Donation Drop-Off: Any Interest?

[kelliedee.livejournal.com]

This is actually something I've been thinking of doing for a while. The last three posts in the trading community prompted me to go ahead and ask everyone's opinion:

Would you like to have a page (much like Skie's Asobot Initiative) dedicated to unclaimed deck donations, where other users can claim to donate them?

Ordinary members can only donate two decks per month, and, on rare occasion, an additional normal deck or one special deck. (Deck makers can donate more, but must first meet a quota.) Unfortunately, for most of us, there are more than two decks we'd like to donate.

With a deck donation drop-off post, members would be able to post excess decks they've put together (like you would if you were donating a deck on the Color's post). I'd compile a list of unclaimed decks (sorted by series, color, or both) on LJ (along with my own site if there's enough decks), and other members who are not donating decks (or don't want to gather images) can claim decks they would like to donate. By claiming a deck, you keep the rewards for donating it, and you make somebody a very happy card collector. :3

Leave a comment and let me know your thoughts, opinions, questions, and suggestions!! ^^

Comments

[akise.livejournal.com]

I think this would be a nice idea! It seems a lot of users have several decks prepared so this post would be helpful to find donators for them, and it would be helpful for those that have no donation plans for the month to help out others by donating their decks and still keeping the donation rewards and everything. \o/ If you do go through with it, you might want to advertise the page every two or four weeks, maybe?

[kelliedee.livejournal.com]

Definitely! I know for sure I'd advertise towards the beginning and end of the month, since most members will donate decks or opt not to around that time. I'd also make a banner and affix it to all my personal community posts to spread the word. :)

Thanks for your input! ^^

[akise.livejournal.com]

I was just talking about this idea with my friends because we're all super excited to see if you decide to make it *A* We also thought of another idea, a page dedicated to what decks players are planning on donating within the next two months or so. That way more than one player wouldn't end up collecting images for the same character(s)

[disutansu.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I like this idea. :D Personally I didn't know you could do that until I saw the posts that were made, so this will help new members know about them too. :3 Gathering images is partly the reason why I haven't been donating much myself (takes a lot of time that I don't have T-T), but I'm definitely willing to help donate for those who have lots of decks ready. And it seems like it can be very organized, so there won't be much overlap. \o/

[kelliedee.livejournal.com]

It should be very easy to maintain and organize. :3

I've also played with the idea of having a section for image round-up requests. I know there's a lot of characters out there that I would *love* to collect, but don't have the means to attain quality images for them. And, of course, there are others who simply don't have the time to gather 60 images every month, but would still like to see certain character decks.

Maybe I could put up a special reward for members who go out of their way to compile images? Hmm..

[wolfie.livejournal.com]

I likey. I think the system should probably allow the user to pick their own deck to donate if there's someone prepared that they like as well, of course. :3

ETA: also, maybe your system could also allow for "wanted" decks? And "partially done" images?

[kelliedee.livejournal.com]

As said in my reply above, I'd love to have a section for deck/image requests. :3 And a list of "X member will donate Y deck once prepared" wouldn't be a bad addition either.

I could also make a Photobucket account and open it to the members of Colors, and anyone could donate single images for requested decks. (This would work well for character decks where images are hard to find.) Once a character has 30 good images, it would be zipped and "delivered" to the person requesting it, or it would go to the "open donation" pile.

Thoughts?

[wolfie.livejournal.com]

My initial thought is I cringe at photobucket, because of its unreliability. xD Anyone with hosting could theoretically set up a photoblog software though, and that'd probably work awesome.

Hmm, I guess having someone who is knowledgeable go through them to sort into possible fanart piles might be necessary as well, though if you're going that route.

[kelliedee.livejournal.com]

I don't know anything about Photobucket (aside from how to use it), because I don't use it. Wait, what? I just picked it because I'm betting most people here host their cards on Photobucket, and as a result, wouldn't have to register at a new site and would know how to navigate the site and all its features.

Also, I'm kind of a script tard, so do enlighten me on this photo blog business. :3 Is it something I'd have to have a whole new site for, or can I just install it as a script to run as a separate page on a website? Either way, I'd probably have to discuss it with Rahenna.

Most fan art is pretty distinguishable, but yeah, I might need some help with series I'm not familiar with. :)

[wolfie.livejournal.com]

I mean, you'd just want a separate subdomain or some such, and probably would be best to run it on an individual database. I've seen a few out there, but I haven't researched any, sorry... Rahenna would likely be tons more familiar with something like that, coding-wise, than I would. I just know that the possibility of one exists. And like I said, anything that'll be more reliable than silly fotobukkit is a step above. xP

[snackoos.livejournal.com]

That's a cool idea. I honestly never used my deck donations (including this month) so they're kind of a waste...

This would be a nice way to coordinate deck donations.

[kelliedee.livejournal.com]

Thank you for your input!

