Hi all!
Contribution. As you know, or maybe you start to know now, it is by the contribution to the site activity that you become a member of the CVRIA. So getting the citizenship, the CVRIA membership, is a recognition to your efforts. This way you participate in the activity of the Capitol fórums reserved for the citizens, CVRIA fórum and SYMPOSIUM.
For sure some may not agree with what I think but for me the activity here is focused in the debate of the constitution matters, some office elections, new members applications and then some random (or weird) posting within which I include mine.
So basically you become member of a group that develops an activity very different from the one that makes you part of the group. It is not necessarilly bad, many people enjoy the actual state of things, and that is good. But it is obvious that if you developed the contribution with so hard effort it is because you like it, so it is natural that you expect that once you are part of the group this activity is reinforced within it in a higher level. But this is not happening in some important fields of contribution like modding. I have posted in the cvria comentary thread a very initial idea about how this could be changed. I propose to créate an Artifex club, a Writers club, a Humour club. I am a modder so I am more interested on the first group, and also the names of the thing is very provisional. I wonder if anyone else share these ideas, not excatly the same ones but similar ones, or may have other interesting ideas.
About the clubs. Each of them would not be a closed field for artifex, writters and so, any CVRIA member could participate even to show the contribution of no members, to créate new contribution, propose colaboration and maybe develop it within the clubs by several projects.
One idea I have been thinking about is an Artifex club gallery, where artifex can use personal posts to show the artwork related to their mods. The artwork made by them and the one made by other members of the site, so this would also be a prize and a reward to non citizens work and would open an oportunity for them to be apreciated and, if they want to, become citizens themselves. The gallery would have an index by game, then by alhpabetic order of mod or modders. Maybe because of this there could be two galleries, one for mods and one for modders. The index would provide link to the posts.
Sir Adrian thinks these club threads should be opened in the SYMPSIUM. This is a solution. There may be others. I think they would require some local moderation powers to work with the posts, merging them, their links and so.
Ok, this is a very initial idea, of course give your opinion and your own ideas.