GUFU Needs it's own Site (GUFU MEMBERS MUST READ)

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#1 A_zombie
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As we progress through the early years of GUFU, we notice that the numbers had been dwindling recently. Falconzero's departure, Derangel about to move to greener pastures. Not even in it's first year, GUFU is starting to shrink. As it may look that GUFU is becoming a graveyard of good posters and are becoming a rarity among System Wars as malicous fanboys continue to multiply like rabbits on ecstasy.

The point is, ideas had been floating around, Game tried to catch our attention in a similar thread but died down twice. We need to get the attention of GUFU members and give out some thoughts. Your suggestions WILL help build the site. A site where we can write our own articles like professionals and people can actually POST without getting nowhere near flamed. A site will help build GUFU and the sister unions, SUFU, XUFU and NUFU.

Your response is much needed and greatly appreciated.

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#2 The_Game21x
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I'm behind this 100%, and I'm willing to help every step of the way.
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#3 fuzzysquash
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It's a good idea. The problem we were struggling w/ last time was whether we should start a new board. If that's the case, this board will inevitably die, because posting will simply be too dispersed if everyone posts at two separate boards, not to mention the dispersion already observed with the creation of the sub-unions.
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#4 The_Game21x
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http://www.geocities.com/ace2_2002/Welcome.html?1159938182010

There's a link to a site (created by Derangel) that we could use in the future once we get started.

EDIT: Could someone link this for me? GS is glitching again.

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#5 diggyzoom
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http://www.geocities.com/ace2_2002/Welcome.html?1159938182010


link
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#6 kage_53
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But last time we had this discussion people had mixed reactions:?
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#7 BlazeDragon132
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But last time we had this discussion people had mixed reactions:?kage_53
I think everyone can agree on a gameing news site, the forum is still up in the air...
I have HTML experience if anyone needs help building the site :)
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#8 lightmonkey
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I think it's needed, so I back this too.
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#9 linkhero1
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I agree and I know a little about html myself.
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#10 linkhero1
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I think freeweb.com is better than geocities.
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#11 jechtshot78
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Dude, It is way to soon for this crap, the unions are not even together yet, why dont you help do them before you attampt to jump on to do a half assed site.
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#12 Wasdie  Moderator
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I agree with jechtshot78 on this one. This is a bad idea. You guys are moving way to fast, we dont even have a real soild base of users yet. All this will do is tear us apart even more. The confusion of starting our own website is not what this union needs.
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#13 jechtshot78
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I agree with jechtshot78 on this one. This is a bad idea. You guys are moving way to fast, we dont even have a real soild base of users yet. All this will do is tear us apart even more. The confusion of starting our own website is not what this union needs.Wasdie
Exactly, we need to stick together, work on this union, the sister unions, and then when we have a solid triple digit base of users, MAYBE we can start a site (Cause we could still use this union as a "Game Review/New site" in the mean time, the union system is great for that sort of thing)
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#14 Meedou
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I voted yes, but I'm with jecht and Wasdie on forum moving idea. I do want a gaming news/reviews ETC site as me and Game were discussing before quite a bit, untill, well you know.. anyways, since a whole bunch of us do know HTML it is possible, but damn.. links just looks so unproffesional on free sites, I'd pay for some cheap like $4 hosting, (since some awesome packages come that cheap or less) but I'm not allowed to use paypal and all that. :P Anyways, we'll see, just kills motivation working on like www.geocities.com/GUFU or www.freewebs.com/GUFU or w/e else, just a small random thought.
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#15 ithilgore2006
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I agree with Wasdie and Jecht, I don't think we're ready for our own site yet. We aren't even really an established Union yet, and it would be bad for business to take focus off this Union and onto a different site altogether.
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#16 lightmonkey
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Now that they brought that up, Wasdie and Jecht's idea seem to be the more logical.
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#17 Unforgiven2870
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Now that they brought that up, Wasdie and Jecht's idea seem to be the more logical.lightmonkey
yea i Agree but its hard to find good posters now a days though unless we should come up with a day to where everyone goes out looking for good posters and im not just talking in SW,im talking around the site as a whole?
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#18 hellsing321
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I agree with Jecht and Wasdie. It is too soon for this. We need to make sure that we have a big enough audiance in the first place before we can make a gaming site. We need to get the sister unions going and we need more active members in GUFU.
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#19 Unforgiven2870
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Yea we need to slow down we are moveing to fast There needs to be more recruting though as well.I Also Think that We should stop focusing mainly on sw AND Go check out the other boards.

