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Hi... Perhaps you're all aware that the MC Dorms closed down for a bit of a breather. Well, I did have plans to reopen them... But because there are some questions, I thought I'd share them here and get your thoughts.
My intentions were/are to create a new Muppet College (MC) Dorms group on Facebook. It would be a closed global group, meaning that anyone can read the posts, just like on the thread, but admissions would be via invitation or request with my approval of course. This would henceforth eliminate the review committee—which will also be disbanded should the thread on the forums be reopened. Also, once admitted, members would be able to post in the various threads.
This leads to the other major change... Dorms life would/will be divided into three main periods or terms: May-August, September-December, and January-April. This would serve a two-fold purpose: 1) allow dorms life/thread to flow in a more concise manner, moving to a new thread for the following term; and 2) anyone who shows 0 participation after being admitted to the dorms at the start of a term all the way to the start of the next would be deemed as perhaps not entirely fit for dorms life, their position vacated. After all, if you sign up for the game, I'd hope you'd make the effort to participate. It doesn't have to be every single other post every single day, but just a few posts once in a while are nice to show you're still with us.
The shortening or creation of these periods does make me a little worried. The reasoning is thus. On MC, we have the main sections, and threads get posted there, no questions asked. On Facebook, though threads can't be locked/closed, we would be able to move from one to the other, in proper ensuing manner. If you pursue my logic, there'd be a May 2009 term thread, September 2009 thread, January 2010 thread, and so on. The concern is that such splitting would populate and dominate the Games section's first page with nothing but dorms' threads at some point. The advantage with Facebook is that only the currently active top three threads are displayed at a given time. If you pursue this logic, at one point all that would be visible would be the May 2010 thread, then January 2010 thread, and finally September 2009 thread. Additionally, the rules, application form and roster would be more easily viewable at the top of the page, which would simplify new admission requests.
So there it is... LMK how you feel about the proposal, whether you see the betterance of moving to FB or if it should remain on MC's forums and if so how to solve the riddles of over-lengthyness/eventual over-population of individual threads.
My intentions were/are to create a new Muppet College (MC) Dorms group on Facebook. It would be a closed global group, meaning that anyone can read the posts, just like on the thread, but admissions would be via invitation or request with my approval of course. This would henceforth eliminate the review committee—which will also be disbanded should the thread on the forums be reopened. Also, once admitted, members would be able to post in the various threads.
This leads to the other major change... Dorms life would/will be divided into three main periods or terms: May-August, September-December, and January-April. This would serve a two-fold purpose: 1) allow dorms life/thread to flow in a more concise manner, moving to a new thread for the following term; and 2) anyone who shows 0 participation after being admitted to the dorms at the start of a term all the way to the start of the next would be deemed as perhaps not entirely fit for dorms life, their position vacated. After all, if you sign up for the game, I'd hope you'd make the effort to participate. It doesn't have to be every single other post every single day, but just a few posts once in a while are nice to show you're still with us.
The shortening or creation of these periods does make me a little worried. The reasoning is thus. On MC, we have the main sections, and threads get posted there, no questions asked. On Facebook, though threads can't be locked/closed, we would be able to move from one to the other, in proper ensuing manner. If you pursue my logic, there'd be a May 2009 term thread, September 2009 thread, January 2010 thread, and so on. The concern is that such splitting would populate and dominate the Games section's first page with nothing but dorms' threads at some point. The advantage with Facebook is that only the currently active top three threads are displayed at a given time. If you pursue this logic, at one point all that would be visible would be the May 2010 thread, then January 2010 thread, and finally September 2009 thread. Additionally, the rules, application form and roster would be more easily viewable at the top of the page, which would simplify new admission requests.
So there it is... LMK how you feel about the proposal, whether you see the betterance of moving to FB or if it should remain on MC's forums and if so how to solve the riddles of over-lengthyness/eventual over-population of individual threads.
No crosses please. *Old joke, anyone know where it's from? *Grin.