Sticky: Mini Shops and Art Shops Location in the Forums

[The Forum Fairy]

Hello Shop Owners,

There have been some suggestions inSite Feedback that R&C should be moved to the Art Discussion or Mini Shops as a whole moved to the Artist Corner section on the main page. How do you feel about this? Does it make sense to move some or all of the mini-shops? Does it make sense to re-name any of the sections (user shops, art shops, or something else)?


Love,

The Forum Fairy

[xx Lemons Make Toast]

I agree that the R&C should be moved Art Discussion, seeing
as it has the same concept with art and stuff :3

[iBloop]

Little Bloop Sickles Says...
Yep
EDIT: Second postie razz

[Lenalei]

Agreed. Move the R&C.

[Chellies]

[I already posted this in the thread in the R&C forum before I saw this one, but I thought it'd be good to post it here too for others to see. x3]

I'd like to point out that moving it would completely confuse the heck out of everyone with minishops now [so it might take some time getting used to]. The only thing about moving it to the Art Discussion would be that it's not really discussing art, it's just buying it. Another point is that there's the Services subforum as well - Services don't really have anything to do with art [I don't think bumping takes enough creativity to be considered an 'art'.]

I think that the Mini Shops forum should stay where it is, or move it up to Gaia Community. xD But I mean really, I think it's perfectly fine where it is [since it could be considered part of the 'Gaia Gaming Experience'?]

As a solution for threads from the Art Discussion being moved to this forum, maybe one of the Art Discussion's subforums could link to this forum. So that way it would be in two places, and it would help both the people in the Art Discussion forum and allow the Mini Shop forum to stay where it is.

[Tyhoic]

R&C is still shops so i think it should stay here.
Putting it in art discussion would just confuse gaians

[Pandas_Pixie]

Chellies

[I already posted this in the thread in the R&C forum before I saw this one, but I thought it'd be good to post it here too for others to see. x3]

I'd like to point out that moving it would completely confuse the heck out of everyone with minishops now [so it might take some time getting used to]. The only thing about moving it to the Art Discussion would be that it's not really discussing art, it's just buying it. Another point is that there's the Services subforum as well - Services don't really have anything to do with art [I don't think bumping takes enough creativity to be considered an 'art'.]

I think that the Mini Shops forum should stay where it is, or move it up to Gaia Community. xD But I mean really, I think it's perfectly fine where it is [since it could be considered part of the 'Gaia Gaming Experience'?]

As a solution for threads from the Art Discussion being moved to this forum, maybe one of the Art Discussion's subforums could link to this forum. So that way it would be in two places, and it would help both the people in the Art Discussion forum and allow the Mini Shop forum to stay where it is.

I completely agree.

[SilentRedemption]

Chellies

[I already posted this in the thread in the R&C forum before I saw this one, but I thought it'd be good to post it here too for others to see. x3]

I'd like to point out that moving it would completely confuse the heck out of everyone with minishops now [so it might take some time getting used to]. The only thing about moving it to the Art Discussion would be that it's not really discussing art, it's just buying it. Another point is that there's the Services subforum as well - Services don't really have anything to do with art [I don't think bumping takes enough creativity to be considered an 'art'.]

I think that the Mini Shops forum should stay where it is, or move it up to Gaia Community. xD But I mean really, I think it's perfectly fine where it is [since it could be considered part of the 'Gaia Gaming Experience'?]

As a solution for threads from the Art Discussion being moved to this forum, maybe one of the Art Discussion's subforums could link to this forum. So that way it would be in two places, and it would help both the people in the Art Discussion forum and allow the Mini Shop forum to stay where it is.

I agree

[Drachelle]

I think that the R&C should stay here in the Minishops. Art shops are for the purpose of selling art, and therefore is a Minishop, and I think that lots of people will become confused with the R&C being in the Art Discussion.

Also, perhaps you could move the art shops that are cluttering the main Minishops forum to the correct forum. Not many people read the forum's rules.

[Stereochrome]

R&C in a discussion board, wot? o.o''
Doesn't seem like a good idea to me.

In a smaller site, maybe, it would make sense to put all art-related things together. But selling artwork is a huge cultural and economic part of Gaian life, and it fits in well with the general community in the Minishops forum. Original art shops might differ from other shops in product, but they're run a fairly similar way, so it just... feels like they belong here.

If people are getting lost on the Art Discussion end of the site, it's an issue to be resolved there. Because I don't really see people getting it confused on this end.

So, in short: bring the lost here, don't take the whole bloody subforum to them.

[The Forum Fairy]

For now, I will keep everything as-is, except for a name changes suggested by R&C (change R&C to Art shops & requests).

Another idea is to move 'art shops' as a new top-level forum in the artists corner. It would make it easier to find since many people assume 'Gaia gaming' means zomg and fishing and stuff. Other non-art types of Mini-shops could stay here. What do you think of that idea?