2012-07-09, 15:38 | Link #1 |
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Anime Convention forum
Hmm. How about having a section in this site for these? A collection of convention threads, which can be used to help with meet-ups and stuff. Unless, thread tagging under "conventions" is enough.
I've had plenty of personal experience of meeting up people via an anime forum and at anime conventions. On my account, these have been a lot of fun. From what I garnish from the Anime Expo thread, I am assuming people from here met up and had fun together. So, a forum subsection on conventions may help boost the community aspect here.
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2012-07-09, 19:03 | Link #2 |
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Theoretically people could just make new threads for a specific convention if it was just about meeting up. However, I think another benefit of having a forum specifically for it would be that people could more easily discover new conventions happening around them (or just new conventions in general).
It's been years since I last attended a convention, and I don't plan to attend any others... but I like this idea. It would serve as both a nice service (convention news) and a social link for members who are attending.
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2012-07-09, 19:25 | Link #3 |
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Speaking totally personally here, I don't necessarily see a major problem with this idea (though I'd want to hear what the other staff think too), but one thing I think we would want to make clear is who is allowed to create threads for new conventions, what counts as a "convention", and what are the rules are advertising and the like. Normally our Forum Rules don't allow you to promote any event you're associated with, but I imagine that if we had a dedicated forum for conventions (and if it became somewhat popular), some convention organizers may want to post about their convention here. We'd want to a) have some rules about how that's done, and b) make sure people don't create duplicate threads (just so they can own the first post or for whatever other reason).
Edit: I think we'd also want to have a rule about what should be in the title; I think at least Name, Dates, and Location.
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Interesting thread: http://forums.animesuki.com/showthre...me+conventions
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2012-07-15, 07:07 | Link #5 | ||
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Interesting, I was actually about to shoot off a PM to a mod before I found this thread...
SMASH! marked the first anime/manga convention that I've attended (with two of my friends), and I definitely had a blast. I was hoping to share some of my experiences there, but I wasn't sure if it warranted it's own thread (6000 seems like a pretty small number for a con). The original idea I had was just to have a single pinned thread, but that would've probably grown to an uncontrollable extent, with fragmented conversation/discussion. Quote:
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The potential format for this sub-forum could work similarly to the current limited sub-forums for anime series: thread creation is limited to mods, and a request for new convention threads be available to users. For a request, the bare minimum should be a link to the convention's website and a brief description of the convention itself. The convention itself should focus on pop culture/anime & manga/Japanese culture(?) in general. My main concern is if requests get ignored, rather than outright approved/rejected.
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2012-07-15, 08:41 | Link #6 | ||
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I think an events/conventions subforum would be a great idea.
I don't think any special rules would necessarily be required though, apart from proper thread labeling. If someone is careless enough to be making a duplicate thread, just hit them with a warning and lock it or merge it or whatever it is that the mods do. Nothing new that's not already standard procedure right now. And I doubt it'd be that big of a frequently recurring offense either. At least not to the point to be holding off on the idea altogether. Quote:
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Megathreads should be avoided where ever possible though. It's just a pain to digging within them for the relevant info when you really shouldn't have to. I.E: If it's something like an annual event, make a new thread for each year. You don't want relevant info being buried and hidden within pages and pages of discussion. If it's something like this: http://www.madman.com.au/reelanime/ where the movies are going to be screened in different places all throughout the same time period (or closely timed intervals). Then the one thread for it should suffice, since each new location probably wouldn't generate enough discussion to warrant it's own thread. In fact the level of activity and discussion generated could be the determining factor in deciding whether a multiple location event should be split up or not. ----- To me, this new section doesn't really need much to get it off the ground at all. It'd just be like having another Upcoming Series section. People are already making great 1st posts in those with all the relevant info, so I mean why can't they do so for this new one? I believe the people here at Animesuki are sensible enough to be making the good judgement calls themselves. And if there is an odd case of the one person getting it wrong, there's always the mods to provide a helping hand I propose that there at least be the country, name and year be included in the title and to strictly enforce it as such. I feel perhaps city and month are also up for debate as well, but it shouldn't get any more exact than those for a thread title. Street names, exact locations and dates should be in the 1st post if people really require it and may be too much detail for a thread title. So for example: [AUS] Supernova 2012 (Brisbane) [AUS] Supernova 2012 (Sydney) [AUS] Reel Anime 2012 (Syd, Melb, Brisb, etc) [USA] Anime Expo 2012 (LA) [JP]Comiket 2012 (Tokyo) Something along the lines of those would be ideal imo.
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2012-07-19, 00:39 | Link #7 |
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I would like to second brocko's suggestion of enforcing the title of the convention threads, with the 3-letter country code, convention name, year and city.
With the opening post, probably bare minimum would be to include:
Something I was thinking about a while ago was the issue of posting cosplay photos, so maybe we may need specific rules for the proposed forum as well. Proposed cosplay photo rules:
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