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Hello helloooo,
A few friends and I are creating a little semi-private community. Our goal is to share things. Right now, we're looking to get our replay forum (cafe?) off the ground.
We are interested in inviting people who think they'd like to be part of a replay-exchange community. Here's the deal:
For a week or so, the forum will just be just that - a simple forum. However, we're going to be monitoring who is contributing high-quality replays/discussion for that week. The best of the best (as decided by admins and the community at large through the rating system) are going to be awarded web space on our servers. You'll become, in essence, our official uploaders. This, of course, carries no obligation on your part other than continuing to make high quality posts when you can.
A week or two from now is when the community will really begin to take off. We'll have our first batch of official uploaders by then along with a good group of folks wanting to discuss the game (and whatever else). By then, we hope to have flushed out all the shit.
Also, this will serve as a place to catch a game with friends. In fact, that will probably end up being as important as catching a good replay. As the community grows and we all get to know each other, we're going to have some small competitions (tournaments, ladders, etc) between forum members which will inevtiably end in illegal smurfing and controversy. We're not interested in becoming a simple 'go-download-leave' location. We are building a community.
Finally, if it's not 100% clear at this point, this is not an (asinine, dumb) attempt to replace TL or GG or any replay site/community you frequent. This is our attempt to add to your SC experience by introducing you to new people, new players, new games, new reps and new useless general forum threads.
If you're interested in being involved, you'll need to either leave your email in this thread or PM it to me so that I can invite you. The site is and will remain invite-only - users will quickly gain the ability to make invites themselves to keep the community growing but I am not looking to create a public forum now or anytime soon.
If not, smell ya later. Smell ya later forever.
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The only problem is that these things never work. The only replays people want to see are gosu's, and there have been 100,000 threads trying to get a group of people together to game, but they always fall apart because not enough people are dedicated and there are already other places to get games. I think we would all like to see something like this succeed, but in order for it to work you have to bring people in with something, and then keep them by providing more and more for them.
Say money tournaments, or, for example, sc2.org. The site offered the first streams for people on a website besides yaoyuan, and ilovecats put a lot of work into it, but the community never grew because everyone came from TL.net, so the forums were empty, people just used the site and then left as soon as it was over. It cost ilovecats a lot to keep it going, and no one was appreciative enough of it to help it out, or keep it active, so I guess he gave that up, and Dota ruined him T_T.
The point is, don't waste too much of your time doing this unless you are 100% willing to keep it going and always be on it and keeping it active or it'll just be another failed attempt at starting another community, and people will leave it and come back to the more popular, more established communities that already exist.
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wait, what about battle reports?
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On October 17 2008 16:50 .kaz wrote:
The only problem is that these things never work. The only replays people want to see are gosu's, and there have been 100,000 threads trying to get a group of people together to game, but they always fall apart because not enough people are dedicated and there are already other places to get games. I think we would all like to see something like this succeed, but in order for it to work you have to bring people in with something, and then keep them by providing more and more for them.
Say money tournaments, or, for example, sc2.org. The site offered the first streams for people on a website besides yaoyuan, and ilovecats put a lot of work into it, but the community never grew because everyone came from TL.net, so the forums were empty, people just used the site and then left as soon as it was over. It cost ilovecats a lot to keep it going, and no one was appreciative enough of it to help it out, or keep it active, so I guess he gave that up, and Dota ruined him T_T.
The point is, don't waste too much of your time doing this unless you are 100% willing to keep it going and always be on it and keeping it active or it'll just be another failed attempt at starting another community, and people will leave it and come back to the more popular, more established communities that already exist.
You've got a pretty good point!
I guess the advantage that this has is that the replay/game aspect isn't the only thing that I'm aiming to build around this thing? It's a place for me and my friends first.
Anyway, I'm not pouring my life savings into. Just for fun :D
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On October 17 2008 16:56 OmgIRok wrote:
wait, what about battle reports?
Sure.
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Like .kaz suggested, in order for this to work, you need to do something that is not being done already right now, or excel at a particular thing. For your site, you'll probably need really good replay uploaders that have good sources from good korean clans. However, there exists another problem...all the major sc sites already provide replays and a place for replay discussion. So even if you had unique replays, sites like gg.net (or tl.net possibly or fighterreplays or wherever) can reupload the replay, putting a huge dent in your traffic, because replays and replay discussion is easily emulated even if the replay comes out a little bit later on a different site. You need to come up with something creative and have a very nice site (hopefully that will develop into a nice community) to get people to stick.
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