Another idea would be to set teams for recurtin 1 team assigned to off topic another for sw and so fourth.
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#20 lafigueroa
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 Like Jecht said, when SUFU, NUFU, and XUFU are all up with solid triple digit memberships and people stop leaving GUFU, then we can think about furthur expanding the union We aren't even that big a union yet, matter of fact.

EDIT:Since Derangel went ahead and reserved a space for GUFU already, I say we use it. Can't let a good piece of internet go to waste.

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Like Jecht said, when SUFU, NUFU, and XUFU are all up with solid triple digit memberships and people stop leaving GUFU, then we can think about furthur expanding the union We aren't even that big a union yet, matter of fact.

EDIT:Since Derangel went ahead and reserved a space for GUFU already, I say we use it. Can't let a good piece of internet go to waste.

lafigueroa
Use it for what? Useing it would be a waste of space if anything when we have 4 perfectly good sites already.
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#22 Wasdie  Moderator
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[QUOTE="lafigueroa"]

Like Jecht said, when SUFU, NUFU, and XUFU are all up with solid triple digit memberships and people stop leaving GUFU, then we can think about furthur expanding the union We aren't even that big a union yet, matter of fact.

EDIT:Since Derangel went ahead and reserved a space for GUFU already, I say we use it. Can't let a good piece of internet go to waste.

jechtshot78
Use it for what? Useing it would be a waste of space if anything when we have 4 perfectly good sites already.

Yeah and they are all free and easy to use.
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#23 Locke562
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I'm behind this 100%, and I'm willing to help every step of the way.The_Game21x
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#24 lafigueroa
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[QUOTE="lafigueroa"]

Like Jecht said, when SUFU, NUFU, and XUFU are all up with solid triple digit memberships and people stop leaving GUFU, then we can think about furthur expanding the union We aren't even that big a union yet, matter of fact.

EDIT:Since Derangel went ahead and reserved a space for GUFU already, I say we use it. Can't let a good piece of internet go to waste.

jechtshot78
Use it for what? Useing it would be a waste of space if anything when we have 4 perfectly good sites already.

That's what this thread is for. Sugestions!
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#25 ithilgore2006
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I don't think we should even be considering this until GUFU is at least a year old. I mean, we've only just started up the sister unions, they need a lot of time spent on them in order to establish them properly. I don't even see that this would be a good thing at any time, this site is free, and everyone's settled in here, if we displace it the whole union might suffer, rather then gain.
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#26 BlazeDragon132
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I don't think we should even be considering this until GUFU is at least a year old. I mean, we've only just started up the sister unions, they need a lot of time spent on them in order to establish them properly. I don't even see that this would be a good thing at any time, this site is free, and everyone's settled in here, if we displace it the whole union might suffer, rather then gain.ithilgore2006
How about a review sticky thread though? We could have one person start a review, next person that wants to review quotes the first one, until 3 of them are made, like EGM has.
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#27 Shinoto
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Will Smut Be On The Site^^
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#28 sonicmj1
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Creating a new site wouldn't really solve anything. It's not like Falcon and Derangel are leaving because of problems with Gamespot in particular. At best, it would function very similarly to what we already have, and at worst, it would fracture the union. I don't see the point. At least, it doesn't feel very necessary. 
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#29 The_Game21x
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Creating a new site wouldn't really solve anything. It's not like Falcon and Derangel are leaving because of problems with Gamespot in particular. At best, it would function very similarly to what we already have, and at worst, it would fracture the union. I don't see the point. At least, it doesn't feel very necessary. sonicmj1

Actually, Derangel is leaving because he's sick of GS. It was his idea to start the site actually.

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#30 jechtshot78
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It was his idea to start the site actually.

