what's it gonna take?

[fairy_tale_girl64]

i hate to say this but the members are really worrying me about the inactivity. i think dl is going far out there trying to keep us interested in being active and its killing me that so many of our really active members are on mental breaks. there is so much hope that this ad will bring in lots of other members that will be active but what is it gonna take to get everyone chatting so when the new members do get here we can show this guild off at its prime. this is such a wonderful opportunity to show the newbies how awesome our guild is. i propose a challenge....if you can find one thing to post everyday to give others something interesting or fun to read please do it. it will inspire others to do so too and keep the guild active. i am sorry if it sounds like i am frowning but it makes me sad when i know how active we can be and has been.

[krisconcepcion19]

Well we really don't want members posting just for the sake of posting. With not much activity that means that there's really not many opportunties to post. Sometimes people need to take a break from neopets fairy. I mean my husband is going to be coming home from a six month deployment so I will be taking a break from neopets for about a week or so to spend time with him (maybe less, maybe a little more, we'll see).

[mdith_laney_14]

I think once school starts back up in the fall, we'll see more members being active. It is summer, so a lot of people are on vacation or involved in the usual summer activities. I know a lot of us come here because neopets and the guild give us a break from real life for awhile. But during summer you don't have school pressures, etc. which probably make this a good place to relax for awhile. There are some members I miss, too, but I bet some of them come back in September

[fullbloom720]

I understand what you mean..it would be great to have all this activity, and in time to show new members that might join from the noticeboard ad. For me, I think I'll be able to be active...But some others may have to take little breaks for reasons, like what kris mentioned. And there are bound to be some members who are on vacation or have relatives visiting over the summer. Hopefully more activity can resume once fall and school, for some, begin. People will probably be back home and have internet access and/or extra time to spend in the guild. Let's just hope we can see more activity sometime, possibly soon.

[fairy_tale_girl64]

i understand what everyone is saying...i just also realize how members can just disappear because they get bored from inactivity and i would hate for that to happen. we have so many good members and i do write to the ones that have kind of stopped coming around and asked them to drop in and say hi. the challenge thing wasn't meant for posting for the sake of posting. it says "if you can find one thing to post everyday to give others something interesting or fun to read" and by that i don't mean just post a bunch of stuff that means nothing. but most of the day i sit in here and i also go to neopets and just hope someone will post something interesting ...so i think others come on see theres nothing new and move on. if we came in and had something new to read that of course was interesting and fun then we have something to read -then the interest is here. i know that our members are still around. when i go through the members list for member moderator job and i think i haven't seen them around, i go to their look up to see if they have been on and then i write to those and tell them to come in and say hi. i just think they come in and theres nothing going on so they scat. and i agree people do need breaks...and i agree and totally support all of that even mental breaks from it so don't think i was saying there was anything wrong with that...but i have seen it happen...inactivity leads to member leaving. i left my last guild because eventually me and two others were the only ones posting. i still have a couple of people in that guild that i talk with and now the leader has had times when she hasn't been on for months at the time..vice president months too... and it just exist. maybe i am paranoid but i guess i just don't want to lose all the awesome members we have or any. this was just mainly a post to see what people thought we could do to get them reinterested in wanting to be active, thus the name what's it gonna take? i am not saying i am right in my beliefs about the inactivity but i just want those who are around helping keep up things they found interesting in life (posting in kick back cafe) there are places we have to post thoughts and fun things...all i have asked was they share these things and inspire others to share too. or if they have a random event post it...or post things that are post worthy. having something new to read is a good thing. if someone has run across something in the battledome they can share with us i think all these things just are good. i learn through others experiences in neopets. also alot of people (and there was a time i was like this) come in read whats new and think they have nothing of interest to say. so to me, i just hope this would inspire others to share that someone does find what they have to say interesting even its about their vacations or whatever.

[nftysqrt69]

Wow I'm really confused about this thread. I'm kinda dissapointed that you would think there is inactivity in our guild right now. We just finished an awesome theme week one of the most involved we have had in a while. And we are gearing up for a fun filled August. Just because we are not doing a theme week right now doesnt mean there is nothing to do. We have a newsletter to fill up that doesnt have very many submissions. We have healing potions to collect, and the return of GAHL. I think that we have more active members now then we have had in a while and things are only going to get better.

People come and go in life, its harder to know what happens to them on the internet. But life is filled with the unexpected. I'm sure members will return during the start of school and some members might leave due to school. I think the members of our guild are doing an amazing job of keeping things going .
Sorry fairy if this post sounds mean which i hope it doesnt but i just think your looking at inactivity in the wrong way.

[princessbecky]

I think I know where the frustration is coming from, cause it does seem like so many people are putting up their notice on the MIA board, but...there's still so many people here. And heck...I just came back, so...what more could you really ask for? lol. We have tons of members posting still. I think though that some of the more frequent posters are the ones that are having to go away for a while, and that's why it seems like such a big loss. But, you're all coming back right?!?!?! ;D

[fairy_tale_girl64]

well its not a disappointment in the members that are active..its a worry about those that were active and now you don't hear from them. i am not sure how or where that was turned around. those who post MIA have reasons and have told us they will be back not leaving us wondering why they aren't around. so i have never said anything that would remotely say the members we have active and have continued active aren't doing a great job, because they are. and i am thrilled to see that princessbecky is back because she is filled with excitement which spreads to others...and mdith is back and they have always been very active members since i joined...so all i was trying to say was lets really try hard to find things of interest to share about whatever it be. i know the guild can't be bouncing at every minute but with this new ad going up and all the efforts dl is putting into shining the guild up, i was merely suggesting that we work hard to find new things to share such as vacations and just get people communicating together while the others are out. and i know nfty and cherry were members before i joined but now coming back... and that happens. but i just want it to stay exciting so when members come back from vacation and have time to come by they think man i missed a lot and glad to be back. believe me i don't critize anything or anyone...i am very open minded and if me wanting to keep the guild active by making suggestions offends people i apologize and it has gotten better in the last couple months but i just want it to get better. is it a crime to want more? is it a crime to say hey lets brain storm to come up with ideas that inspire interaction and fun? so take this as a putting things or people down but as i see it i am trying to fill the glass up....i have never been one to look at my glass as half full or half empty only how i can make it better.

