Council of Unions Suggestions

Could you explain a bit more about the leader rankings idea?siberian142

-Leader of the month spotlight should return.julian_jr

For guides, I was thinking of revamping the one I made a while ago for use in this union. Not sure I'd be the best pick when it comes to making a guide on how to be a good leader or officer, so perhaps someone else could give it a try if they wanted too?siberian142

*sees the construction of union leader guide underway*

Looking forward to seeing the finished product :)

[QUOTE="siberian142"]Could you explain a bit more about the leader rankings idea?julian_jr

One thing that would be nice is if people were allowed to post comments in the homepage. The way things are currently set up doesn't allow for any conversation in the homepage, hence making the homepage slightly less useful.julian_jr

That could possibly clutter the entire board eventually, based on how frequent homepage updates are posted.julian_jr

More frequent telegrams and reaching out to unions. Right now let's be realistic, this place is pretty dead, and it's going to remain that way until the union starts to reach out to other unions and gamespot.julian_jr

I suggest that union endorsements be looked over and reviewed, there are several unions that are dead, or may not be as active anymore and are still endorsed. If I remember correctly, aunion being endorsed means they serve as a useful and reliable resource for the entire GameSpot community. I have seen some unions that are endorsed and are not very active and are not very up to date.

I know people will ask for examples, so here are some:

The Final Fantasy Experience Union was last updated in news in beginning of September. Compared to The Final Fantasy Fans Union, which last updated their news October 4, 2011, and does updates every 5 days or so, and are WAY more active and involve the community more.

The Resident Evil Union has not even been active AT ALL since June and July, their last news update in February! Unfortunately, no other union in that category is active either.

And The Unreal Tournament Fans Union also is a dead union. There is also no replacement for that one though. 

And these are just the endorsed unions, I don't even want to go into the Official Unions because they also have problems most likely. These endorsed unions really need to be reviewed, because some unions do not deserve them at all, and some unions just can't keep up with other unions that are putting way more effort into their union. 

This union doesn't have that kind of power to control endorsements though.julian_jr

As Julian stated, if the union is going to be successful, it is going to take awareness that the union exists, which in turn will lead to involvement. If there is one thing that seriously contributes to raising activity in a slow union, it's recruiting. I'm talking about manual labour, hunting out users in the community, and sending them invites. If a union doesn't already have a strong base of regular members, then you need to bring in new people to diversify the community, and expand the community. This union has such great potential for recruiting, since there is little "hunting" required to find potential members. Just going through unions that are at least somewhat active, and inviting the staff, and even some of the active users of the forum could really inject some life back in here.

In defense of our FFE (Final Fantasy Experience) union, I've to confess things were not in the best condition, but now after I've been appointed as COO in the union (Temporary acting as the leader) things is going in right path again, we are still active in all senses, the union is up to date in terms of updates, the discussions are covering most of the FF news, it will take some time to reach our momentum but we are heading there, FFE has reached this elite level with hard work and commitment, the buggy telegram system is killing the unions, but I did the unthinkable and gathered all the users (5367 user) in order to send telegrams with the new method (the @ system) without the users knowing what activities are happening, the unions will get less active, but not anymore I can proudly say that we can send telegrams anytime now, we worked hard to get endorsed by GameSpot, it took years to do so, I'm doing my best to meet the high expectations from FFE, step by step we will reach there, we'll protect our endorsement no matter what, FFFU is nothing compared to what we do at our best, we are a big union lvl 20 at the moment, with 5300+ users we are one of the biggest unions on GameSpot, the next line will sound epic, we will protect our union and our endorsement with our souls.

In defense of our FFE (Final Fantasy Experience) union, I've to confess things were not in the best condition, but now after I've been appointed as COO in the union (Temporary acting as the leader) things is going in right path again, we are still active in all senses, the union is up to date in terms of updates, the discussions are covering most of the FF news, it will take some time to reach our momentum but we are heading there, FFE has reached this elite level with hard work and commitment, the buggy telegram system is killing the unions, but I did the unthinkable and gathered all the users (5367 user) in order to send telegrams with the new method (the @ system) without the users knowing what activities are happening, the unions will get less active, but not anymore I can proudly say that we can send telegrams anytime now, we worked hard to get endorsed by GameSpot, it took years to do so, I'm doing my best to meet the high expectations from FFE, step by step we will reach there, we'll protect our endorsement no matter what, FFFU is nothing compared to what we do at our best, we are a big union lvl 20 at the moment, with 5300+ users we are one of the biggest unions on GameSpot, the next line will sound epic, we will protect our union and our endorsement with our souls.

SQUALL20XX

A plain straight out solemn attack at the FFFU I see... well, I will most definetly be sharing this with my administration team. If it is a competition that you are looking for, than we will give you one...maniamsmart

Comparing unions is not attacking them, if so then you have quite attacked FFE, what I'm looking for? Of course a fair competition without campaigning against other unions ;).

[QUOTE="maniamsmart"]A plain straight out solemn attack at the FFFU I see... well, I will most definetly be sharing this with my administration team. If it is a competition that you are looking for, than we will give you one...SQUALL20XX

Comparing unions is not attacking them, if so then you have quite attacked FFE, what I'm looking for? Of course a fair competition without campaigning against other unions ;).

"FFFU is nothing compared to what we do at our best..."

And NEVER have I solemnly made one post with a huge paragraph bragging about the FFFU and saying that we are the best and better than all others and started listing our stats like you did. 

How about a compilation of all the most active unions, a list with them all split by genre and linked to the union homepage, that way it could make it easier to find a good active union?uas-2001

Yeah sorry about that, I looked around and there are more than 15-20 lol.

I'll gladyly help out with this project though :D 

Well once they've been placed under a category they wouldn't be listed in any particular order, maybe just alphabetic.

I'll start up a thread and just add unions whenever you can.

Well once they've been placed under a category they wouldn't be listed in any particular order, maybe just alphabetic.uas-2001

This place is dead to the point where it has no posts at all occurring daily anymore. julian_jr

Probably because they hand out 30 day suspensions to one of the few dedicated union leaders that are left. I'll be leaving GS shortly as a result and no doubt my union will die off. Good work GS! *high five*

I think Siberian has officially given up, there is a stickied thread about it I'm afraid.uas-2001

[QUOTE="uas-2001"]I think Siberian has officially given up, there is a stickied thread about it I'm afraid.julian_jr

Exactly what I said in the revival thread. :P If the leader gives up, but the officers and some recruits don't give up, then why close it down?