Adding Event Forum

[Divine]

Okay, from the title of the thread you can probably get the main idea for this concept. The main concept for this would be to have all the events that are being posted in different forums normally posted in the same forum. I have talked to multiple people about how they always seem to have issues finding events and what time an event is. So what I am suggesting is that we make a forum under the EdgeGamers Supported Games that will just be labeled Events. Within this forum there can be suggestions for the events telling the ECs/division what they can do better, it would also be where every EC from EVERY division would post their threads about their event. Once a event is completed or a suggestion has been taken into consideration it can be moved to a completed forum like a ban request so that people can see previous threads about the events that happened or suggestions. After a event you would give people time (a day) to leave a few comments on the thread explaining what they liked about the event or if they had any criticisms about the event then a manager would move the thread to completed. Overall there is no harm that can be done by making this forum it would only lead to a larger amount of people coming to events and overall more people joining eGO. There is a few ways that this could benefit eGO, it can help bring new people in to our events which would then populate our servers and help us populate with even more members.

An example of how this might help is if a EC hosts a event, but almost nobody would see it because of the time of day they post it and they don't regularly check that games forum. So instead of someone getting 15 people at their event there is only 5-10 people at the event.

If you have any feedback on this it would be greatly appreciated, feel free to leave your thoughts on this and we can have a discussion about it.

 

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[carter227]

Good idea from me . Add this please, it's a way to find events really easy.

 

[dys]

As much as I love having an excuse to go to other forums that I wouldn't normally check, it's honestly hard to find other events since I don't always visit other forums. Every game does it differently and honestly they're aren't the easiest to find. I personally am a lazy person and I guarantee you a lot of other people here are. I feel this would make it easier for everyone to find events they're interested in.

 

[Simon]

Yeah, I think this is a sensible option at this point. We've tried to direct people to the calendar for ages and it never seems to get through their skulls - maybe this is the best solution. Good idea Divine. It would definitely help expose people to other games eGO supports too.

 

[Divine]

Yeah, I think this is a sensible option at this point. We've tried to direct people to the calendar for ages and it never seems to get through their skulls - maybe this is the best solution. Good idea Divine. It would definitely help expose people to other games eGO supports too.

On top of directing people to the calendars sometimes the calendar isn't even up to date with what events are going on.

 

[Simon]

On top of directing people to the calendars sometimes the calendar isn't even up to date with what events are going on.

Yeah, a long time ago we used to require ECs to post it there, however, in the efforts to rebuild various EC programs over the years it was not always put as a priority, which is okay - many groups had big hurdles to get through to fix things. We did actively try to get that going again at one point, however, it just didn't work out.

Personally would like to see this, but maybe more visibility on the front page as well. Even just a spot on the side "Events happening today". This would require some maintenance to keep up with (Media team/whoever has access) but may help a bit more too.

Alternatively, perhaps on the sidebar as opposed to the Twitch option there (I feel it's underused, but maybe it isn't). I personally never go to the front page, so a nice spot on the forums to see might help. Just spitballing more ideas for visibility here.

Not sure if other groups are doing this but, we used to make the top rooms of games on Teamspeak have the event time/name in it the day of - this helped some people when they wanted to know what was going on that day, or they would see it in passing. Not sure if everyone still doing this (I haven't been on TS in months).

 

[Divine]

Yeah, a long time ago we used to require ECs to post it there, however, in the efforts to rebuild various EC programs over the years it was not always put as a priority, which is okay - many groups had big hurdles to get through to fix things. We did actively try to get that going again at one point, however, it just didn't work out.

Personally would like to see this, but maybe more visibility on the front page as well. Even just a spot on the side "Events happening today". This would require some maintenance to keep up with (Media team/whoever has access) but may help a bit more too.

Alternatively, perhaps on the sidebar as opposed to the Twitch option there (I feel it's underused, but maybe it isn't). I personally never go to the front page, so a nice spot on the forums to see might help. Just spitballing more ideas for visibility here.

Not sure if other groups are doing this but, we used to make the top rooms of games on Teamspeak have the event time/name in it the day of - this helped some people when they wanted to know what was going on that day, or they would see it in passing. Not sure if everyone still doing this (I haven't been on TS in months).

Yeah I also like the idea of events on the side but I'm sure that would require some more manual entry that I'm sure people don't want to do. Having the events on the sidebar of the screen or of some sort like "Events Happening Today/Upcoming Events" but as I said I'm sure that people don't want to do any type of manual entry into something. The only way I could see something like this working is if they somehow allowed ECs to post their events on it. Like my event today could be posted there by me then it would definitely work.

 

[tammer10]

I think this idea is great. +rep.

 

[Shayne]

Sounds like a good idea.

 

[Maserati]

We should go back to making sure EC teams are posting in the forums/calendar, make sure members are joining the steam groups for the games they are interested so they get the blast alert about an event and making sure that events are being posted in the divisional forums. Not sure about one thread for all events as it would defeat the purpose of the calendar. Also I liked that TS3 channels being named for the event was mentioned, I know this is still done somewhat. Exposure overall is what needs to be Key.

