Community Ambassadors Assemble

randolphbenoit · July 2017

Snakes are cute ): Paul your snake is adorable. I'm more of a boa person, myself.

Some people dislike snakes as they find them boa-ring! But I too like snakes!

Sigtric · July 2017

randolphbenoit wrote: »

Snakes are cute ): Paul your snake is adorable. I'm more of a boa person, myself.

Some people dislike snakes as they find them boa-ring! But I too like snakes!

What you did there was seen by me.

Chufu · July 2017

dpencil1 wrote: »

So is there an application process or something for becoming an ambassador? Or must the Divines simply chose those whom they deem worthy?

Bless me Azura, that I may lurk the forums for you with great zeal!

How are Community Ambassadors chosen?
Community Ambassadors are nominated by you, the community! If you would like to submit a community member for consideration for the Community Ambassador Program, please send an email to community@elderscrollsonline.com and include the nominee’s forum name (or any other alias) and a description of why you believe they would make a great Community Ambassador. We will not be accepting self-nominations, and the ESOTU Community Team will ultimately make the final decision on who is chosen for this program.

dpencil1 · July 2017

@Chufu Cool, thanks for the info. If anyone wants to look over my forum history, I've used this account since the Morrowind closed beta (because I had to create a new one to access that forum for some reason), but my original account was just @dpencil

Rohamad_Ali · July 2017

dpencil1 wrote: »

@Chufu Cool, thanks for the info. If anyone wants to look over my forum history, I've used this account since the Morrowind closed beta (because I had to create a new one to access that forum for some reason), but my original account was just @dpencil

If you get picked do a favor ...

Enodoc · July 2017

Mine is also my main character, decked out in his UESP (United Explorers of Scholarly Pursuits) Savant's garb, and taking notes for UESP!

dpencil1 · July 2017

Rohamad_Ali wrote: »

dpencil1 wrote: »

@Chufu Cool, thanks for the info. If anyone wants to look over my forum history, I've used this account since the Morrowind closed beta (because I had to create a new one to access that forum for some reason), but my original account was just @dpencil

If you get picked do a favor ...

Hahaha, you got it @Rohamad_Ali

A VOTE FOR @dpencil1 IS A VOTE FOR SKOOMA!

Also, for convenience, I'll post my forum stats from both accounts:
Active since: August 2015
Points: 726 + 815
Badges: 16 + 18
Insightfuls: 149 + 143 = 292
Agrees: 328 + 377 = 705
Awesomes: 95 + 150 = 245
Over 900 total comments

I didn't add the Points and Badges together because they're basically duplicates between the two accounts.

My most recent contribution is creating and managing the "[Community Project] Set Bonus Think-Tank" thread. Also, I was one of the community managers for the gaming site, Stompfest, for a number of years.

Paulington · July 2017

MasterSpatula wrote: »

This thread delivers some community joy and also education. Thanks, @Paulington. I'd never even heard of the False Water Cobra before. Now I've spent some time researching it online.

On a related note, I'm now really far behind at work....

Sigtric wrote: »

MasterSpatula wrote: »

This thread delivers some community joy and also education. Thanks, @Paulington. I'd never even heard of the False Water Cobra before. Now I've spent some time researching it online.

On a related note, I'm not really far behind at work....

Never heard of one either and am mildly interested in such things, very cool!

Hydronastes gigas are wonderful animals, very switched on and beyond intelligent. This snake is a female named Dyna, from her binomial name. Whilst they are very aggressive feeders (and eat almost anything) they are very docile animals when not in eating mode. Their venom is incredibly mild and they have a terrible delivery system, having taken a bite myself through stupidity it is just fine.

If you'd like to know anything more, feel free to PM me.

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Here's a picture of her when she was a neonate:

rhapsodious wrote: »

MissBizz wrote: »

Donari wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Rouven wrote: »

Totally love the Community Spotlight. I somewhat feel that all that creative talent here is not as visible, so it's really good for that.

We typically share a lot of community creations on our Twitter and Tumblr pages. Do you have ideas how we can make these more visible? We'd love to hear them.

I don't know how effective this would be, but perhaps you could do a weekly (monthly? depends on your free time and the number of fan arts submitted daily) roundup of images to post in a curated thread in Community Creations, and do a call-out/link to it in the little blurbs we get in the launcher.

Pro: People who don't routinely find time to go to the Community Creations sub forum get a reminder, along with a smaller set of things to examine than trying to follow all the threads there. It makes a bit more one-stop-shopping than having to remember to check Twitter and Tumblr and who knows what else.

Con: Since not every fan submission will be in the call-out thread, feelings may get hurt. Also, more work for ZoS folks.

