General Board: Future of Crews: Consultation

What if you award points to crews based on their members getting different positions in tourneys and other stuff

Nomedic, can you get in touch with me to discuss the future of Hunger Games?

Dizz, I will get back at you this week regarding the rest.

My current view is we're going to move ahead with this as it seems generally people are on board, even if there are some concerns about exactly how we do it.

In terms of those currently inactive crew, I will make a post with my plans and give people a chance to "save" them before we move to the new position.

Yeah Cubes I'm down for a discussion...I just want the best for my crew and the site as well.  so lets set something up

Dizz, I've run out of time but I'll get back at you later

Exoduzt wrote: One thing that concerns me is that I feel the crew leaders should decide what the standards are within their own crew.  I feel there shouldn't be an outside source dictating what the standards should be.  Every crew is different.  I'm down with like maybe a monthly crew battle thing where certain members are selected from different crews to battle each other topical or heads up.  Then have like a crew standings so to speak.

It's definitely not about dictating. One of my main motivations for the crew cap is a desire to drive crews to decide what's most important to them in their roster and build their crew around that identity. If you have 6 members max then you can't collect 3 of the best topical heads, 3 of the best battlers and 3 of the best audio heads.

Think of it more as a conversation...I'd want a crew leader to be able to say to me "yo Cuba let's do x tournament" then we make it happen and none of your crew enter or do any voting I'd be like "come on man, if you want us to do a tourney then you need to mobilise your guys to show up and vote". It's in both our interests as a staff & as crew leaders to have loads of things going on that attract and engage our members. The crews have the scale to drive the activity that can make a huge impact on the vibrancy of the site.

That's where I'm coming from. I want us to be able to have conversations like grownups but do it from a place where everyone wants the same thing. A buzzing site that is a fun place to spend time.

One thing that concerns me is that I feel the crew leaders should decide what the standards are within their own crew.  I feel there shouldn't be an outside source dictating what the standards should be.  Every crew is different.  I'm down with like maybe a monthly crew battle thing where certain members are selected from different crews to battle each other topical or heads up.  Then have like a crew standings so to speak.  

I think we need to make crews more active on a collective basis. We need solutions on encouraging crew responses, activity and such. Now most will go right to the "lets do a crew tournament". To me that isnt the answer. That will only have a temporary effect. That isnt what the crews need. Crews need to be more influential. Right now i feel like the "crews" is more of a gimmick. There has to be an avenue for Crews to gain incentives.

Boosting Crews and their activities.

1. Crew Drops Monthly - Every month (just like OMOTM) Crews have a collab with at least two of its members and we create a subsection for this in the OM section. Just an idea

2. Crew leaders have to check-in on LA weekly. This makes sure that the crew doesnt die off and people go awol. Just a thought

3. Magazine Articles on Crews and its members - These articles will be written and posted on the crews profile page.  I can start writing some Articles on different crews and before i post it up. i can make sure that the crew leader agrees with the article.

4. Fuck Yall page - Sorry but im adding this because its hard to start a good beef when everything is just verse vs verse. Fuck Yall gave more material and content to write on. Its just the truth. It brought out the worst in people and that was nice to see. Crews and people always had a channel to negatively express their nonsense. Much activity in (battles and Disses) came from the Fuck yall page.

5. Crew of the Year award - Giving to the crew with the most activity and helping the community as a whole.

6. Crew tournaments in the future done annually - This is only when we see the crews have been more prominent and active.

Just some ideas. Not saying they are perfect or that they will work but i feel that crews on LA have gone to shit because material isnt manifesting. Crews and the leaders need incentives. Just a thought. 

Thanks Ash...anymore opinions on this?

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