LBPC community and creator spotlights.

[OmegaSlayer]

Cartman, we know about your stuff.
What most of us want to say is simple.
"Don't be shy or hesitate to ask for help"
There's nothing bad in it.
It feels good to give sometimes and not only take and ask

[Ryhas]

The excuse is that the people are bogged down, yadiyadiyadda... but if the people who are doing it can't keep up, then they aren't up to it and they should ask for more help. They haven't once asked for help since this whole drought began, and maybe that's cause pretty much everyone who was on the spotlight abandoned it altogether. However, then it should be up to CC/ site staff to reorganize it, but again, CC seems too busy to do the slightest thing on LBPC (community wise, not the odd server problem that pops up- that's all he ever seems to be able to do nowadays >_<). So, in conclusion, basically if the people who are currently doing stuff aren't able to do it alone, THEN ASK FOR HELP. This goes for site staff (particulary CC >_<) as well as the subject of this thread.

... sorry, I'm just getting really ticked off that CC and the staff seem to not be doing anything and aren't even trying to ask for help.

They've asked for help, and CC has been helpful in suggesting methods to finish all the levels. I too would prefer we provide another public forum for 'hiring,' and we definitely need more help, but there is a lot going behind the scenes concerning the issue.

[v0rtex•]

I would recommend a community poll regarding the backlog. Personally I feel those hidden gems are the best part of the spotlight.

This.

Perhaps, but we'd have to ensure the options are realistic, and continuing to play 'catchup' on the backlog with the current size of the crew is not, nor is recruiting, I'd guess, about 100 people to get through it in the next couple of weeks.

Well, perhaps I misunderstood midnight_heist's suggestion, but this was going to be my suggestion:

1. Restart the Spotlight at a point after the huge backlog / surge (perhaps April 1 - or even just two weeks ago... but restart it and let the crew get back to their regular grind).
2. Then put the backlog levels into a community poll, or some web-based voting application, and give it to the community (there's a LOT of them, so this part could be tricky).
3. Let them (the LBPC community) take a month to vote (all the while reminding them that we need their help, and to get out there and vote).
4. When the month is up, take the top 25 voted levels, and have the Spotlight crew review them and write up comments.
5. Publish those results a special All-Community-Spotlight edition of the spotlight, and move on.

I think it could work.

[Stoicrow]

To address the huge mass of levels to be assessed by the Community Spotlight team, stricter criteria will need to be adopted to determine which levels are candidates for spotlighting. For example, there could be a certain cutoff yay/boo ratio, or maybe the levels can't be Mm picks, or perhaps the levels can only be ones recommended by LBPC members.

[Bremnen]

Well, my offer still stands.

I'm here, willing to help and go through every one of those levels for you.

1000 levels would be no problem for me. (If psn was up of course..)

[KQuinn94Z]

I feel I would love to go back into the spotlight, but I am in a similar predicament to cartman (Just without the mono, and the pressure of being admin). I'd say take the offer from many of those in the hiring thread, as long as they meet the quality.
I think Bremnen and smasher would be awesome.

[Maxi]

So I believe everyone has founded on an agreement.
There! smiles everyone.

[Arnald23]

Hey everyone remember that there is going to be another level thread bang because of this PSN downtime. Think about it around 4000 levels are publish a day and how many do you think are going to be posted as a level thread. Also the fact that people haven't played online for 2 weeks (almost 2 weeks) they got levels ready to publish just imagine 12 times the normal levels publish a day.

Including myself I have a level ready to publish because I got bored and made it in 1 week.

[Holguin86]

Wow, LBPC has really changed in the few months since I've been visiting regularly. I know what I'm about to say has probably been said a lot already in this thread, but as an old member of the spotlight crew I wanted to say something in this thread, and to speak as someone who has worked and gained experience from a team project such as this, whether it helps or not.

As a previous member of the Community Spotlight Crew, I can tell you that it requires dedication, patience and lots of time (to the extent that on occasions it impinged on RL). Unfortunately I couldn't maintain these commitments, which is why I left. If I left at the wrong time I apologise, but I did make my departure known to the crew. I can say, however, that the offers of help and the willingness of the community to get this project running again is really nice to hear.

