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Subject: Seventh Column Chapter Revitalization Project

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Wonderful This is what I need is more feedback.

I realize that some of these goals are -- lofty(IMAX). But all are attainable to a degree.
I don't want every chapter to be the same, Articles and News are far from all a chapter entails. Even so there would still be that period of exclusivity.

I still want each chapter to have it's certain panace, to have it's own style. For instance, Some chapters focus on gameplay, some on fiction, some on philosophy, some on music, etc. I don't want this to be a plan for uniformity, as uniformity is wrong for things such as this, I want to promote togetherness.

  • 07.03.2004 12:24 PM PDT

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So, the chapters that are part of this share news and stuff like that, all while keeping exclusive stuff?

  • 07.03.2004 12:29 PM PDT

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Yes, and help spread the word of the other chapters, and advertize for the Seventh Column as a whole.
For instance, Say someone writes a great story in three parts. All three parts are autonomous but they fit together really well. Well Said person would post the first part of the story in the other chapters. If you like it go to the other chapter to check out the others, and then they would get a chance to look at the rest of the chapter and see the "exclusives" of that chapter.
This isn't all of it, but again a basic building block for the project to grow.

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just wondering if anyone knos when the new chapter feture will be up again

  • 07.03.2004 4:55 PM PDT

just wondering if anyone knos when the new chapter feture will be up again
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[Edited on 7/3/2004 5:15:43 PM]

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to get more interest in the 7th Column I went to the GameStop at the mall before I moved yesterday (from Mass to Connecticut) and had the manager post a paper with the 7th Column website and a few good chapters to check out (all of the awesome chapters in the databases at Chapter Founders plus mine, which isn't on the list yet).
I shall be making up more of these papers for the local GameStop and EB Games. (I live with 5 minutes of each now). Anyone else who can do this it will get more people on the Column

  • 07.03.2004 5:42 PM PDT

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Well I do respect the idea of the Founders picking topics, this seems a bit stifling to the other members of the Chapters, This may be a good plan for the "new hotness", but I don't want it to rule out anybody who's been with their chapter forever, to have to up and leave because they don't fit the mold anymore. I think that a chapter should be evaluated to see which topic it has more of. I do like the topics you have picked, especially Theory and Philosophy especially! I do have a database of Chapters in the project, and I have a notes section specifically for this type of generalization, so people will know what niche they fit into. But I'm still working on it. But they would still have to evolve into it naturally, so some would be classified as Jack-Of -All-Trades type of chapters, they do a little of everything but wouldn't be outstanding in any specific category. This would ensure there are chapters for those that don't have a specific interest.

I still believe the Chapters should be able to evolve in the natural way, but in a way that other people start seeing more of it and making thier own judgements. I want to see something posted in a forum, and someone randomly say, "That sounds like something I read on So and So Chapter, that Chapter is great for that kind of stuff." I kind of like the point system. But I am worried that if it happened Column wide it would seem to either punish the people who are busy or lazy, or cause a flood of useless spam just so people could keep up with the points.

I love your ideas, and I would love to discuss them more.

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Capital job, DoctorEvol, that was a great idea.

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just wondering if anyone knos when the new chapter feture will be up again
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how soon

  • 07.03.2004 6:11 PM PDT

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It's gonna be at least a month man. Don't sweat it. Use this thread for Column Boosting topics. You'll get your chapter soon enough.

  • 07.03.2004 6:18 PM PDT

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You know - the idea of a hub chapter is amazingly good, an initial chapter to belong to and branch out into the special interests. And these special interest chapters would put data into the hub chapter as the hook, and this would add activity to the Hub Chapter, and add potential members to the special interest chapter.

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I think a few people would even be willing to set up links with descriptions too, after all it would be mutually beneficial, after I put the links to others on my chapter, I got 5 more members, and I wasn't trying to get them!!! I can only imagine what could happen if you advertised on the link page as well!

Hopefully this week and next I can recruit more chapters to this cause, and get them to add public Articles databases. Soon™ we will have a framework to build on.

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Here is a link to a forum board where we can discuss more at length and off topic, so as not to irritate the Mods.

Seventh Column Revitalization Forums

It's open to all!!!

  • 07.03.2004 8:14 PM PDT

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I want to take the opportunity to thank everyone who has been participating. This Project is showing great promise and I do it as an homage to Bungie for giving me a free forum, and a free Chapter to meet with everyone else who shares the same interests that I do. Thanks to everyone who has been giving feedback and their ideas, and I don't want the ideas to stop! Keep posting them! Keep up the Seventh Column. It can be great now! If we make it great now then "The New Hotness™" will be our Promised Land. We can show everyone what true fans are!!! Thank you Everybody, and thank you Bungie.

And more to follow later, remember, it's a plan in progress!!! Good Night all!!!
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Sounds like a great idea. I used to be a overactive member but fell into a rut where it al seemed the same. To be honest what brought me back to b net was frankies mr chief drawings (lol ride the pickle). anyhow being a reasonable experienced person im willing to help out in any way.

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the column needs members, it has too many founders and not enough members, someone should form something where a group of very active people who arent founders join 15 chapters, psot as much news and database and froum stuff as possible in each for a week, then join 15 new chapters (only joining chapters who need help and can still be saved from inactivity) this way (if enough people did it) it would be like a kick start to some potentially good chapters and help keep the ones that may be fading afloat. but who should undertake such a task? it would be a terrible burden and only the most determined could pull this off. they could be named 'the cupcake brigade' and they should wear yellow spandex. ok maybe not the last line. i will post again if i get any more ideas on this topic.

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I like nab's idea, but what if it was a group of people, instead of just one? One person wouldn't be overwhelmed, and if he was, they would tke a break for a day or two and get back too work. It would be easier than just one person.

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All great ideas in their own way, and remember impurity, even the Hubs would have their own selling points, many Large Chapters sponsor Clans, and many are region specific, maybe if we could get the hubs to localize new members, say a hub for the Northeast (or two) , a hub for the South, a hub for the midwest, etc... Or not - It's only an idea.

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in response to someone ( i dont remember the name)
i always meant for it to be more than one person.

and in response to impurity
thats why these particular people would be dedeicated, to find new stuff for each chapter, like i say, a heavy burden to bear.

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Yeah that was me. The OTHER forum mod at your chapter. I'll accept jeers that I need to read better now, I see what you meant. It was clear. And those people would need to be really fast on finding chapters, if not we'd need more people to search the Column to find chapters in need.

  • 07.05.2004 2:56 PM PDT