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Hello! I love the video games chat community. I met some cool people on video games chat. wouldn't be writing this if I didn't care about video games chat. Video games chat isn't without its downsides. I brainstormed what the ideal video games chat would look like and here is what I come up with:
1) Administration:
a)Set expectations for mods to moderate at least an hour every other day. Frequently being inactive 2+ days without illness, family emergency or anything that is unexpected and urgent should be unacceptable.
b)Admin should be a mentor to mods encouraging continuous learning and the development of a growth mindset. Admins kind of act as a sensei to mods. A good admin guides, supports and empowers mods to help them do a good job at fulfilling their responsibilities.
c)Admin develops an informal course for trainee mods including training on cyber bullying/ online harassment, conflict resolution, crisis management, mental health, active listening, diversity in online spaces and other relevant topics.
d) Make trainee mods pass a scenario based quiz to make sure they understand the rules and guidelines and demonstrate they can handle a wide range of situations effectively before their first day modding
e) Make mods clock in and out and consider hiring staff active at particular parts of the day and night.
2) Community/ user engagement
a) Address the toxicity in chat and make turning video games chat into a friendly, welcoming and fun chat a priority
b) Embrace nerd culture by finding ways to incorporate video games, anime, tabletop rpg, manga and tcg.
c) Encourage more chatting about video games by encouraging mods to ask gaming related questions
d) Have themed weeks related to video games, movies, cartoons,etc. Example theme weeks including jrpg week, superhero week and anime/manga week.
e) Host competitions offering gold as a reward. An idea for a a contest is a video game fan art competition,
f) Consider having an official video games chat Minecraft server. Give more opportunities for the chat to game together.
g) Utilize off site software to have events like Dungeons & Dragons night and chess tournaments.
3) Why these changes are important?
a) By having active and responsible mods the chat will be safer and more welcoming
b) Admin mentoring the mods will make sure mods have the skills and knowledge needed to do a good job at their role
c) Training mods on important subjects such as customer service, conflict resolution and internet safety will create a safer and more welcoming chat room.
d) Addressing the toxicity is crucial to creating a friendly chat room.
e) Finding ways to incorporate nerd culture into video games chat can draw in gamers from other chat avenue rooms
f) Contests and themed weeks will boost user engagement and build a sense of community
g) Using off site software to host tournaments or game nights gives more opportunities for users to game together
h) Mods clocking in/out is important data for the admin and can be used to help the admin hire mods during times there are often no mods active.
3) Limitations
a) Some of these ideas have successfully been implemented elsewhere and had good results.
b) Ensuring active moderation is challenging and even more so when mods have busy schedules. A large mod team might be needed to achieve this goal.
c) Creating a mod training program can cost time. A lot of care goes into making sure mods are properly trained. It won't cost money however. ****** classroom can host the mod training for example.
d) The software in chat or forums don't currently allow quizzes to be made. ****** form or something similar will have to be used.
e) Addressing in chat toxicity is a big task. It can involve setting clear rules, consistently enforcing them and removing problematic users.
f) Hosting a Minecraft server involves ongoing moderation, server costs and maintenance. The cost might not be justified if there aren't enough users interested.
g) Hosting contests / themed weeks involves careful planning including determining the criteria, judging process and prizes.
h) The owners aren't easy to work with. They are likely gonna shut down many of these ideas down and that is okay.
i) Even though the owners main priority is having users in the chat no matter how toxic and boosting user engagement/ satisfaction isn't something they put enough care into change won't happen if we don't explore an idealized version of video games.
j) Some of these ideas won't work for video games chat or are gonna need some adjustment to suit the needs of video games chat. If just 1 thing is implemented from this list then this thread would be successful.
If video games chat don't have gaming/ anime events there is very little justifying it stay open. Video games chat is a breeding ground for never ending drama between men 25+ who constantly try owning each other and proving how they are the best. There is little chatting about shared interests. Sexual chat and accusations of users being predators overshadow any chat about video games and anime. Gamers/ weebs join this chat find there is nothing of value, leave and go to Discord servers instead. The absence of nerd culture in a video games chat begs the question what is the actual purpose of the room?
Now I am handing the microphone to other video games chat users.....
Lastly, let's give the mods/ admin a chance to speak...
