Steele
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Post by Steele on Aug 17, 2017 16:01:50 GMT -5
More forums! More forums! More... wait, forums? Fora? Fori?
Ah well. Ok - a place I used to frequent had a "Dirtsheets/Rumours" thread. One of the admins had a separate account as basically a hack/journalist/blogger type guy and users could send him info (true or false) and interviews, etc to publish. Rumours of tag team tension, wrestlers under consideration for titles shots or pushes, wrestlers being offered contracts by other feds, or wrestlers from other feds coming here, etc...
It would actually tie in with "Talking Drama with Akiyama" with wrestlers also being interviewed from time to time so I dunno if that's something we would want to do alongside his segment on Prestige, or move the segment to this section, or have it as more of an "OOC" thing for the wrestlers to talks as "real people" - the users themselves could even get interviewed as if they were "road agents" or creative team members.
Perhaps (going back to the Akiyama tie-in) there would be a "DIRTSHEETS" forum, with a thread for Talking Drama episodes, another for a rumour mill, etc.
What does everyone think about something like this? I might be up for running the thread (so long as I don't get inundated with shit) or would somebody else fancy the job?
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Post by ForeverKuroi on Aug 17, 2017 17:38:17 GMT -5
We could also have a Google Submit form or something too. I'm not sure if it's not in line with that idea, but it could be a major talking point where Akiyama goes through the rumors popped in and people could be asked to respond to those rumors.
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Steele
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Post by Steele on Aug 17, 2017 18:07:35 GMT -5
So is a google submit form like something that we could actually type into? Then you (or Akiyama) can see what was asked and respond accordingly? Like when you put a box in front of a group for them to ask anonymous questions? That sounds pretty fun!
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Post by ForeverKuroi on Aug 17, 2017 18:11:51 GMT -5
Oh, totally.
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Steele
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Post by Steele on Aug 25, 2017 19:26:24 GMT -5
BUMP! I'm still up for doing a dirtsheet, something weekly or biweekly. Some juicy rumours and gossip. Anybody else interested?
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Post by Mongo the Destroyer on Aug 25, 2017 23:20:54 GMT -5
If you write it, they will come
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Steele
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Post by Steele on Aug 26, 2017 2:49:23 GMT -5
That's what Random House said when I pitched my Terry Brasdsdhaw erotic novel
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Post by Slainmaker on Aug 26, 2017 15:52:53 GMT -5
The Talking Drama with Akiyama brand could be expanded to a forum covering this and also including the current interview format and things like the Live Five (possibly the merchandise)? I'm thinking being an on-screen interviewer for a company the size of AWF wouldn't be much of a job so Akiyama does other things around the place that need doing - front the youtube gossip show, run the shop website etc. That google form stuff sounds great too, but I'd advise against making this a scheduled thing. Like the current interviews, do them when the material is there and don't make it another job for yourself if it's a quiet week.
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Steele
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Post by Steele on Aug 27, 2017 11:36:23 GMT -5
Yeah I'm thinking what I'd like to do myself is just a rumours collective, which may include potential spoilers for upcoming angles OR could just be completely made up by me, the other writers, or even the members. That could just be updated as and when I feel like or when I have enough "news" to merit a new post.
Mongo, what say you to a "News forum" on the XHF Global board where in-character announcements can be made, Kuroi could post his Talking Drama segments once they've aired on Prestige (if he wants), I'll run "The Grapevine" as a little rumour and conjecture piece, if there are any other suggestions for what could go here then I'll see what I can do helping set up and doing graphics or writing or whatever.
I figure once they're going I will try and include info from GXW and Lionheart too, and hey I could even link to stuff outside the network IF that's ok with admins and other people on other boards have anything cool. THIS part of it, if successful, could potentially branch into real life Twitter and hopefully drive some traffic to us too.
EDIT: and when I say "spoilers for angles" I don't mean blowing open some big, shocking, intricate angle and ruining the surprise - more like speculating on who might be next in line for a title shot, who might be feuding with who next, etc... Of course it could be false anyway
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Post by Mongo the Destroyer on Aug 27, 2017 19:45:56 GMT -5
That's doable, I'll just have to remember to make the new forum, lol
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