I remember one of the issues I used to face as EC was having the permissions to even make the post on the calendar and had to get an advisor (Manager) to post it/approve it, not sure if this has changed. Like the idea, but I feel that permissions and moderating might be an issue having a dedicated forum area. Also I feel it would be one more area to check when we already have a place and it's not being fully utilized.

 

[Divine]

I remember one of the issues I used to face was having the permissions to even make the post on the calendar and had to get an advisor (Manager) to post it/approve it. Like the idea, but I feel that permissions and moderating might be an issue having a dedicated forum area. Also I feel it would be one more area to check when we already have a place and it's not being fully utilized.

Maserati That seems to be the issue with the calendar is that the managers will have to approve it or post it there if they remember about it. It's extremely frustrating and hard to find events for any games anymore as they will be posted at random times and I might not check the specific forum for a game or event. This would kind of replace the calendar but I don't see anything wrong with posting in a specific forum as well as the calendar

 

[Simon]

I remember one of the issues I used to face as EC was having the permissions to even make the post on the calendar and had to get an advisor (Manager) to post it/approve it, not sure if this has changed. Like the idea, but I feel that permissions and moderating might be an issue having a dedicated forum area. Also I feel it would be one more area to check when we already have a place and it's not being fully utilized.

Yeah it's still like this. Like i said in my post, we tried to push people to get into this habit again, but it's hit and miss. Not to mention the calendar is not overly visible, the bigger issue. We talked about getting it to the front page / sidebar but nothing has come of that.

Manager's approving should not a big issue - each day in TF2 we had a manager (at least one of us) check and approve it. Not that hard to say "Hey I've got an event that needs approving"

 

[Maserati]

Yeah it's still like this. Like i said in my post, we tried to push people to get into this habit again, but it's hit and miss. Not to mention the calendar is not overly visible, the bigger issue. We talked about getting it to the front page / sidebar but nothing has come of that.

Manager's approving should not a big issue - each day in TF2 we had a manager (at least one of us) check and approve it. Not that hard to say "Hey I've got an event that needs approving"

Yea and I remember even pushing management back then for the EC/RC team members themselves to be able to just post to the calendar without us (leadership back then) having to approve since we just had a google doc with all the dates and people signed up on the empty slots available (this was in TF2). Not that it was an issue, but always felt it was good for the team to have that ability so we didn't have to bother anyone lol. Again, I think it was a group permissions issue so it wasn't changed.

It would be awesome if the calendar was more visible, but again not sure how much customization Vbulletin has for that to be modified around :/

 

[Simon]

Yea and I remember even pushing management back then for the EC/RC team members themselves to be able to just post to the calendar without us (leadership back then) having to approve since we just had a google doc with all the dates and people signed up on the empty slots available (this was in TF2). Not that it was an issue, but always felt it was good for the team to have that ability so we didn't have to bother anyone lol. Again, I think it was a group permissions issue so it wasn't changed.

It would be awesome if the calendar was more visible, but again not sure how much customization Vbulletin has for that to be modified around :/

The actual issue with giving people the permissions to access adding events to the calendar is that eGO's forum has a mess of permissions as is. Like the #1 rule for people with higher access is do not touch permissions. It sort of hangs in a scary balance lol.

Yeah, it would be nice to move it and get it more visible. I'm not sure how quickly that could happen with the massive tech projects already ongoing too.

 

[Divine]

The actual issue with giving people the permissions to access adding events to the calendar is that eGO's forum has a mess of permissions as is. Like the #1 rule for people with higher access is do not touch permissions. It sort of hangs in a scary balance lol.

I mean if it can't happen to where regular ECs (non managers) can post on the calendar then it seems that the best solution for this issue would be a separate forum or just having all the managers keep up to date with the events. But even then it feels like a lot of people won't even check the calendar if there is any new events on there.

 

[Simon]

I mean if it can't happen to where regular ECs (non managers) can post on the calendar then it seems that the best solution for this issue would be a separate forum or just having all the managers keep up to date with the events. But even then it feels like a lot of people won't even check the calendar if there is any new events on there.

Yeah, the big issue with the calendar is that you either scroll to the bottom, or have to manually go to it and be searching for events - which most people don't.

Is everyone still updating their respective Steam groups with events? Is the main group being used? We used to send out 30, 10, 5ish minute warnings of events via steam. Just trying to find some simple ideas to help boost attendance until more elaborate ideas can come to fruition.

 

[Divine]

Yeah, the big issue with the calendar is that you either scroll to the bottom, or have to manually go to it and be searching for events - which most people don't.

Is everyone still updating their respective Steam groups with events? Is the main group being used? We used to send out 30, 10, 5ish minute warnings of events via steam. Just trying to find some simple ideas to help boost attendance until more elaborate ideas can come to fruition.

I don’t know that they’re being used all the time as I’m in the MS EC division so I don’t have a group to post my events in, but I don’t think I see any for CS

 

[Divine]

Anyone else have anymore thoughts on this idea?

 

[Michael Bolton]

I keep seeing the Calendar thing pop up, but I'd like to just add one thing regarding that. I never learned how to use the calendar. I remember asking when I was first brought into leadership a few years back, but the people I asked weren't sure how to put stuff on the calendar either