Further tatysite.net forum development

[QueenBee]

Aaaw.. fun idea Kat! I'm all up for it.

[Kate]

QueenBee, I was wondering, will you be able to make us some unique, cute little stars? So we can award them to people? I love your avatars, and your Tatu fan-site design, so I bet you can make some real kewl lil' stars, too!

[teeny]

how is the nomination thing going? isn't it almost the same?
But sounds like fun.

[Kate]

TLFdk, in this case people are chosen by the number of posts etc. I'm not sure...

The TatySite.net awards are ready to be given out, I'm just not sure who is going to count the votes, me of coolasfcuk...

We are all about fun on this forum.

[QueenBee]

katbeidar, yeah I'll try to make stars.. hehe.. bah.. now I'm nervous they'll look really bad I just need to know what color?

I forgot to mention that I think the idea Forre posted sounds good too.

PS. If you need help with counting the votes, I'm all up for it.

[haku]

Ooh, stars sound cool he he

What color? Hum, not yellow, because yellow stars are so blah... and not red. Purple maybe?

[Kate]

QueenBee, if you wanna count votes, go for it. Don't cheat!

Don't worry about the color, do whatever color you like. In fact, make all 7 colors of the rainbow, that way no one will lose.

[QueenBee]

No problems! I'll count the votes and then? Should I PM the results to you?

I'll also try finding a way to make kewl stars. Just don't get mad at me if you think they're ugly..

[haku]

Since this is the Forum of Doom, maybe our stars should point down.

[teeny]

wondering: what happened to the computer, sport, movie, music (..) sections?
Did we even decide to create the seperate ones?

[ypsidan04]

I have to vote yes, or risk being hypocritical - since 60, maybe 75 percent of the things I talk about around here these days is not Tatu related (a lot about Bush, and other music)

[Kate]

Will anyone be interested in Igor creating a "Politics" forum?

[Tom Violence]

I don't see how this would do anything to improve the functionality of the forum. Most of the general boards only have one or two new threads at any one time. When I was on a dial-up connection it was very time consuming opening them all. It still seems like a needless hassle now.

It's not as if the general board is ever swamped with new threads.

[Kate]

Tom Violence, I think the whole reason for changing the direction of the forum is to attract new members and increase activity.

[forre]

Since the main page is still about the group, it will be hard to attract people interested in politics. We don't have a lot of activity in the exsisting political threads, so I presume the Politics part will stay pretty "dead" then. We may wait and see.

[Mossopp]

"Increased activity" would be good but - and maybe I'm being an ol' stick-in-the-mud here - I don't particularly want to "attract new members". The current members are all best buds and, dare I say it, are like a little self-sufficient family already. Most of the new members that we do get only post once or twice and then vanish off the face of the planet anyway.
If the ultimate goal is to broaden the focus of these boards to Russian music in general, then any new members we do attract will be Russian and that is hardly gonna benefit the English-speaking portion of the tatysite community, is it? The only native English-speakers that would be interested in the Russian music scene would be tATu fans. And I think we've just about got as many of them as we're ever likely to at this late stage in the tATu saga.
As for the proposal of a 'Politics' board, it's a good idea but ultimately rather pointless as the majority of members all share the same political ideals anyway. It's kinda difficult to stir up a rousing and lively debate when everyone already agrees with each other. A 'Politics' board could go either way. It could stir up some much needed healthy debate or it could decend into utter chaos. I used to be a regular poster on a random discussion site who decided to add a board for political debate. There was so much fighting, mud-slinging, name-calling and general unpleasantness that the whole site was closed for over a week and, when it finally did re-open, all political discussion was banned completely to avoid any more conflict.
The only reason I still post here is because I like the other members so much. It's got nothing to do with tATu, or the volume of new posts each day, or any interest I may have in Russia or it's crappy chart music. If those things were a factor in my participation here I would have buggered off long ago!

[Kate]

forre, as far as I understand the current situation after talking to Igor, if we change the direction of this website, the domain will change and only the forum will be left. That's the idea I got anyway. And if the site takes a more general direction of Russian music, all kinds of English speaking people who are interested in Russian music will come here (remember the domain will change and the "Tatu" part won't scare people away any longer), and of those people there might be some interested in politics.

Anyway, it's still a long shot.

[teeny]

I still think skipping tatu all together will be a bad idea. It's not like the tatu section at the moment interfers with the generel discussions at all.
As for attracting new members I'm with mossopp - the reason why I'm here is because of the old members. The lack of posts from my side isn't because it's the same old people around here, it's more because I don't really have that much to say. I guess it basicly comes down to if people are happy with the quiet times around here or not. Is it that much better to be a bunch of people instead where noone really knows eachother?

Dunno.. Think I voted yes to a seperate movie and music section, but actually lately it hasn't really been a problem at all with the way things are at the moment. Basicly if tatu goes and discussions take of in every direction I'll disappear. I initially joined to have a place to discuss tatu, and had I wanted to discuss eg. politics, tenical stuff or anything else I would have joined a forum for just that in danish instead.

[haku]

Originally Posted by teeny

I still think skipping tatu all together will be a bad idea.

I agree with that, which is why i proposed to add other Russian artists next to Tatu inside a big Russian Music section.
A lot of members here are interested in many Russian artists, not just Tatu, that would allow people to have a central place, in English, to discuss the various Russian artists they like.

You haven't voted in my thread about this idea though.
http://forum.tatysite.net/showthread.php?t=7945

[Kate]

teeny, how do you know that some of the new people, that might come here if we change the forum slightly, won't become our good friends, too? They will share the same interests with us if they stick around. And, if they break the rules, we'll sort things out accordingly. Nothing to worry about. We have to open up the windows a bit, it's getting stuffy in here.