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Post by Amy on Apr 23, 2012 21:12:29 GMT -7
WOW! It's been a LONG time since we've had a Group Discussion! 5 years I do believe XD We used to do a lot of these when the group first opened up. Anyways, I have a few topics I'd love to discuss with all of you guys and hope you'll take the time to post your opinions, suggestions, and ideas. Topic #1 - If you haven't already, please read about our Karma Point Issue HERE and post your opinions on it there. Topic #2 - Contests! I want to see our contests getting a lot of activity and entries. I would like your input on what you think of them now. Are they too complex? Too confusing? Too much work? Should they be easier? Are they too time consuming? Please post your opinions, suggestions on what you'd like to see, and anything else you'd like to say about this topic! I do have some ideas on how to make them easier, but would like your opinions and such first before I try them out. Also, the contests were made for people to actually send in their petz. The contests I've been holding have been 'do it yourself' type of contests since I don't have time to do everyone's pets anymore. Do you guys think I should hold these in the Picture shows board? Create a Picture Contests board, or just keep them where they are? Topic #3 - Projects! It seems everyone has been enjoying the projects, which makes me super happy! Please post any ideas / suggestions you have for projects and all will be considered for a project at some point! Please post this to give suggestions: Daily Projects: Weekly Projects: Monthly Projects: Real Life Monthly Projects: Also, do you think / would you like to see, weekly and daily RL projects too? Sub Topic A- Real Life ProjectsFor real life projects, would you like to see them all pet related, mostly pet related, or does it matter to you whether they are pet related or not? Topic #4 - BoardsAre there any boards you feel we can get rid of? I'd like to clean the place up a bit, but not sure of what to get rid of if anything. Topic #5 - Comments! Not too much of a discussion here, I mostly just want to apologize if I'm not able to comment or you only get a short comment from me. Having Keera here can really make typing difficult XD I am working on leaving better comments, because I know how much effort people put into show offs and how proud they are of their petz (I know I do / am), so the least I can do is leave a worthy comment XD I'd love to see others working on this as well. There have been a few posts of mine that have had several views and hardly any comments (thanks to those who did comment), and it's extremely discouraging, non-motivating, and makes me not want to post anything at all because I feel there is no point. This is the reason I hardly ever post in the show off boards at RKC & PKC. I realize people are busy, and you don't always have time to comment, but at least try on the majority of posts, or make a note to come back and comment. The Like button is a great addition for those who don't have time. It is a great tool to say Hey, I like your post, I'll be back later with an actual comment. No matter how many times you've seen the pet, there is ALWAYS something to comment on. It is not a good excuse of oh I seen that pet before, I already said it's cute, what more is there to say? There is lots more. Comment on what the pet is doing, their expression, anything you can think of. If we can all work on this alone, I think everyone will highly benefit and appreciate it. I am not perfect, and like I said I don't always have time either, but I am trying to work on all of this. Again, I ask, you guys do too Feel free to comment on this if you want I do see others leaving good comments, commenting a lot, and putting good effort in This is just a reminder 'We All love Comments!' So please don't think I'm picking on anyone! I think that's enough topics for this discussion! Please post your opinions and such below! Thank you! EDIT- Holy Smokes! I didn't expect that to be so long XD Sorry guys!
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Post by Dani @ Caradobe on Apr 23, 2012 21:18:38 GMT -7
As far as the contest are concerned... ithey seem to be primarily frisbee trials and if no one has notices, all my dogs fail at catching the frisbee... that's why we don't participate often. When there are non-frisbee contests and I have time I try to enter.
