Club Discussions

[Draken Benvolaid]

The Fighter's Guild is still somewhat active, even though only two members are functioning at the moment.

Just not a lot of fights since I'm not working in the city anymore.
And Celt won't say what fights he's been in lately... for private reasons...


The last posts were just recent, too.

[Draken Benvolaid]

Toph, would it be alright if I make a separate thread for Club to Club discussions?
I mean, this thread is for Club Registrations, not really for discussions... Our posts seem out of place here, is all.

It wouldn't be a club, but a place for discussions about the clubs, their history, their futures, and what should and shouldn't be allowed as clubs. Questions, discussions and such.

Could you sticky it if it's alright?
I'll await for your approval.

[Victoria]

We had a writing/RPing academy called....Writer's Academy. It died because no one was interested in it. >_>;

[Zardoch]

I remember that. Well, maybe if we gather EVERYONE who can RP on the site to revive that, we might be able to save the idea and push it to greater scale of role-playing. I honestly don't see any other way other than uniting everyone. That's pretty much my point, to simply unite everyone and give some hope that won't be as false.

[Furore]

Why not just say that factions are fine so long as people stick to the rules? No flaming or anything regardless of how evil a club is. If it promotes activity through RPBs it could be healthy for TFF.

Hell, maybe even up the punishments for those who flame in a faction just to get the point across... Ultimately I have no real power in this (and regardless of what happens I respect Andromeda's ability to stay firm with decisions), but I do personally think something could happen to make everyone happy if it's thought through. Ever way though as it's not like that many people RPB seriously no more... (I see it as just a bit of fun myself. )

My two cents.

[Anomaly]

You see, the funny thing here is I'm not sure the fourth rule is even relevant...or enforceable. A faction can exist if its a club or not...in fact a club could exist devoted to, oh, origami for the sake of argument, who only allowed members of a certain alignment to join. Then they could just happen to take an interest in creating conflict with a club who's only declared interest is in motor cross and proceed to fuss and feud amongst themselves.

In fact, as I previously mentioned, it wouldn't even have to go that far as a faction could exist and NOT BE OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZED. Take away the club thread and all people will do is put a bit of text or a little banner in their sig about 'proud member of the tribe of darkness/light/monkey's - Want to join? Ask me how!'

The fourth rule neither truly denies anything nor does it fix the problem associated 'faction drama' as its been so delightfully referred to. All it really does it place limitations on a forum activity that is designed to allow like minded individuals to group together closely and participate in/discuss the things that interest them the most.

I'm not saying I do not understand the reasoning behind this declaration, nor am I saying I do not sympathize with those that have to deal with the more colorful individuals that factions tend to attract. All I'm saying is it ends up as a whole lot of fuss over nothing...and something that holds the potential to spark only further drama.

Admittedly, both the SoI and TM have been practically dead since February...

The result of a bit of required down time, and the lack of a viable antagonist. We can turn that around by taking on the role of the antagonist, but it didn't seem it was the right time for such a dramatic shift. This issue could change that thinking among the Circle, however. But then again, it may simply end with a decision to move elsewhere.

[Victoria]

Club Mecha and Wish House are at the 2 month deadline to be closed for inactivity. If you wish to keep the club, please make a post wishing so, otherwise they will eventually be deleted.

[Victoria]

Pet Zone and Castle Crashers are way beyond deadline and are now closed.
Will be deleted in a few days unless someone wants to keep them alive somehow.

Post here if you want to keep them around.

[Victoria]

Nintendo Worshippers and Wish House were closed and move to archive for being way past the deadline.

Catz Club and Comedy Club were closed due to being over the 2 month deadline.

[Victoria]

Catz Club, TFF Royalty, TFF Council, Tea FF, Writers of TFF, Banner Artists United, and the Aussies of TFF have been closed due to inactivity.

Everything but Aussies will be archived within a week if anyone really cares about these clubs.

Aussies still has 20 days to contact me and save the club if anyone cares.

