Community Champions

SantieClaws · April 2016

Not fleas. Small pets that will not leave.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

Personofsecrets · April 2016

5-star general reporting in.

Efaritay · April 2016

Just give @tinythinker His Mug already

ginoboehm · April 2016

if zenimax would have any interest in getting real again @FENGRUSH would be Community Ambassadors and i nominate him as eternal Community Champion

tinythinker · April 2016

Recremen wrote: »

tinythinker wrote: »

Recremen wrote: »

If I post the most in a month and also score top thread in the 6 inner forums, does it double my Rhetoric score and give me extra health to withstand the flamewars? Or is that Forum Emperor? I'm so lost, they need a forum tutorial or something. Also, if this is a thing, does anyone have a good Forum Emp build? I'm thinking of specializing in polls with something like 50% in thread necro, but idk, that might be more for the early 2015 meta.

Sorry, I sometimes have trouble discerning casual trolling from a genuine misunderstandings that prompt joking/teasing. Could you clarify which this is? You went to a lot of trouble to be clever, I'm just not sure whether the correct response is to take grimace in offense or smirk in good humor. I tried doing both at once and developed a muscle cramp in my jaw. The tone of the forums has been heading into some highly reactive and unkind territory lately, so perhaps it is best to relax my jaw and smile whatever your intent, presuming it to have kind and generous intent with witty humor mixed in.

By way of clarification, I am not talking about a forum champion, although an extraordinarily kind and exceptionally helpful act here could qualify. Instead, I was simply thinking of players who help improve the game experience in some particularly compelling way. Maybe through a great guide, or a wonderful piece of art, or routine acts of kindness, or some other form worthy of recognition. My intent is to reward the many great players of the ESO community who put in time and effort to give others something special and to encourage others to do the same.

Sorry for the confusion, I was only joking!! I like your idea a lot.

I figured so, and tried to match your wit in a funny counter-reply, but because there is so much actual hostility on the forums at the moment I though my original response might launch an actual flame war if I was wrong, so I scrapped it and went for the lame "jaw" joke instead

No worries and again, your writing is very clever.

tinythinker · April 2016

hrothbern wrote: »

tinythinker wrote: »

Just a quick thought. Last year ZOS introduced Community Ambassadors, defined thus:

This program is a way to recognize those that have positively contributed to the ESOTU community, and made it a better place overall through constructive and enthusiastic participation. Community Ambassadors are players recognized for being helpful, enthusiastic and knowledgeable about ESOTU, and typically go above and beyond to ensure the community is a welcoming place for everyone. They can be a go-to source for new players looking for help or advice, and is someone you can trust.

Our Community Ambassadors will be recognizable via a unique forum title and avatar, and will support the Community Team by suggesting ideas to strengthen and grow the community. Community Ambassadors will not have special access to communicate with the developers directly, and their game feedback will have the same weight as everyone else. Community Ambassadors will also not have tools to action other community members, and are not forum moderators.

They basically get a special forum avatar and are supposed to be helpful exemplars on the forum.

Champions would be more like Employee of the Month, but maybe instead it could be awarded bimonthly or quarterly instead. To recognize a player who has gone above and beyond in a particular act to benefit the community in some way. No forum badge or avatar, no lasting status, just a one-off "Thanks!" from ZOS, maybe with some little prize like a Crown pack or ESO mug or something (like the giveaway items on ESO Live).

What's a little more work for the Community Management staff, right?

@tinythinker , I think this is in general a wonderfull suggestion

I favor as well that this reward mechanism should be embedded in the already set up Community Ambassadors system.

What I would like to add:

"you get what you reward !"
I see much value in it, if it is also publicly shown, here on the Forum, which posts were judged to contribute to Players helping and sharing knowledge to play the game better and more enjoyable.
This will hopefully move the general atmospere of the Forum a bit more in a constructive direction.

