Book This! - General Discussion

[Octane]

Can I go ahead with my posting my BTB? The one I've done planning for?

 

[TSG]

You can do whatever you want, just don't break the rules.

 

[Da Prophet]

Survivor Series........TODAY!

 

[TSG]

Survivor Series........TODAY!

So Proph, what're your opinions on my ideas?

 

[#1Peep]

Yeah I'll review Survivor Series Proph.

 

[Da Prophet]

Yeah I'll review Survivor Series Proph.

Just finished writing it Peep, it ended up being 22,457 words. The Main Event ran a little long I wasn't happy with the finish I had so I re-wrote it. I'm still not happy with the end of Hell in a Cell, so it will be good to hear what you think. Give me 20 minutes to format it. It is huge!

EDIT: To anyone who hasn't do so yet, get your predictions you for Survivor Series.

 

[#1Peep]

Proph that sounds f'n huge! But I will give it a live review when you post it, probably later tonight. It will probably be a big nomination for the BT awards, BTW when you're ready could you tell me what you thought of my storylines and such?

 

[Da Prophet]

Proph that sounds f'n huge! But I will give it a live review when you post it, probably later tonight. It will probably be a big nomination for the BT awards, BTW when you're ready could you tell me what you thought of my storylines and such?

I'll rep you time after time if you get a live review in. Stage one for formatting his done, now I have to add the bolds, colours, and what not. I'll give my thoughts on your storylines after I post this baby up. I don't think you have post predictions, it would really help me if you did. It would stop one part of the show being on one page and then all the others being on a different one. I would like them all to be posted one after the other.

 

[Da Prophet]

http://forums.wrestlezone.com/showthread.php?t=132005&page=6

It is posted, go and read it and then give a review.​

 

[TSG]

Sup broskis, I finished the first show, I'm starting on the second. So I'll be ahead. Anyway, I'm gonna finish posting the roster and other details and try to hype up the show. Because, what's a debut show without hype, right? Be on the look out for the CWF, and check out the Lounge thread for it my peeps. I'm gonna try to check out that shows I've missed recently and review them if I got time.

 

[Da Prophet]

The roster looks good and hopefully this project has some legs. I'll be sure to review what you post up.

 

[TSG]

The roster looks good and hopefully this project has some legs. I'll be sure to review what you post up.

I'll try to review Survivor Series soon when I have time. It's a monster of a show.

 

[Da Prophet]

I'll try to review Survivor Series soon when I have time. It's a monster of a show.

Thanks for the review and expect the RAW preview to be up some time tomorrow or even day if I want.

 

[#1Peep]

Live review is up Proph.

 

[Da Prophet]

Live review is up Proph.

Yeah I saw it, thank you very much. I'll rep you when I can, just have to spread some. Expect the RAW preview to be up soon. I'm in the writing mood so why not start RAW.

 

[#1Peep]

Yeah I saw it, thank you very much. I'll rep you when I can, just have to spread some. Expect the RAW preview to be up soon. I'm in the writing mood so why not start RAW.

Could you pretty please give me some feedback on my storylines/feuds as promised?

 

[Da Prophet]

Could you pretty please give me some feedback on my storylines/feuds as promised?

Yes no problem, I'll do it over PM since I gave a small review on the show in your thread. And the RAW preview is up!

 

[GCB]

This section is dead. It might have a little traffic, but compared to all the other sections this place is more dead than Hitler. So what I want to ask, is what is a way to make this section more active? I will make some suggestions here.

Like Peep said, I don't think it is dead. People are reading (I always look at the number of visits to my BT) and we have a good few people regularly updating their BT. We need to do something to get more people on here though.

Book This! Network:

This would be a thread in either the Lounge or main section that we could use to post various things. We could do things like WWE Classics where we post classic old shows, we could have a news show, where we report the latest news from all the feds, talk shows with interviews, and we could even offer one booker the chance to broadcast their show on the network. More could come from it after it was set up

I think we need something in the main section. I think getting someone to post the main news in each BT or details of upcoming cards/PPVs, interviews etc ... would be a great idea if we could get it running. And allowing people to post a show would be good too. I like this idea a lot!

Book This! Magazine:

This would be like PWI or WWE Magazine, where we post weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly issues where their are articles, interviews, news stories, columns, and other various things magazines present. We could even have a Graphic Designer do pictures/covers. A poster actually tried this before but it didn't really get running.

I think the shows take a lot of time for folks and a magazine might lead them to need to produce more material. I think the first idea would be a better one as it wouldn't be much more than people already do.

Book This! Merchandise:

We could have graphic designers create t-shirt designs, and other various merchandise type items people can use as their sig representing their favorite BT!, or wrestlers in a BT!

Book This! Ratings System:

This one is a tough one, but what I have in mind is a ratings system based on weekly thread views and possibly other factors to so which show's lead in the "ratings". It could create a Monday Night Wars like environment and drive writers to make their shows better.

