Originally Posted by
ed
Back some time ago there was a section for Russian speakers, it was towards the bottom of the forum, by elerk.
I remember that.
Originally Posted by
ed
For an answer that I remember from experiencing it. It was an unregulated mess. There wasn't and isn't still much Russian staff aside from sir and perhaps brey at that time. A lot of the boards had local mods because they knew Russian, in a Russian board. Makes sense obviously, but that in turn had a different effect when it came to moderation standards. They weren't really unified because most staff do not know Russian, and in the Russian forum, it was like their own world. The staff didn't touch things there because the language barrier, and the local mods in the RU forum had nothing to do with the other side of the forum because of obvious reasons. It spread the community too much that keeping track and moderating everything was messy.
Eh, then it's a bit sad, I've seen how on other forums such subforums work nicely, and people talking about important and interesting topics instead of spamming sht.
I agree that managing such a thing can be very hard, cuz I was forum moderator in another game where such subforum existed.
Well, apparently something that works in one place won't work in another. :I
Originally Posted by
ed
A key note is the Market. The Market section of the Russian forum was actually quite active considering the amount of users. There is just no way for Market Squad to moderate that without having a Russian member within their team.
That's why I purposely didn't put the market on an example. A separate market on such subforum is a bad idea.
Originally Posted by
ed
We've also had Uni-Bash. Which was kind of similar, but they taught people about the game and other things like translating rules in x language
http://forum.toribash.com/forumdisplay.php?f=439
Link is there for "Old Unibash". Not sure if you all can click the link, but it's worth a try. Send me a PM if you can't, I'll describe it for anyone curious. It's not like it's hidden information, it was actually quite a cool concept.
Unibash looked good, a small version of what I'm talking about and it was intended mainly to familiarize you (player) with the game, I think it was enough, and I exaggerated a little with the last idea.
If such subforum had only a strict informational function, it could have been even twice as small as Unibash and it would have probably served its purpose anyway.
Ty for answer Ed
After your post I decided to completely change my idea.
Example:
Posts of various players, including Bigdog, have convinced me that instead of removing dead Organizations, it's better to just revive them.
I think that placing such subforums in a visible place and placing this thread with links (3rd tab in the second example) will help new players and deliver new members to organizations and clans (although I still think that many Organizations should be removed because they don't meet the basic activation requirements).
PS: ...and there should be activity checks for the organizations.
sry for any linguistic errors
Last edited by Bison; Sep 14, 2019 at 05:04 PM.