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  1. 9 hours ago, Dominic said:

    If someone criticized the GFX team, you'd shut them down by talking about how the community is literally covered in graphics; the forums, the Discord, the game servers, etc. If someone criticized the Social Media team, well you'd respond by saying they manage our social media which is multiple avenues that can potentially largely promote growth.

    Personally, I do not believe every team has to have the same weight or value. Bue said something in one of our conversations that hit it right on the head. "As it’s beneficial in a few different aspects, then that’s completely fine." Some teams are going to have more responsibility and more things to do than others and that's completely fine. 

     

    9 hours ago, Dominic said:

    If the team really held a lot of weight I feel like this thread would have a lot more responses and / or would've been shut down very hard and fast.

     

    9 hours ago, Joshy said:

    With only 2 people on there (I think) I don't think it does hold a lot of weight; I also don't think the team requires heavy activity on the forums, and so they're probably not commenting on threads like these too often :(

     

    Regarding these two statements. When this thread was made the Writing Team was going through a transition of power, so there wasn't much to be said at the time. We now have a new Team Leader who has quite a few ideas they want to implement and will do within time. I apologize for not responding to this thread until now, but we are very excited about the next steps for the Writing Team and will continue to keep you updated in future! 

     

    10 hours ago, Dominic said:

    Perhaps the writing team can go around and try to fix up / reformat important threads to make them look better?

     

    I like this idea and we are currently working on it now to see if there are any MOTD's or old threads that need a visual facelift. 

     

    9 hours ago, Joshy said:

    Just like a magician wont reveal all their secrets... might not show anyone how to levitate... but I'll spill a card or a coin trick.  I think something that would be a good idea for a writing team member is to start writing a weekly journal thread kind of like a blog within GFL.  They could blog about the community and general updates they've noticed...

     

    This idea doesn't look bad at first glance, but when you think about our newsletters you realize it's kind of just the same thing but would be posted every week instead of every month. It's just not necessary and wouldn't have any benefit that the newsletter doesn't already have. But that being said, I do agree with doing newsletters more frequently. There has been a trend of the Writing Team posting a newsletter every three months or so and a lot of important things happen within that time period. I believe that newsletters should be put out monthly to make it less jumbled up and confusing. I plan to talk with Bue and see what she thinks of this, but I don't see why she would be against it. 

     

    9 hours ago, Joshy said:

    have something like an opinions column...  maybe do something fun like try a new game mode every other week and write their thoughts on it.

     

    In theory the "opinion column" idea could work, but it could go downhill very fast due to some topics being pretty controversial. I like the idea because it would give everyone an open forum to express their opinions on certain topics, but I feel that there would need to be a lot of discussion behind the scenes before this is implemented. The scope of teams does not need to be massive. Pressuring such a small team to do so much could cause people to burn out, we can grow but it is just going to take some time.

     

    To finish this all out, the Writing Team plans on making a post very soon to try and recruit some new members, to give us the extra help we need to do some of the bigger ideas people have suggested. 

     

    If you know anyone or if you yourselves would like to apply for the Writing Team you can here: https://gflclan.com/forms/171-writer-application-form/;) 

  2. 1 hour ago, ★*IJC*★ said:

    I know this is a month old but I would love see a GFL dr server. I would play it and try to help with it.


    It doesn’t look like it’s going to happen. Mostly because the DR population on GMod is very low and apparently we have had past DR server that didn’t work out. It sucks though, would’ve been nice.

  3. 1 hour ago, EJ. said:

    The Weeknd got absolutely snubbed. Should've had multiple nominations.

     

    I am not sure how true it is, but apparently I heard the reason he didn't end up getting any nominations is because he picked to perform at the Super Bowl this year instead of performing at the Grammy's, so he lost "any shot of a nomination if he didn't pick them".

     

    I also heard that, but that shouldn't determine if he is nominated for a Grammy. So stupid to be honest.

