Update on Clubs!
Hello, everyone!
After some discussion, we’ve decided to tweak the way clubs will be monitored and run. This post will have important information about clubs, so please read if you have a character in a club or are planning to do so! This will get wordy, so it’ll be under a read more for your sake!
Currently, a club is only listed once someone submits it. After that, a character could apply through the one who submitted the club. The club leader could then submit newsletters/updates/events via the school blog and would regulate it’s members. However, this is going to be altered!
Rather than a club only being listed if someone submits it, the school blogs will now list clubs and members. This way, if someone wants to become part of a club that isn’t listed but doesn’t want to run the club itself, they won’t have to! Clubs will be listed and you may send in an ask to the mod blog to have your character placed in a specific club, without having to submit a leadership role.
We will only be listing generic clubs to begin with (sports, arts, etc.) but if there is a club that is not listed and that you would like to become apart of, you may send in an ask requesting the club to be listed. It will be added and you’re free to become a member, just as stated before.
Now, we still really enjoy the idea of the clubs being more member ran, and we know that’s favored. A club can’t go without updates or events, right?
So, if a person chooses to do so, they will now be able to apply for the role of club president of any listed club. There will be multiple criteria when applying for this position:
Must be part of the club, and not in any other
Must have a general knowledge of the club and how it works (whether they go to competitions, what kind of events they run, etc)
Must be an active member
Must already have a page set up on the character's blog with the given form (it will be located on the clubs page) filled out
Similar to how we have it now, the club president will be able to submit newsletters and updates to the blog, and run mini-events for the club. Club members will apply to clubs through the school blog, even if there is a club president. Presidents are not required to list members, since they will now be listed on the school blog. Further details will be listed on the clubs guidelines page.
In the case of clubs/teams where there are members who go to professional matches: the president must be willing to list these roles, when applicable. This is more so for anything that has competitions, such as sports and musical clubs. This is where a knowledge of the club is needed and comes into play. This is aimed more towards characters who wish to take whatever they’re doing to a professional level. For example, the president, or captain, of a sports club could regulate who the regular members are (given said members want the position!).
These updates will all be added to the clubs page as soon as possible, and we’ll update you all on when the changes are made (they will be done tonight)!
We hope this all makes sense and is the favorable choice. This is done because we want to have clubs available, even if there hasn’t been someone to submit it as the president, since not everyone is up for the role. It means that any given club may not have events, but that’s better than not having a club at all! It also solves the issue if a club president were to drop or become inactive.
For anyone running a club currently, you will be automatically listed as a president. If you would like to step down from this role and have your character as a member, please let us know!
As usual, if you have any questions at all, do not hesitate to ask. Another post will be put up later when the schools blogs have been officially updated!
ß-mod