The_Game21x

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#31 Teuf_
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My thoughts on leaving are the same as last time it was brought up:  I think its a bad idea.
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#32 -LRG-
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I think it's a bad idea....well for now at least
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#33 The_Game21x
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[QUOTE="The_Game21x"] It was his idea to start the site actually.

jechtshot78

:roll:

:| dude, I was in the IRC with him when he suggested it.

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#34 jechtshot78
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[QUOTE="jechtshot78"][QUOTE="The_Game21x"] It was his idea to start the site actually.

The_Game21x

:roll:

:| dude, I was in the IRC with him when he suggested it.

I have no doubts he seggested it, no surprise someone who doesnt likes gamespot wants to move GUFU.
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#35 linkhero1
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[QUOTE="jechtshot78"][QUOTE="The_Game21x"] It was his idea to start the site actually.

The_Game21x

:roll:

:| dude, I was in the IRC with him when he suggested it.

some ppl are just haters :P
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#36 Shinoto
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[QUOTE="The_Game21x"][QUOTE="jechtshot78"][QUOTE="The_Game21x"] It was his idea to start the site actually.

linkhero1

:roll:

:| dude, I was in the IRC with him when he suggested it.

some ppl are just haters :P


Hate The Game...not The Player^^

*Notices there is someone called Game in here* Lol
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#37 The_Game21x
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[QUOTE="linkhero1"][QUOTE="The_Game21x"][QUOTE="jechtshot78"][QUOTE="The_Game21x"] It was his idea to start the site actually.

Shinoto

:roll:

:| dude, I was in the IRC with him when he suggested it.

some ppl are just haters :P


Hate The Game...not The Player^^

*Notices there is someone called Game in here* Lol

:lol:

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#38 WeeWeeJumbo
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I'm always late to the party, got-dammit. 
I also think we should solidify our base before branching out to new web sites.
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#39 JJGY
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Here's my two cents. Branching off to a website is a huge undertaking. Not only would we have to keep up with it and stay active there, but we would have to code the god damned thing. You know how much work it takes to even code an invision powerboard in with a site? It's not easy, and until we get some people with the right knowlege (and more importantly, the time and energy) to contribute, it's simply not going to work. Secondly, we aren't established enough to branch out to a new site. What makes this union special on GS is almost every one in here is well known on gamespot. If we move somewhere else, we've simply become a SW.com without the massive userbase. For now, we need to get things organised again. All that's holding us up at the moment is the fact that AK is still finishing up his ban. Once he's back off that, the new officers will be moved into their new slots and then we'll get to work on getting banners up, opening recruitement, all that good stuff. Speaking of recruitement, that's going to be one of the most important aspects of our union as time moves on. Without a decent userbase, this union is going nowhere. And by decent userbase, I don't mean a bunch of half assed posters. We have quality people here guys. That's the only reason I even care about this union. We need to keep this going before we worry about anything else.
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#40 Unforgiven2870
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WHo ever was on IRC earlier plase get back on.
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#41 The_Game21x
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Okay, I wa sjust in the IRC with Derangel, and here's what he had to say reagarding the Idea for the site.

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#42 Unforgiven2870
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ya was in there with me also lol
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#43 fuzzysquash
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I've read everyone's comments and this is my take on the issue. There is nothing particularly bad about Game, Derangal, Locke, and others going ahead and starting the site. It doesn't have to be complicated. And like Derangal said, it's not there to replace GUFU. If people want to write reviews and such, they should have the freedom to. The worst that could happen is that the site could fail due to low participation. But it wouldn't mean the end of GUFU, and no great harm is caused. Having said that, I think the primary need for this union is more recruitment. Once the Invites thread gets back up, I say we all make a concerted effort at recruiting and nominating good posters. Yes, like JJ said, quality comes first, but quantity matters too - as people leave the union or become inactive, we need others to come in. So, to reiterate, my take is that there's nothing wrong with starting the site, and we should simultaneously refocus our union on recruitment.
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#44 Unforgiven2870
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there's a place we can use its already set up and everything just looking for mods A good friend of mine MAD_Fox runs it

here http://mindsplat.6.forumer.com/index.php


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#45 videogamegirl05
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I dunno. Having it's own site would be kinda difficult IMO. And here at GS makes it easier.
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#46 jechtshot78
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This is getting rediculus.