     

    3 minutes ago, P i n g u said:

    Yea I kinda have to scratch my head at how they thought not nominating Abel for a single thing was going to fly. I just don't see how his album wouldn't just outright surpass some of the other nominess due to the sheer amount of monthly listeners he has alone. Whatever reason it is the grammys chose not to I really don't care as I don't have that much care about them in the first place but it seems most people are in agreement that this was incredibly stupid. Even looking at some of the nominations for the smaller categories like the two rap categories I just think they could have chosen better. The fact that iann dior wasn't listed for a single thing either blows my mind because he started the year with like an average of a million monthly listeners on spotify and now sits comfortably at 39 million... Seems like that should warrant some type of nomination but who am I to judge. Idk, as I said I've never been that big of a fan of music award shows but after looking into this it just seems like I was right in not caring. I think that if the grammys wants to continue being the most coveted award show they need to get a little hit of reality sooner rather than later. 

     

    I feel like with what was said above you, that there was to much behind the scenes politics involved with deciding if he should be nominated or not. They do this every year and at this point I'm starting to believe it's on purpose because maybe it gives them more views or something. Who knows, I just wish it wasn't like this anymore. 

     

  4. 3 minutes ago, Daddy Issues said:

    Just shows really how rigged the grammys are, the weeknd deserved a grammy and they didnt give one to him which sucks

     

    I just find it absolutely crazy how he had one of the best albums of the year and most awarded albums of the year but songs like yummy by Justin Bieber can be nominated over his. 

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    The 2021 Grammy's are approaching and the nomination list has been released. 

     

     

    Last year, the Grammy's kind of flopped for me. I love so many artists that won, such as Billie Eilish, Lizzo, and Lil Nas X but I was very upset because I felt that Ariana Grande was snubbed.  She had 5 nominations yet didn't win a single one. Because of this, I was very excited to see who would be nominated this year. There are a few artists I saw that I am rooting for to win.  One of them being Doja Cat. I feel like she has had such an amazing year. Song after song was a bop and every single one of her live performances were amazing and topped the last. I do feel like one artist was snubbed this year and that would be The Weeknd. I don't listen to him much, but I loved Blinding Lights and apparently, it broke some pretty big records. It has set a new record for "most weeks in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 and has now spent 40 weeks somewhere in the Top 10, a time that has included 4 non-consecutive weeks in the #1 spot. Right now, it sits at #7." I feel that he should've been put in the record of the year and song of the year category. But the academy has shown time and time again how corrupt they are.

     

    Anyways, my questions I'd like to ask you all... What do you think of the nomination list and who are you rooting for the most this year? Also what do you think about the Grammy's snubbing certain artists?

     

    Nomination List: https://www.grammy.com/grammys/news/2021-grammys-complete-nominees-list

  6. 2 minutes ago, Alexis said:

    Honestly what I learned most is how much easier school is now, it's crazy how easy most of the tasks are. Most of the times the only reason I even use brain power is cause all of my work is in Spanish now.

     

    YES lol, school is honestly just a walk in the park for me now, personally.

     

    I have pretty much just been playing video games, applying to colleges, and hanging out with my my closest friends when I can. 

     

    I may start trying to learn how to code soon. 

  7. 1. Spamming:

    Do not engage in any form of spamming e.g. mic-spamming, mass-tagging, repetitive messaging, etc.

     

    I don't know if it would exactly go under this category, but could we  add another example to the spam rule for emotes? Something that talks about potentially harmful emotes with bright lights that could be damaging to epileptic users. Some people tend to post these kind of emotes with flashing lights that move at high speeds that are even uncomfortable for regular users. 

     

    This could apply to images as well. 

  8. Your weekly dose of kpop you didn't know you needed.

     

     

    This is a new girl group from SM entertainment and they are better than some senior groups in my opinion. 😳

  9. I also would not like to see shoutbox go mainly because it would feel weird without it. It’s still used somewhat to help navigate players. If possible like some stated above, maybe we could add a close button menu where it hides the shoutbox for users who don’t want to see it?

