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I was thinking about a system much like a calendar to organize events and tournaments in this forum. I would probably use a public version of a Google calendar so everyone could see what events are going on and roughly when they would be over.

Beforehand, I had this "approval" system running and that wasn't very effective or efficient but with this system, approval wouldn't be needed necessarily but to have your event up on the calendar, you'd have to run it by me first.

Also, this way tournaments would probably have a higher success rate/turnout since they would be on the calendar for everyone to see. Threads wouldn't need bumping to stay at the top of the forum.

I'm thinking of a "Your Creations this month" thread every month with a new calendar.

It's gonna take some effort to get it started off but I'm sure that it will work out. So what do you guys think?

ATTENTION!

If you are planning to host a drawing, graphics, etc. tournament in Feburary, please PM Tri so I will have an idea of what to add to next months 'Your Creations: Febuary 2014' thread. This will be a good way to get more participation in your tournaments. Please only PM me if this will be a big thing, that won't fail, as in it will actually happen and won't stop due to participants not participating or anything of the sorts. STAY COMMITED! If you repeatedly fail to stay commited to a tournament (hosting or participating) you won't be able to in the future.

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Good idea. The mass of recent tournaments shows why this is necessary. The whole front page is clogged thick with them. Anything to get a handle on the situation is very welcome. Though I must point out: the same could be said for this entire section of the board.

Thought...

Most users in the Your Creations section appear to be regulars. It feels like most others don't visit this part of the board just because of the volume of stuff that's here. No offence to anyone in particular but a lot of the material here just isn't that interesting. People get sick of thread-surfing only to be inundated with stuff that's not really worth their time. And there is a lot of stuff both ways.

As an example; tournament threads are mostly filled with requests - which is useless information for anyone but the poster and the organiser. Sure these posts need to happen for the tournament to work - but why would anyone else want to read them? They just take up space.

Likewise, some stories are just better than others. There's no shame in that. We should all enjoy an opportunity to improve. But a single truly great narrative in a hundred makes it difficult to find just that one.

Meanwhile...

The calendar idea is a good one. Frankly, I'd like to see a whole subsection added to this forum where high-calibre creative threads can be moved for collection; threads which are well-presented, well-written or just really unique. If a mod feels a thread (be it a story, tournament, photoblog, etc) is worthy of exhibition to the wider audience of the WBO, they can move it to this "exhibition" subsection. Make it a once-a-week thing. This way, other users on the board can cut straight to the chase. For the people posting their work/tournaments as usual, it becomes a raw incentive to improve their skills.

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Yeah the influx of tournament threads and disorganization was why I was appointed moderator in the first place. The situation had calmed down for like a year but it is starting again now.

Hopefully we can start this project at the beginning of February!

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If you are planning to host a drawing, graphics, etc. tournament in Feburary, please PM me so I will have an idea of what to add to next months 'Your Creations: Febuary 2014' thread. This will be a good way to get more participation in your tournaments. Please only PM me if this will be a big thing, that won't fail, as in it will actually happen and won't stop due to participants not participating or anything of the sorts. STAY COMMITED! If you repeatedly fail to stay commited to a tournament (hosting or participating) you won't be able to in the future.

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Meanwhile...

The calendar idea is a good one. Frankly, I'd like to see a whole subsection added to this forum where high-calibre creative threads can be moved for collection; threads which are well-presented, well-written or just really unique. If a mod feels a thread (be it a story, tournament, photoblog, etc) is worthy of exhibition to the wider audience of the WBO, they can move it to this "exhibition" subsection. Make it a once-a-week thing. This way, other users on the board can cut straight to the chase. For the people posting their work/tournaments as usual, it becomes a raw incentive to improve their skills.

I meant to reply to this but I somehow forgot

It'd be nice to have something like that for sure! Maybe a "featured threads this month" kind of thing. We'll see

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UPDATE: This project will hopefully go full-scale on February 1st! Anyone want to get their tournaments proposed now so they can be added right on to the calendar?



EDIT: a photography tournament and a graphics tournament have already been booked for this month!!

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I got this started here: http://worldbeyblade.org/Thread-Welcome--65055

My inbox is always open for more tournaments!

Thank you all for the support!

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