I note that GW2 does a monthly live stream, generally sparsely viewed (mea culpa on being part of the sparseness, I just don't remember to look for a stream on a Wednesday afternoon) in which they spotlight community art. All the art they show seems to be stuff I've seen on their Tumblr page, so I assume that is their source. Sometimes they do themes, like Nornvember -- they solicited art featuring norns a couple months in advance and picked some for the show. (They also pick from stuff submitted much earlier, even a year or two before, once it seems to fit in the stream). ESO Live occasionally includes fan art, perhaps you could feature one or two things each stream and offer a link to a more extensive collection site for interested viewers.

@Donari That's a cool idea as well, but I feel partly why we don't see much promoted by zos is that it takes a lot of time to hunt down and find the fanart and such. Do you know of any places that are a bit of a "hub" for this? I realize a lot use deviant art, I'm not too familiar, is there "communitys" on the site where it's easier to see the TES/ESO related art?

You can search by tags, I think.

The ESO subreddit has a pretty good collection of fanart from what I remember- I mostly browse reddit on mobile and don't click on many images, but I've seen some good stuff there. Could expand it to nice/funny screenshots, too.

CMFan1966 wrote: »

Congrats on the avatars! But I must say I am SO NOT loving that real life snake picture. Yep, I'm a girly girl who would still be wearing ruffles and bows if I wasn't so daggone old.

Can't wait to see what @SantieClaws chooses!

Snakes are cute ): Paul your snake is adorable. I'm more of a boa person, myself.

We do have a boa as well! His name is Bo and he is a male salmon boa constrictor imperator, as is typical with boas though he is very snappy! Dyna is most definitely the docile one.

Sigtric · July 2017

@Paulington - very cool! Definitely a good looking snake.

The_Smilemeister · July 2017

A vote for the Smilemeister is a vote to restore the Cyrodilic Empire to its former glory and stamp out the Daedra!

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dpencil1 · July 2017

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Rouven wrote: »

Totally love the Community Spotlight. I somewhat feel that all that creative talent here is not as visible, so it's really good for that.

We typically share a lot of community creations on our Twitter and Tumblr pages. Do you have ideas how we can make these more visible? We'd love to hear them.

@ZOS_GinaBruno
I do receive the Twitter alerts when community art is retweeted. I'm not sure if Facebook would also be a worthwhile place to post community creations. But if you're trying to make these things more visible to forum-goers specifically, maybe set up a "FEATURED" tag, similar to the "ANOUNCEMENT" tag, and have it be something a moderator can apply to a thread created by a community member. This would stick the thread to the top of the "Recent Disccusion" page. This could be for anything from artwork posted to interesting threads that are worth broad community attention. So every few days or weekly, you could set a differnet thread as "Featured." Like this week, the write up that @Joy_Division did for making the most of the Midyear Mayhem event would be a perfect selection. Let that ride through the event so it's visibility doesn't just rely on people continually posting in it.

MissBizz · July 2017

dpencil1 wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Rouven wrote: »

Totally love the Community Spotlight. I somewhat feel that all that creative talent here is not as visible, so it's really good for that.

@ZOS_GinaBruno
We typically share a lot of community creations on our Twitter and Tumblr pages. Do you have ideas how we can make these more visible? We'd love to hear them.

I do receive the Twitter alerts when community art is retweeted. I'm not sure if Facebook would also be a worthwhile place to post community creations. But if you're trying to make these things more visible to forum-goers specifically, maybe set up a "FEATURED" tag, similar to the "ANOUNCEMENT" tag, and have it be something a moderator can apply to a thread created by a community member. This would stick the thread to the top of the "Recent Disccusion" page. This could be for anything from artwork posted to interesting threads that are worth broad community attention. So every few days or weekly, you could set a differnet thread as "Featured." Like this week, the write up that @MissBizz did for making the most of the Midyear Mayhem event would be a perfect selection. Let that ride through the event so it's visibility doesn't just rely on people continually posting in it.

Totally wasn't me. That was @JoyDivsion ( @Joy_Division ? Are those both you?) But totally see what you're suggesting.

rootimus · July 2017

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Rouven wrote: »

Totally love the Community Spotlight. I somewhat feel that all that creative talent here is not as visible, so it's really good for that.

We typically share a lot of community creations on our Twitter and Tumblr pages. Do you have ideas how we can make these more visible? We'd love to hear them.

Here's a silly thought - post them on the official ESO forum.

leepalmer95 · July 2017

Rohamad_Ali wrote: »

I'm am so jealous of your forum avatars I can't even speak to any of you right now ..

