A New Direction for SC?

[Rainbow Dash]

Recently I've started thinking about the marketability and "user friendliness" of SC. But more importantly I've been thinking about the direction SC is going, and it's not a good place. Call it guilt, learning the hard way, or the fact that I've done a bang-up job being an admin being a poor example to the SC community, but I want to make this right.

I've been toying with some new forum outlines and ideas as to what to do with SC to make it a better place. Here is what I've come up with.

Solution A: A complete facelift and total 180 in purpose. Market SC as an adult/mature Chicken Smoothie fan forum geared towards adult players and do away with the drama section entirely. The art section will remain intact.

Solution B: A 75/25 balance. Market SC as an adult/mature Chicken Smoothie fan forum geared towards adult players and make the drama section a more minor part (in the rough forum outline, it contains three forums total; General Drama, Rant Box, Debates.) The art section will remain intact.

Solution C: An even 50/50 split. Market SC as an adult/mature Chicken Smoothie fan forum geared towards adult players with discussions about CS drama. Art section remains intact.

Solution D: Do nothing. Leave SC as it is.

Of course if you have suggestions as to alterations to a solution or a different solution entirely, I'd be happy to hear it.

I didn't want to do anything drastic without the community's input, this decision is yours and yours alone. I've put my own ego in front of the community's best interest long enough.

This poll will be up for two weeks to a month to get feedback.

[Rainbow Dash]

Since it looks like people are liking the 75/25 option, here's the rough outline I have on file. Any suggestions would be very very helpful. Mostly it's the CS section that needs to be fattened up but anything else would be appreciated.

Notes are just my own notes to self. Ignore or take into account at your own leisure.

GENERAL
- Introductions
- Suggestions box
- General board
- The Media

SKINLESS CHICKEN RELATED
- News
- Polls
- Site discussion

CHICKEN SMOOTHIE
- General CS chat
- Silly CS stuff
(Note: More stuff here)

ART
- Critique/Redline Request
- Gallery
- Art Chat

DRAMA
- General Drama
- Rant Box
- Debates and Serious Stuff
(Note to self: What will happen to the People forum? Stick that in general drama? Ditch it?)

ARTIST FILES
(What we have now)
(Note: Make rules to keep it professional/drama free.)

[sirius]

What if you add a "Pet Review" section, kind of like the already "pet discussion" section that is on CS and similar to the pet reviews you do? It could either be reposted each month, or one long thread. It could even be sectioned off by species if need be.

By no means do I want it as an artist bashing thread, but it would be nice to have a place where we can say that we don't care for a pet, and WHY we don't care for it (ie nothing like "its ugly D:" and leave it at that.)--without people getting their underwear bunched up about it and threads mass deleted.

Perhaps there would be some rules though to this, so that bashing doesn't happen. Like, they have to say specifically what the like or what they not like about the pet. If they give a negative comment, perhaps they have to say something nice about it as well, even if its something minor, like an eye color.

Just a thought, since people seem to really like to crit the pets.

[puck]

It could go in the general cs chat bit but let's have somewhere to talk about the good parts of cs and the aspects of cs which we enjoy after all, if all you can do is bitch and whine about it theres no point in you being there in the first place, right?

[sirius]

Wow, Puck. Congratulations, you missed my point entirely.

A crit does not have to entail bitching and whining at all, and does not imply that I do not want to be at CS. Skinless Chicken doesn't have to be all smoothies and rainbows. If it's a "mature" site, then we can discuss both negative and positive things about CS and CS pets like adults without whining/bitching/drama. I'm sure there will be plenty of sections to talk about all of the fluffy shiny happy good parts of CS.

[puck]

um wtf, I wasn't talking to you or addressing anything in your post o.o

[Rainbow Dash]

Dec 9, 2010 12:24:49 GMT -5 sirius said:

What if you add a "Pet Review" section, kind of like the already "pet discussion" section that is on CS and similar to the pet reviews you do? It could either be reposted each month, or one long thread. It could even be sectioned off by species if need be.

By no means do I want it as an artist bashing thread, but it would be nice to have a place where we can say that we don't care for a pet, and WHY we don't care for it (ie nothing like "its ugly D:" and leave it at that.)--without people getting their underwear bunched up about it and threads mass deleted.

Perhaps there would be some rules though to this, so that bashing doesn't happen. Like, they have to say specifically what the like or what they not like about the pet. If they give a negative comment, perhaps they have to say something nice about it as well, even if its something minor, like an eye color.

Just a thought, since people seem to really like to crit the pets.

I like that. Maybe just one sticky though for every month would work at first for a seriousface CS discussion subforum. Seems a little excessive to give it a whole forum. If it gets bigger than maybe a subforum. I also like guidelines for critiquing so it doesn't devolve into "IT SUCKS I WANT TO VOMIT OUT MY ORGANS IT'S SO BAD"

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I'll probably start doing revamps and turning over the forum to the new SC after Christmas. As of now it looks like it's gonna be 75/25.

I'll give an exact date when the board is gonna be in maintenance mode next week and give an approximate date when the new SC will be up. It looks like this will be something to do in front of the Twilight Zone new year's marathon.