Taylor Johnson - Vice President

[SlimKlim]

It took me at least a year before I felt very comfortable talking on here. I feel like I had to push my way in.

I'm curious as to what made you feel that way? Are we intimidating?

So I took a look at the Campus Events forum section. From 2009-2011 about 25 campus event threads were posted. We also used facebook at that time to reach out to members and let them know, but we usually just dropped the link in there and sent them back to the forums to get the finer details. From 2011 to 2015 about the same number of threads were posted in that section. So my question, to no one in particular, is the forum drying up because it's old clunky technology the current students don't like, or have we just had four years of officers who don't like it, and therefore aren't encouraging the current students to use the forum by using it themselves?

Look, y'all got a bunch of bored, nerdy, rich alumni checking this forum a dozen times a day. In some cases probably trembling in their office chairs in the hope that someone will break a Honda or BMW and ask for help figuring it out. We want to be involved with you guys. We want to get to know you and your cars. If you own a car, chances are one of us has owned it already, already broken the shit you just broke, remembers exactly how to fix it, and probably even has the weird tool you need to borrow for the job.

However, 99% of us are very far from Harrisonburg and we're going to see you at most two or three times during the year. We don't get an opportunity to put a face to the name if they aren't using the forum. If students are engaged on the forum, making project threads, and getting to know us, then events like Turducken won't look like a middle school dance where Alumni and Current Students are the boys & girls.

EDIT: I don't think the Chat is something that needs to be gotten rid of, I just think it shouldn't be used in place of the forums when planning or discussing an event. I'm not saying that it even has been, I wouldn't know.