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Austinato

Banner Vote

Hello everyone!

We're finally doing the banner vote. Just pick one set of banners and your vote will be accounted for! Anyone in the USS (staff, shop owners, employees, and shop owners) can vote. This vote will end on Saturday, April 17, 2021, at the latest, but we may call it off earlier if there are simply no more votes. Check out the banners below and vote!

The banners are listed in this order: Regular banner, newsletter banner, activity check banner, studio thumbnail, seal, and membership banner.

kccuber

Austinato

Voting Results
kccuber - 3
kccuber, p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-, misaPuding
Austinato - 2
Austinato, cs4233117

Last edited by Austinato (April 11, 2021 20:52:35)

sti_scratch

I don't understand the point of this federation; if this is a Requests forum trade association, it doesn't offer many perks to its members, and if it's a way for shop owners to advertise their shops, it appears not to do that other than with a mini-directory several posts below the OP.

It's now seemingly getting caught up in bureaucracy again, like the old USS, without the benefits (such as a USS members directory on every shop's OP) and membership numbers of the old USS, without its Senate and so on that helped boost participation in the old USS.

It’s also rejected the idea of a USS-performed bump beyond a (admittedly quite spammy) newsletter every seven days, leaving almost zero benefits for shops and making me question the purpose of the USS (and post-2020 shop federations as a whole). I don’t mean any offense by saying this.

Last edited by sti_scratch (April 11, 2021 00:33:13)

cs4233117

Austinato wrote:
Banner Vote

Hello everyone!

We're finally doing the banner vote. Just pick one set of banners and your vote will be accounted for! Anyone in the USS (staff, shop owners, employees, and shop owners) can vote. This vote will end on Saturday, April 17, 2021, at the latest, but we may call it off earlier if there are simply no more votes. Check out the banners below and vote!

The banners are listed in this order: Regular banner, newsletter banner, activity check banner, studio thumbnail, seal, and membership banner.
Voting Results
kccuber - 1
kccuber
Austinato - 1
Austinato

Hello, I would like to vote for Austinato. Also, I just remembered that this Monday I am starting school FULL-TIME so I might not be on as much as I used to be, unless weekends and breaks. Also during my summer break it is still the same, me only being mostly during weekends because of laptop issues…

p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-

Vote +1 kccuber (if I count because I honestly don't know what position I have anymore)

kccuber

p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p- wrote:
Vote +1 kccuber (if I count because I honestly don't know what position I have anymore)

I guess you have the position of “Newsletter sender”

Austinato

sti_scratch wrote:
I don't understand the point of this federation; if this is a Requests forum trade association, it doesn't offer many perks to its members, and if it's a way for shop owners to advertise their shops, it appears not to do that other than with a mini-directory several posts below the OP.

That's a good point. The directory idea that we had was the closest to solving this problem but it has since went cancelled. We can probably bring it back, though.

sti_scratch wrote:
It's now seemingly getting caught up in bureaucracy again, like the old USS, without the benefits (such as a USS members directory on every shop's OP) and membership numbers of the old USS, without its Senate and so on that helped boost participation in the old USS.

I'd also like to stray from the USS being wrapped into bureaucracy like it has been in the past, but I think right now our main issue is staff inactivity. As for what you said in parentheses, our “proud member” banners might be similar to that.

My push to abolish the Senate system was mostly for us to focus on bringing the USS back into basic activity (and simplify involvement in the federation), but maybe we can explore bringing that concept back given that we seem to be experiencing a dip in engagement in this topic.

sti_scratch wrote:
It’s also rejected the idea of a USS-performed bump beyond a (admittedly quite spammy) newsletter every seven days, leaving almost zero benefits for shops and making me question the purpose of the USS (and post-2020 shop federations as a whole). I don’t mean any offense by saying this.

I rejected the bump perk because I believed it was up to shops to keep themselves running (instead of having someone bump a shop that isn't even trying to be active) but maybe we can implement it as an opt-in program like the newsletter. The newsletter itself isn't even spammy; it hasn't even been sent out and it is only planned to be released monthly. As for the newsletter post sent out to shops, I hope we can stray from making it super lengthy.

Edit: Adding to the middle of this post, 78ch3's inactivity/inability to update the OP is sort of serving as a roadblock to making changes to our federation. Hopefully that can be resolved soon. Thanks for your feedback; this post gave me some ideas on how to keep improving the USS.

Edit 2: This goes to anyone else reading this: feel free to voice your opinion!

