Because I'm required to spend time on a lot of other parts of the site (feature development, training moderators, etc), I don't have time to run these sorts of clubs - but they're ideas I've had for awhile, and am here to ask the community if any of you have interest in helping create or run these club/s ^_^
Specifically, I have two ideas in mind - they could potentially be the same club, or maybe split apart into two if people have a strong desire to do one or the other. I'm open to suggestion on how they'd be run, anything - I'd love for the community to work together on how they would best work, and for a few people to run each of them ^_^
1) A 'welcoming' type of club. the idea i had was that club members could welcome newcomers to the site (the 'users' homepage has a list of people who joined that day). I think you'd agree that seeing friendly faces when you join a community is always a great thing :)
2) a 'we're here for help' type of club. These might be the same clubs because I think 'welcome to the site' and 'let me know if you have any questions' sort of go hand in hand, and new folks often want help with things like setting up their lists or figuring out site features.
Ideally this would be a large team (or teams) of people who love Anime-Planet and want to help out people with questions, or just help people feel welcome. This would hopefully mean I get less private messages/profile questions and things to me directly, most of which I never have time to respond to :/ you'd be the club I'd send people to if they need help figuring out something, etc.
Other random notes/ideas:
-I could get a badge created for both the admins of the club, and for members of the club. In theory (i think this is set up already, i just need to make sure), the club admins would be able to award these badges to the club members themselves, without needing me to do it
-We'd need a good handful of people to run each of the clubs - this way if people are gone/lose interest, there's others to keep things going :)
-We'd have a subforum in the clubs section, including potentially a mod section where the mods could brainstorm projects/plans
-The mods could decide if they want to do projects on the site that awards TACO points (or something else) to the members who do the most
Any other thoughts/ideas? Is anyone interested in this, etc?
Specifically, I have two ideas in mind - they could potentially be the same club, or maybe split apart into two if people have a strong desire to do one or the other. I'm open to suggestion on how they'd be run, anything - I'd love for the community to work together on how they would best work, and for a few people to run each of them ^_^
1) A 'welcoming' type of club. the idea i had was that club members could welcome newcomers to the site (the 'users' homepage has a list of people who joined that day). I think you'd agree that seeing friendly faces when you join a community is always a great thing :)
2) a 'we're here for help' type of club. These might be the same clubs because I think 'welcome to the site' and 'let me know if you have any questions' sort of go hand in hand, and new folks often want help with things like setting up their lists or figuring out site features.
Ideally this would be a large team (or teams) of people who love Anime-Planet and want to help out people with questions, or just help people feel welcome. This would hopefully mean I get less private messages/profile questions and things to me directly, most of which I never have time to respond to :/ you'd be the club I'd send people to if they need help figuring out something, etc.
Other random notes/ideas:
-I could get a badge created for both the admins of the club, and for members of the club. In theory (i think this is set up already, i just need to make sure), the club admins would be able to award these badges to the club members themselves, without needing me to do it
-We'd need a good handful of people to run each of the clubs - this way if people are gone/lose interest, there's others to keep things going :)
-We'd have a subforum in the clubs section, including potentially a mod section where the mods could brainstorm projects/plans
-The mods could decide if they want to do projects on the site that awards TACO points (or something else) to the members who do the most
Any other thoughts/ideas? Is anyone interested in this, etc?