Just joking I can be salty and still speak

10 stars should get custom avatars as a reward

MissBizz · July 2017

rootimus wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Rouven wrote: »

Totally love the Community Spotlight. I somewhat feel that all that creative talent here is not as visible, so it's really good for that.

We typically share a lot of community creations on our Twitter and Tumblr pages. Do you have ideas how we can make these more visible? We'd love to hear them.

Here's a silly thought - post them on the official ESO forum.

FWIW we do have an entire subforum devoted to community creations that members can post in.

dpencil1 · July 2017

Haha, woops! Sorry, memory fart. I'll correct my post.

Donari · July 2017

MissBizz wrote: »

@Donari That's a cool idea as well, but I feel partly why we don't see much promoted by zos is that it takes a lot of time to hunt down and find the fanart and such. Do you know of any places that are a bit of a "hub" for this? I realize a lot use deviant art, I'm not too familiar, is there "communitys" on the site where it's easier to see the TES/ESO related art?

I'm afraid I don't have a hub as such other than http://guildwars2.tumblr.com/#/# which I have permatabbed and occasionally check. They have rules there on how art is to be submitted and what permissions need to be given for it to be used by ANet in streams and the like. It's not really curated -- witness the occasional cussword in user names, and the very wide range of skill in the art. But it is definitely a concentrated spot to find loads of game-related art and is very easy to navigate; I see a number of Tumblrs that are just a column of large images so I give up after two or three. This one is very nice for seeing a lot at once, with the ability to expand and permalink favorites. A similar format might work well for ESO, assuming ESO doesn't already have something like that.

Then ZoS people could cull out particularly intriguing pieces, link them in a forum thread in Community Creations, and link said thread in the launcher blurbs as I suggested. Which in turn would get people into the CC forum where they might pause and look around at other threads while there.

On topic to the thread: custom avatars for CA's is an awesome thing, Santie has the best one imo because CAT, and that is a beautiful snake (says me, who had a boa constrictor for a couple of years in college. His name was Changeling and he got rather fat).

rhapsodious · July 2017

Paulington wrote: »

rhapsodious wrote: »

You can search by tags, I think.

The ESO subreddit has a pretty good collection of fanart from what I remember- I mostly browse reddit on mobile and don't click on many images, but I've seen some good stuff there. Could expand it to nice/funny screenshots, too.

CMFan1966 wrote: »

Congrats on the avatars! But I must say I am SO NOT loving that real life snake picture. Yep, I'm a girly girl who would still be wearing ruffles and bows if I wasn't so daggone old.

Can't wait to see what @SantieClaws chooses!

Snakes are cute ): Paul your snake is adorable. I'm more of a boa person, myself.

We do have a boa as well! His name is Bo and he is a male salmon boa constrictor imperator, as is typical with boas though he is very snappy! Dyna is most definitely the docile one.

Ooh nice! I've been looking into those. I love their eyes. Sunglows are gorgeous ;_;

MissBizz · July 2017

Donari wrote: »

MissBizz wrote: »

@Donari That's a cool idea as well, but I feel partly why we don't see much promoted by zos is that it takes a lot of time to hunt down and find the fanart and such. Do you know of any places that are a bit of a "hub" for this? I realize a lot use deviant art, I'm not too familiar, is there "communitys" on the site where it's easier to see the TES/ESO related art?

I'm afraid I don't have a hub as such other than http://guildwars2.tumblr.com/#/# which I have permatabbed and occasionally check. They have rules there on how art is to be submitted and what permissions need to be given for it to be used by ANet in streams and the like. It's not really curated -- witness the occasional cussword in user names, and the very wide range of skill in the art. But it is definitely a concentrated spot to find loads of game-related art and is very easy to navigate; I see a number of Tumblrs that are just a column of large images so I give up after two or three. This one is very nice for seeing a lot at once, with the ability to expand and permalink favorites. A similar format might work well for ESO, assuming ESO doesn't already have something like that.

Then ZoS people could cull out particularly intriguing pieces, link them in a forum thread in Community Creations, and link said thread in the launcher blurbs as I suggested. Which in turn would get people into the CC forum where they might pause and look around at other threads while there.

On topic to the thread: custom avatars for CA's is an awesome thing, Santie has the best one imo because CAT, and that is a beautiful snake (says me, who had a boa constrictor for a couple of years in college. His name was Changeling and he got rather fat).

How exactly does that tumblr thing work? It is just open for anyone to upload/link to or what?

Donari · July 2017

Now you are getting beyond my ken, MissBizz. I don't have a Tumblr account myself, and while I used to do some pretty good pencil work my skills atrophied tremendously during a decade or two of inactivity. I only know what I've learned by perusing the site and seeing the occasional "this is how to submit" post from ANet there. Which actually can be accessed by clicking the "submit" tab at the top of the tumblr.

