I have to agree, I'm not sure what those new roles have achieved or even attempted to achieve at this point. Accepting that there is a lot of work to do and that no one was likely to make a significant impact over night, it would be good to know if the individuals elected to those roles have anything in the pipeline?
The Discord channel is a ghost town but I think it's symptomatic of the way the community works, or doesn't as the case may be. "Sports" covers an incredible variety of activities and games and while you might love one or two sports very few people have an interest in all the available sports. Even within those sports, support tends to be very tribble. You might love football, but only watch the EPL. You might watch your team in the EPL and have very little interest in other club.
I feel we should think of the Sportstalk community more as an umbrella organization helping to develop true "tribes" that carry more of a niche offering. Engagement in those instances will be and indeed is much better, see for example the Hive FPL discord channel where users chat regularly about the Premier League.
As for web2, we can invest time and effort into social media platforms like Twitter but I doubt we'll see huge numbers flocking towards the site as a result. My feeling is that instead, we should be putting time, effort and funding towards encouraging content that is primed for SEO. You can have a look at my personal website (it's in my profile description). That has driven 15,000 views of my blog on Hive this month alone and most of that traffic is a result of people finding my website via a search engine. I don't promote anything through Twitter and never will.
As for actifit, completely agree. I can't see any benefit to the sportstalk community of this arrangement. If nothing else it just spams up the sportstalksocial webpage itself with unrelated content.
First of all I would like to congratulate you on your website.
I wasn't aware of it, nor had I ever seen a blog set up with Hive posts from a given account being integrated into a "normal" website.
This gave me even more ideas that could help this community, but since I'm not the owner of the community we have to wait for the owner to decide to show up here.
The Discord channel is a ghost town because something was never created where people would feel comfortable talking about any sport. If there is a topic that you can spend hours discussing, it is sport.
The idea that you share in relation to the Sports discord being an umbrella and other initiatives like the Hive FPL should/could be integrated there is true.
Regarding the search for things on the web2 I agree with you and clearly that a frontend with good SEO could bring much more gains than walking around on Twitter or another social network looking for more people, or something like that for the community.
That delegation to Actifit doesn't make any sense right now and only harms our community.
Do you have discord, twitter or telegram where we can talk?
I would like to ask you a question if possible.
Yeah, I'm on discord same user name talesfrmthecrypt, you can find me via the sportstalk channel.
Initially there was good interaction. There were some earlier problems with the community that did kill the vibe in a bit and then not much to try and sustain it.
Would be cool if we could try and move a lot of that chat onto the blockchain anyway whether that's via threads or some other initiative.
Yes, current we can use threads to talk about things however if we want to discuss community internal subjects discord there is still a role in this part because we can tag everyone and that way everyone receives notifications
Agree with you here @talesfrmthecrypt. The FPL discord is great fun and thriving. Theres a DAO on Sportstalk but nobody is bothered putting anything forward. At least with Splinterlands, the team there propose ways to improve and it is voted for. @cryptosimplify proposed something a few months ago and he was ran out the door. At least he tried something. What do they say. Better to try something than nothing at all. As a result of the karfuffel there was some movement like the Community Manager role but I haven't seen much else happening on the platform.The actifitter I thought 90% spam posts and 10% proper fitness posts. it's ridiculous.
After the end of the season there are probably a couple of things we can do for the FPL where we could make use of the DAO. If the support for those projects isn't forthcoming then the simple solution is to create our own token...
How's development on the Last Man Standing coming?
Hivebuzz did the artwork but haven't had time to really develop it. Would love to do it the way Hivebuzz did the world cup tournament so will work out if I could do something like that.
Unfortunately, the person that have all the keys don't want to know about the community.
He always says we have a DAO, and we shall do a proposal but how we will have a proposal voted if no one wants to know about the community, and it is necessary 51% of the stakeholders vote?
I started to think if we can set up a team a start a fresh sport community, however Patrick will be laughing since we can run away with all community funds.