Even though you don't have much experience with OT, you're pretty much spot on.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.
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.
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.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?
Pretty much the OT Model here.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)
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.