I think that small gadget gifts, to people contributing, are for that person a personal satisfaction for the good deed done. In real life such small gifts do work very well as a tangible token of acknowledgement and appreciation

For the direct encouraging postive effect on the Forum, I would favor to add an "informative" button, that only Community Ambassadors and devs/mods can push. The number of times this button was pushed shows up publicly at every post together with the "insightful", "agree" and "awesome".
It can ofc be seen as a kind of "soft lurk" of the devs, and in some cases this is nice if a bug or something else is described in an articulated way. But it will always be a mix of Community Ambassadors and ZOS employees.

Another minor suggestion, along the same lines, that I would favor, is that mods change "discussion threads" into "question threads" where the threads are really (often simple) questions and not aimed at a discussion.
This gives the OP the possibility to tag the posts that were really helpfull and could also help avoiding that a simple practical question is completely overgrown by some discussion that does not contribute to the OP's question.

The points gathered from the number of "informatives" and "questions answered" can then be used (weighted ?) to make an internal list up of forum members for the gadget gifts.

More tools for helping/tracking the assistance of forum contributors would be good, and sure, good work on the forums could put you in the running, but other types of help beyond the forums are also in the mix (at least in the version in my head).

sirinsidiator wrote: »

Maybe you could also include addon authors into this pool of possible "Community Champions"?
We are an endangered species. There are not many left that will maintain popular addons. This may help bring some fresh blood to help take care of existing addons.

Sure, I tried to give a wide range of examples in my other comments, especially in my reply to Gina's comment, and while not specifically mentioned, making a great add-on could be an act of value worth recognizing with such a prize.

tinythinker · April 2016

Efaritay wrote: »

Just give @tinythinker His Mug already

Nooooo. Nope. Huh-uh

I haven't done anything to qualify myself for this concept so that's right out. A non-starter.

Now if they had an honorary "Arm Chair Developer" award for people who keep coming up with an endless supply of pie-in-the-sky ideas for the game, I might at least be nominated, though I would at best manage third runner-up to players like Gidorick and his concept repository

Bfish22090 · April 2016

i nominated @FENGRUSH

nimander99 · April 2016

I nominate myself, because my sarcasm is always helpful

MissBizz · April 2016

PS. I plan on replying to this but am not near my PC at work today. My TLDR; will be I think this would be cool and a great idea to motivate folks to do more as well acknowledge those who already are on their own accord.

crazmadsci · April 2016

A champion should be someone who works hard in these forums. I honestly believe the Champion should be a member nominated by the Zenimax Team that has provided invaluable information for specific issues such as how @ZOS_AlexTardif posted.

ZOS_AlexTardif wrote: »

Thank you everyone for your patience and information, and willingness to help us out with logs, traces, images, and videos. Thanks in large part to you guys, we have finally been able to reproduce this internally, have pin-pointed the issue, and are testing fixes as we speak.

It was indeed an issue with some threaded code. We kick off multithreaded tasks in our game to do all sorts of things, but we had one type of task that was spammed such that it would eat a whole core and everything else would be waiting on it. This may have also created some perceived lag because the client would choke up from this and only be able to intermittently process other tasks.

We're still focusing on creating better CPU-usage spread, reducing spikes, and continually picking at server performance to make the overall experience better. However, the fix we're working on will solve the issue of one core choking up indefinitely.

Huge shout-outs to @sirinsidiator for the traces and videos, @Paulington, @amaniacub17_ESO, and everyone else here who has submitted information regarding this issue. It was invaluable.

I seriously believe something such as a mod or a dev stating that their ideas, feedbacks, or bugs have made a big difference in the development of the game could go a long way.

The Community Ambassador program should be revived definitely and stay as it was a place where the community should uplift, support, and thank their fellow community member contributors. I think it would be unique and different if ZOS created Community Champions for their help in providing thoughtful discussion, content, and evidence of issues in the game and brought them to the table for Zenimax.