What do you want to see more of?

What do you want to see more of on the forum?

  • Free to enter photo competitions

    Votes: 23 48.9%

  • Fundraising (pay to enter) photo competitions

    Votes: 14 29.8%

  • Other competitions that don't involve photos

    Votes: 14 29.8%

  • Online forum events - e.g. party nights with chat threads and games

    Votes: 19 40.4%

  • Offline forum events - e.g. forum meets

    Votes: 12 25.5%

  • More "how to" guides - e.g. daily care

    Votes: 14 29.8%

  • "How to" videos

    Votes: 27 57.4%

  • Fundraising raffles/auctions

    Votes: 19 40.4%

  • Other: (please give all ideas below)

    Votes: 1 2.1%
  • Total voters
    47
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We are looking at ways that we can help people get the most out of their time on this forum. We will always have a spate of people joining the forum in an emergency to access our health and illness section and we want to make sure time is spent keeping the spirit of the forum going to support our longer term members as well as encouraging new members to be more involved and stick around.

I have added a poll to this post which will remain live until Sunday 6th October so you don't have to answer immediately or you can vote now and also come back later with other suggestions as well. We want to know what you guys like/don't like and what you want to see as without you guys there would be no forum. There's no such thing as a silly idea here (though we might have to draw the line at flying you all on holiday :))) so please, new member or old, feel free to share your opinions.

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I'm neither new or old, can I still vote

Just kidding, I have had my vote 👍

I would like to see the Guinea pig forum YouTube channel to have more how to videos, it will be moving with the times. Nothing wrong with all the written how to guides at all. But copying someone doing syringe feeding can be easier than reading and then trying to follow the instructions, also it could be faster in an emergency. Just to note again, no disrespect to the time and effort gone into the guides at all. They have saved my past pigs before
 
6th of September, huh? Nearly a whole years worth of votes!

Ahem. Sorry, I'll see myself out :coat:

Anyway. I miss quite a bit of the offline forum stuff because that part of the forum isn't on my mental checklist to look at daily. It probably should be but old habits die hard. It'd be nice to be able to find it more easily? I don't know exactly how you're supposed to make it easier to find, though, it's not like it's hard to find in the first place >.>
 
Lorcan said:
6th of September, huh? Nearly a whole years worth of votes!

Ahem. Sorry, I'll see myself out :coat:

Anyway. I miss quite a bit of the offline forum stuff because that part of the forum isn't on my mental checklist to look at daily. It probably should be but old habits die hard. It'd be nice to be able to find it more easily? I don't know exactly how you're supposed to make it easier to find, though, it's not like it's hard to find in the first place >.>
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Auction off some car stickers to slap in your rear window. Get the name out there, and before you know it, another year's bills paid for the forum. Well.... Maybe
 
Lorcan said:
6th of September, huh? Nearly a whole years worth of votes!

Ahem. Sorry, I'll see myself out :coat:

Anyway. I miss quite a bit of the offline forum stuff because that part of the forum isn't on my mental checklist to look at daily. It probably should be but old habits die hard. It'd be nice to be able to find it more easily? I don't know exactly how you're supposed to make it easier to find, though, it's not like it's hard to find in the first place >.>
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I'll put that down to baby brain though it's nice to have SB correct my mistakes rather than the other way round for a change :))
 
I'd like to see more updates from the rescues the forum supports, I know all the rescue star hoomans are very busy but I think it prompts us all to donate a bit more when we see those adorable little piggy faces and hear about their sad backgrounds and happy futures... maybe we need a "rescue news correspondant" to contact the rescues for updates when they don't have time to do it themselves?
 
SkyPipDotBernie said:
I'm neither new or old, can I still vote

Just kidding, I have had my vote 👍

I would like to see the Guinea pig forum YouTube channel to have more how to videos, it will be moving with the times. Nothing wrong with all the written how to guides at all. But copying someone doing syringe feeding can be easier than reading and then trying to follow the instructions, also it could be faster in an emergency. Just to note again, no disrespect to the time and effort gone into the guides at all. They have saved my past pigs before
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There's. YouTube channel?
 
I've a idea. Get a group of you who have the ability and do live streams of feeding and perhaps other things. Like health checks and nail trims. Interactions so on.

Then set up one of them petrons things for donations
 
It would be great if we had an official youtube channel members could post to, I sometimes want to post videos (I have really perfected the art of catching piggies in a basket for cage clean time, obviously I'm not as skilled as the awesome video @Wiebke posted once where she caught like 20 piggies in 5 minutes... but I can catch 6 pigs in 3 minutes with my new capture basket!) but I dont really want to create my own youtube account or channel and attract weirdos, I'd just like to share one or two things like that in a fairly safe space where the forum tech gurus take care of the security features...
 
It would be nice to have a official Discord where members can go to for instant chatting and being to post pictures instantly ect.

But that's just me.
 
Skullblits said:
It would be nice to have a official Discord where members can go to for instant chatting and being to post pictures instantly ect.

But that's just me.
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We do appreciate the benefits of other platforms. The problem with this is the forum would not survive as people would go for the instant gratification and we would end up becoming unsustainable
 
Lady Kelly said:
We do appreciate the benefits of other platforms. The problem with this is the forum would not survive as people would go for the instant gratification and we would end up becoming unsustainable
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Not to mention the difficulty in moderation. How do you deal with someone posting dangerous info? How do you deal with the spammers in the middle of the night? How do you ensure people see good information, and not leave after someone posting dangerous info and then blaming the forum as a whole when things go wrong?

Edit: Wait, moderation or moderating?
 
Lorcan said:
Not to mention the difficulty in moderation. How do you deal with someone posting dangerous info? How do you deal with the spammers in the middle of the night? How do you ensure people see good information, and not leave after someone posting dangerous info and then blaming the forum as a whole when things go wrong?

Edit: Wait, moderation or moderating?
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That's actually extremely easy. You can delete the silly messages. Or ban them.

You can make sections for specific topics.

And seeing how it would probably be people on this forum who are mostly init. It wouldn't be much different.

Also I can set the entire thing up if the idea gets popular
 
Discoed or any type or any instant chat is not happening i’m afraid. It would be a nightmare to police but above all it would take traffic away from the forum board. But thanks for the suggestion.
Traffic dies, content dies, forum dies. Very simple equation unfortunately.
 
SkyPipDotBernie said:
I think there should be guinea pig forum car stickers. Auctioned off on here to make money for the forum and help advertise it. But there is the risk of making a loss
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That’s a nice idea but we aren’t thinking of fundraising ideas just things to improve and make the forum busier with people.
 
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