Review Team Changes

[Gio]

Hi everyone,

We have a pretty exciting change to announce today! After discussion, we have decided to switch the name of the Review Team back to the Editorial Team. Now, some may be wondering if this would incorporate the blog as it previously did. Addressing that, the answer would be that the blog is not making a return within the Editorial Team. While members are still welcome to submit articles to the blog, the Editorial Team will not be focusing on this due to previous attempts. Rather, the reason of this name change is to reflect the possible avenues that this team can take. The ET has many opportunities such as reviews(journalism), podcasts/YouTube(media), etc. While the previous attempts of the Editorial Team have not experienced smooth sailing, with the conversion to XenForo right around the corner and new ideas and avenues are opened up, this is a great way to open up more opportunities for FP.

With XenForo in mind, please keep in mind that the XenForo conversion will be done tomorrow!

If you have any questions, please feel free to message me. 🙂

 

[Deleted member 17779]

This is awesome news!

 

[juststeven]

YouTube(media)

This'll be the role I'll be taking on so if anybody in the community wants to throw a video idea at me, I'd love to hear it and expand upon my list of ideas.

 

[Deleted member 1609]

I think this should be good for FP! 🙂

 

[Myers]

Nice changes! Well done on joining the ET juststeven!

 

[Cryckit]

Hi everyone,

We have a pretty exciting change to announce today! After discussion, we have decided to switch the name of the Review Team back to the Editorial Team. Now, some may be wondering if this would incorporate the blog as it previously did. Addressing that, the answer would be that the blog is not making a return within the Editorial Team. While members are still welcome to submit articles to the blog, the Editorial Team will not be focusing on this due to previous attempts. Rather, the reason of this name change is to reflect the possible avenues that this team can take. The ET has many opportunities such as reviews(journalism), podcasts/YouTube(media), etc. While the previous attempts of the Editorial Team have not experienced smooth sailing, with the conversion to XenForo right around the corner and new ideas and avenues are opened up, this is a great way to open up more opportunities for FP.

With XenForo in mind, please keep in mind that the XenForo conversion will be done tomorrow!

If you have any questions, please feel free to message me. 🙂

This totally awesome news and I can't wait to see the changes that are about to come! 😀

 

[Deleted member 29780]

Nice! 🙂

 

[Page]

Well good to see the old back again. The old with the new.

 

[cynosure.x]

Interesting changes. ^^

 

[Marc A]

Cool man.

 

[Deleted member 5665]

Nice a name change so exciting.

 

[Deleted member 1609]

Nice a name change so exciting.

That's kind of rude. Maybe you can tell us how we can make things less boring. 🙂

 

[Deleted member 5665]

Nice a name change so exciting.

That's kind of rude. Maybe you can tell us how we can make things less boring.

I apologize you took it offensively. I didn't mean for it to be offensive.

 

[Deleted member 1609]

Nice a name change so exciting.

That's kind of rude. Maybe you can tell us how we can make things less boring.

I apologize you took it offensively. I didn't mean for it to be offensive.

Okay! Thanks for clearing that up. 🙂 Now that we're past that, do you have any suggestions regarding how we can make this change less boring? One idea was to utilize YouTube for FP-related things. You had previously suggested having a section to advertise YouTube videos and the like. Do you have any ideas regarding how we could do this effectively? 🙂 I don't think many of us are highly experienced with YouTube, but you've said before that you have experience with it.

 

[Deleted member 5665]

Nice a name change so exciting.

That's kind of rude. Maybe you can tell us how we can make things less boring.

I apologize you took it offensively. I didn't mean for it to be offensive.

Okay! Thanks for clearing that up. Now that we're past that, do you have any suggestions regarding how we can make this change less boring? One idea was to utilize YouTube for FP-related things. You had previously suggested having a section to advertise YouTube videos and the like. Do you have any ideas regarding how we could do this effectively? I don't think many of us are highly experienced with YouTube, but you've said before that you have experience with it.

I simply suggested the video mod which is in itself pretty nice. Effectively depends person to person and also the amount of traffic FP receives. At this point I feel like a broken record. It is nice to see "change" in the sense you guys are seeing it, but what change is there for the overall FP experience? Well there isn't any. Then you have to consider social and knowledge of the community. This I learned from my years of building PCs and being in other communities away from FP which I personally find extremely lacking on FP and that is knowledge. FP has potential but it has no flavor the experience has been the same and still is even with the changes since many years ago when I first FP nothing has realistically changed at all. As I said earlier post about the name change for the Review Team. I didn't mean it offensively, but as a general idea of the fact nothing has changed in a real point of view. The flavor is still the same and it will (most likely) continue to be so in the future. The primary thing about reviews is to in some sense the reviewer sharing their opinion with the said person site (or anything else) he is reviewing, but this is all well in good, but the big question is how knowledgeable is the person on the subject? There is many things to consider and more so how successful is the reviewer is himself/herself? You don't preach to a crowd how things should be if you never experience it yourself. That would be just hypocritical and destroy the overall point of it. Overall point of this in itself is to point out the extreme lacking of modern knowledge of things about the internet. People want to search for knowledge, but more so a good social experience. (Which social is lacking due to the inactivity on FP anyway) What we need is more knowledge not just simply more knowledge, but more information and helping people to become informed. Informing people on facts and the best way to do things for their website is the most important thing, but how many people here on FP has in a real sense had any real success on the internet? (Other than the people who like to stalk the marketplace and buy / resell stuff for cheap profits and take advantage of the market here)

I could only personally name a extreme few people like that and I am sure you could list similar as well. There just aren't that many.

