Building our Community

I have been thinking of ways to bringing more people to our forums/modded servers. So the best way I can think of inviting people to our humble corner of the internet and bringing those of us who are a little shy a reason to talk to people in our community. What I had in mind was that we as a community could come together one day and create a minecraft music video. If we have music artist here we could even write our own song for here and have the whole thing be completely original song. I know that this has been done before but if you have a better idea I would love to hear it. Try to leave it at brainstorming if we get enough attention I will figure everything else out. I have plenty of time on my hands.

 

Well we could also attract more youtubers here somehow. Maybe with a tag that shows that they are a YouTube either ingame or on the forums, or both. Nothing draws people to a server like a chance to run into their favorite YouTuber there

 

that is a good idea making our servers and forums friendlier to youtubers and then they could attract people.

 

I thought I was everyone's favorite youtuber? My four subscribers love me!


I've reached out to several middle of the road youtube stars, and they all say the same thing to me, they are afraid to come to another server based on the fear of being "beholden" to that server. We did have one here prior who left to go pursue builds that were no longer server friendly.

Then with an opening of the world to youtube players to have special tags, starts the flood of I have a youtube channel tag me, and where are my special perms etc.

 

what I think he means that if we start being friendly to youtubers that they will come in especially if these servers start becoming super popular. I have bounced through a bunch of servers in my time and none of them are this friendly to them. where perks are offered.

 

Well I wouldn't suggest giving youtubers any more privileges then normal players. But maybe just a quick nod saying "hey this person is a youtuber" so that they feel special enough to make videos on MYM servers. Or even just add announcements letting people know that MYM supports youtubers playing on their servers and that they don't have to ask to record a video here.

 

Right exactly what I was thinking that "perks" like having an announcement or something that supports that not like actual detonators perks

 

And maybe the process for getting a youtuber tag involves applying for it and having a staff member check real quick to make sure that they have made atleast 1 video featuring MYM posted.

 

right an a good announcement would be that we as a community could come together to make a video and then everyone could get a title change or a temp title change and an achievement.

 

Lol sounds good to me. We could make it into one of those competitions that MYM has sometimes. Not sure how yet tho
[doublepost=1498749296][/doublepost]And even if the staff don't get approval to make it official we could still do it anyway. It wouldn't be too hard to organize once we pick a server and time and spread the word.

 

Just go around asking people to comment here so i can see if people want to actually do this because the staff all seems pretty democratic about its people.

 

Add a poll
And don't forget to add potato

 

hmm building competition type on the next server to launch?

Oh, and Hey Youtube people! We love you on MyM! There it's official.

 

SirWill is about to his 10,000 messages on the forum too. We could add that into the celebration somehow

 

it doesn't let me add one afterwards so i just made a straw poll

 

Poll added.

 

I also wanted this to be a thing where people could earn this special tag buy helping make a video featuring MYM

 

My biggest concern about "official" youtubers on MyM is vulgarity. Since we are a family friendly server, I (personally) wouldn't feel comfortable having a youtuber advertising our server while spewing curse words or sexual innuendos in the video while basically representing us with an official tag. If this were to become a thing, that's something we'd have to take the time to monitor.

 

Hmm good point.

Although lately YouTube has begun to discourage its users from using fowl language by taking down videos with too much of it in them. So if YouTube keeps it up it may not be as much of a problem for us.

 

I am concerned that our own rules and standards interfere with a Youtuber's intended program. It is quite common that Youtubers, even the large ones, e.g. construct EMC loops to get their EMC. Banning an upcoming YouTuber in episode 40 of his popular Project Ozone Kappa Mode Let's Play because he built a loop, will backfire more on us than on him/her.

Also I don't really want to watch all those episodes to check whether they apply to our rules.