Ami
Fishaholic
Hi
Just discovered the calendar function (Doh) and it gave me an idea.
With all the posts about live chat lately, making it a fish only thing, people not using it etc, I was wondering if we could maybe have specific chat events and encourage people to come and use it.
We could think of quite a lot of events during the year that I'm sure people would love to get involved with and they would encourage others to join in who wouldn't normally visit chat.
We've got people who breed specific fish for a living, who are experts in certain species, who are planted tank gods, who have done their own DIY projects, photography experts etc etc
For example, NMonks has a wealth of knowledge and has been many published articles in PFK etc, GF225 is a fantastic source of info on planted tanks, CFC prides himself in keeping huge fish and oddballs and has been an inspiration to many of us, Cian McLiam takes the best fish pics I've ever seen.
(suck up over for now!)
We could have set events each month - say an oddball chat day, a planted tank day, a DIY day etc. People could then come to chat knowing that there will be people there to answer questions on those types of topics.
It would of course not preclude anyone from talking about other things!
Expanding on this, I was thinking that we could have a pinned topic in here where people could post suggestions for discussions (guest event type thingies) and someone to monitor it and organise it. This would ideally be a mod, although I'd love to do this if none of you guys have the time.
We could then invite members to write an article for the forum, or repost articles that they've already done, and then invite people to the chat room on a specific day to discuss it and ask questions. The author of course in attendance!
We could use the calendar to log these events and post details on the forum well in advance of each event, so that everyone is aware of what's happening.
This shouldn't take that much to organise and like I say, I'd love to do it if people think it's a good idea.
Thanks for listening!
Just discovered the calendar function (Doh) and it gave me an idea.
With all the posts about live chat lately, making it a fish only thing, people not using it etc, I was wondering if we could maybe have specific chat events and encourage people to come and use it.
We could think of quite a lot of events during the year that I'm sure people would love to get involved with and they would encourage others to join in who wouldn't normally visit chat.
We've got people who breed specific fish for a living, who are experts in certain species, who are planted tank gods, who have done their own DIY projects, photography experts etc etc
For example, NMonks has a wealth of knowledge and has been many published articles in PFK etc, GF225 is a fantastic source of info on planted tanks, CFC prides himself in keeping huge fish and oddballs and has been an inspiration to many of us, Cian McLiam takes the best fish pics I've ever seen.
(suck up over for now!)
We could have set events each month - say an oddball chat day, a planted tank day, a DIY day etc. People could then come to chat knowing that there will be people there to answer questions on those types of topics.
It would of course not preclude anyone from talking about other things!
Expanding on this, I was thinking that we could have a pinned topic in here where people could post suggestions for discussions (guest event type thingies) and someone to monitor it and organise it. This would ideally be a mod, although I'd love to do this if none of you guys have the time.
We could then invite members to write an article for the forum, or repost articles that they've already done, and then invite people to the chat room on a specific day to discuss it and ask questions. The author of course in attendance!
We could use the calendar to log these events and post details on the forum well in advance of each event, so that everyone is aware of what's happening.
This shouldn't take that much to organise and like I say, I'd love to do it if people think it's a good idea.
Thanks for listening!