09-21-2020, 10:19 AM
Thanks Martin, that's great.
Again, I'm not suggesting any of these solutions as a catchall for all SRS series or races, as part of the joy of SRS is that we have a low bar to entry, that encourages folk to join in, be active and enjoy the racing. My initial brain dump / thought on Discord was really to wonder whether it might be worth an experiment with one open wheel series, say a weekly or bi-weekly slot, and use some sort of additional filter for that series. Then see how it goes for a few months.
I love the fact we have a Discord channel to encourage community, discussion on racing etiquette, and reminding folk that we are all human drivers, and I think that does a lot to educate those that chose to engage, alongside the incident reporting and bans. However, there's a group that choose not to engage and some that continue the same style of driving even after a short ban. And there's only limited options available to us if we don't have live stewarding.
Also, I'm coming from a place where I did drive at a club for a couple of seasons a quarter century ago, and we had such a great sense of community there. We even went "on tour" together around the UK to race other amateur enthusiasts. I love the fact that we can recreate a portion of that community here in the sim racing world, and I'm trying to find a way to get more of that club feel in SRS, (which is still the broadest church for the sim racing community I think). I'd love to see it continue, but we've seen a lot of fracturing of this community over the last 12-18 months, so I'm hoping we can find a way to keep SRS relevant and attractive to that broad church.
I hope we can continue this discussion beyond my little poll, and perhaps redo it soon to include some more suggestions we get here in this thread.
Again, I'm not suggesting any of these solutions as a catchall for all SRS series or races, as part of the joy of SRS is that we have a low bar to entry, that encourages folk to join in, be active and enjoy the racing. My initial brain dump / thought on Discord was really to wonder whether it might be worth an experiment with one open wheel series, say a weekly or bi-weekly slot, and use some sort of additional filter for that series. Then see how it goes for a few months.
I love the fact we have a Discord channel to encourage community, discussion on racing etiquette, and reminding folk that we are all human drivers, and I think that does a lot to educate those that chose to engage, alongside the incident reporting and bans. However, there's a group that choose not to engage and some that continue the same style of driving even after a short ban. And there's only limited options available to us if we don't have live stewarding.
Also, I'm coming from a place where I did drive at a club for a couple of seasons a quarter century ago, and we had such a great sense of community there. We even went "on tour" together around the UK to race other amateur enthusiasts. I love the fact that we can recreate a portion of that community here in the sim racing world, and I'm trying to find a way to get more of that club feel in SRS, (which is still the broadest church for the sim racing community I think). I'd love to see it continue, but we've seen a lot of fracturing of this community over the last 12-18 months, so I'm hoping we can find a way to keep SRS relevant and attractive to that broad church.
I hope we can continue this discussion beyond my little poll, and perhaps redo it soon to include some more suggestions we get here in this thread.