There have been many clubs made and locked for quite some time in the tavern. Some people want clubs, others don't, and we need to create a median between the two.
Explain why you either support or don't support clubs and what you think the guidelines for making clubs should be and how clubs should be run and anything else you would like to add.
I myself beleive that clubs should be a meeting place, not a discussion place. Let us pretend their was an anime club. I would expect to see posts about the following in it:
1. Updates on anime (new episodes, products, so on) 2. Links to other anime thread 3. General anime questions and answers
*I also believe that any member wishing to create a club should talk about their club ideas to a mod before making one. Though it is not a rule, I highly recomend users start doing that.
Things I would not want to see in the club:
1. Long discussions about a particular anime (a seperate thread should be created) 2. General chat 3. A bunch of ranks, points, and ways to be rewarded with points. I would not mind a friendly competition, but it should be made in a new thread and it should not promise any AP nor any guild points/ranks. It should be for fun.
The above was an example. Club expectations would varry on the type of club.
So give me your own ideas and your own opinions. Please remember to respect other people's opinions here.
You guys should, instead of bickering amongst yourselves over a dumb topic, go think of something else to add to the pile of wants and don't-wants. Not a very mature thing to be doing, even though you are against having clubs, ya know?
All "discussion" should either be profile comments, or be in a club-made chat room. That way, if that user doesn't really want all that chatting going on in his profile, he can just delete it instead relying on mods to do it for him/her.
To me, so long as the club does not enjoy or cause a large amount of spam to be put in, and if it actually has a purpose, unlike the wolf clan or the Mozzarella Army. As far as making a club, well, there needs to be a subject and something you specialize in, the ZSC does survival skill.
I think that all clubs must meet certain criteria in order to be an official club.
For example
Say a person would like to start a club. Said person would go to a moderator and explain IN DETAIL the following
- What the club is/what is it providing to the community * The club creator would describe basically what the club is exactly and it's general purpose (ex: to provide fun, debate, to inform, etc...)
- Who will maintain the club * The creator of the club would tell the moderator about how they will manage the club (will they appoint co-owners? will they appoint "admins"?) - How will they recruit people * The creator would tell how they would go about getting people to be in their club in a "non spammy" way, basically stating that they won't go to the forums and create a spam topic asking everyone to join
- What they will do to keep the club going * Basically, how will the creator keep things interesting within the club, will they have weekly updates? occasional debates on a topic that pertains to their club?
After all these criteria are met and everything has been described in detail, a moderator may use his/her discretion on forming the club. If everything checks out and the moderator decides to let the person form the club, then the moderator will make a designated account for the club (the club creator would tell what they want their club to be named) then the account would be made and the moderator would tell the creator the password to the account.
I was thinking that there could be special club accounts, maybe ones with the abilities to post weekly updates that send a mass message to all the members of the club, possibly the ability to add videos...
There could be special moderators that deal with club matters ONLY, so that way it does not interfere with the work of normal moderators. These moderators would be able to delete clubs (only after telling the club creator why they have made the decision to remove it)
I think that having strict criteria such as these would be the only way to have clubs be officially allowed otherwise, we end up with spammy clubs that don't have any real point at all...
