NAYRT but this almost perfectly describes my experience in Arcane:
my flight's dom is like, 99% discord based, barely anything on forums. all of the pings are 'we'll be pushing on those dates and this is the theme': non-discord folds don't get asked about the theme nor the dates and just get the final decisions. much fun /s
We did get a google form to fill out to vote on push dates, but theme discussions and event planning are discord-only. It definitely feels like non-discord-users are seen as less valuable, or like we have less to contribute. :/
Similar in Shadow too. We get pings to the forms to vote on push dates, and there's a little box to fill in with theme IDEAS at the end. As for actually choosing and deciding on the themes though? I have to assume that's all done on discord because I never see any follow up to that. The only reason I know what the festival theme is, is because someone asked on the forum thinking it might be too early to choose a theme, and they got a 4 word reply as it was already chosen.
We also have a push for Lunar NY that's in collab with Plague coming up! Wish I knew that was happening, but it's not on our push calendar. It's not on Dom Watch either for either flight. Was this a last minute thing? Is it supposed to be kept secret? WHO KNOWS!! We got a ping for event planning but that thread is empty so I assume everything is happening on discord. I'd be far more interested in actually helping out with pushes aside from just exalting on my own if the forums actually had some form of life.
Fellow arcanite and yup...that is 100% the first thing I thought when I read that post. I'm in the discord, so I do see some of the dom discussion, but to be quite honest? It's difficult to get involved in the convo if you're not already an "established name," I've noticed. I've given up trying to talk in the dom channels because people will just reply to the posts before and after me, but largely ignore me and other less chatty folks.
I'll probably never leave Arcane for the aesthetics, but man do I wish dom were more interesting
It's my experience (in a completely different flight) that event planning generally happens in DMs/PMs between a couple individuals that find each other and want to collaborate on an event together. Sometimes even without communication if it's something chill that 1 person can handle and they just decide to do it. There's little to no event planning happening in the flight dom discord channels at any given moment.
If you want to run and event and need people to help out with it you should defs just go ahead and make a forum thread for it! I see it happen pretty commonly when someone wants to run an event that needs multiple people helping.
I'm sorry you don't get asked to vote on push themes. Our orgs post google polls on FR to vote on themes for major pushes, and for random little profit pushes they just pull from all the suggestions they got in previous polls.
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Re: Fire flight again
(Anonymous) 2025-01-07 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)We did get a google form to fill out to vote on push dates, but theme discussions and event planning are discord-only. It definitely feels like non-discord-users are seen as less valuable, or like we have less to contribute. :/
Re: Fire flight again
(Anonymous) 2025-01-07 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)We also have a push for Lunar NY that's in collab with Plague coming up! Wish I knew that was happening, but it's not on our push calendar. It's not on Dom Watch either for either flight. Was this a last minute thing? Is it supposed to be kept secret? WHO KNOWS!! We got a ping for event planning but that thread is empty so I assume everything is happening on discord. I'd be far more interested in actually helping out with pushes aside from just exalting on my own if the forums actually had some form of life.
Re: Fire flight again
(Anonymous) 2025-01-07 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)Re: Fire flight again
(Anonymous) 2025-01-08 12:58 am (UTC)(link)I'll probably never leave Arcane for the aesthetics, but man do I wish dom were more interesting
Re: Fire flight again
(Anonymous) 2025-01-08 04:08 am (UTC)(link)If you want to run and event and need people to help out with it you should defs just go ahead and make a forum thread for it! I see it happen pretty commonly when someone wants to run an event that needs multiple people helping.
I'm sorry you don't get asked to vote on push themes. Our orgs post google polls on FR to vote on themes for major pushes, and for random little profit pushes they just pull from all the suggestions they got in previous polls.