User:Marqod

Petition to enforce a check on board interest for 4CC teams

We, the various managers of the 4CC, implore the Cup administration to make sure that boards show actual interest for the Cup to be permitted to participate.

This is purely for the health of the Cup; there are simply too many teams without board interest, only run by a single interested person (who may or may not be a merc in some cases). Meanwhile, we have boards with actual, interested fanbases getting displaced by teams virtually no-one actually cares about. A plan to do something like this was actually worked out in the past, but unfortunately that never got off the ground for certain reasons.

Checking for this could be on a case-by-case basis, possibly similar to the criteria used for recent /vg/ leagues. While some boards, like /a/, have clear interest, smaller boards should be able to present archived threads expressing interest or decent numbers of replies on (in-depth) team polls.

The exact mechanism could be determined later, but something needs to be done here.

Signatures

Marqod (talk) 00:41, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
Cyclohexane (talk) 00:43, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
Autocrat (talk) 00:44, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
Mantis (talk) 00:44, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
This is something that should be done. Lear (talk) 00:45, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
DrDtroit (talk) 00:45, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
If VGL can do it 4CC can do it too. (´・ω・`) (talk) 00:46, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
I actually agree, as kek worthy as the ded teams may be. Old Man Sou (talk) 00:52, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
Might possibly be some problems with doing this but in the end I support something like it a useless shitter gw, wiki autist and /vg/ manager 00:55, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
Johnnybravo (talk) 00:56, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
I'm just a tester, but I kinda agree with this. RoronaBest (talk) 00:57, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
Having to prove that my board was interested and involved made me a better manager, and more excited to represent our team. DukeSilver (talk) 00:58, 3 January 2016 (UTC) It'll be tricky verifying board interest when some boards are tightly moderated against cup threads, but we really should have an open discussion about this. CollieBro (talk) 01:02, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
I realize I'm not in the best position when it comes to talking about this matter, but I think it's an important issue that needs to be discussed seriously. PWJP (talk) 01:06, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

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