Hammerfel
04-27-2008, 09:41 PM
Hello all,
I'd like to start first by thanking General Scarlett for her long contribution as Moderator for JoeDios. As I emailed her tonight, however, we don't have the same vision for the site, and that divergence got wider and wider over the last few months. I have removed her moderator rights but she is welcome to contribute as a Veteran member.
I created JoeDios with the intent to allow the most creative, passionate and collaborative amongst the GI Joe Diorama community to take it and make it their own. I wanted you to do things with it that were so creative, I'd never think of it on my own. And you have! It's wonderful how you've made it your own, without much direction from me, and made it fly.
And that's the core of my "management" style. I invite quality people, then I let them run with the idea. I don't put up unnecessary restrictions, or too many rules, I let the creativity flow, keep the tenor nice, and try to keep out the spammers. This is how I do thing, and how I want it to continue. I have faith in Sonnelion's demeanor to carry that spirit forth.
That said, here are some guidelines for healthy forums. I've been creating and running video gaming forums for Atari and Sony for 10 years now, and here are some things I've learned:
Don't make sub forums until your main forum has at least 2 pages of threads in a day OR, there's a particular subject in the main forum that pop up a lot and gets in the way of the main discussion. If JoeDios had 10 sub forums, they'd each have 5 threads and the site would look dead to a new user.
Don't have more than 3 or 4 stickies. 3 is my personal max. Have 8 or 9, and the site looks like it's highly regimented, which is not my style.
Appoint moderators to keep the peace when things go off the rails, but who otherwise are mainly contributors. I don't like thought police.
That's it. Please carry on, and if you want to reply, you can do it here, or in a PM to me, or if it's urgent, email me at natepearce (at) gmail.com. If you think I'm making a mistake, I'm happy to hear it. I promise I won't ban you for disagreeing with me. :)
I'd like to start first by thanking General Scarlett for her long contribution as Moderator for JoeDios. As I emailed her tonight, however, we don't have the same vision for the site, and that divergence got wider and wider over the last few months. I have removed her moderator rights but she is welcome to contribute as a Veteran member.
I created JoeDios with the intent to allow the most creative, passionate and collaborative amongst the GI Joe Diorama community to take it and make it their own. I wanted you to do things with it that were so creative, I'd never think of it on my own. And you have! It's wonderful how you've made it your own, without much direction from me, and made it fly.
And that's the core of my "management" style. I invite quality people, then I let them run with the idea. I don't put up unnecessary restrictions, or too many rules, I let the creativity flow, keep the tenor nice, and try to keep out the spammers. This is how I do thing, and how I want it to continue. I have faith in Sonnelion's demeanor to carry that spirit forth.
That said, here are some guidelines for healthy forums. I've been creating and running video gaming forums for Atari and Sony for 10 years now, and here are some things I've learned:
Don't make sub forums until your main forum has at least 2 pages of threads in a day OR, there's a particular subject in the main forum that pop up a lot and gets in the way of the main discussion. If JoeDios had 10 sub forums, they'd each have 5 threads and the site would look dead to a new user.
Don't have more than 3 or 4 stickies. 3 is my personal max. Have 8 or 9, and the site looks like it's highly regimented, which is not my style.
Appoint moderators to keep the peace when things go off the rails, but who otherwise are mainly contributors. I don't like thought police.
That's it. Please carry on, and if you want to reply, you can do it here, or in a PM to me, or if it's urgent, email me at natepearce (at) gmail.com. If you think I'm making a mistake, I'm happy to hear it. I promise I won't ban you for disagreeing with me. :)