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Forum attitudes
Possibly the hardest thing to change on this entire list, but if we want to be a more active community we need to be a friendlier and more welcoming community.
- Let’s improve the quality of posting here, to encourage less toxicity and shitposting. The forum has dried up over the years as it’s become more hostile. This might involve stricter moderation.
- Let’s be more welcoming to new members. This has been discussed many a time, and has gotten somewhat better recently, but we still need to do better. Let’s not have member welcome threads become shitpost central.
- Encourage activity in Fan Corner – I know, Fan Corner’s been the butt of many jokes over the years, but at the end of the day fan communities thrive on fan-made content. We should be more welcoming of fan content.
- More discussions about Oddworld – it’s tough when we’re still waiting on new games from OWI, but I’m sure we can come up with some topics of discussion.
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As some of you might have noticed Nate and I have already started to be more strict with the rules. I indeed think that with all the publicity we are getting from OWI and their ARG it's the right time to try to steer this forum in the right direction.
I'm thus encouraging everyone to be as pleasant and welcoming as possible. Any initiative in that way is very much welcome, like for instance Mr. Molluck's
WELCOME NEW MEMBERS! thread.
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I’d suggest the new forum structure would look something like this:
- Zulag 1 (Oddworld):
- Oddworld Discussion
- Mods & Hacks
- Let’s Plays and Speedruns
- Help
- Spoiler Forum (seasonal; can be closed for now)
- Zulag 2 (General):
- Forum Suggestions & Help
- Welcomes & Birthdays
- Off-Topic Discussion
- Non-Oddworld Gaming (rename for simplicity)
- Non-Oddworld Art & Literature (rename for simplicity)
- Zulag 3 (Fan Corner):
- Fan Art & Literature
- Oddworld RPG
- Zulag 4:
- Employee Lounge
- Necrum Burial Grounds
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I don't think it's a bad idea to give more exposure to some parts of our community and I quite like the strucutre you are suggesting. Nate, just for info, is this something we can change ourselves or would we need Alcar?
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- Regular Oddworld character/creature/location feature threads
- Oddworld merch threads
- Merch highlights – someone such as Xavier could show off interesting parts of their collection in semi-regular threads
- Oddworld trivia
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I'm a very big fan of those ideas, and indeed it could go hand in hand with improving the existing sites we have in place. For instance we could have a thread dedicated to, let's say Scrabs. If we find out there's something missing in the Wikia about the subject it would be the perfect opportunity to update the page.
But to be fair we need more actual actions! So I actually created the first
thread specifically about Scrabs.