[classicgamer]

Can we start a club that will only be open for part of a year for example. I want to start a club called March Madness for talk about the NCAA Basketball Tourney, it would be open in late Feb to discuss bubble teams and close after the final game. Then reopen and so on

[Victoria]

I don't see a problem with that. Although at the same time, I don't really see a point in closing it. I'm sure discussion can keep going on past the season. xP

[Rocky]

What's there to talk about in the offseason for basketball? Like, could there be any legitimate discussions being made about it right now? I sincerely doubt anyone cares about the NCAA at this point in time. If anything, one who is a fan of sports would realize this wouldn't be feasible....

[Victoria]

Fair enough. I wasn't sure. I'm not really big on sports.

[Zardoch]

I r revivedz threads!

Anyway, skipping such nonsense, I'd like to add to the Club Discussion the idea of how we can really give both things here and elsewhere (i.e. groups) a push in the right direction. No, I am not talking about reviving (X) idea of mine from the past that either died or I let fail, but I think what we need to do to renew interest in various parts in TFF. Specifically, I'd like to see more competition in everything because even though my Factions didn't get off the ground, the same principle of competitiveness is the right way to go.

For example, seeing how the Elimination games have become popular with the competition between FF characters/TFF members, we could start Elimination Tournaments or something, lol. Or we could go with Cesar's idea, where he suggested there should be smaller competitions (not tourneys) in the RPB forum to generate interest and activity, which would lead to the TOA if it worked out. Basically, my point is that as we try to come up with foundations for our forums, we should base it around a competitive frame of mind. Otherwise, everything eventually dies out because either the club/group grows bored of simply just talking about a bunch of crap or they lose interest when events they planned for never get off the ground.

Now, basing what I just said about clubs/groups, the first thing we should figure out is how to make things more interesting. Sure, it's fine if people want to create clubs of interest (Music, Anime, etc.), but ultimately it only leads to a couple a post a week, if that. So the first thing that should happen is for mods and such to be more interactive with these clubs. Like in the case of Music Haven, we could setup an Eliminations game where each member puts two or three of their favorite bands and then the whole club votes until one band is victorious. With this it gives the club something to do, it allows mods to interact with them by hosting such things, and the passion that comes from wanting to see your favorite bands win keeps them interested in being active. If Elimination games aren't your cup of tea, a mod could host a trivia tournament or something.

Another thing we could do both in clubs/groups AND role-playing/battling is create a group of people to grade threads. Such as when two people finish a fight or the fight dies, this Judge can go through the thread and grade their performance, then add advice on how to improve. Just like a mentor/student thing, but it encompasses everybody. Or with clubs, a mod could grade the activity and content once a month (or week), which can determine the closing of a thread or if the club/group does well, they can gain certain privileges, prizes, or awards. That in itself should give people a sense of accomplishment, and as such help them do even more for their club/group.

And now that I think of it, we could even implement 'Achievements' like on the 360 where doing certain accomplishments gives you points or something that can be tallied up at the end of the month for an awesome award. Like say someone completes a fight in RPB, they'll get the 'Never Back Down Achievement' (10 points) for actually finishing it, despite whether they win or lose. Then there could be a High Score board to show the top 10 members.

Whew! Finally think I'm done...for now. What do you guys think?

[Victoria]

Clubs Closed due to Inactivity
Anime Fanatics - 9/1/2010
Bleach Club - 7/29/2010
MMA Lovers - 8/1/2010

If anyone wishes these clubs to be remain open, please say so now, or they'll be gone. You have one week to decide.

Edit: And since it's been almost 2 months since that last post... I don't think anyone cares.
Achievements are stupid, Elimination games are annoying and I wish they would die.

But yeah. There's my piece.

[Victoria]

Clubs Closed due to Inactivity
NES Daily - 9/27/2010
Music Haven - 10/02/2010

If anyone wishes these clubs to be remain open, please say so now, or they'll be gone. You have one week to decide.

[SuperSabin]

I, club founder, of LPers of TFF request a closure of the group. Its been inactive since the previous year and no one has made use of the thread as of late. So whoever is in charge of deleting club threads around here, you are welcome to remove the thread it is no longer needed.