Coming Soon: Social Groups

[Andy]

Soon (within a week, if all goes well), members will have the ability to create their own clubs on YWO.

Clubs will have:


Their own page on the site, including a description and club image chosen by its owner
Their own discussion threads (each club will be like its own forum)
A list of all the club members
And more


The categories will probably be:

Reading and Writing
Critique Groups
Hobbies, Interests, and Pursuits
Just for Fun!

If you recall the Fantasy, Anime Aristocrats, and Movie Discussion clubs, which were less "tangible," they will be dissolved, and their founders will be free to recreate those clubs using this newer club feature.

So, this thread is just to get everyone thinking about it, so we won't have any duplicate clubs and it'll be less chaotic when we add it. ;) You can discuss club ideas with other members, and perhaps form small critique groups.

[jordanisonfire]

Dibs on the Ninja group! ;)

[Lykaios]

Pirates too. ^^

[jordanisonfire]

Seriously, cut back on the spam, Lily. ;)

...

/spam

[Andy]

I'm making a video games club, for starters. I'm thinking one thread for every video game. :devil:

[Starry]

Hey, we could have an official page for the Book Club! (...if anyone still remembers it?)

[appleofmyeye]

Yes I do. I just bought Dracula. A little late, eh?

Bet you someone's going to make a Twilight club. Which isn't wrong but...

[jordanisonfire]

I'm making a video games club, for starters. I'm thinking one thread for every video game. :devil:

Bwuh-bu-bu-bu I-I'm the creator of the original Video Games Club.

[Andy]

I guess if you make a new club for them and don't slack off.... :)

[Carraka]

-blink-

And I suppose ... SBS could have one. Just like on TW! Although do you guys know if you can remove that BB Code restriction?

[Shaun]

Finally I can start my on fan club...

[Carraka]

Shaun, don't go the way of Hypo ...

[Andy]

-blink-

And I suppose ... SBS could have one. Just like on TW! Although do you guys know if you can remove that BB Code restriction?
What restriction?

Because there are BBCode options for groups...

[Carraka]

On TW, you can't have BB code in the discussions, or in the description of the social group.

I don't know if the admin disabled that, though ... I keep meaning to go reread the thread where they updated.

EDIT:

I can do things with the text, but I haven't been able to spoiler things. I don't know if that has anything to do with BB code.

[Shaun]

Carr: I can't go the way of Hypo. Hypo can be banned. I can't be banned because if Andy banned me I'd hunt him down and steal all his unedited manuscripts and computers and books.

[GeorgeMichael]

Ooh, I'll do the Movie club again :)

Fine... twilight can have it's own little page :P

but this is great, I can't wait to see what it looks like Andy

[Carraka]

Okay, let's put it this way.:

One of the reasons Hypo hasn't been banned from TW is because he seems indispensable.

One of the reasons you haven't been banned from YWO is because you seem indispensable.

Hypo has his own fan club.

You want your own fan club.

I don't think we need any more similarities, because no one else wants a fan club devoted to them, on either site.

xP

[jordanisonfire]

...I'd join the Shaun fan club. His mind's like a freakin' library and he's got the common sense and creativity to go with it. And on top of all that, he can still be funny and quite random, though not as random as the rest of us. :D

Anyway, Andrew, if you want to create a video game club, you can create one for the Xbox 360. But I got dibs on the PS3 and Wii. :P I know that you want the latter.

[Andy]

...I'd join the Shaun fan club. His mind's like a freakin' library and he's got the common sense and creativity to go with it. And on top of all that, he can still be funny and quite random, though not as random as the rest of us. :D

Anyway, Andrew, if you want to create a video game club, you can create one for the Xbox 360. But I got dibs on the PS3 and Wii. :P I know that you want the latter.
Grrrr..... :mad:

[jordanisonfire]

Andrew: Or perhaps you could create the Xbox 360 one, I have the PS3 and Shaun have the Wii club? :laugh:

Carraka: I second that motion. ^^

[Andy]

How about NO, since I don't own a 360, but do have a Wii, and my 3 months purchase of playing a 360 online will run out soon.