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Post by Vanilla on Apr 24, 2012 5:21:23 GMT -7
I didn't know we used to do group discussions, so it must have been awhile ago lol XD Topic #2I'm skipping topic 1 since I already gave my input on the other thread lol. Anyway, so I really like the contests as they are. I think I might get bored if they get any easier, if you know what I mean? And I think they probably should in the picture board, or maybe make a "Picture Sports" board? If I don't enter anything either 1. I have no motivation for getting pictures on that certain day, or 2. I can't decide who I want to enter XD Topic #3Yay projects I love these, and it gives me so much motivation :3 Daily Projects: Field trip day?(maybe you could take your petz to the "zoo" to see your wildz? Or if you don't have wildz you could always edit on top of pictures from real zoos/zoo tycoon). Weekly Projects: Learn about a pet week(pick one pet, update on it every day...could just be one or two pictures, or a huge amount ) Monthly Projects: I've got nothing good for this one XD Real Life Monthly Projects: Show off your pets month(post a pic or two/video of your pet/s and say what they're doing or what you did for the day?) Also, a small note on the real life project this month...I think we need to avoid things where if you miss a day or two, you can't just jump back into it XD Because I came back from my trip to NYC/NJ area and was like "Wait...what did I do the day before?" and stopped updating because I couldn't remember XD! And for real life stuff, I'd really love to see stuff for our real pets. I think everyone here has at least one real pet they can update on(not sure about a couple of newer members), because I love to talk about my dogs and GPs, but I always feel like I'm blabbing on and no one cares anyway X3 Topic #4If you want to clean it up some, perhaps put all the projects boards into a just general "Projects" board, and then put all the different ones as sub-boards? I could do this if you don't want to, cuz it could be a bit time consuming to go make all the boards, move everything over, and whatever XD Haha honestly I never notice how much stuff is on the home page, because I automatically go to the "New Threads" page X3 Topic #5Wow this is a hard one for me, to be honest XD For whatever reason, I have a really hard time doing heart-felt comments on petz...I don't even understand why, the words just don't come. I'll seriously sit here for 5 minutes trying to come up with something of value to say, and the words just aren't there haha. I mean, look at part of the comment I left on your update thread lol... Well...who here doesn't? LOL. I'm bad at commenting, but I comment a lot! XD ~Vanilla
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Post by Meomi on Apr 24, 2012 5:49:08 GMT -7
Topic #2 I think the contests are too time-consuming for me. Simple contests with no time involved are best for me.
Topic #3 The projects, I LOVE the daily projects. The weekly ones are ok, but I love the daily ones more because it's short and sweet. Maybe I can get into the weekly ones too but for now, for the short time I'm playing petz, I much rather enter the daily ones since they're always different and fun. Always something different. The weekly ones, I'm short on new ideas to do with my petz.
Topic #4 I never even noticed the Shows Announcement before xD I was looking through the boards and noticed it. It hasn't been updated since January so not sure if we should keep it? The Movies board could go I think. I know I said I was going to add some every month but I just don't have the time. People can post their movies/stories in the Brag board. The Vets Office/Pet Resort Hotel/Pet Sitting/Toys Clothes Store isn't being used much. Maybe we could all put them in one thread and call it something like Petz Plaza or something xD Training could all be in one board and have sub-boards?
Topic #5 ^@nilla, LOL! I'm the same way. I always try to think of something new to say than he's cute but that's all I can think of saying. Sometimes I find something else but there are times that's harder than other. I'll try my best!
Hehe!
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Post by Amy on Apr 24, 2012 6:53:11 GMT -7
Thank you for your input guys Will comment later with two hands.
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Post by silversheene on Apr 24, 2012 7:17:21 GMT -7
k heres my 2cents Topic #2 Well right now I don't have time to be active here so I haven't participated yet, but in general I would say that easier/simpler is better. I am much more willing to enter contests that don't require a huge ammount of effort (lazy lol). On a side note I love graphic awards to add to my site, and would be more willing to participate in harder things if they were offered :3 I personally don't like the send in your petz contests. 1. because it takes extra time and I'm not a huge fan of sending them out in general 2. because it's less fun for me lol Topic #3 I love the daily project, though like I said I haven't done any yet as RL is super busy. I would love to see more "kennel" geard projects like, take one of your puppies and teach them how to stack type thing, or groom your dog. Kinda rl kennel stuff with a focus on realism. Also I'm a little herding obsessed so any project involing herding and I would so be there, that goes for contests as well. RL projects! YES! I love seeing everyone RL petz and I love going on and on and on about my babies :3 I remeber at one point there was a dress up your RL pet show, but no one did it I would love to do things like that again, maybe petz style rl shows so get a "M leg trot" photo of your RL dog and a "pose" photo :3 just fun stuff like that. Or simple post your favorite pic of your RL pet with a short discription about their perosnality ect. Topic #4 Like Nilla I always go straight to new topic and never visit the hom page so I have no idea... Topic #5 I don't have a hard time coming up with nice things to say, my issua lately is again time, I have no time to be really active right now, though I'm working on it! Once I sort out RL issues, finnish cleaning out my crew, and get the herding forum up and running I will be back commenting on everyones things! I agree that it is discouraging when you post and get no comments, or one two word comment lol
