them. I had one called spike who loved watching resident evil ipif it heard the music, it would genuinely move over to watch the movie

I like pygmy glass dragons, like my little rhubarb over here *pats rhubarb on the head*

As far as creatures go on planet earth...

Ehh, I would say I love trapdoor spiders allot, as well as bearded dragons and foxes.

Dogs take up too much time, so I wouldn't be able to care for one affectively enough, even though they are such good animals.

And I don't like how snooty some cats can be. Eesh

I'll swim across to the UK to play you >:3

You would probably win

We need to do a three sided table tennis match SUPREME!!!!!! TwT

I challenge you too a game MWHAHAHA! (I'm alright at table tennis)

Same. Not the best, but I love it to bits!

Interesting. I was wondering where cinnamon roll came from.

Its was so bad! Imaging going to an e-sports game as a pro player with your team and your family in the audience, then when they call your names and make you stand up to wave, they go "team captain: xyro! Aka: cinnamon roll!"

My sisters have never let me live that down

I used to suck at playing ping pong and all my peers told me I should quit ping pong.

I read Buchou ni Igen wa Arimasen and it has motivated me to keep playing ping pong and I am getting better every day

I chalange you to a game!

I love table tennis so freaking much!

I have a confession.

 

I love cute anime's with adorable romantic couples. :3

*cough* I hear Pint and Kami are a good couple in MMaM.

Confession: I miss chibichan

I hope she's OK. Havent seen her in a while

Can I have everyone other than Kirry post or pm me your time zones and what times work for you during the week? That way I can start trying to figure out the best time to get us all together.

Again, dnpont worry about me I'm going to be working hard on both AF and my story over the next few weeks anyway, so I don't thinkni will have the time safely ;-;

Confession:

 

When I perform before people for a concert or a musical/play I sometimes have short meltdowns before the concert musical/play because I have stage fright >.<

I like to see that we are opposites

I tend to love going out in full display gear to a stage of a couple of thousands of people, but yet once I get off stage I go all trembly and can't see straight because o feel nervouse about leaving

Thanks for join us Gwen!

 

I plan on getting everyone's time zones and schedules and maybe pick a weekly time where we can all be available? If that doesn't work I will have to figure something else out. But everyone will be notified.

Don't bother with me I'm 5 hours ahead of you all, so no real point in trying

Also a good idea.

 

As long as the community is motivated and is willing to get these types of projects up and running, I'm sure it'll attract alot of attention. Do it!

Turns out peacocks nest may be viable after all!

Optic, how about a little space in the off topic section? Then I can make a whole tone of art explanations for characters, script making, ideas for mmam, exedera

I do like the badge and level system. It looks pretty cool. As a member though I don't know how to get more badges or up my level. Did I miss something or do other people feel the same?

With ryuji gone we can't because he was in charge of competitions. I think what we should do is add more score for the level up system depending on how often people log in, how many posts people do, how often they use chat, exedera.

If you all don't mind, I will make a list tomorrow of the ideas for improvements that can be made so we can nitpick through them and then come up with more ideas.

I do not see it as silly. You are a very important member of this community. My only concern was that if we make one section entirely for your disposal, then everyone would also want their own sections. I was merely teasing you, brother. I do think that you have a good idea. But it is also up to Optics discretion.

 

 

We do have badges, but not as many members seem to be highly motivated by them. I was merely suggesting another system to see how other members felt about it.

Well to be fair I do like the badge system. What I would suggest doing for the anime forums would be making more community based badges then the ones we already have. To add to this, we can also do prize systems such as doing "AF member of the month" with a big plaq of that person, andso ononoo

What about peacock's nest?

I will gladly settle for that too