A new decade approaches!

[Markanite]

Dec 21, 2019 16:31:21 GMT -5 Markanite said:

Hi everyone,

I hope you are all still revelling in some festive merriment or are appropriately rested!

A new decade is approaching and this is the third that 10000 Islands will have seen (give or take a few years) and my thoughts turn to the future. We, as 10000 Islands, have created an amazing community here and have developed an interesting and engaging forum to help foster that community and ensure its growth. The question we face now is how do we want to develop 10000 Islands in 2020 and beyond? What should our priorities be and how can we achieve our goals?

That is the reason for this thread, I want to here from you all! What do you think we can do to help enhance 10000 Islands in the next decade?

Obviously there are no wrong answers, please be open and honest, lets talk and work together as a community to help further enhance 10000 Islands for all!

Mark

[Haivon]

We could a weekly or monthly trick that Islanders need to solve in Threads or newspapers (I don't know if this can work, it's just a proposal).

[Marxist Germany]

Our most lacking points are General Assembly Authorship and Roleplay, hopefully with an active WA Secretariat we may solve our lacking GA authorship, and if I am successful during my term, roleplay may get a spark of life.

Dec 29, 2019 11:09:02 GMT -5 Haivon said:

We could a weekly or monthly trick that Islanders need to solve in Threads or newspapers (I don't know if this can work, it's just a proposal).

I suggest contacting Jabberwocky, perhaps he can include some form of crosswords or chess puzzle in The Mad Surfer.

[Jabberwocky]

That's a good idea. Should someone submit such a thing to me, I would use it.

[Deleted]

Our ProBoards seem to be lacking life and events updating things in the nations here are lacking. However, we have improved alot since I while ago, alot of inactive nations were weeded out.

[Louisistan]

Jan 3, 2020 13:23:34 GMT -5 @islesofmetanoia said:

Our ProBoards seem to be lacking life and events updating things in the nations here are lacking. However, we have improved alot since I while ago, alot of inactive nations were weeded out.

I don't think that's a fair assessment, there's in fact a lot of activity going on here, though not in all areas.

I don't believe in all that "New Decade, new <x>" stuff. Change is an ongoing process and an arbitrary change in the date mostly doesn't do anything to affect it. I think we're on a good path. If I had to make one wish for the coming months it's that we look at change proposals with an eye for what it does for the community. Ideology is seldom a suitable catalyst for change and we are first and foremost a community of people. Any changes we make should benefit those people and/or the security and safety of our community.