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Post by Amy on Apr 24, 2012 7:30:28 GMT -7
Thank you silver I have two hands now, but baby is getting fussy and hungry so I'll be back again later to comment
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Post by Destiny on Apr 24, 2012 7:38:58 GMT -7
Topic #2 - I actually wanted to enter the frisbee contest yesterday but had a hard time doing it. I tried opening two windows (one petz and the other with the stop watch) and found it difficult/confusing when I threw the frisbee, set the timer to 'start' then take a pic/printscreen, and press 'stop' on the time. Sometimes I pressed print screen twice and missed the catch or forgot to press stop on the timer. After a while I gave up and said I would attempt again tomorrow. Maybe it's just practice but I'm not sure. I would love to know if you have an easier way to do it, Amy. It looked like it was the easiest thing when you used to do it but I'm not sure what method you use. Also, if you have a different idea on how we could enter these contests I'd love to hear it as I really want to enter them! Another thing about picture contests is that, if all a contest requires is a picture(s) of your petz then I think it should be held in the Picture Shows board. Also, I see that you are holding more frisbee picture shows and frisbee contests at the same time. Sometimes I don't know how to record the points for all of them. xD Topic #3 - I am loving all the projects! I like the fact that you have daily, weekly and monthly ones so you never get bored and always can "choose" if you want to do one project over the other. Or even join in on the weekly one if you're already finished with the daily one that day. Daily Projects: Make a garden, learn a trick, dress up Weekly Projects: Maybe have one pet visit different scenes for every day of the week or make a short story that continues on each day (write a sentence or short paragraph each day) until it finishes at the end of the week? Monthly Projects: Show your pet until it reaches a specific title, attempt to hex something Real Life Monthly Projects: I don't have ideas for this one. xD Although I do agree with Vanilla about posting on our RL pets. They're always fun to see. I'm not too sure of RL daily/weekly projects. I much rather come on here and do petz-related stuff. xD I might come back with more project ideas. Topic #4 - Everything already has been said about this topic but all I do want to say is that I'd love to see the raffle back up. Also, I'd like to see the training board active again. I would definitely enter classes. :3 Topic #5 - I love comments! I always comment whenever I can. And if I don't leave a comment for any reason, it doesn't mean that I didn't see your post/pics, just didn't have time to make a comment. I enjoy seeing updates on everyone's petz and comments just shows my appreciation for them so I'll try and keep commenting.
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Post by Vanilla on Apr 24, 2012 7:41:50 GMT -7
Silver, I agree with like everything in your post. Especially having real versions of petz contests That would be a blast, though I don't know how to stack haha, but maybe do it just like a petz stack, back legs aligned and all that? ~Vanilla
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Post by kezune on Apr 24, 2012 7:53:32 GMT -7
Topic #1 I've already commented that Karma doesn't matter to me too much.
Topic #2 I'm not sure how I feel about the contests since I don't usually make time to enter them, though I do like holding and judging shows, even the 'just for fun' ones. As for the layout of the forums, I don't have much room to comment there either since I haven't been showing or entering or creating contests, either.
Topic #3
Daily Projects: I like the picture a day idea you had earlier. Maybe expand on that? Otherwise, I have no real contributing ideas. Weekly Projects: I love show training so I think a training segment every week would be nice. I know not every one shows, though. Weekly playdates would be nice gesture, though! Monthly Projects: Petz get-together. Instead of doing small playdates, it would be very cool to have all the DG petz meet, either hopping from computer to computer to meet everyone or all at once on a host or two's computers. Real Life Monthly Projects: Every one seems to be huge into weight loss lately with summer coming up but a lot of us have other interests. It would be nice to have a monthly project where you share what you've done with your hobbies, scrap-book style. I enjoy painting and crochet, for example, so a monthly show-case would be nice. Loupin is into grooming lately so she could do a lesson on the tools of the trade and do a showcase of the dogs that she's groomed, and so on for every one else and their hobbies.
Maybe split them up into two categories? Have one for pet owners and one for people without pets?
Topic #4
I've never actually put much thought into it... Maybe change the Movies forum to allow for all sorts of creative expression, though. Just give it a more friendly title, maybe? Otherwise, I don't spend enough time on the forums to comment about the structure. Honestly, I just use the "new topics" button at the top.
Topic #5
I know I'm one of those people who comments once and doesn't usually comment again after that first one, but I do at least read many of the updates on people and their pets. Most of the time, though, I either get tongue tied or just don't have the time to comment. Yeah, I'm back but I'm spending my time online talking to friends and family or working on my site.
I know what you mean, though, and it is discouraging to have people not comment on something that you've put work into decorating and writing a story about.
Still, it's hard for me to come up with interesting things to say and I find myself repeating the same words when I try to comment on petz that I've already seen. I'm usually very wordy but when it comes to petz, I don't know. I'm the same way with my petz, too.
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