Kobold84 wrote:
It takes two people to make a good thread. You don't need exemplary never-seen-before ideas to make a fun thread, just something other people can bounce off easily. Basically, just involve people into what you're doing.
Well... actually I don't have much experience with OT in particular, maybe what you need is something else, but that worked for other forums I frequented.
Even though you don't have much experience with OT, you're pretty much spot on.
It just works a little differently here, in terms of how much this forum actually matters to people, as well as generational quality gaps.
The issue I raised is the fact that, we constantly look towards competitions, which individually are nothing to laugh at (in terms of effort), but overall just a meta, for 'quality'. Not only does this make Gen9 look like a useless generation, but it's eventually going to get stale.
Patatitta wrote:
I feel we're ignoring the ot book here, it's high effort, it requires a lot to participate on it, no rewards, but still works
I feel we're labbing this too much, do we really want a formula on how to make a good thread?, a formula that other people will copy, leading to probably the same type of threads over and over again, like the thing we're complaining here?
A formula or permanent solution is not what I'm looking for here, I'm referring to a forum-wide project in the near future which has a decent standing within a broader osu! community, or the forum community at the very least. Even if we don't accomplish that, at least something to show for our community, a masterpiece that represents who we are.
octowave wrote:
as much as people want there to be massive HiGh-EFfOrT threads, if it takes too much effort to participate in, it will most likely die. i've found successful threads tend to come from one - or a combination of - three things:
1. simple to participate in (in terms of puzzles and stuff, the solutions can't be too obscure/no complex character creation if neither of the below two apply to the thread idea/only needing to type "/in" to participate like in those tournament threads/etc.)
2. community/collaboration (ot!book, padoru invasion, the christmas tree drawing)
3. rewards (polyspora's mapping competition, pretty much any competition in general really)
Pretty much the OT Model here.
I intend to propose something which follows all 3, though the reward will be the outcome or experience, not a tangible or personal thing.
At the moment PadOT! (which has become less of a government and more of a creative group at this point), has their hands full on a large project, once we get a consistent schedule on that, we can help create something.