Oh, wait! Why am I discussing this? People with different opinions can be banned. Of course :)

Carraka scares me sometimes.

[jordanisonfire]

Aw, you're so protective of your Wii, Andrew. Very well, you may have the Wii group, if Shaun lets you... this I'd like to see, the two admins battling it out for ownership of the Wii group! :D Whilst I sit on the sidelines, comfortable that my PS3 group won't be taken.

-takes out a shuriken-

Unless someone wants to speak up? Huh?

[Carraka]

I'm referring to a promise I made to Shaun to not mention GRRM to him for three years, with the hopes that if I stop badgering him, he'll be more encouraged to read the books.

I have my doubts as to whether it will work, because I don't think long periods of not-badgering can make up for long periods of badgering. Plus, other people might badger him while I am not-badgering him. Plus, other people have successfully gotten him to read books by badgering him, and I can only assume that I haven't managed the same because I've never met him in real life.

I think I should have attempted to offer other deals like -- I'll submit something to the SBS mag if you read GRRM! or I'll finally finish re-composing my adaptation of Summon the Worms if you read GRRM! but now it is too late.

And I'm allowed to say all of this because I'm talking to you two, not him.

-sigh-

It's very difficult to keep this promise, which is why I should be banned from YWO for a few years.

[jordanisonfire]

It's odd referring to him in the third person when you're talking to him. :D I have a feeling Shaun would enjoy reading GRRM. I didn't, seeing as it ain't my cup of tea. I've moved on from reading high fantasy, or rather anything that has similar styles to high fantasy, seeing as GRRM is a mix of fantasy and historical fiction. I figure I'll read some sci-fi, to expand my horizons. I'm trying to find a good style to write my own books in, one I'm comfortable with.

[Carraka]

Okay! It's time for me to help you expand your horizons and recommend GRRM sci-fi!

...

No, okay. I won't. I mean, I think Tuf Voyaging is good, even though the picture of that Hooded Dracula bat scared me half to death. But I'm more scared that you'll read Tuf and hate it, even if it's totally different, and then I'll never have any chance of convincing you to give GRRM another try.

Otherwise, I haven't read enough sci-fi to be of much help. Scalzi? Walter Jon Williams? And I thought Spin was good too. Yeah. Fail. Basically, if you succeed in expanding your horizons, you're allowed to come back and help me expand mine.

I don't know if you'll "find" a good writing style, though. All them old folks say we're supposed to develop our own. My mom adores comparing my style to Rowling, Martin, Duane, or anyone else, which just ends up worrying me.

And I think you meant low fantasy. High fantasy generally has good vs. evil/hero quest elements, and low fantasy generally de-emphasizes magic, is darker, has more realism. GRRM is squarely in the latter category.

[Shaun]

I've already read some GRRM, just not what Carr wants me to read. And no, Carr, you are not to leave YWO for any reason at all. Understood?

Also, Andy, I'm sorry to say this, but since Shadow said I have to give you permission to have the Wii group, I'm going to have to say no. I want someone else to have it.

[Carraka]

... clearly there is no way to live and hold myself to my promise.

-hangs self-

And I liked Sandkings too, even though it scared me more than the picture of the hooded dracula. That was the day I realized I did not enjoy horror. I enjoyed it so little that I had to read the story again. And again. It's like I think it'll scare me less if I reread it, but I end up just ingraining those images in my mind. Those images ...

[Andy]

I'll just get the videogames group them.

Or the technology group.

[jordanisonfire]

Hm, yes, I just didn't associate GRRM with low fantasy because a lot of low fantasy is pretty much a mild version of fantasy horror/dark fantasy. So, he's a mix of low fantasy and historical fiction. But I'm not particularly into low fantasy either, so it makes no difference. I'm gonna delve into sci-fi and contemporary fantasy, for now. I feel like they would be easier to write.

Edit: NOOOOO! Video Games group is MINE! I have created the original, you shall not steal it from me, Andrew. But you can have Technology. :angel:

[Crocolyle]

I'd like to form a gentleman's club (no not that kind. I like smut as much as anyone, but I think it'd be very inappropriate on this site), where we have to address each other very formally and talk like rich gentleman/ladies/sophisticates/aristocrats/dandies reminiscing about our adventures while on safari shortly before retiring for the evening.

