RO Social Website?

Syd_Vicious · 02-23-2010, 02:42 AM

Hey guys I have been kicking around an idea for the community for sometime, but figured I would post now.

Would you guys care to have an RO social website away from the forum?

I have seen that updates to vBulletin now include social networking functions, but I don't think they would ever be incorporated into the RO game site. So I was thinking maybe the community could benefit from such a site. My reason for thinking this is for a couple different reasons:

1. Currently when sharing content most users post to outside links.
2. The current vBulletin doesn't support more modern media sharing methods and tags.
3. Ppl could blog their ideas and receive feed back prior to hitting the suggestion box, making more well rounded suggestions (in theory).
4. We could kind of self regulate ourselves leaving less to sift through for community managers

There are a lot more subjective benefits that could be taken advantage of (like a Facebook style chat button at the bottom of the browser), but my main idea is to create a more positive environment on the RO forum by ppl communicating more. We are somewhat a small community so I don't think we would have any issue with social obscurity and talking more with each other we maybe able to come to more reasonable solutions and recommendations. I also think it would be improved to have it linked to the wikia and a linked back to the official forum, without a forum of its own.

I will repost an addy to a beta site I will be working on, but if ppl like it I can make an RO one as well.

View Poll Results: Would you like an expanded out of RO experience with an RO Social Site?
Yes	8	42.11%
No	11	57.89%
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02-23-2010, 02:42 AM	#1
Syd_Vicious Initiate Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: The Desert, The Mountains, The Sky Posts: 152	RO Social Website? Hey guys I have been kicking around an idea for the community for sometime, but figured I would post now. Would you guys care to have an RO social website away from the forum? I have seen that updates to vBulletin now include social networking functions, but I don't think they would ever be incorporated into the RO game site. So I was thinking maybe the community could benefit from such a site. My reason for thinking this is for a couple different reasons: 1. Currently when sharing content most users post to outside links. 2. The current vBulletin doesn't support more modern media sharing methods and tags. 3. Ppl could blog their ideas and receive feed back prior to hitting the suggestion box, making more well rounded suggestions (in theory). 4. We could kind of self regulate ourselves leaving less to sift through for community managers There are a lot more subjective benefits that could be taken advantage of (like a Facebook style chat button at the bottom of the browser), but my main idea is to create a more positive environment on the RO forum by ppl communicating more. We are somewhat a small community so I don't think we would have any issue with social obscurity and talking more with each other we maybe able to come to more reasonable solutions and recommendations. I also think it would be improved to have it linked to the wikia and a linked back to the official forum, without a forum of its own. I will repost an addy to a beta site I will be working on, but if ppl like it I can make an RO one as well. __________________ Doing something maybe nothing, maybe nothing with something. Last edited by Syd_Vicious; 02-23-2010 at 02:53 AM.