REOPENING: Make a section just for sports

Support. Anet obviously has a lot of determination to make this work, and I think there are a handful of Sythe members who would be willing to work just as hard as he is to get it going. Everyone loves sports right?

 

[SuF]

My Plan turned into a bit of a to-do/checklist:

- Create a thread dedicated to Sport's Betting [Finished & Active]
- Create fantasy leagues (must wait for new sport season to start)
- Have sports memorabilia thread
- Discussion threads dedicated to major events such as championships
- Sports game tournaments (maybe)
- Bold Predictions thread

I will establish a team of active sport's lovers and have them help me with ideas and organization of the sport's section

Watch games together.

 

Watch games together.

Like a live stream? I'd definitely be interested in this as well. Always more fun to watch sports with others.

 

[Anet390]

Watch games together.

Like a live stream? I'd definitely be interested in this as well. Always more fun to watch sports with others.

Oh shit this is a really good idea. We could use something like tinychat, and I'll just stream the game and everyone can cam up or just talk about it in the chat.

 

[RS_Crispy]

Bump.

All we're asking for is the opportunity. We're all serious about making this happen - give us our chance, and if it goes belly up we will face the brunt of it and take full responsibility.

 

[SuF]

I would also promote a second mod to help with this. It makes it much easier when you have someone to pick up the slack when the other gets tired or is away for a few days and it makes the tasks much less daunting.

 

[RS_Crispy]

I would also promote a second mod to help with this. It makes it much easier when you have someone to pick up the slack when the other gets tired or is away for a few days and it makes the tasks much less daunting.

For what little it's worth - I'd be more then happy to support Anet in this role.

 

[Anet390]

I would love the have RS_Crispy support me, as long as he's my assistant lol. He also lives in almost opposite time I do meaning that we could have a presence most of the day

 

[Anet390]

bump.

I want more staff opinions. There are 4 juicy pages of reading here.

 

Sustain the activity.

Rather than a case of

> Section
>> Do stuff​

it's

> Do stuff
>> Section​

Once you've got it going and the activity is sustained (enough to warrant a section, not just a couple of active threads used by the same handful of people) then by all means, there'll be a section.

 

I'd definitely participate in this section, I don't see why not! You've got my support.

 

[Anet390]

Sustain the activity.

Rather than a case of

> Section
>> Do stuff​

it's

> Do stuff
>> Section​

Once you've got it going and the activity is sustained (enough to warrant a section, not just a couple of active threads used by the same handful of people) then by all means, there'll be a section.

I'm irritated that nobody has supplied us with what they would call enough to warrant a section. I'm getting a bit angry with the staffs constant "whenever we say so, it'll happen". We are the users of Sythe.

 

There isn't a number

 

[Anet390]

There isn't a number

Then this will never ever ever ever ever be settled. Because staff will always be butthurt they were wrong for once and will never give in until the whole forum has transformed into a Sports Bar.

I'm so fed up with all this

Also, creating the section will help us gain the attention of those who watch sports but don't lurk hard enough to find our threads

Add up all the money donated by those who support this and tell me that we don't deserve a say.

Ghast says it best earlier in this thread

Staff is stubborn. You could give the best reasons possible and they still won't aid us.

Even though you were being sarcastic, earlier in the thread I asked what warranted a section and you said this

More than 6 threads lol

Welp, there are more than 6 threads, Mr.Hilarious... Where is our section

 

Sections have been introduced loads of times in the past from suggestions.

Because it's failed in the past, it's gonna take a lot to put it back.

 

[FireZ]

Prove with activity first. Otherwise its silly to implement something that keeps failing


You simply cant argue with me on this one

 

[Anet390]

Prove with activity first. Otherwise its silly to implement something that keeps failing


You simply cant argue with me on this one

Not arguing. Just asking for a definition of "activity"

Sections have been introduced loads of times in the past from suggestions.

Because it's failed in the past, it's gonna take a lot to put it back.

This is a horrible way of looking at the situation. The situation is that the section was inactive before (which it wasn't but whatever) and we are going to attempt to bring in a NEW sports section. The key word is new. The reason the old sports section didn't work in the minds of the staff was because I was away. But I'm back and I'm here to stay. But it is impossible to prove "sports section" activity without a fucking sports section. Especially because someone looking to talk sports when there isn't a sports section isn't going to go to general discussion to look for sports posts. Currently the League of Legends section is pretty active, but if we made all LoL related posts be posted in General Discussion, we'd see a rapid decline in activity. Why? Because nobody is going to search for LoL stuff in the General Discussion.

Imagine two grocery stores. Both have 100 daily costumers that would buy BLAZIN' SALSA by Anet. One store puts the Salsa in a section with all the other Salsa and the other puts the salsa in a "General Isle" filled with random shit.. Which store is gonna sell more Blazin' salsa?

Now Imagine a forum called Sythe and a forum called Anet. Both have 100 daily users that would love to talk sports. Anet has a sports section dedicated to talking sports. Sythe has all of it's sports discussion in the "General Discussion" section with other random shit. Which forum will have more users talking sports?

My point here is that there are probably many other users who would love to talk sports, but they assume there isn't really any sports discussion on Sythe because there isn't a section. Unless a sports thread is the last to be posted on in General Discussion or is in the "New Posts" feed, do you really expect somebody to open General Discussion to search for a sports thread? What other way is there to show users where the sports discussion is? Hm...

It's not mystery that when there is a specific place for something, it will get more recognition.

I mean hell, I doubt most of sythe ever looks at suggestions anyway.

 

[Frosteel]

Hey I'm new here, but if there was a sports section, I would definitely
post in it a lot

 

I'm willing to support this on a trial basis. What's the worst that can happen? It's worth a shot.

 

[sindragos]

i support this would be cool and have more to talk about then just selling and buying