The_Smilemeister · July 2017

So what exactly do community ambassadors do? What role do they play in the forums?

MissBizz · July 2017

@OpponentSmile66 this is the most recent thread. When I'm not on mobile I can find the original.

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/348928/welcome-to-our-new-eso-community-ambassadors/p1

Essentially we are (or at least try to be) helpful on the forums, and work with the community team. Nothing game related, but suggest things to bring the community together, bring community suggestions up if we think the ESO community team may have missed something etc.

So we have no official say or power. We are not mods on the forum, and definitely don't talk direct to devs or have any kind of influence over the game. More like "hey we saw this thread that we think you guys should comment on" or "hey look at the cool art"

The_Smilemeister · July 2017

@MissBizz

So no firestarters such as myself?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wmin5WkOuPw

Aw... I think I'd be the perfect ambassador to represent an (albeit small) group of people such as myself. All voices must be heard after all. Lol

SantieClaws · July 2017

Many good mornings from this one.

When Khajiit she awoke and saw her name tagged 11 times the first thought was that perhaps there had been terrible accusations that Khajiit was really an elf - or worse an orc.

But no all it is well and Khajiit she is here to show off her own whiskers at along last.

The cutting out of the very fine features of Khajiit was done by my guildmaster Sid and then this one she added the background of many colourful balls of yarn with some technical advice from another guildmate Jack.

It took about 10 different portraits though to get to this one. Anyway Khajiit is pleased we are all no longer locked in that lighthouse together yes - the elves were starting to smell musty ...

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

goldenarcher1 · July 2017

Rohamad_Ali wrote: »

dpencil1 wrote: »

@Chufu Cool, thanks for the info. If anyone wants to look over my forum history, I've used this account since the Morrowind closed beta (because I had to create a new one to access that forum for some reason), but my original account was just @dpencil

If you get picked do a favor ...

How about a meme of the year award?

This could be it.

stevepdodson_ESO888 · July 2017

Sigtric wrote: »

Custom avatars? Alright fine. @stevepdodson_ESO888, @Beerbong_Ginn and @MissBizz, I will now accept your nomination to become an ambassador.

Hey @ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom @ZOS_RichLambert

awesome

WhiteCoatSyndrome · July 2017

So glad to see you guys don't all have identical avatars any more! Congratulations!

AzraelKrieg · July 2017

Sigtric wrote: »

Custom avatars? Alright fine. @stevepdodson_ESO888, @Beerbong_Ginn and @MissBizz, I will now accept your nomination to become an ambassador.

Hey @ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom @ZOS_RichLambert

I too endorse @Sigtric .

jircris11 · July 2017

Paulington wrote: »

We got offered a choice, yep!

My avatar was made by a fellow CA @randolphbenoit, it depicts one of my pet snakes Dyna. She is a false water cobra and I wanted a "Sep Cobra" avatar which he very kindly made.

I think Randolph did a very good job of capturing her as she may be in the ESO universe:

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That is a big noodle.

Tasear · July 2017

MissBizz wrote: »

Yes we got to choose. Of course it had to be approved and ESO related kind of thing. Mine is actually my main character. If you see her running around - it's me!

Mostly once @Turelus got in, nobody wanted to have the chance of being mistaken for him. (I kid, I kid )

THOUGH if you're assembling everyone. Let's add a bit of more constructive suggestions here.

Has everyone enjoyed the Community Spotlight and Battlemaster corners coming back? Any other community type articles you'd like to see?

Have any events people are holding in game?

I been trying to get accepted for it... accept the monster, battlemaster. Also would be nice to have snaps shouts of the lives of other community members in there niches. There's people questing, fishing, farming, moving product (merchants), stealing , killing, decorating, collecting lore (scholars), along with the typical adventurer, and raiders. It would be nice to remind people of all the diversity also push notice some sets weren't meant for adventures or raiders (prisoner rags for example is farmers gear).

On a different subject maybe highlight some silliess or randomness that happens in eso. I remember last year people had flash dance parties, Muball wars, hiding seek, or etc. I personally just jump of cliffs... I also secret suspect this passive was desinged for me.. (p.S thank you I die less in these questionable adventures)

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Rouven wrote: »

Totally love the Community Spotlight. I somewhat feel that all that creative talent here is not as visible, so it's really good for that.

We typically share a lot of community creations on our Twitter and Tumblr pages. Do you have ideas how we can make these more visible? We'd love to hear them.

This is a bit silly, but had no idea. Maybe have a icon at the footer and header to link to this outlets. I see most other websites doing it.