[ Closed ] General Coordinator and Technical Coordinator Elections 2017 (Page 1 of 2)

Ditto.

I accept my nomination.

Sound candidates all.  I second both nominations and call for vote of approval by acclamation.

- Mike Palmer

Last edited by Mike Palmer (2017-06-27 01:49:20)

In that case, we have a vote against Abstain.

With only one candidate for each position, this will be a vote between those candiates and Abstain.

Misty Diamond is the sole candidate for General Coordinator.

Euan Reid is the sole candidate for Technical Coordinator.

You may now ask the candidates questions.

For the established players, I think finding and addressing the biggest "pain points" is the way to go. What takes up most of people's non-RP time on the site, and how can we cut back on that so people can focus on games?
For new players, advertising. It doesn't matter how well we do at getting people to sign up vs not if nobody comes looking - we need to seriously advertise ourselves so we're getting the foot traffic needed to gain members.
For current opportunities, depends what you mean by opportunities! If you mean dipping our toes into newer forms of online RP, by providing whatever sort of hub we can to facilitate it. If you mean getting involved at a community level, I think that's probably more of a question for Misty to answer as the GC candidate than me, but ultimately "by reaching out to them" and doing what we can to make it easy to partner up, share links, and so on.

Hope that answers your questions Kevin, but if there's more detail you'd like please ask

I personally think it is the same answer for both established players as well as new players, Phoenix as a whole needs an overhaul. Restructuring the site to make it function better and to draw in new member. To focus on the quality games we have and make them thrive. Graphics. Rules. Government. Did I not state overhaul? Change, folks, is not necessarily a bad thing.

What we look like needs to change, how we play obviously needs a change since we have a GM shortage. Games need to be made fun again.

Advertising! Yes, we need a section that is clearly set aside to allow guest posting for advertising purposes, but we also need to be able to appeal to the guest, with graphics and features and whatnot.

I have tired on numerous occasions to get people that I love to write with to join Phoenix and they rarely get past out index. They don't understand our setup, our navigation so to speak. I have pestered Euan on many an occasion asking what we could do, what we can change, what features we can add.

Current opportunities, I am a tad bit confuzzled by...?

Yes. And we need to fix this. I have spent the last few years trying to get some changes. Let's do it now before Phoenix does not see it's 10 year anniversary.

Misty
(you may start the lynch mob now. If anyone is curious, and just because.)

I truly believe the speed (or rapidity) of posting on sims is a key factor in building or losing an active player roster. You can have all the bells and whistles on a sim, and this is a good thing, but if folks only post once every 7-14 days (or longer), then the sim will fizzle due to lack of continued player interest. The Kestrel has a three day posting requirement, and this seems to keep most of the crew busy.  Just a thought, my friends.

- Mike

I guess I sound like a broken record on the importance of posting... sorry to keep beating a dead horse.

- Mike

Please be advised that due to technical difficulties there will be a slight delay in opening the vote.

No ballotbin invite to me as yet.