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+--- Thread: We need a community manager. (/showthread.php?tid=107564)
RE: We need a community manager. - Lythrilux - 11-20-2013
People, let's be realistic, what could a community manager really bring? Sure, they might have a lovely title and have a great time setting up polls and what not, but let's take a look at the game itself. It's dying. Slowly but surely. What could community manager really bring? Perhaps a few new players staying longer than usual, but that'd be it.
I hate to be negative, but that is the truth. I also don't believe there are a lot of people here who are really fit for the role.
RE: We need a community manager. - Divine - 11-20-2013
Community Managers, what a load of trash. If you really want to do something in favour of the overall server, then leave the "Community Manager" stuff to the Forum-Mods, and actually create a "new" spot you'll call -Event-Team- ... which basically does nothing else as to set-up small and larger events in-game. Long-term event-chains, one-time events, events born out of ingame encounters which happen without any notification on the forums, events with several days pre-warming and notification on the forums.
But those people would need the ability to actually spawn and despawn stations and/or NPCs ingame.
And lets face it, Admins/Devs/Mods/whoever else and his hoe don't want that.
RE: We need a community manager. - Eduard - 11-20-2013
This is an interesting idea...
I would love to partake in something of this caliber.
Not sure, however, what are the chances that such an idea would ever be implemented in disco.
Still, I believe it can be done anytime at an informal, unofficial scale, as it would require the community and ( /or ) especially the official factions to come at an agreement regarding a "manager" who is the intermediary between admins and such.
I believe it's done already at a small scale in a few factions, or parts of this community considering there are devs/mods/admins who are part of certain factions as well
RE: We need a community manager. - Rodnas - 11-20-2013
(11-20-2013, 05:04 PM)Lythrilux Wrote: People, let's be realistic, what could a community manager really bring? Sure, they might have a lovely title and have a great time setting up polls and what not, but let's take a look at the game itself. It's dying. Slowly but surely. What could community manager really bring? Perhaps a few new players staying longer than usual, but that'd be it.
I hate to be negative, but that is the truth. I also don't believe there are a lot of people here who are really fit for the role.
Everything ends at some point, you can't take that as an argument for inaction - otherwise better drop out of your job fast, because you will end soon, too
No seriously - communication in this community is bad, as in really bad - some devs try to give transparency and the info folks want ( hello Aet
)- others conjure up mumbo jumbo from thin air, at least it looks like that from the outside. Yet others are simply plain old rude or not interested in communicating , because they didn't sing up for that part.And from the bottom to the top it works the same way - players want to invest their time and creativity - they want to make disco a better place and game but lack a person to speak to, someone willing to listen.....maybe some folks would feel more at home and stick around for longer if they would feel a bit welcome and taken seriously. Communication drag behind if many people are involved - communication is serious business and can make or break things depending on how it is executed.... everyone speaks about disco dying, so why not try to extend discos "suffering" a bit, give it a few more fun and better years?
RE: We need a community manager. - Lythrilux - 11-20-2013
Well, in that case, nearest person I see here would be fit for the role would be someone like Summer. He's chill with the majority of people in the community, gets along with a lot of people, he's not reclusive, he listens and he's not uptight (at least not all the time). SummerMcLovin is a pretty cool guy. Eh socializes with the community and doesn't afraid of listening.
RE: We need a community manager. - Narcotic - 11-20-2013
(11-20-2013, 05:04 PM)Lythrilux Wrote: It's dying. Slowly but surely.
A game lives as long as it is played. Therefore no game ever "dies".
In your words, Discovery "died" since it was released.
And until every single community member "dies" - one can still enjoy it as long as it'll last. I've recently visited the server and was suprised to see 140+ players online. So I can't understand people's pathetic fear.
The roleplay genre as a whole might be dying ever since. But I won't worry that it'll "die" before I will. And I sure as hell didn't planned to play RP games til the end of my days...
If someone volunteers to 'manage' this (dead) place - why not? It'll surely bring more good than harm. No matter who it'd be.
RE: We need a community manager. - Dave Johnson - 11-20-2013
Well i agree it would be usefull bit i think it would need more than one person to do this, That way all timezones would be coverd
(11-20-2013, 01:37 PM)Narcotic Wrote: The question would rather be; who would volunteer for such an ungrateful task?
I would volunteer for this
RE: We need a community manager. - Luke. - 11-20-2013
*sticks his head in the door*
Count me in.
*leaves*
...
*peers back in*
Lyth, be quiet.
*leaves again*
RE: We need a community manager. - Valrin - 11-20-2013
*puts hand in the air* I would offer to do it....I mean hell, I have no life xD (no really...I play this game like 6-9 hours a day)
Not that anyone would vote for me >_>
RE: We need a community manager. - Veygaar - 11-20-2013
Eh.... this is the job for me!!!!
Where do I sign up?