Ideas / Suggestions / Complaints about CrunchyCo?

[Aaron Campion]

Anyone have any ideas / suggestions? we werent really able to go over any of this so i thought i'd start a thread to give people the opportunity:

I really like how superbutton.com has a pop up superbutton radio player! It is a music player that shuffles through hits from superbutton artists! Its a great idea because it allows users to sit back and continue to browse the internet while being shown everything the web-label has to offer!

Also, i really liked how the old news had the same sized rectangular picture used as a little headers on each news post. It also worked as a good separator, made the page look neat, and made it consistent. Now the news looks a bit messy, and isnt really following a pattern.

And lastly, i think the Administrator has taken advantage of his powers a few times in this forum. If you look at this thread crunchyco.proboards51.com/?board=works&action=display&thread=104&page=2
you'll see that the Administrator was very closely involved with the debate. Both sides went on and on are were basically awaiting Nick Moffit to give his final answer on the many unanswered questions. After his response, two posts were allowed on one side of the topic, the last one being the Administrator's final conclusion to the debate. The thread was then coincidentally locked in his favor, and the opposite side of the debate was not allowed their final comments or thoughts. Furthermore, you can see in this thread crunchyco.proboards51.com/index.cgi?board=meetband&action=display&thread=152&page=2 that several posts were deleted that hardly went against the forum rules. And then later another thread was locked crunchyco.proboards51.com/index.cgi?board=news&action=display&thread=168 and asked by the Administrator not to continue the debate. I would just like to feel that we can freely speak our minds and not fear that if the debate gets heated that the thread will magically "lock". I think locking a thread should be used sparingly, only if a thread truly gets out of hand, people are being racist and physically threatening each other, the forum rules are being seriously broken, and just mainly should only be used in a very extreme rare occasion.

[Evan Joseph-Pinero]

You do have a really good point.
However, I think everyone tends to overreact when they feel threatened or offended, you and Gabe included, and much of this should not be as serious as it is (or seems).

[Webmaster Gabe]

Radio player is a cool idea.

I think they new news layout is far better. The same rectangular header every post was boring and seemed bland and unnecessary. I do not think it looks messy at all how it is now, and actually think it is far more interesting to have varying images/videos/whatever depending on the specific nature of the news post. My favorite sites with news posts do it a similar way, and my opinion is that it's great.

As for my power over the forums:
*The EH thread was locked because the debate was going nowhere and was ridiculously out of hand. It actually should have been locked far before it was. Yes I did "get the last word in" but I ended it with our plans to come up with a solution rather than bitching on a forum which was obviously going nowhere.
*The posts in the film thread were deleted because they broke first rule: 1. Respect all other forum members and their input. The posts by Nick and Aaron were not respectful of Lizzy or myself and it doesn't matter how much it goes against the rules, if it is enough for someone to feel uncomfortable by it, it is enough to be deleted.
*I think Aaron misunderstood my point in the last thread being locked. The reason that one was locked was because the final conclusion was going to be posted shortly and discussion was meant to continue on that thread.

I am confident in my decisions to lock those threads and delete those posts and I do not think I did anything outside the realm of reason as the administrator of this forum. I am totally down for other people being moderators, but anyone who wants to be a moderator will have to prove that they can handle it.

[Aaron Campion]

okay, fair enough gabe. i really dont have the greatest understanding on how a forum Administrator should correctly use their powers, and i most certainly may be very wrong about this subject. i guess i mainly wanted to see what other people thought

[Webmaster Gabe]

mmkay, well you're first in line to become a moderator Aaron if you keep up your good behavior!

[beb]

i one time was moderator on my guild forum. tarrenmilldeatguard.com

i started a post on something very small and innocent and my guild leader made a post that was really negative and had no purpose even being in that. i had no idea why he did it in the first place so i just simply deleted it and tried to move on and stay on topic. next thing i know he just instantly took away my admin rights. ive never gotten them back.

point being - people with power can abuse it . . . lets all be careful now

[Webmaster Gabe]

i think i've done a pretty good job so far.

[Fighter X]

Shouldn't Aaron be a mod instantly? Co-creator of CrunchyCo?

[Aaron Campion]

well, to be fair, ive broken a few rules, especially crossing the line of respecting others from time to time. Ive had very few experience with forums and probably am not ready quite yet

[Aaron Campion]

So, another idea i had is if you guys REALLY want to do a good job promoting grassfest, something you could do is create a page for grassfest completely dedicated to showing mini profiles of every artists that is going to play, crunchyrecord related or not. Then have links to either the artists crunchyco profile or person myspace page (if not on crunchyco) or both! Then you could also have a mini player that includes songs from every artist that is playing, and shuffles through them quickly showing an interested fan everything grassfest has to offer. Then once the page is done, all you have to do is post flyers and banners, and other promotional things that merely give everyone the link to the official grassfest page. simple eh??

[Webmaster Gabe]

That's a great idea Aaron. We'll have a final line-up of Grassfest bands by the end of the month. As soon as we get back from Comic-Con we can start implementing those ideas.

And I'm glad you can be honest about your non-moderator status. I'm sure you'll be one in no time though.

[Fighter X]

Great idea Aaron. "Grassfest 08 Coverage!"

[Webmaster Gabe]

I ran into CrunchyCo fan Kevin (from Marysville) today. He was wearing the Smugg banana tee and he asked me about Grassfest. There's definitely a public interest in this annual event so let's make it good this year! When we get back from Comic-Con, I'll definitely be beefing up the Grassfest area of the "Special Events" section with all of those ideas.

[emptythought]

is anyone seeing the irony here?

but yea uh.. seriously, a fix for the spambots thing needs to be found.

[Webmaster Gabe]

haha yeah, that's pretty funny actually. it's getting worse. i guess the only thing we can do about it is bomb china?