You were the one talking with me about WoW on chatzy, right?
If so, be my trading buddy! >:3

[snackoos.livejournal.com]

That was me! XD



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[kelliedee.livejournal.com]

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[snackoos.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

Worked fine~

Coffee before bed...bad idea! D:

[miyoungie]

I like this idea. Only this month have I donated decks I actually found the images and put together for. The other months I've always either offered to donate or found decks to donate for others that I was interested in collecting. So this would be extremely useful for me since I actually have a decent pile of decks/images that I could add to the list later. :)

[kelliedee.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're interested!
And super glad you donated an Aya deck! The cards look great too. :)

[miyoungie]

OMG I wasn't even aware they were done since It wasn't moved to finished yet. Ahhhhh It looks so awesome! I'm glad to see you going for it too! :D Now I need to hoard yellow crayons. XD

[kikinioth.livejournal.com]

This sounds so neat! :D

[kelliedee.livejournal.com]

Glad you think so. :3

[achuu.livejournal.com]

I would say, definitely go for it! It would be easier on not only the players who want more decks donated but also for for the players that don't know what they could donate (and could earn donation prizes at the same time!) Lol I always had a hard time to offer up decks myself because I either shy away from posting on this community or someone else offers their decks up first when someone offers their donation slots!

[kelliedee.livejournal.com]

Don't be shy!! ^__^
And I know how you feel! Everyone pretty much beats me to everything around here. XD

[00zags.livejournal.com]

To be honest I had this exact same idea before. Only I never got around to trying to organize it.

So yea go for it.

[kelliedee.livejournal.com]

Great minds think alike! <3

[ratiosu.livejournal.com]

I love this idea, please go for it. *_*

[kelliedee.livejournal.com]

I think I have enough interest to do it now, so will do! ^^

[perarduaadast.livejournal.com]

A+++

I totally say this needs to happen.
Super helpful... and it gets a lot more decks into the game because we all know that they're available!

[kelliedee.livejournal.com]

Thank you. ^_^
You're the one that inspired me to try this out.

I'm glad Colors is such a open community that members can participate and help out in any way they'd like. You don't get that from other website-run TCGs. :)

[perarduaadast.livejournal.com]

I didn't do nothin'.
You gots da wrong guy.

I agree, though. Nothing like feeling like part of the 'community' here than being accepted when posting new or interesting ideas. Everyone here is the nicest ever!

[staticphrase.livejournal.com]

YES.
I think I'm pretty known for having a boat-ton of deck images ready.

I also like the Wanted section idea a lot. I would enjoy doing something like that personally, since all I've been doing now are collecting images for characters I like. I'd love to help other people get images for decks they want to see happen.

[miyoungie]

Totally random but do you plan to get images for Dejiko at all? If you do, I'd love to donate her and Rabi En Rose next month? :O

[perarduaadast.livejournal.com]

You were the first person I thought of when I saw this idea.
BUT WE LOVE YOU FOR IT, AISU.

;A;

[lucathia]

I think it would be very interesting to have such a page (I just didn't want to maintain one. *g* So if players run it, that would be awesome indeed). I hope this will mean more people will pick donations they know something about or are interested in, instead of just donating whatever people ask them to donate. I like it when names next to images by actually have something to do with the deck. =x (as in, they are fans too!) Or if the donators discover new series that way, that's great too.

A wanted section would be great. Usually at the end of the month (for my extra decks), I make decks for needy colors, or to fill out the cast of a series some more, or I just take a stab at what players might like to see (that I like too). XD; or I make decks for series I want more people to get into Would be nice to see what people want to see!

As for photobucket... in order to have different people upload to the same account... you'd need to give the account info to everyone? Unless photobucket has an option to allow other people to upload to it? I have no idea. =x I thought photobucket only allows whoever has the login info for the account to upload pics to it. It sounds like what you need is some gallery script that'll allow people to upload images to the gallery. I tried out a few gallery scripts (was hoping to revamp the graphics page) but haven't found one I like that does what I need it to do without being too bulky). There's a gallery script called...Gallery2 that should work. (I also tried out Piwigo... which was nice with the tagging, but it doesn't support .gif files very well). I haven't tried out zenphoto much, but that's another one. *is still trying to look for others*

File sharing sites might also work for single images? I believe some have the option of allowing different people to upload to them. (Some might even have gallery features? Depends on the file sharing site. There's one that did this that has closed down though. I don't know of any others at the moment).

This TCG also has a unique way of doing things. I am clueless about tumblr, so I don't know how that works.

[kelliedee.livejournal.com]

I'm not familiar with tumblr, but since that TCG uses it and Taminas suggested it below, I'll make an account and play around with it.

And yeah, had I gone with Photobucket, I would have just shared the account name and password with anyone interested in donating images.

A lot of the unique decks you donate and collect actually look pretty interesting to me. A lot of them are on the list of series I need to check out someday. :3 If that makes you feel any better!

[lucathia]

I hope Tumblr proves helpful. I've never used it before, but it seems interesting that people can submit images like that? I wonder if anyone can tag, or if only the person who owns the account can tag.

Ah, I see!

Haha, I'm glad to hear this. XD; I usually do pretty obscure series or characters for my own two donations every month. XD;

[taminas.livejournal.com]

This sounds like a great idea! *A* I look forward to seeing if it happens! *u*

I'm seeing some people asking about how files could be shared and I think using tumblr, like Lucathia suggested, would be a great idea. People can submit whatever they want and whoever is in charge of it can approve it, and then they'd all be displayed on the tumblr~ It's also a good way to organize, since pictures can be tagged by series/character, and said tags are very easy to access *u*