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I've been noticing there is less things like dress like a n00b day and attempts at site-wide or forum-wide events by other users and I kind of miss that. I don't attribute this to laziness or anything but a combinations of things.

Growth of the Gaian Population and Aging
Maybe it's just to hard for users to police the large community now and events are becoming harder to organize. Require a lot of dedication that now, people are having less time of. Maybe some people cannot deal with 904w7094 PMs of 'when will the event start? 8D' The people who were capable of creating events are sick of it or have left (because of college/life). Since it's become more of a challege for another younger and maybe less dedicate member, to take up the torch.

Also the who childish "popularity" issues. Because Gaia is such a huge community it's becoming more and more of an issue. Which in this case, yes the user is getting notirity but I think they sort of deserve it. (And who ******** cares... dramallama ) As long as people having a good time and it brings the communitry together, I see no problem. There use to be solidarity between users who thought Gaia was a place to have fun.

Gaia community (not just the GCD) is regulating itself into smaller and more specialize groups and cliques. Guilds maybe a little more active and such... and there will be more guild events.

Gaia Community Projects=less PR
Admit it, the forum is slow and intimidating. Also, hardly anyone regularly go there. So the who cycle of it started in GCD (by getting input from other users) and moved to other forums doesn't work anymore. You have to start with a very large group of people who share similar goals. Then have them promote the event up the yin yang on their sigs.

Less Gaia pride because of the decile of the anime/fandom community.
We've seen it with anime... There are more and more people who are treating Gaia like a myspace.com and not the fun wonderland that it once was. Generally anime is not something we all have in common now because we are not considered an anime role playing forum anymore, though the style of the site is just anime. This place is now a "hang out" site or social networking site. >.>; Instead of people with common interest gather. Now it's just people with common friends to hang out in guilds. The stigima of anime is for losers and ******** you~`desu.

Are Gaian's thinking Gaia is less cool to be defined as Gaian?

After reading the following text, what can we do as a community to remedy this issue?

To be honest, I wish they'd never created GCP. For the points that you said. It's slow and hardly anyone goes in there. I liked it when we had projects in the GCD.

Not only that, but if you make a project in GCD, then make the same thing in GCP, the GCD one will get A LOT bigger than the GCP one. I have my own personal proof on that, but I don't want to sound like kid who didn't get their juice box, so I'll keep quiet on it. neutral

Yep. I'm inbetween the emotes of gonk & rofl

I believe you. *sigh* Less dedicated users and more spam spam spam and non-discussable topics. But I think every problem has a solution... Or maybe it's my wishful thinking. No it's true~! We just need more advance forums of PR and better ways to regulate ourselves. Like paying new users for sig adds and s**t... and using advance programmiing to check it out.

Aww~ sadness. I think part of the problem is this attitude that there is no answer. And let's blame the admins (because it's GCP fault... that's part of it) or wait for the admins to encourage us. I think there still are enough dedicated users out there, that if they do decided to put there minds together can figure out a way/plan to regulate or encourage certain things.

Sure a little help from the admins is good, but why do users underestimate their own power?

I agree that is part of the problem. That is a reason we cannot fix. gonk Subforums just don't get enough attention and other reasons.

SOOOOoooo~ let's us focus on how we can fix this issue. Guild, though thought of as just hang out places. But what if everyone who wants this to change *cough* everyone posting in this thread *cough* all decided to get together and forum a common allience to promote users run events. Like how to run one, what do you do... blah blah~ figure out what is hard about promoting this event and find effective and more elaberate was to promote something. :3 Gaia is coming up with some (annoying but effective) ways to get users to do watching stupid a** movies. Is it so hard to think of better ways then say, sig banners, to promote something. If it help the community, I think it's worth it.

WE must evolve... the trolls have, the spammers have and the n00b have. SO MUST WE.

I don't even remember. Yesh it's been that long~ *sigh*

But yes it's hard but I think it just means we need to be more organize and get more people who want to help. Break people into groups that fit there needs and organize. Since there are more people, in theory, there should be more people willing to help. It's just some users either don't have the skill or courage (like myself) or confidence in the others to do that. :/

Yeah me too~ back when I was shy. Now I'm not and they don't exist. *shakes fist in air*

Indeed, and I thought we would have more with Trisk community user run event thread. But that bombed... xD I know why but I won't get into that.

Bonding events such as these make Gaia, Gaia. So I wonder... why users aren't bringing issues like this up, especially in the GCD. Yeah~ Gaia sucks. *cries* The feature suck/don't work... I have nothing to do. Okay, then why don't we create our own fun? ;3