Thank you to everyone that voted and commented. Overall, as I suspected, communication is one of the two hot buttons for the community. I will create a how to make the site better post this weekend so that authors can express their other desired changes again. Overall my only concern is the two no votes for most of the communication tasks. Not sure why anyone would vote no to more site communication to everyone. Overall for the first run, the number one top-rated ask is to update the FAQ for the site overall. The poll questions are in the order they were voted. Please select one of these as your top ask. Vote for as many as you would like and then pick one for your head ask!
I promise, based on the comments yesterday, that I will do a post on the other technical asks for the site this weekend.
I wanted to clarify an provide more information bout the top 3 choices.
- FAQ update, this is important as it is the initial place users can go when they are having issues. The FAQs haven’t been updated in a while.
- I am putting a banner on the page before significant changes are something that was done a couple of years ago. It notifies you of impending changes to the site.
- The final one would be a one-two paragraph post on the front page of Virily.com that would notify us (authors) of issues and problems.
We are a community; we can work together to make our community stronger. Communication is a high starting point for us to continue to build our community.
I will send this post and the poll results to the Admin at 12 noon EDT Thursday.
This work is Copyright DocAndersen. Any resemblance to people real or fictional in this piece is accidental.
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Question of
Update the FAQ for the site
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Yes
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This one is most important to me.
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Question of
A banner on the top of the page the day before major site changes.
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Yes
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No
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Question of
A post on the main page of Virily.com explaining changes.
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Yes
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No
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Question of
a site newsletter posted by the Virily admin account
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Yes
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No
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Thanks for all of your hard work. Perhaps people got confused with the questions or simply didn’t understand. I don’t know what the answers are, and still I hope things improve. We each are either part of the solution or part of the problem.
that is very true, we are either fixing or breaking!!!
Q: UPDATE THE FAQ FOR THE SITE
Yes (8 votes) – 73%
This one is most important to me. (3 votes) – 27%
Q: A BANNER ON THE TOP OF THE PAGE THE DAY BEFORE MAJOR SITE CHANGES.
Yes (10 votes) – 91%
No (1 votes) – 9%
Q: A POST ON THE MAIN PAGE OF VIRILY.COM EXPLAINING CHANGES.
Yes (9 votes) – 90%
No (1 votes) – 10%
Q: A SITE NEWSLETTER POSTED BY THE VIRILY ADMIN ACCOUNT
Yes (7 votes) – 70%
No (3 votes) – 30%
Looks somebody doesn’t want this site to get some improvements. hehehe.
The FAQ update and the banner are most essential for me Doc.
I assume it is someone that has a different vision than this type of communication and that is ok! Thanks for voting and sharing!
Yup. Anytime doc. And I would also like to mention, it takes them too long to approve some posts.
i am working on a new things we would like to see post for the weekend~
I believe they would all be beneficial in improving Virily…
i agree – thanks for the comments and thank you for voting. 🙂
All of them would make things better on this site.
i agree! I am going to send this to the admin team at noon EDT today!
I believe all of these are good ideas, but have chosen the FAQ as the single most important. If it were kept up-to-date, it would take care of most of the other issues.
i agree it would really help us! But we also have to respect the admin team.
I agree. But that, too, would be easier if communication was better!
we have to reach the middle somehow.
The FAQ page should be updated. I think we would have a lot less trouble. Notifications of page updates would also be welcome.
I agree and I think that would be perfect!
haha … I hope and wish this site would be at least a little more complete 😊
we shall have to keep trying then – rowing together is the best way to get done!
FAQ is one of the things people go to to understand a site or run into problems. Don’t leave people guessing what gives Virils and what not.
Newsletter is not that necessary IMO, but banner and post would be really great!
thanks for voting, i don’t think the newsletter will help but I promised to carry the ideas forward that the community suggested.
These may be too many requests but hopefully at least one gets picked and we start getting some reliable information instead of guessing and arguing with each other.
i will be submitting it focused on this one is most important to me. so I will only ask them for one thing as a primary and a second thing as a nice to have!
I hope we see some positive results!
we have from the previous times we did this. never all of our asks, but always some of them!
The FAQ page is sadly lacking. I agree this needs updating. Banners were greatly appreciated by all of us when they put them up. Both a post and banner would be nice.
yeah I would love the FAQs fixed and additional communication would be golden!
Communication has to be priority, and it never has been here. Sadly.
it was in fairness so much better in the beginning than it is now. Before that first scandal/cheating issue you could IM them and they responded!
I guess I never had a reason to contact them until the last two years.
things are so much worse in that time period than they were before.
i had an issue with a post when the IMs were still there. They fixed the problem and i was up and running.
i miss that.
I am still holding out for hope.
so do I, so do I!
change only comes when both sides realize that change is possible!