Hello citizens of Bimbolands.
As we all know, the next Prime Bimbo election takes place 1st February 2016.
This thread is open to everyone to ask candidates any questions you have and for candidates to answer them.
The following bimbos are the current active State ministers and Prime Bimbo; candidates for the next election:
BambiDoll
HeavenLeighBimbo
Icekream
Remi
SuperGlamorousGirl!!
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I'll present this as an open question for any candidate to answer.
Other than sending requests to Chris what will you personally do to make this game better (basically improve the senate (forums) since that's all we really have)?
Other than sending requests to Chris what will you personally do to make this game better (basically improve the senate (forums) since that's all we really have)?
Telaphone wrote:
I also want to see more activity/community spirit within States - Reasonopia is doing a great job of that at the minute, but it'd be nice to see others get more involved. I've tried, but there certainly aren't many members belonging to my state. I'd like to see the threads for each state pinned as top discussion topics, so new members can easily find them. I think this is a tiny change that would definitely get new members more involved from the start, just by giving them that little sense of belonging to a smaller group within the forums.
I'll present this as an open question for any candidate to answer.The way I see it, I think we're really getting somewhere with this community. There's a great spirit and completely different feel to the forums: Less complaining about the state of this site and more people getting their heads together and trying to figure out what can be done about it - More importantly, what they personally can do about it. We've got people with the talent and experience who are willing to let Bimbolands utilise their skills. I saw the other week, Remi made a thread for ideas for clothing design. The senate is full of people bursting with great ideas, so with the next Prime Bimbo, I'd really like to see those people given more power in helping to build Bimbolands.
Other than sending requests to Chris what will you personally do to make this game better (basically improve the senate (forums) since that's all we really have)?
I also want to see more activity/community spirit within States - Reasonopia is doing a great job of that at the minute, but it'd be nice to see others get more involved. I've tried, but there certainly aren't many members belonging to my state. I'd like to see the threads for each state pinned as top discussion topics, so new members can easily find them. I think this is a tiny change that would definitely get new members more involved from the start, just by giving them that little sense of belonging to a smaller group within the forums.
(In the name of Reasonopia, thanks Bambi for the compliment ^_^)
I want to focus in the senate, since it's what we all together can actually change. Progress has been made all this time. The forum is much more active than it was at first, and there are more commited players.
I agree with Bambi about pinning the state threads to make them easy to find, or maybe making a separte section for them. Citizens would find their town halls easily. Getting citizens participating in their states is totally possitive.
Which I personally would get back are Contests. Specially official contests, they've been hosted in Bimbolands in before with awesome results (and big prizes). Player contests are always welcomed, there's so many creative bimbos with so many great ideas that it would be great to see more contests.
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That's a really good point SGG. More contests would be amazing. We have All these creatives with nowhere to really gain recognition for how they express themselves using the site. It would also be really cool if we could keep a tally of which state has won the most official contests - Bit of fun and healthy competition!
Since all we really have is the forums at the moment, I personally would work to make them a little more easy to navigate . Assuming that PB has the power to regulate threads, redirect citizens to similar threads that are already open for discussion instead creating new threads that are extremely similar to old ones . I know I for one get a bit lost sometimes. I know that I have seen a tech person around on the senate, so I would get with them instead of Chris and see about making the Town Halls stay on the front page. Just like how we have three sections (one for senate, one for citizens, and one for government in general) we would have Freethinkerland Town Hall, Atheista Town Hall, etc.. Just so that the thread versions of these town halls doesn't end up being pushed to the back of the pages and ultimately dying.
Another thing I'd be concerning myself with is new citizens. I see a lot of new faces that don't get a proper greeting, or are just completely lost in the sauce when they first join. I think we lose people by not actively involving them. If the website were like it had been when it was Miss Bimbo this wouldn't really be an issue since socializing with others wasn't really necessary to play the game. Since our republic is the way it is I think it's important that we are extremely proactive in trying to get people as much help as we can AND that we try our best to get to know them a little bit. Maybe have a thread we have pinned up front in the senate as a "greetings" thread, new in the neighborhood or something like that. I might try and form a welcome wagon, or just be very adamant about having Senators and State Ministers getting to know their fellow citizens. I know I have to work at being better at practicing this. This would probably help a lot with state spirit and community, too.