Last edited by Austinato (April 11, 2021 02:03:35)

sti_scratch

Austinato wrote:
I rejected the bump perk because I believed it was up to shops to keep themselves running (instead of having someone bump a shop that isn't even trying to be active) but maybe we can implement it as an opt-in program like the newsletter. The newsletter itself isn't even spammy; it hasn't even been sent out and it is only planned to be released monthly. As for the newsletter post sent out to shops, I hope we can stray from making it super lengthy.

while i'll discuss the other points in your post later, i'd just like to take some time here to admit that it's my mistake for suggesting the bump perk; this is an excellent point, thanks for bringing this up!

Last edited by kaj (Today 22:21:37)

MClovers

Austinato wrote:
I rejected the bump perk because I believed it was up to shops to keep themselves running (instead of having someone bump a shop that isn't even trying to be active) but maybe we can implement it as an opt-in program like the newsletter. The newsletter itself isn't even spammy; it hasn't even been sent out and it is only planned to be released monthly. As for the newsletter post sent out to shops, I hope we can stray from making it super lengthy.

Edit: Adding to the middle of this post, 78ch3's inactivity/inability to update the OP is sort of serving as a roadblock to making changes to our federation. Hopefully that can be resolved soon. Thanks for your feedback; this post gave me some ideas on how to keep improving the USS.

Edit 2: This goes to anyone else reading this: feel free to voice your opinion!

I personally don't support the bump perk as it's not really that hard to type 4 letters and click a button.

Also, funny that this person is expressing concern about the USS starting up as this was the same person that expressed concern about ShopBux starting up.

sti_scratch

MClovers wrote:
Also, funny that this person is expressing concern about the USS starting up as this was the same person that expressed concern about ShopBux starting up.

to be fair, many intershop organizations face similar problems, and as you've said yourself here, shopbux "already started to die when (you) started the collaboration."

Last edited by sti_scratch (April 11, 2021 02:34:37)

misaPuding

I´m voting for @kccuber ´s set of banners

kccuber

misaPuding wrote:
I´m voting for @kccuber ´s set of banners

ah yes the “spanish apostrophe” as everyone calls it

misaPuding

kccuber wrote:
misaPuding wrote:
I´m voting for @kccuber ´s set of banners
ah yes the “spanish apostrophe” as everyone calls it

What´s spanish apostrophe?

kccuber

misaPuding wrote:
kccuber wrote:
misaPuding wrote:
I´m voting for @kccuber ´s set of banners
ah yes the “spanish apostrophe” as everyone calls it
What´s spanish apostrophe?

´
idk why tho
it looks like ` but reverse

RSriram2010

sti_scratch wrote:
I don't understand the point of this federation; if this is a Requests forum trade association, it doesn't offer many perks to its members, and if it's a way for shop owners to advertise their shops, it appears not to do that other than with a mini-directory several posts below the OP.

It's now seemingly getting caught up in bureaucracy again, like the old USS, without the benefits (such as a USS members directory on every shop's OP) and membership numbers of the old USS, without its Senate and so on that helped boost participation in the old USS.

It’s also rejected the idea of a USS-performed bump beyond a (admittedly quite spammy) newsletter every seven days, leaving almost zero benefits for shops and making me question the purpose of the USS (and post-2020 shop federations as a whole). I don’t mean any offense by saying this.

The SCA is working on providing some benefits to the USS.

misaPuding

kccuber wrote:
misaPuding wrote:
kccuber wrote:
misaPuding wrote:
I´m voting for @kccuber ´s set of banners
ah yes the “spanish apostrophe” as everyone calls it
What´s spanish apostrophe?
´
idk why tho
it looks like ` but reverse

Thanks! I´m using this because I use the Czech keyboard and I don´t want to change to English keyboard each time I want to write apostrophe

misaPuding

sti_scratch wrote:
Last edited by kaj (Today 22:21:37)

Scary - fortunately I know how to recognize when this is user-written

RSriram2010

The USS is partnering with the SSA, right? Just wondering because the SCA recently partnered with the SSA.

misaPuding

RSriram2010 wrote:
The USS is partnering with the SSA, right? Just wondering because the SCA recently partnered with the SSA.

Well, we didn´t partner with them yet because we have some staff issues to solve first, see this post

RSriram2010

misaPuding wrote:
RSriram2010 wrote:
The USS is partnering with the SSA, right? Just wondering because the SCA recently partnered with the SSA.
Well, we didn´t partner with them yet because we have some staff issues to solve first, see this post

Ok, thanks.

By the way, about the staff issues, I could work here if you'd like. I already have like a million jobs in Requests.

justdoscratchYT

RSriram2010 wrote:
The USS is partnering with the SSA, right? Just wondering because the SCA recently partnered with the SSA.

Wait, I don't see the link or the banner on the SCA

Last edited by justdoscratchYT (April 12, 2021 18:02:24)

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