OtakuGray wrote:Then the topic should be: "Whats wrong with #amv?"
#amv is a part of the org though. That's the thing. You see that option in the community section on the sitemap that says chatroom? It's listed there because it is part of the org. It has rules very similar to the org and is designed as a place for the org community to interact in a more personal and in the moment kind of way. So bringing the channel up is perfectly valid as part of the thread's title and focus.
If people WANT to see what goes on in the chat room I have a fairly accurate and well kept log of the chat since I joined about 5 years ago. I can go back years, so I'm not sure what's so 'only' in the moment about a chatroom. That's what logs are for.
Personally, I've never really had any trouble striking up or joining any convo going on and rarely I find the chatroom truly dead. And I fail to see the real benefit to creating another subforum for beta's considering the resource that's already there is rarely used. I wouldn't use it, I have other means for beta testing. And I think that's the real point here. Perhaps the reason no one uses the opinion forum for betas is not due to it seeming 'unfriendly' or anything to it, but because people already have other avenues they use for beta testing if they even wish to bother with beta testing at all. True, it could benefit a video to have other people look at it before it's released, but only if the editor feels like doing it.
And this all goes back to the original reason this was brought up, lack of interaction. We can add features and spruce things up all we want but that isn't going to really change the fact that 'no one' interacts. There are plenty of ways for people to interact with each other here on the org and yet they just don't do it. Sure it may seem like no one is interacting with an announcement thread when it goes for days without a reply, but that doesn't mean the main purpose wasn't achieved, that the video was viewed. Perhaps the viewers had nothing to say? I mean, can you really call a comment like 'I liked it' true interaction? To me I see the problem of lack of interaction something that can't really be fixed because it requires us to change the mindset of our members entirely which isn't easy to do. Heck, the majority of people who watch videos on Youtube don't actually comment. We can add commenting features and extra forums all we want but that truly wont change the silent majority that makes up the org's membership if they don't want to interact directly with other members. I mean, we could force them I suppose, but that'd just drive them away.
Personally, I don't think there really is a fix for this problem. It doesn't hurt to try, but in the end it is up to our new and lurking users to actually make any of these changes really work. The real question is, will they?