[fullbloom720]

Oh I didn't think you were putting anyone down..I know you're just trying to see what we can do to get more members to pop in, right? There definitely are some who are on neopets quite often but don't come to the boards so I know why you want to encourage them to stop by. Right now we just finished up a successful theme week and omelette drive, and there was a lot of participation in those things. I think once August rolls around and all the events Dl has planned come up, people will have more things to participate in and possibly there will be another surge of activity as we had before. And from that I'm hoping there will be more things to talk about and, like you said, members who might not post because they don't see anything new will want to come and chat too.

[lindseycron0]

oh fairy, i totally understand what you're saying and I also understand how it can be misconstrued by other members that don't know you that well.....

you mean that there wasn't much activity, then we had a theme week and members came out of the woodwork, then kinda disappeared again, then an election for council member, members again came out of the woodwork, election's done, off they go, and the cycle keeps repeating itself.

our food drive was very successful, but not as successful as the jelly drive and I agree with what we were discussing last night that it was probably because of everything else that was going on at the same time.... we really need to only concentrate on one function at once, otherwise it's too easy to get distracted from one by the other.

tngirl and fullbloom did an awesome job organizing it and kept everyone informed about what was going on, i just think it was the timing.....

as dl posted in the "game plan" he's giving us all a little bit of a break in between our planned activities....

activities are an awesome way to keep interest up, but too much activity can be a bad thing too.... you can't go straight from a theme week into the gahl, directly into something else... there has to be a break because it will burn out those of us that are regular and extremely active

nifty, no offense to you, but i completely disagree with your statement that we have more active members now than we have had in a long time.... as you yourself said that we have a newsletter to fill that hasn't received very many submissions..... though I may be misunderstanding what you're saying or the timeline that you're referring to (one of the things that I hate about written correspondence)

fairy's talking about right this very moment, this day, this week... and i think you may have misunderstood what she was trying to say. yes, we just had an awesome theme week. we did have a whole lot of participation in it, a lot more than normal. But as soon as theme week was over, people disappeared. well, we all spent a whole lot of time on the boards during the theme week and the elections and yes, we all do need a little bit of a break

unfortunately, i believe that these types of threads are going to be common, i also don't understand why everyone is now making excuses for members (please don't take this the wrong way)

i remember a thread back before school let out that was created because of the guild's inactivity and everyone had agreed then that as soon as school let out we would have more activity as people would have more time to participate... now that school's out and we're once again facing a little bit of an activity issue, it's because everyone has more time on their hands yet are busy with vacations and such and will resume their activities once school starts back.... that in itself is a contradiction in terms

because i know fairy personally, i know that she has only got the best interests of the guild at heart and sometimes she has problems expressing that accurately when posting, i know exactly what she means and i agree with her

then again, i can also see everyone else's point as well by trying to read her post through the eyes of someone that doesn't know her personally and takes it all literally to the very context..... i'm sorry that everyone misunderstood what she was meaning and i don't want to come off as everyone is "bashing" her but i was a little upset by some of the responses in this thread

fairy was not meaning to "degrade" the guild by any means, she only meant to try to spark a little more interest when we're not participating in something that is possibly going to grant us a nice prize from the guild

after all, that is one of the main reasons why people will join a guild.... possibility of getting items for being a member, a little help when it's needed, and to meet people with similar interests from all walks of life

I did, though I can't speak for everyone else

it also bothers me about some of these posts because that means that as active as fairy is, there are still some rather active other members that haven't had the opportunity to get to know her as I do and to me that is a shame

everyone in this guild is awesome and i totally understand that sometimes there will be disagreements, even heated ones (some times I tend to start those myself - please make this an exception to that ) and fairy is also suggesting a way for our members to get to know each other even more, yet i feel like it was tossed aside as irrelevant, even though i know that you all didn't see it that way or you wouldn't have dismissed it so quickly

please correct me if i'm wrong, this is just my perspective (and i never accused myself of ALWAYS being right )

[nftysqrt69]

Your not offending me lindsey at all and I agree with fairy in a way but I just think the thread is a little to early to post if that makes any sense. I don't think there is a need to worry about inactive members at the moment becuase it's a little down time in the guild. If it was a busy time like around a holiday or theme week and there was still inactivity then there would be a time to worry. I think she has a great idea about everyone posting more and sharing something important or interesting. I'm sorry if what i posted sounded mean. But I also disagree that at this moment we don't have a lot of active members. Thinking back to the past it seems to me that we have more active members remaining involved after the theme week has ended.

Anyway I agree with you fairy and that seems like a great idea to have people post more often!

[fairy_tale_girl64]

you have a strong talent for words lindsey and yes you do understand me well..thanks for explaining it ...i do get strung out on getting a point across at times.

[lindseycron0]

i just hope that i didn't come off as harsh on this one, that's why it's soooo long, i was trying to explain without offending people... and nifty you do have a point that it is kindof early and i personally am enjoying the respite because of my personal issues, it's great to know that there is a chance to take a breather

[nftysqrt69]

OK well i'm going to lock this thread cause it started off a little negative even though i know thats not fairy had intended. But look for a new and exciting post Guild ideas and suggestions!