Is the PSU tube still alive?

[Lasombra]

http://www.psu.com/forums/showthread.php/326702-Racial-Diversity-Gaming-Hour

For the sake of clarity, there was already a thread opened by Glenn. I've updated it with the latest episode, so please enjoy everyone!

 

[Duffman]

[QUOTE="Lasombra, post: 6381520]This is where I have to disagree with Omar. In no way am I trying to be disrespectful when I say this, but how hard is it to check the front page? www.psu.com Check it once a day, even at the same time each day, and you'll see all the new stuff. No offence but if someone in the forums is not listening to the podcasts it is because they chose not to listen to the podcast, not cause they can't find it. Or even go to the top of the site, "What's New?" --> Latest Podcasts After the site revamp it is SUPER!!! easy to find stuff on there now.

I also have to completely disagree with Ghost. The staff have cared for a long time, especially me. For 39 straight weeks I was interviewing people from the forums for a weekly series I used to do. No one cared. Everyone lost interest or they had no sweet clue the series even existed. I remember we tried to get people from the forums who were doing stuff in the forum game reviews section the opportunity to make it on staff...either no one cared or they dropped out after a week. I've had various kinds of contests in the forums that few if any cared about or talked about. I remember Chillie did a contest around Christmas giving away free stuff and hardly anyone posted...for free stuff.

The problem is not that the staff doesn't care. The problem is when the staff have made attempts to get the community involved there has been lax response at best. Harsh but true. The people who actually view/comment on the front page and those who comment in the forums are two different groups of people, two different demographics. I remember when I held the trophy competition in the forums last summer there might have been 5 people at most talking about it...with one a contestant from another site and myself included...so really 3 or so. Of those not directly involved as a contestant? ZERO comments. It was one of the highest viewed threads ever but no one except for those handful posted in the thread.

Sure, we could easily make a sub-forum and put all our stuff like podcasts and such into it. But people have to come and respond. People have to engage. Please keep this in mind. The site staff are not paid. We are all volunteers. When I review a game for the site I'm spending 10, 20, 30 hours of my free time and volunteering it to help the site. But there is only so much we as a staff can do. Our time is a limited resource. If we are not posting the podcasts in the forums, and it is a huge issue for the people in the forums, don't wait for us to take care of it. Make the "Podcast thread" ask the mod to sticky it, and someone from the forums volunteers to take of it.

Again, I'm not trying to be rude to anyone, but just putting this situation into context from my experiences.[/QUOTE]

I am gutted I missed out on that, not because of the free stuff but just because I would love to be featured on the podcast with you guys! It's a shame that it doesn't get much interest on the site from the community and as a weekly listener it deserves so much more!!

PS: BUY HIS BOOK :icon_thumright:

 

[TidalPhoenix]

www.psu.com[/URL] Check it once a day, even at the same time each day, and you'll see all the new stuff. No offence but if someone in the forums is not listening to the podcasts it is because they chose not to listen to the podcast, not cause they can't find it. Or even go to the top of the site, "What's New?" --> Latest Podcasts After the site revamp it is SUPER!!! easy to find stuff on there now.

I also have to completely disagree with Ghost. The staff have cared for a long time, especially me. For 39 straight weeks I was interviewing people from the forums for a weekly series I used to do. No one cared. Everyone lost interest or they had no sweet clue the series even existed. I remember we tried to get people from the forums who were doing stuff in the forum game reviews section the opportunity to make it on staff...either no one cared or they dropped out after a week. I've had various kinds of contests in the forums that few if any cared about or talked about. I remember Chillie did a contest around Christmas giving away free stuff and hardly anyone posted...for free stuff.

The problem is not that the staff doesn't care. The problem is when the staff have made attempts to get the community involved there has been lax response at best. Harsh but true. The people who actually view/comment on the front page and those who comment in the forums are two different groups of people, two different demographics. I remember when I held the trophy competition in the forums last summer there might have been 5 people at most talking about it...with one a contestant from another site and myself included...so really 3 or so. Of those not directly involved as a contestant? ZERO comments. It was one of the highest viewed threads ever but no one except for those handful posted in the thread.

Sure, we could easily make a sub-forum and put all our stuff like podcasts and such into it. But people have to come and respond. People have to engage. Please keep this in mind. The site staff are not paid. We are all volunteers. When I review a game for the site I'm spending 10, 20, 30 hours of my free time and volunteering it to help the site. But there is only so much we as a staff can do. Our time is a limited resource. If we are not posting the podcasts in the forums, and it is a huge issue for the people in the forums, don't wait for us to take care of it. Make the "Podcast thread" ask the mod to sticky it, and someone from the forums volunteers to take of it.

Again, I'm not trying to be rude to anyone, but just putting this situation into context from my experiences.

Put me in the 'didn't know about it' category. Can't believe you did this every week for almost a year and I never even heard of it.

On the other point - I think by and large you're probably correct, although I personally do post comments on the front page quite regularly (as well as posting in the forums).

 

[Ixion]

[QUOTE="Lasombra, post: 6381520]For 39 straight weeks I was interviewing people from the forums for a weekly series I used to do. No one cared. Everyone lost interest or they had no sweet clue the series even existed.[/QUOTE]

I think that's partly because the name of the series was "The Lasombra Files". If you called it something that reflected the interview, more people would have known.

I think you should have called it something like "Weekly Member Spotlight: [insert member name]".

 

[TotallyNotGlenn]

[QUOTE="Ixion, post: 6381560]I think that's partly because the name of the series was "The Lasombra Files". If you called it something that reflected the interview, more people would have known.

I think you should have called it something like "Weekly Member Spotlight: [insert member name]".[/QUOTE]

Honestly, I agree with this. It would have been stronger to have the title reflect the content.

That said, the point that there isn't much enthusiasm still stands. On RDGH, we always invite and even encourage the PSU community and the world at large to get involved, to send us tweets or reviews that we can read on the air, to give us subjects to talk about, to get involved in the discussions we have on the podcasts. Only three people ever do, and that's okay (I don't want to force anyone to talk to us, lol) but it shows that there IS a lack of enthusiasm.

Promoting things on a Web forum can be difficult because there is so much information to look at. We can make threads, but on any given page there are literally a hundred other threads to look at. How do you believe we can promote things like our contests and podcasts in a way that everyone will notice it? Our forum software is currently VBulletin. If you know any tricks we can use, let us know! I have no access to the forum's admin panel, so forgive me if the solution is obvious.

 

[Duffman]

[QUOTE="TotallyNotGlenn, post: 6381648]Honestly, I agree with this. It would have been stronger to have the title reflect the content.

That said, the point that there isn't much enthusiasm still stands. On RDGH, we always invite and even encourage the PSU community and the world at large to get involved, to send us tweets or reviews that we can read on the air, to give us subjects to talk about, to get involved in the discussions we have on the podcasts. Only three people ever do, and that's okay (I don't want to force anyone to talk to us, lol) but it shows that there IS a lack of enthusiasm.

Promoting things on a Web forum can be difficult because there is so much information to look at. We can make threads, but on any given page there are literally a hundred other threads to look at. How do you believe we can promote things like our contests and podcasts in a way that everyone will notice it? Our forum software is currently VBulletin. If you know any tricks we can use, let us know! I have no access to the forum's admin panel, so forgive me if the solution is obvious.[/QUOTE]

Glenn just know there are faithful out there so please don't stop doing what you are doing, otherwise my car journeys to and from work will be very drab and boring :lol: