My Board

Basically, I\'ve been thinking of a few thinks relating to both the forum and its staff and ways in which we could improve them. These are only ideas, so they won\'t happen without feedback and approval.

1) All top level categories need a description. \"Special Weapons And Tactics\" doesn\'t help a newb, and places like \"The Booking Room\" have me confused.

2) The News, Suggestions & Support forum has 2 suggestions sub forums. How about 1 for KN news and another for feedback, etc.

3) The Jury Room is clearly more active than KN Projects, and the GIU is more active again. Would reordering these to put active forums at the top be a good move?

4) For the Jury Room\'s description, maybe we could include that weeks current themes. I\'m aware this would get tiresome having to edit each week, but it would grab visitors if they liked the sound of the theme.

5) The forum index is already tight for space. Would it be a bit too drastic to remove the top KG banner, leaving only the banner which won the previous week\'s contest?

6) Could Identikit and Services Interchanged be merged?

7) Gaming Development comes under KillaGaming, doesn\'t it?

8) Group some of the CodeCrypt sections together, such as HTML, CSS and JS...since all are not very active.

9) Application Development and Visual Basic forums are kind of dupes.

10) The Gangster Alley is clearly more active than the Customer forums, how about moving them above the customer ones?

11) Revised guidelines mentioning acceptable artwork content?

For the staff, how about we split them up into groups such as:
Forum & Chat - No access to \"The Hideout\"
Graphics - KG.com being their main site
Coders - KC.com being the main site
Writers - Writer\'s being the main site
Gaming - Kgam...
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We then have Senion Staff, which I think should be Rift, David (Security Duo) and Josh (who is an admin on gaming).
Then there are the admins.
The staff have to chose which group they\'d like to belong to...this will be easier for some than for others. They will obviously be free to help out with other stuff, but they should be active on the area they pick.
If a work request comes in, it would be directed to the most appropriate group. Sometimes this may require collaboration of groups.
Those who don\'t wish to assign themselves to a group (except admins) should be Forum & Chat staff only. I believe the people who won\'t choose a group will be the least active staff, and we can then look towards building up each group with motivated staff.

Thats a lot to work on, but I think we need to start out with some changes, as the current setup isn\'t the best demonstration of KN\'s talent.

Remember these are only ideas, so feel free to shoot them in any way you see fit.

Good suggestions, Scott; I\'ll do some renaming and moving around in a little while. I think I will add a \"KillaNet Scripters\" section in The Hideout, move Gaming Development to KillaNet Programmers, merge a few things, post the changes, and then also post the staff groupings.

I will also try to figure out a time for an admin meeting. Should we invite Josh (make a temp channel) or no? The meeting will be scheduled for next weekend: Saturday in North America/UK and Sunday in Aus/NZ.

for anything relating to gaming i would invite josh, renaming some of the sub forums and what not, might help alot of the new people find things easier. Good ideas scott http://www.killanet.net/forum3/public/style_emoticons//biggrin.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':D\' /> I might not be able to be around next weekend, my grandfather is going to an HS reunion and i am the lucky one that gets to drive him >./cry.gif">http://www.killanet.net/forum3/public/style_emoticons//cry.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':(\' />

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Everything suggested sounds ok to me, I\'ll also do my best to be around next weekend (if that\'s when the admin meeting happens)..

I think a lot of the points mentioned relate to getting things closer together, like instead of many sections with little content (some exceptions), have fewer sections with more content.. are we going to do something like this with the sites? I guess this is a point that should be saved for the meeting though..

-ner0

Alrighty then, I\'ve moved the furniture around, changed a few forum names, added some descriptions...how\'s that for a start?

Great Work Ada /good.gif">http://www.killanet.net/forum3/public/style_emoticons//good.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'(Y)\' /> I know how much you like changing things /blum.gif">http://www.killanet.net/forum3/public/style_emoticons//blum.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':P\' />

We\'re going to need to mention gaming at some point in the meeting, but we have other stuff that needs discussed too..so maybe leave gaming to the end of the agenda (ooo, that would be useful) and bring josh in for that?

[quote name=\'paul\']instead of many sections with little content (some exceptions), have fewer sections with more content[/quote]

Yes, that was certainly my intention on the forum, I\'m not sure how much we can scale this into the sites...but we\'ll discuss this at the meeting.

Better late then not at all; All sounds fine and will newbies out etc. That weekend may not also be a good time for me, though being sunday I may be back

I'm still getting lost in all the forums, and you go changing them again :'(

My only comment is about the Josh in the meeting, if you want him in it just for the gaming part, do gaming first so we can give him a set time to turn up rather than asking him to be on for 6 hours while we get other things out of the way http://www.killanet.net/forum3/public/style_emoticons//smile.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':)\' />

Good suggestion, Rob...and now we just have to figure out an availability time. I *could* be around Friday, depending on the time. Sometimes I think it would be easier to just have you all move here than it is trying to schedule a meeting time /blum.gif">http://www.killanet.net/forum3/public/style_emoticons//blum.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':P\' />