     

     

  10. 5 minutes ago, Joshy said:

     

    Holy heck yes.  I've worked for one oceanography related place and there is so much unknowns there!  I've heard that we've explored more of space than our own ocean.  Very interesting perspective.

     

    I think the difference between intelligent life and life out there are two very different things.  I personally believe so far as intelligent life goes... I feel like the conditions for it is very difficult to achieve even if our universe was infinitely large.

     

     

    This is also something that fascinates me. I feel like there is so many things hiding in the bottom of the ocean that we have yet to discover. It's also why I like underwater movies so much and out of space ones.

  11. Coming from a person who has quite a few roles, I do not see a problem with it unless the intentions of the person applying for the positions are using the roles as a way to boost their ego or image in the community to seem above others or more important. Other things to look for is if they are collecting these roles and once they are in the position, they are very inactive or do not participate within their teams/divisions. These are all things that should be looked into before accepting someone who already has quite a few roles. GFL was the first community I've ever been too where there were so many cool positions/teams that I could join. I've never been in such a big community and so many of the positions here are things I am very much interested in both online and in real life. Personally there are still a lot of things I want to try out in this community cause I truly enjoy being here and helping out, especially since I do not have much to do, with me being in high school and being home most of the time due to COVID. In the end my answer would be that it should be based on a case by case basis. The persons behavior should be watched to see if they show any of these red flags that I have stated above.

     

    One last thing that I would like to add is, I don't like how some members seem to target specific people within the community who have a lot of roles. When you ask certain people why they are upset, their responses seems to never be because they don't do their job well or that they are inactive. It's just "too many roles is bad". I don't doubt that there have been some people in the past who have used the roles in a bad way, but I don't think the people here who are very good at what they do in this community should be targeted or harassed. 

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    The Event Coordination Team asked you to vote for the genre of GFL’s movie night on Monday. We have the results and are ready to move ahead with the next poll. The winning genre was Horror! Down below you can find a list of movies available to watch Friday night. This poll will be closed Friday morning at 11 AM EST. Make sure you vote and we hope to see you there! 😄 

     

    RULES


    - We ask that you do not suggest any movies that are overtly sexually explicit or graphic. 
    - Do not hate or look down upon others for their movie suggestions.
    - Please do not converse while the movie is in session. If you are seen breaking this rule, your talking privileges may be removed for the remainder of the event. 

    - The Movie Night event starts at 8 PM EST on Friday November 27th, try to be on time.
    - Grab some snacks and drinks and enjoy!

     

    If you see that the movie you voted for is not doing well, you can always come back to this thread and change your vote to your second favorite!

     

    Trailers: 

     

    Message me on Discord if you have any questions! Serenity#6471

     

    Join the discord: https://discord.gg/SZ8Tmxwqh9

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    GFL’s Event Coordination Team is planning a movie night for this Friday! To do that we need your input. What type of genre would you like to see? Since the event will be this Friday, you have two days to vote for your genre. Then based on the results, on Wednesday we will pick an assortment of movie titles for you to choose from. Be on the lookout for the final poll on Wednesday so your vote can be counted. The winning title will then be screened Friday, November 27th at 8:00 PM EST!


    Once you pick your genre of choice, if you have a movie of that genre you are dying to see, leave it down below and it may be considered! 

     

    RULES


    - We ask that you do not suggest any movies that are too sexually explicit or graphic. 
    - Do not hate or look down upon others for their movie suggestions.
    - Please do not converse while the movie is in session. If you are seen breaking this rule, your talking privileges may be removed for the remainder of the event. 
    - Grab some snacks and drinks and enjoy!

     

    Message me on Discord if you have any questions! Serenity#6471

     

    Join the discord: https://discord.gg/SZ8Tmxwqh9

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