GiantBomb 'League' Movement

If i remember correctly Jeff said on one of the podcasts that he did not want to separate the community plus i'm not sure that we are enough active members to really make meaning ful. Doubt we will see it anytime soon if at all.

I see, well i wouldn't really call it 'splitting' in the negative sense of the word.

Just a proposal. *shrugs*

It would have been really cool if it could happen and work, perhaps when GB becomes the point of reference for all games in the word (which we know will happen ^^) it could be implemented. It definitely is something i would care to see in the future.

"It would have been really cool if it could happen and work, perhaps when GB becomes the point of reference for all games in the word (which we know will happen ^^) it could be implemented. It definitely is something i would care to see in the future."

levio!!! WHERE ART THOU!?!

I could see it working for things like Bombing Runs, and the community podcasts. Perhaps clans, too, but I don't think the community is strong enough to support these so called "leagues."

I think the community is too small to be able to sustain a union-like system at the moment. Perhaps the ability for users to create a custom forum board would be more suitable for now.

I am sure that the idea could be put to a positive outcome. But I am instinctively against it as I have seen how they have failed to work in a lot of cases first hand over at gamespot.

I think it's the idea that Giant Bomb doesn't want to segment the Giant Bomb audience. Ultimately, the "union" promotes factions and further divides users into sharded groups. The Giant Bomb Community proper is pretty receptive to whatever weird/crazy/passionate interests you already have, and there are already ways on the site for you to try and "define" yourself(dominating a Wiki page, adding/answering mad trivia questions, writing crazy blogs) that there doesn't really need to be any physical, intrusive ways for a user to try and carve out their niche.

"I think it's the idea that Giant Bomb doesn't want to segment the Giant Bomb audience. Ultimately, the "union" promotes factions and further divides users into sharded groups. The Giant Bomb Community proper is pretty receptive to whatever weird/crazy/passionate interests you already have, and there are already ways on the site for you to try and "define" yourself(dominating a Wiki page, adding/answering mad trivia questions, writing crazy blogs) that there doesn't really need to be any physical, intrusive ways for a user to try and carve out their niche."

I don't like the idea of unions or leagues. It separates the community IMO.

"I don't like the idea of unions or leagues. It separates the community IMO."

Personally I would object to seeing something like this appear on the site. It would just split and fracture the community into little groups and factions similar to a school playground and that is the opposite of what we have and want to continue to achieve here at GiantBomb.

It wouldn't ease the pressure on General Discussion or Off Topic either because both those boards are under no pressure at the moment. What they are experiencing is activity and attention from the community which is exactly what we want people to do. It might seem like they are cluttered but thats because people are forgetting they can post about specific things in a special board on every Wiki page if the subject they wish to discuss has an entry in the Wiki Databas.

Not to mention adding 'Leagues' means more work for what is a relatively small crew of engineers working on three websites and maybe more in the future and it creates extra work and problems for the current Moderators as well.

If anything what I'd love to see is a community page, much like in Brukaoru's mock up, where the community can come together to organise and advertise community events instead of having it limited to those people who are members of specific groups. Essentially what we want is what we have now but bigger and better, a community that is glued together, involved and working alongside each other. Not to have them split apart and working in different directions.

So no I'd say adding 'Leagues' or 'Unions' would be a bad idea and have more of a negative effect across the whole site than a positive one. And I'm not so sure how you can say adding them would increase marketing either. The unions at Gamespot don't generate any income, so not sure how that would be any different here.

Just wanted to throw in a minor annoyance I had with unions. That would be getting random invites from people to join their crappy union. Also, I hate the concept of a union.

Giant Bomb is not a big enough website to be able to sustain unions without splitting up the community.  It would only put more of a work load on only about a dozen or so guys.  If Giant Bomb ever becomes a super site(we all hope GB becomes as successful was they want it to be) with a bigger staff, than maybe they can work.  But as of right now, I think it would be too much for for too little of a reward.  We should think of alternative ideas.

But how many interesting people have we met just through being in one giant place!!! Imagine if unions were there from th word go, some of you may never have met levios!

I get what everyone is saying and i can see why. I hope in the future something similar, if at all part of this, gets implemented into the site.

"I get what everyone is saying and i can see why. I hope in the future something similar, if at all part of this, gets implemented into the site."