SOCIAL MEDIA TO DO LIST

Discuss badge standards for all of Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter.
***** Facebook:

In order to obtain Social Media Contributor for Facebook contributions, a user must write approximately any of: 8 Pokemon of the Week or Throwback Thursday posts OR 16 "full length" posts, OR 24 interactive posts, OR some combination thereof.

- "Pokemon of the Week" posts are multi-paragraph (generally 3-5) analyses of Pokemon of various tiers. These posts can be written about a Pokemon from any of Smogon's official tiers (Ubers, OU, UU, RU, NU, LC, and Doubles OU) as well as the current VGC season. They are posted every Sunday.
- "Throwback Thursday" posts are multi-paragraph (generally 2-5) analyses of Pokemon of various past generations. These posts can be written about a Pokemon from any of Smogon's official past generation tiers (RBY, GSC, ADV, DPP, and BW). They are posted every Thursday.
- "Full length" posts are generally in the 1-3 paragraph range, with significant content and reader participation included. Weekly Pokemon giveaway posts hosted through Facebook are included within this criteria.
- "Interactive" posts are posts with the goal of engaging the Facebook page's audience, garnering replies, Likes, and shares simply by the use of art by a Smogon artist, a competitive Pokemon-related question, and so on. These are generally one-liners and serve no other purpose but to fill gaps in content and keep the audience engaged.
- Users without a badge are eligible for Pre-Contributor at 4 PotW or Throwback Thursday posts, 8 "full length" posts, or 12 "interactive" posts, or a combination thereof.

The above requirements are flexible and can be reduced if the quality is exemplary.

Quality is an important factor when it comes to issuing this badge. The qualifying posts must be free of most grammatical and factual errors, requiring little editing from the Social Media staff. Roughly 6 months of contribution is required to be eligible for Social Media Alumnus upon resignation.

***** Twitter:

The standards need to be revamped completely. Side accounts no longer exist, so the issuing of the badge has to be based on a criterion comprised of both TweetDeck (tweeting straight to the account) and other methods of contribution (through PM or the forum section, if SS allows for the recreation of it).

The activity based component should remain. 6 weeks of "constant activity" on TweetDeck or 6 weeks of regularly supplying Tweet concepts might suffice. Alternately, a minimum tweet threshold for the latter can be established.

***** Youtube/Twitch:

Stratos brought up something about soc media badge in regards to yt/twitch in that earning it for commentaries takes like half the time as it does for making videos, which is odd considering the variance in content. told him to wait and i'd bring it up w/ you since i can't make those changes myself


***** I would like to bring back the public Smogon Social Media forum.

- it would give us a location to announce both planned live streams and currently on-going live streams;
- it would give unbadged users a location to actively contribute to all of Facebook, Twitter, Twitch, and Youtube, take the threads that are in Inside Scoop right now that ask for people to write interactive questions, creative and engaging tweets, and new videos - it would keep it all in one place that appeals to both badgeholders AND users that are interested in contributing to social media for the first time;
- Youtube video uploads have NO on-site publicity whatsoever, only the Twitter followers get any wind that they were uploaded, but in this forum section new uploads can be embedded in a post and watched right on the forum;

What would be different this time:
- the contribution threads definitely should not be closed at any point, whatever people have to say or write is valuable;
- thread moderation so people aren't posting random... shit;
- the above leads to having a specific thread for each media outlet that allows for general, broad feedback, suggestions, etc. and then additional threads for more specific concepts (Trainer Tips for Facebook, or a thread for organizing live stream commentators for high level tournament matches)

mock-up of how i imagine the main threads to be laid out http://prntscr.com/9b4adt

nice n clean