@Argamaethos
@Reiko
@RwbyCastle
@Izaya
@Miss Mushroom
@jeez
1) Administration:
a)Set expectations for mods to moderate at least an hour every other day. Frequently being inactive 2+ days without illness, family emergency or anything that is unexpected and urgent should be unacceptable.
b)Admin should be a mentor to mods encouraging continuous learning and the development of a growth mindset. Admins kind of act as a sensei to mods. A good admin guides, supports and empowers mods to help them do a good job at fulfilling their responsibilities.
c)Admin develops an informal course for trainee mods including training on cyber bullying/ online harassment, conflict resolution, crisis management, mental health, active listening, diversity in online spaces and other relevant topics.
d) Make trainee mods pass a scenario based quiz to make sure they understand the rules and guidelines and demonstrate they can handle a wide range of situations effectively before their first day modding
e) Make mods clock in and out and consider hiring staff active at particular parts of the day and night.
2) Community/ user engagement
a) Address the toxicity in chat and make turning video games chat into a friendly, welcoming and fun chat a priority
b) Embrace nerd culture by finding ways to incorporate video games, anime, tabletop rpg, manga and tcg.
c) Encourage more chatting about video games by encouraging mods to ask gaming related questions
d) Have themed weeks related to video games, movies, cartoons,etc. Example theme weeks including jrpg week, superhero week and anime/manga week.
e) Host competitions offering gold as a reward. An idea for a a contest is a video game fan art competition,
f) Consider having an official video games chat Minecraft server. Give more opportunities for the chat to game together.
g) Utilize off site software to have events like Dungeons & Dragons night and chess tournaments.
3) Why these changes are important?
a) By having active and responsible mods the chat will be safer and more welcoming
b) Admin mentoring the mods will make sure mods have the skills and knowledge needed to do a good job at their role
c) Training mods on important subjects such as customer service, conflict resolution and internet safety will create a safer and more welcoming chat room.
d) Addressing the toxicity is crucial to creating a friendly chat room.
e) Finding ways to incorporate nerd culture into video games chat can draw in gamers from other chat avenue rooms
f) Contests and themed weeks will boost user engagement and build a sense of community
g) Using off site software to host tournaments or game nights gives more opportunities for users to game together
h) Mods clocking in/out is important data for the admin and can be used to help the admin hire mods during times there are often no mods active.
3) Limitations
a) Some of these ideas have successfully been implemented elsewhere and had good results.
b) Ensuring active moderation is challenging and even more so when mods have busy schedules. A large mod team might be needed to achieve this goal.
c) Creating a mod training program can cost time. A lot of care goes into making sure mods are properly trained. It won't cost money however. ****** classroom can host the mod training for example.
d) The software in chat or forums don't currently allow quizzes to be made. ****** form or something similar will have to be used.
e) Addressing in chat toxicity is a big task. It can involve setting clear rules, consistently enforcing them and removing problematic users.
f) Hosting a Minecraft server involves ongoing moderation, server costs and maintenance. The cost might not be justified if there aren't enough users interested.
g) Hosting contests / themed weeks involves careful planning including determining the criteria, judging process and prizes.
h) The owners aren't easy to work with. They are likely gonna shut down many of these ideas down and that is okay.
i) Even though the owners main priority is having users in the chat no matter how toxic and boosting user engagement/ satisfaction isn't something they put enough care into change won't happen if we don't explore an idealized version of video games.
j) Some of these ideas won't work for video games chat or are gonna need some adjustment to suit the needs of video games chat. If just 1 thing is implemented from this list then this thread would be successful.
If video games chat don't have gaming/ anime events there is very little justifying it stay open. Video games chat is a breeding ground for never ending drama between men 25+ who constantly try owning each other and proving how they are the best. There is little chatting about shared interests. Sexual chat and accusations of users being predators overshadow any chat about video games and anime. Gamers/ weebs join this chat find there is nothing of value, leave and go to Discord servers instead. The absence of nerd culture in a video games chat begs the question what is the actual purpose of the room?
Now I am handing the microphone to other video games chat users.....
- What changes do YOU wanna see?
- What can the admin and mods DO better?
- What are ideas about BOOSTING user engagement?
- How do you feel about the rulebook? What rules would YOU change?
Lastly, let's give the mods/ admin a chance to speak...
- What steps are being taken to address toxicity in video games chat?
- How do you currently encourage chit chat of nerdy topics?
- Have you considered hosting contests/ themed weeks?
- What concerns do have about these ideas and suggestions?
@Argamaethos
@Reiko
@RwbyCastle
@Izaya
@Miss Mushroom
@jeez
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