'I don't understand what is so hard about copy and paste its pretty simple.'


It may be simple for some, I have been sticking plastic together since I was eight years old and have reached the top of the tree with all the awards I have collected over the years. I didn't touch my first computer until I was in my 40's. Like I said I wasn't the only one complaining and another person of high standing on here told me it took them over 12 months to work it out. Please dont take for granted that everybody are pc wizzkids. Anyhow, thanks for the link, I must try harder.

Rob

I too am guilty of pulling out of campaigns or not completing in time. In my opinion campaigns seem to be doing two positive things:

Encouraging people to post WIP photos and share thoughts about each others builds in an even-more-friendly-than-usual environment, as everyone is building with a common theme

Encouraging people to build outside their usual genre- I don't think I would have ventured into WWI without the motivation of a campaign.

I don't think either of these positives depend on a rigid administration requiring galleries to be created, sign-up procedures, approval, etc.

I think a less formal group-build blog could be opened by leaders (after they have informally checked that there is enough demand to make it rewarding for contributors) in the appropriate forum in the existing structure (Early/WW2/ColdWar, etc). There wouldn't have to be a fixed start/end point unless the users wanted one. Then when the people taking part decide the group build is over, the leader can write up the group build as a feature article.

I think Features get a lot more attention and comment from the casual visitors to the site than the galleries, which are hard to navigate and a not easy to find. Time-period-spanning group builds could either use the Campaign forum, or a new general group build forum (just for those that cannot be contained in the other forums).

This could either run alongside campaigns as they are now, or replace them.

The ribbons do add a reward attribute to the campaigns which would be missing for the above scheme, unless the group leaders could be given power to award ribbons- I guess this could be done in such a way that is as simple as possible for Staff_Jim to implement, and still be simple for the group leader- e.g. a form which has just a few fields- group build name, ribbon upload, names of users to receive it, link to feature for the group build.

This less formal structure wouldn't allow users to see a list of group builds they are signed up to (as there would be no formal signing up), and some group builds would fall apart without rigid restrictions, and maybe have other downsides that I cannot think of, but it would reduce administrator workload to zero.

Is there such a way to see that now? I started a spreadsheet for myself, but sometimes I'm paranoid that I'm missing one!
...And as for the topic of this thread, "I'm with you fellers". I'll play by whatever rules you set. (although I agree voting could lead to lots of Battle of Britain and not enough of anything else )
thanks,
Sean.

To see the campaigns you a signed up for, log in, and click on the Campaigns tab.

Next to the campaigns you are signed up for, their will be a little face icon (reminiscent of a classic Mac OS 'User' icon).

Right just to clarify its not an admin problem for us we have got a system sorted The suggestions only came about after several posts stating there was too many campaigns. As everyone is happy with how it is going at the moment we will leave the campaigns running as they currently are.

So carry on with suggestions for campiagns as you were doing the same format as currently, thanks for the comments etc from you all. This also means approving campaigns will be ongoing with no limiting of them.

I am now locking this thread