As for Youtube aspect this comes down to this. FP should probably attempt to have a more larger involvement in socializing with the internet. (Through Twitter, Facebook and even more so Youtube). Many sites have become successful for taking advantage of these things if so doing the right way. People like talking to real people (Not saying anyone here is fake) what I mean by this is people that can directly talk to through mic, etc. I know a few people (and I am sure many others) are a bit shy from directly having a conversation with a large group of individuals, but I believe that is something that has to change for the social health of FP. There needs to be more social improvements, but more so knowledge. We need more knowledgeable people on current advertising and promotional tactics (Since this is a promotional forum) and I believe FP needs to extremely focus more on exchangeable services and pushing for more interaction towards other people. More so I think it should also be pushed for people to want to gain knowledge than focus on FP as the only source of knowledge as it looks once in a while when the knowledge in itself is lacking here as of late. Nothing is wrong with sharing as they say sharing is caring. There needs to be more extreme changes for FP than simple ones that don't have any real impact on the FP experience just my thoughts or FP is just going down the same route of never really changing. Right now as I see it I am sure many others even with the changes nothing has in a real sense has "changed".

 

[Deleted member 1609]

I simply suggested the video mod which is in itself pretty nice. Effectively depends person to person and also the amount of traffic FP receives. At this point I feel like a broken record. It is nice to see "change" in the sense you guys are seeing it, but what change is there for the overall FP experience? Well there isn't any. Then you have to consider social and knowledge of the community. This I learned from my years of building PCs and being in other communities away from FP which I personally find extremely lacking on FP and that is knowledge. FP has potential but it has no flavor the experience has been the same and still is even with the changes since many years ago when I first FP nothing has realistically changed at all. As I said earlier post about the name change for the Review Team. I didn't mean it offensively, but as a general idea of the fact nothing has changed in a real point of view. The flavor is still the same and it will (most likely) continue to be so in the future. The primary thing about reviews is to in some sense the reviewer sharing their opinion with the said person site (or anything else) he is reviewing, but this is all well in good, but the big question is how knowledgeable is the person on the subject? There is many things to consider and more so how successful is the reviewer is himself/herself? You don't preach to a crowd how things should be if you never experience it yourself. That would be just hypocritical and destroy the overall point of it. Overall point of this in itself is to point out the extreme lacking of modern knowledge of things about the internet. People want to search for knowledge, but more so a good social experience. (Which social is lacking due to the inactivity on FP anyway) What we need is more knowledge not just simply more knowledge, but more information and helping people to become informed. Informing people on facts and the best way to do things for their website is the most important thing, but how many people here on FP has in a real sense had any real success on the internet? (Other than the people who like to stalk the marketplace and buy / resell stuff for cheap profits and take advantage of the market here)

I agree that the community on FP has been pretty much the same since the time that you joined. We are still hashing out an advertisement strategy that we hope will attract new forum owners and administrators to Forum Promotion. Honestly, Forum Promotion hasn't really been advertised since the early days. From 2010 to 2012, there really wasn't much need to advertise because of the size of the community; word of mouth usually did the trick. As the community started shrinking, there was no real effort to advertise the forum to get new people. Combined with the fact that there weren't very many meaningful updates for a few years, it reduced the size of FP's community dramatically. We are trying to change things up enough that it feels different, and we hope to begin an advertising campaign for the forum once we get some things hashed out.

I'm not sure that the knowledge factor is something that we can control necessarily. I have seen numerous people say that FP is mostly geared towards new webmasters, and I think that's fair to say. Maybe advertising will change that, but maybe it won't. I guess we need to wait and see. If you have any advice on how we might be able to attract more experienced and knowledgeable webmasters to Forum Promotion, I'm always here.

I realize that it's hard to get past the lack of updates over the past several years. We are brainstorming ideas constantly, often in Community Matters, and we have numerous things in the works that have been mentioned in public on the forum (e.g. a new theme, changes to exchanges, an advertising campaign for FP, a dedication to a specific niche for FP). John and I have only been back to the admin team for seventeen days, many of which weren't very productive due to the XenForo conversion going haywire. While you've heard this song and dance before, I do implore you to give us a fair chance. We are doing our very best to get FP back on the right path. The difference between what's happening now and what was happening previously is that we are listening to the community's perspective on how we should fix FP.

 

[Allenafaith]

Nice changes, Gio. 🙂