Another thing I'd be concerning myself with is new citizens. I see a lot of new faces that don't get a proper greeting, or are just completely lost in the sauce when they first join. I think we lose people by not actively involving them. If the website were like it had been when it was Miss Bimbo this wouldn't really be an issue since socializing with others wasn't really necessary to play the game. Since our republic is the way it is I think it's important that we are extremely proactive in trying to get people as much help as we can AND that we try our best to get to know them a little bit. Maybe have a thread we have pinned up front in the senate as a "greetings" thread, new in the neighborhood or something like that. I might try and form a welcome wagon, or just be very adamant about having Senators and State Ministers getting to know their fellow citizens. I know I have to work at being better at practicing this. This would probably help a lot with state spirit and community, too.
SuperGlamorousGirl!! wrote:
icekream wrote:
I agree with Bambi about pinning the state threads to make them easy to find, or maybe making a separte section for them. Citizens would find their town halls easily.I feel like this will (sadly) be quite a challenge since the owner has fiercely against making new sections saying it makes the boards look "cluttered"
icekream wrote:
Assuming that PB has the power to regulate threads, redirect citizens to similar threads that are already open for discussion instead creating new threads that are extremely similar to old ones .From what I understand PB has no admin powers (power to lock old threads) I feel that this could be a realistic expectation for future PBs to implement.
Telaphone wrote:
From what I understand PB has no admin powers (power to lock old threads) I feel that this could be a realistic expectation for future PBs to implement.If I remember correctly, Chris mentioned enabling Senators and PBs to be able to facilitate threads in the future. How soon that will be implemented, I don't think he said.
I can't find it... I must have been dreaming, lol .
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Other than sending requests to Chris what will you personally do to make this game better (basically improve the senate (forums) since that's all we really have)?
The first thing on my list is to gather up everyone who has ideas, skills or overall wants to help out with bimbolands and get us together in one chat. Remember what we used to do when Bebe was PB? I want to take that idea and expand on it - I tried before with the secondary forum section but it wasn't very convenient for most players and with things getting changed around we lost track of the weekly meetings and forums. I plan on making it so every user who is up for helping out has a chance, along with putting together things that we as users can organise - such as new Monthly Fashion for the store, Official Bimbolands News Team, Improved Official Contests, Fashion Battle Royale, and more. These things, regardless of if I'm elected as PB are things I intend to do anyway; with help from the PB or as PB.
I also intend to see if there's anything we can do about the security of the game - Some of you might have noticed some rude PM's being sent to players in the game (including myself). Right now we have no moderator system, so reporting a comment or a PM goes to no one. I want to be able to put in place a safe moderator system - until we have an official one put in place (which may come soon or may take some time).
I'm with Icekreme with making the game more open to the new players. It would be nice if we could get an automated (or user ran) mailing system set up for new players - sending them a PM with links to all the useful threads and information; that way they always have it in their inbox so they don't have to go looking for things or information themselves without things getting lost or buried.
@Telaphone
Right now I think PB can ban players as far as I'm aware so I assume PB might be able to lock threads? I'm not sure.
Other than sending requests to Chris what will you personally do to make this game better (basically improve the senate (forums) since that's all we really have)?
The first thing on my list is to gather up everyone who has ideas, skills or overall wants to help out with bimbolands and get us together in one chat. Remember what we used to do when Bebe was PB? I want to take that idea and expand on it - I tried before with the secondary forum section but it wasn't very convenient for most players and with things getting changed around we lost track of the weekly meetings and forums. I plan on making it so every user who is up for helping out has a chance, along with putting together things that we as users can organise - such as new Monthly Fashion for the store, Official Bimbolands News Team, Improved Official Contests, Fashion Battle Royale, and more. These things, regardless of if I'm elected as PB are things I intend to do anyway; with help from the PB or as PB.
I also intend to see if there's anything we can do about the security of the game - Some of you might have noticed some rude PM's being sent to players in the game (including myself). Right now we have no moderator system, so reporting a comment or a PM goes to no one. I want to be able to put in place a safe moderator system - until we have an official one put in place (which may come soon or may take some time).
I'm with Icekreme with making the game more open to the new players. It would be nice if we could get an automated (or user ran) mailing system set up for new players - sending them a PM with links to all the useful threads and information; that way they always have it in their inbox so they don't have to go looking for things or information themselves without things getting lost or buried.
@Telaphone
Right now I think PB can ban players as far as I'm aware so I assume PB might be able to lock threads? I'm not sure.
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