Who gives a fuck if I have faith in you?
Sure, they have back up, but in the end, if they were pitching themselves for a position, it would come down to what THEY would do. You're saying you want to jump onto staff and then ask for other people to hold your hand, wouldn't it be better if the person chosen was able to manage it by himself?
There's nothing wrong with help, but don't make that a staple of your campaign. I could just as easily say, "I want to drive discussion, but I'll use the help of Slyfox to do it."
That's the thing. I'm not basing my campaign around it. i plan on doing everything myself, or else I wouldn't be campaigning for this. I'm just trying to counter-argue your points. You think you have the answers, but there is always a counter-argument with everything. Yeah, worst case scenario, I go in over my head, I need help with a thing or two. Nothing wrong with that. but obviously if I thought I was going in over my head in the beginning, I wouldn't be trying this in the first place.
...so, would people be able to reply to the post? If so, it would still turn into a clusterfuck. "I don't liek Czena, he suckz, Teh Rock is numbah one!11!" I'm not saying that just to be a detractor, it's what almost ALWAYS happens. The unique ideas are the ones that work best.
If no replies would be allowed, it'd be BEYOND pointless. Anybody could put up a list.
Unique ideas work best, yes, but that doesn't mean ideas like this
can't work, because they can, if done right. I'm going off the basis that interactive things like this can help drive discussion and make the section a funner place to visit, with better discussion.
Now, back to my original subject. People would be able to reply to threads like this, I'm just saying someone neutral such as myself would organize it and keep it clean. They can debate all they want, but spam garbage would be deleted. I plan on keeping my sections clean of spam and with quality posts, as I noted before.
Lulz, trying doesn't make you a good moderator, DOING does. You care, but if you didn't care then you wouldn't be here in the first place. Everybody cares, that's just a stupid point. Jenks cares, Sidious cared, so what?
I'm just saying that crap happens. I know I'll be a good moderator. Whether you think so or not is regardless. But, when things do happen, you can't say I didn't try to drive discussion and keep things going, and it's time to go back to the drawing board, and keep chugging along. Not everything will work, and I understand that. I'm just saying I have good ideas that can work and are worth trying, especially since no one else is going this approach. Which is why I feel I can bring something of a different feel with newer ideas to the forums, and breathe some fresh air into them. That's my whole point in doing this.
Like I said, you want these ideas to be seen as good, but they're pretty much just tired and old, if not that, they're impractical. You don't need to go out and post millions of threads to drive discussion, you can just as easily allow discussion to thrive without that. Sure, if nothing is going on and you want to get some chatter going, then by all means, post something interesting up, but you don't need to barrage people with lists and tournaments.
Like I said before (as in my opening post, if you read it), I will do other things to drive discussion. I will try promoting the section in other parts of the forum through sigs, PM's, and other basic things, to attract people to the section. I will find subjects I can be passionate about and post interesting and different subjects, and so-forth. It won't even be close to all tourney's and lists and such. I just want to focus on the more interactive part of my campaign because I feel that knowing what the posters want in a section is the key to helping it thrive (such as polling them on what they want to see, giving them things such as lists and tourney's to vote on occasionally). But I will still do the basic things to drive discussion, and try to go beyond that to make the section even better. This is just one section of my campaign I'm promoting, and if you want more insight on the others, I can help you out with that too.
And for your information, just because you think an idea is old and tired, maybe it's just because they are always done in the same ways all the time? I plan on taking a different, more interactive stance to it. I have many ideas floating around for them, these are just the basics I have outlined. Your problem (which I do completely understand, as I wasn't completely clear I planned on taking different routes with it) is that you seem to have the narrow stance that all these ideas will be carried out the same way as similar ones, instead of viewing them in an opened minded stance such as, "maybe Sign Guy will try to put different twists into this or that, to make it funner or more unique." Which is exactly what I plan to do. Keep in mind that these are just basics of my ideas for a more interactive, unique, and funner forum experience, and that most of these won't be implemented the first day. I want them ASAP, but while I put everything together, that may take a month or two, especially considering I would need to get the basics of running the section down and discussion thriving again.