I reckon this is what I was looking to do with the Book This awards type thing. Never got going though. Would be kinda cool to see.

Promotion:

We could have sigs promoting the section. We could ask for permission to periodically post ads in the Site Administration section, and even create a group on Facebook and advertise on Twitter. We could try to cross-promote with WZCW shows. PM promotion can work too. KB also said he was planning on making a WZ Wiki, so we could promote their too.

I don't know how much other people post on the main sections but I often don't. Not sure if BT sigs have a great impact? Mind you, I already have one but seeing as you'd only see it in BT, it's kinda pointless anyway! Adverts in the site administration section could work, we just need to spread the word really ...

More user interaction:

We could have polls asking what visitors want to see in the section. We could have more scenario threads, like how would you do this or book this how you want to. We could have more user interface options in the section and we could add on to the Book This! help thread. We could try to find new ways to encourage people to start promotions.

I think this is also an important point: the people that lurk, how can we get them to contribute? It would be good to be able to post polls on our BT that we can then delete and add a new one regularly. Prediction leagues might work too.

Wrestling News Website:

This would be like a Wrestlezone, a website reporting news stories and having columns. We could even see if we could have another sub-forum made, to promote discussion about what is happening in the BT! world, kind of like WZ Forums serves WZ.

More emphasis on the BT Lounge might be a way to get this up and running?

These are just a few ideas I had in my head to generate this section. Also, for anyone wondering, I am in the process of a new show myself, and I almost have the first show done, I am planning to hype the show alot though so it may be awhile before it's posted. That's all for now fellow BT! mates!

I'll have a think if I can think of anything else too! GCB

 

[Da Prophet]

I'm still looking for reviews on Survivor Series. They only have to be what Sign Guy did, just some main points. I'm looking at EVERYONE who I have given reviews to. Some multiple times, now is the time to hit me back with one. Please and thanks!

 

[#1Peep]

I'm still looking for reviews on Survivor Series. They only have to be what Sign Guy did, just some main points. I'm looking at EVERYONE who I have given reviews to. Some multiple times, now is the time to hit me back with one. Please and thanks!

Yeah guys drop a review on Proph's awesome show. I would like to follow up GCBs post by saying that; if we all have the same 'BT' sig and start posting around a bit more we could garner more traffic. Theo is a 'big' name around the forums so maybe he could get more people to come in, just what happened when Doc was a regular with SCW. I would like to support GCBs BT awards so do you guys want to start putting in votes. GCB?

 

[Da Prophet]

Yeah guys drop a review on Proph's awesome show. I would like to follow up GCBs post by saying that; if we all have the same 'BT' sig and start posting around a bit more we could garner more traffic. Theo is a 'big' name around the forums so maybe he could get more people to come in, just what happened when Doc was a regular with SCW. I would like to support GCBs BT awards so do you guys want to start putting in votes. GCB?

Thanks, and I already sent my votes in. It doesn't take long so I don't see why people shouldn't do it.

 

[Positivity]

Hey guys! I just wanted to say a warm hello. I haven't exactly been recruited by anyone but I've read some of your guys' work here and there and want to become a regular in this section like the rest of you. I'll be doing as many reviews as I can tonight and I know some people might now be able to but is there any idea's you guys had for feds that never worked out? I'm up for trying even the craziest, weirdest or even half cooked idea's if you have them, and you
can reach me by PM or my multitude of messengers. However, I'm definitely impressed with all of this.

 

[GCB]

The awards thing will only be worth doing if I can get responses from folks. But I had a thought earlier: what if people nominated their own best match, best show, best PPV, best character, best moment? Then people could look through one post and make their votes rather than have to work out from others just to nominate?

e.g.

I might nominate from my thread:

Best show: RAW (Post 59/60)
Best PPV: Cyber Sunday
Best match: Triple H vs. Sheamus
Best moment: HBK revealed as new GM
Best character: Kofi Kingston

If all the regulars nominated their own, then people could then vote for things later.

Thoughts?

p.s. Welcome Positivity, glad to see a new face. I had a thought of a WWE Allstars show where you could just have a roster of past, present, future stars at their primes, discussed a couple of pages back. Or redoing the Invasion of WCW from 2001 would be cool? Really, I'd suggest picking your favourite point in time from your favourite show and going with that. If you're really stuck, just start from now. Maybe do your own draft and go for it? Advice though: reviews will get you off to a good start as you'll then have people ready to review you from show 1 and make sure you read lots and pick out good points of each person on here.

Good luck!

p.p.s. I will try and get round to a few reviews soon, maybe this weekend. Been away on hols and am busy at work but hopefully will get chance soon. Also got RAW half finished to add as my BT heads towards Survivor Series.

 

[Da Prophet]

I really like that idea.

 

[TSG]

The only problem I see with the pick from your own show idea is that people who don't have a BT! but want to vote anyway can't.