I haven't visited the spotlight crew's forum for a while, let alone read through what has been posted in my absence. But I would say that the backlog is probably the single biggest dampener on the team's spirits. If I'm perfectly honest, that backlog is the thing that has scared me off revisiting the spotlight crew's forum to see how they're getting on. If we can decide on a fair, quick and efficient way of dealing with the backlog, and quickly, that will solve a large portion of the crew's dilemma, I would think. As for the current influx of levels (around 80-100 per fortnight), these could be managed effectively with an active crew of 8 or 9 people, of which many more have applied in the submission thread. Now is the time, while PSN is down and no new levels are being submitted, that newbies should be inducted and trained.

Obviously, orchestrating this induction and restructure of the crew will take effort, which I am sorry to say I can't offer at the moment, not least because I don't have the power to grant anyone permission to see the spotlight dev forum. I have as much responsibility as I am comfortable with (which might be a bit too much to trust me with ) with the wiki. Those of you who have offered to help - thank you so much, and I hope that you can find some way to get into the community spotlight dev forum, where threads written by us show you how to use our database, how to format the fortnightly posts, and accepted procedure which we have followed for a while. Reading these will pretty much turn you into a spotlighter in themselves, and equip you with all the tools to keep track on the relentless conveyor belt of levels that will come through your doors every fortnight.

So basically, I'm sorry that the community spotlight has been gone so long - thank you to those prepared to step up to the plate and pull this thing together.

[fireblitz95•]

I know how it is CC I missed 3 weeks of school before, and high school is already hard enough. Well anyways take your time dude, I know I as a member of LBPC will help hold down the fort until you get back

[smasher]

Wow, LBPC has really changed in the few months since I've been visiting regularly. I know what I'm about to say has probably been said a lot already in this thread, but as an old member of the spotlight crew I wanted to say something in this thread, and to speak as someone who has worked and gained experience from a team project such as this, whether it helps or not.

As a previous member of the Community Spotlight Crew, I can tell you that it requires dedication, patience and lots of time (to the extent that on occasions it impinged on RL). Unfortunately I couldn't maintain these commitments, which is why I left. If I left at the wrong time I apologise, but I did make my departure known to the crew. I can say, however, that the offers of help and the willingness of the community to get this project running again is really nice to hear.

I haven't visited the spotlight crew's forum for a while, let alone read through what has been posted in my absence. But I would say that the backlog is probably the single biggest dampener on the team's spirits. If I'm perfectly honest, that backlog is the thing that has scared me off revisiting the spotlight crew's forum to see how they're getting on. If we can decide on a fair, quick and efficient way of dealing with the backlog, and quickly, that will solve a large portion of the crew's dilemma, I would think. As for the current influx of levels (around 80-100 per fortnight), these could be managed effectively with an active crew of 8 or 9 people, of which many more have applied in the submission thread. Now is the time, while PSN is down and no new levels are being submitted, that newbies should be inducted and trained.

Obviously, orchestrating this induction and restructure of the crew will take effort, which I am sorry to say I can't offer at the moment, not least because I don't have the power to grant anyone permission to see the spotlight dev forum. I have as much responsibility as I am comfortable with (which might be a bit too much to trust me with ) with the wiki. Those of you who have offered to help - thank you so much, and I hope that you can find some way to get into the community spotlight dev forum, where threads written by us show you how to use our database, how to format the fortnightly posts, and accepted procedure which we have followed for a while. Reading these will pretty much turn you into a spotlighter in themselves, and equip you with all the tools to keep track on the relentless conveyor belt of levels that will come through your doors every fortnight.

So basically, I'm sorry that the community spotlight has been gone so long - thank you to those prepared to step up to the plate and pull this thing together.

Thanks for that!

I volunteered for the spotlight, and my offer still stands. I would gladly take on the commitment to help get the spotlight back on track.

LBPC doesn't feel the same without it.

[Holguin86]

Check this out please.