Ex) Post 1, Sir Wolfgang Dubermeier III: "Indubitably, Lord Lothar Piddlypants. I needn't remind you of how I sailed the South Seas like I silver scimitar and how I ravaged the Major General's daughter and wrote a three act play at the same time!"
Post 2, Lord Lothar: *swishing his brandy* "Quite certainly, I do recall rather well that voyage, but I'm afraid I don't recall the name of your most recently operetta! On dear, it has slipped my mind! Oh, bother!"
Post 3, Dubermeier: "Oh my operetta! What a glorious work that was. I have also written the best comedy since Moliere, the best revue... since well my last one, but my operetta... it's so good it frightens even me! I shall play it three weeks in New York, two weeks in London, that's it! No matinees."
Post 4, Lord Lothar:"Oh indeed, I did quite enjoy the part with the elephant gun. I indeed fired my elephant gun at that part, if you understand my meaning! Do excuse me, I have a have the unfortunate habit to rudely speak--dear me, it seems I also have the tendency to needlessly split my infinitives! Though, if I may be so audacious, let me tell you i wouldn't be the first time!"
(Some of the dialogue I stole from the play "The Man Who Came To Dinner")

EDIT: Now that I've actually read this conversation, I have to say that I just started reading GRRM (I'm halfway through A Game of Thrones), and I'm loving it.

And I'm also joining the Shaun fan club. I'm already making the t-shirts.

[jordanisonfire]

A perfect Shaun T-shirt would be, "I'm a PC. I'm smart. You should be a PC." Microsoft would love him. :D

[Crocolyle]

*quickly just some notes* Go on

[Shaun]

You kno, we could make that t-shirt...

[appleofmyeye]

I would totally buy that if I wasn't a Mac girl :P.

[Andy]

Hello, my name is Shaun, and I'm a Mac. It hurts! :D

[Shaun]

Hello, my name is Andrew. I was recently murdered by Shaun after he grew quite irritated with me and ripped out my eyes with a pair of tweezers. Have a nice day.

[lango]

An Eragon group would totally kick ass!!
Ehrm... guys? Why're you all surrounding me like that? I dont like those evil smiles one bit =/

[Crocolyle]

Hello, my name is Andrew. I was recently murdered by Shaun after he grew quite irritated with me and ripped out my eyes with a pair of tweezers. Have a nice day.

Minus the first sentence, I'd buy it

Edit: I'd join the Eragon club, if only to troll it

[jordanisonfire]

Or, another shirt Shaun could wear, "My name's Shaun. I'm a PC. Hail Satan." :P

A good shirt for me would be, "My name's Jordan. I'm a Mac, because I'm special." Then just have a real retarded smiley below it. :D

[Andy]

Hello, I'm Andrew, I'm a Mac.
And I'm Shaun. I'm a -- blue screen of death.

[jordanisonfire]

What's the Mac version of the blue screen of death, anyway? I know the Linux one, its like a white page with loads of random, confusing text on it.

[Crocolyle]

I'm a PC, and I got a virus last week.

(true story)

[Andy]

What's the Mac version of the blue screen of death, anyway? I know the Linux one, its like a white page with loads of random, confusing text on it.
The Mac version is known as the Spinning Beach Ball of Death, or Marble of Doom. Basically you don't get a blue screen, but your cursor changes into an infinitely-spinning beach ball.

http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Marble_Of_Doom:_In_Search_Of_Lost_Time

[appleofmyeye]

Speaking of which...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id_kGL3M5Cg

[Andy]

So, Shadow was faking cluelessness. :rolleyes:

I've already seen that video. Wouldn't be surprised if Shaun was the one who showed me. :P

[littledreamer!]

Clubs huh? I want to create a club for those of us who enjoy vampires...not neccacirly twilight. Also, a club for those of us who are trying to experiment in writing to find a genre to be published in is good...like Literary Adventures. Okay, that sounds lame, but, ya know. Also, a magna club is an idea. I love to draw and read that stuff! Just some suggestions!