This is about contest organization. I think that with this new idea, we would get more participation in cB, and things would be easier to keep track of and get votes for.

For Example, along with Feedback and Announcements, we could have a "Contests" subforum with topics about all of the contests. All of the topics in the Contests forum would be linked to the contest topic in the subforum (ex. Xanga Showcase, Graphics Showcase, Pictures, ..etc.) where it belongs.

That way, people could see all of the contests, all at one time. We could even have a pinned thread with the deadlines. I bet when it is easier to access, more people will join in.

We could use it for mass voting too!

What do you think?

Love it! :D

Would the routine __ of the Month contests would be included as well?

I don't think it sounds like a bad idea..

Although I don't know how exactly we could better organize that, perhaps a contest section in the community center and the resource center, since myspace staff can't touch the feedback sections and such, unless they would give all staff access to it?

I think it would be easier and all but when it came to doing the votes how exactly would that go along.


^Yea I would think so, since she said Graphics Showcase and like the Xanga and Myspace Showcases. Which include monthly contests.

Pretty much I like the idea, sounds very neat and would be better organized.
So great idea Rachael!

Yeah, Design Staff should have access to that one forum. _of the Month contests would be included - basically every contest out there. The Staff of the various areas of cB wouuld be responsible for updating it.

Yeah I think they can give us all powers to that one forum. I don't think the People Staff have powers in the Feedback and Announcements forum either.

Any member input?

Holly: I think a new topic for each new contest would be effective. The direct link to the contest and the rules of the contest should be posted.

Oh, and I think old contests should be closed after a certain period of time.

I think this is a great idea.
It would definitely help with activity for those who want to join the contests but dont know where they are, and also for mass voting.
I say yes! haha

This is a good idea! I'm totally for it.

Excellent! An idea that is superb. Go for it guys!

i like that idea alot.
it makes all forum contests easy to find
and it makes sure that they are closed after a certain time.

I fully support this idea!!!!

Yay! Should we implement it now?

^I think we should

So I'm guessing only admins can do this, right?

Yea I believe so, *goes to see if Mona is on*

I'm here, I'm here! Since there aren't any cons to this idea...

^ Yay! You don't have to worry about putting all of the contests in there - all of us can help with that.

^Yea, of course!

Yep! More work for staffers ! woohoooo.

Anyways, we should include a new membership level and title.



And besides, cb is about high quality/ competitive graphic !

^ Like what?

Maybe ... ? designer of the month? best designer of icon? best designer of avatar? or something?

That's an interesting idea. I think we've kicked it around sometime before. I think it's a great idea!

I think we would have to make the titles more general, though. That would be a lot of work for the Admins.

Since, I'm assuming, the "best designer of ____" would be decided upon by the community and is not just subjective but constantly changing, I don't know if that would merit a new set of member status titles because it's not something permanent, right?

Wow, talk about run-on sentence.

But having such contests would certainly be interesting!

^ That's what I was thinking.

Perhaps an official contest group where winners of any contest can join.

haha I think "Official Winner" (or something like that) would be a fun member title.
But what would be the benefit of having it?

^ I don't know... you could have extra PM storage space?

Maybe at a later date, we could actually combine this with the idea of having forums where the Official people can hang out. That would give value to the Contest Member Title idea, and fuel mroe Official Members to submit graphics like Mona suggested in her other thread.

But that's kind of off topic. Official Winner would have it's merits if that was implemented.

^I was so thinking the extra PM storage, I always enjoyed having more than normal members.

Official Winner status is quite neat.

Oooh okay, yeah more PM space would be good.
And a secret forum for Official people? that sounds good too.
I know a lot of XMB forums do that.
It would definitely spark some activity, in posting and contributing.

Something else that was suggested was to have subforums within 'Contests': one to discuss ideas and one for voting threads. The main forum would be where the contest threads belong. I think perhaps it may bit too much and a single forum for contests and voting threads would suffice but what do you all think?

^ I think that a subforum should exist for "Ideas" and the rest of the topic be in the main part of the forum. We could designate a specific pinned topic on all of the contests and the deadlines, and the voting threads and the deadlines.

My previous idea involves too much

^ ... spam?

Anyway, I think there should be subforums within this "Contests" forum. It could be divided into different sections, so it won't be too confusing.

CONTESTS
-> Blogging, Design & Art (e.g. XOTM, LIMS, photography contest etc.)
-> Entertainment & Humour (e.g. cBNTM, cB Idol, Best Caption Contest etc.)
-> Miscellaneous

That's what I can think of now. Of course, the decision is entirely up to the mods. I'm not saying that my idea is good, because I can see problems of creating subforums within the Contests forum. There maybe not enough contests in each section to generate activity, and some members may not like having to go to another forum for voting in these contests.

Just my thought.

^ I never thought about it in that context - that would be a great way to organize it!

Thanks Rachael. :)

Yea, I like the idea of organization that was stated above.

Although I wouldn't choose those exact titles for them, something more catchy or more straight forward.

It has also been suggested that there should be one forum with pinned topics announcing and describing the contests and providing links to the respective subforums where each is located. Entry deadlines would be included as well. Also, a voting thread with links to all of the currently voting topics, and voting deadlines would be included too.

All of the unpinned, or regular topic threads could be contest ideas.

Like this:
[contest forum]
--(Contest Forum Rules) <--Pinned
--(Current Contests) <--Pinned
--(Current Voting) <--Pinned
__________________
Contest Idea threads...
Contest Idea threads...
Contest Idea threads...
Contest Ideas threads...

I like this method of organization. I think this simple approach will work well.

I want this to be completed soon so if anyone disagrees, speak now or forever hold your peace.

I love it!

It's so much more convenient than searching through forums looking for contests. >_<

It would also....erm.."advertise" or display the contests better.

I definitely like the idea of a Contest forum with the above subforums, but for some reason, I always think of the Photography Contest as part of Entertainment, but I guess that's just me.

^ Do you like that idea better than the other one:

Alright. No one's responded since a few days so which is it?

Without subforums:


With subforums:


The reason this thread was made is because we need your input!

^ I'd go with the first one.

I concur.
I don't think we really need anymore subforums...

Is this gonna happen?

Yes, I say without subforums.

Yeah, it would be much easier without; there's way too much uneccessary clicking with the subforums.

Ha, I'm seriously wondering if this is going to happen? Do we need to figure it out on the weekend when people have time or something?

I think it would be fine either way, which ever is easier to manage for the staff.

Both would be fine in terms of staff being able to manage it. But having subforums where it isn't really needed is inconvenient. Perhaps we'll have it before the end of this weekend so that all the proper rules can be set up first.

yea i guess we need to do it like this weekend since its the start of the month as well.

Heh, I thought that I had already posted my thoughts.

Like Arjuna said, we don't really need very many subforums, so I think we should go with Rachael's.