nicole (papergiraffes) wrote in equations,
@ 2010-12-31 12:40:00

FIXING EQUATIONS
As I'm sure everyone has seen,

phalange has brought up the issue of moving Equations to Livejournal.
Before you vote, I suggest everyone checks out the post HERE and look over everyone's points.

Going through the list, I feel the options are:
A.) Equations stays the same
B.) Equations stays at Scribbld, but changes are made
- What sort of changes should be made? (You do not need to answer this, but it will be helpful!)
C.) Equations moves entirely to Livejournal
D.) A mirror community is made at Livejournal, while the community here stays

For both C+D -- Should changes be made to how Equations is ran when it is moved to Livejournal? What kind of changes? Should points made at the LJ community count here?

As brought up, there is a LJ rating community called _bleedingbeauty which it looks like is ran similar to Equations and works out really well. I wasn't there long enough to get a good feel of how it is ran (it was far too active for me), but perhaps someone else is more knowledgeable on the subject.

And, of course, you are allowed to put an entirely different option I haven't thought of.

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61_keys_to_play
2011-01-05 04:16 am UTC (link)

Okay, so...thoughts on the application. I think that it should remain primarily on looks (to stay true to the "root" of the community, as it were) but I really like the idea of being able to "abstain" if we don't think someone would be a good fit - meaning "hey, you may be pretty, but I have some reservations about how well you would work here". I really don't think that making as extensive of an application as _bleedingbeauty has would benefit us, but I have the following ideas:

1. Raise the application age to 18+, but if any current members don't qualify under that, they should absolutely remain (not sure if anyone here is actually under 18 or not!).
2. I think adding sections on musical preferences, political views, and the like are pretty irrelevant to our community - seriously, how often do we actually discuss anything like that here? So, we could strip those sorts of questions as possibilities pretty easily, IMO.
3. Questions that ask about the true "root" of the person in question, however, would be useful in determining a little about them and if we think they would be a good fit or a source of drama here. For example, we could add 3-5 relatively simple questions that would not need to have more than a one or two-line answer, but could be in depth should the person so choose. Things like:
- What are your ambitions/goals in life?
- How do you handle drama, online and offline?
- What is one accomplishment you are particularly proud of?
- How do you describe yourself?
- What would you bring to this community, and what do you hope to get out of being a member here?
- What are the things that really interest you?
(These just being examples I came up with off the top of my head, I'm by no means saying that they are the right questions or necessary!)

Anyway, basically what I'm advocating for on any change to the application is a chance to see a little bit about the personality of anyone who applies, and maybe a 80/20 split to the looks/character of the person applying. Changing the weight ever so slightly off of completely how they look, but not so much that we lose the "standards" that have occurred here, while still allowing us to be careful about avoiding people who would not work in the community or be a source of drama for us. In other words, you can't get in on one part or another exclusively, period - but they aren't equally weighted.

You could also do a different scoring/rating method with this if we wanted to do so, perhaps doing a 1-10 on the looks as before, but adding a second 1-5 on how well we think the person would fit here or their personality, however you want to see it. Then, a score would look like (as an example) 9/4, 8.3/2, 5.5/5...you get the idea. The score of the personality would never outweigh the score of the looks, but people would have to get over the same 6.5 for looks, but also above a 3 for the personality.

These are just the thoughts I'm throwing out there - I'm not trying to "run the community my way" or anything - just getting some stuff out there for purposes of discussion. Disagree with me if you do, I don't mind - just trying to figure out how to integrate things a bit differently if we implemented the changes that I suggested before, and if I'm proposing changes then I only feel it fair to suggest how to work with those changes...but there are many solutions to this sort of thing, and I'm all for hearing other points of view. :)

Mods, once again, please feel free to make anything I say public, I'm happy to put my views out there and encourage discussion/debate. :)

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