- GameJunkieJim
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Posted by: snowmanaxt7
The 7th Column:
Bring it back, plain and simple. The 7th Column page is completely dead, this does not help to inspire a community feel at all. Try to get it active again. Some suggestions: Get the Spotlight up and running on some kind of regular basis, start doing the soapbox again, offer more Chapter support directly through the column. If you have to, try to get a certain someone who's entire job on B.net is to run that 7th Column page. Achronos has hinted, but not said anything concrete about these features. It's been suggested to him before, and I hope he does something just like this.
Maybe reactivate Team ACS(Active Chapter Support) and this time with the 7th Column as a backing. I was a part of the original Team ACS, and we did well, but with our lack of resources were overcome. We had to many request for help, we could not handle it. An official 7th Column Team ACS would be a welcome addition to the Community and groups. That's a pretty good idea as well.
I know not if this is possible, but try to get some real Bungie Employees, aside from Bungie.net workers(Frankie, yourself, Sketch, etc...) to become at least moderately active on the website. Of course this isn't an easy task I know, most will probably not want to do this. But, think about it for a moment. Having a Bungie employee around doing the sopbox, or for instance I have a technical question about Halo 3, or something to do with the engine, and I post it in the forums, there would be an actual employee there to answer me, participating. This would cause an immense community feel, as Bungie employees themselves would be a part of it. AGREE. Nuff Said.
Groups: How To Not Suck
Refine groups more, it may be harsh but maybe we should go back to having to have your group creation accepted. This would cut down on all of these copy groups and encourage more activity in the original ones. No need to have another damn halo 3 Beta group, just join the one that already exists and enjoy. I'm unsure if that could work anymore with the number of users on the site.
Make the homepages more customizable. As in, maybe design it so that you can choose different layout templates for your group Homepage. Nothing major of course, but kinda like the themes are now, just moving things around. Make more options also. Not all groups are about Clans, so why should all Display a Clan box? it should be a selectable option to show. The old groups had boxes you could chose to display, and multiple hacks that people like Doctor Evol were adept at exploiting to customize the group farther. I want these back.
Also, why not expand even farther on Clan groups. Not only may you show your Clan box but make it so that you can fully implement your entire clan status, members, info, and etc into your chapter. Kinda like merging the Clan Page and Group. This would encourage more clans to have groups as their homepages, and thus expand the 7th Column further. It also would help scheduling I think, as well as making a more functional Column.