Communication Options

13 Jul 2024

Last Updated: July 13, 2024

Discord

Discord is a gaming communication app that you can install on your phone or computer.

We will create our own Discord server, with 2 major channels. Teams will automatically subscribe into these channels:

1. Commissioner Announcements
2. General Chat

Announcements will be reserved for important messages that the league should know about. As an example, telling everyone the draft date would be sent in this channel. You must not mute this channel, even if you don’t want to talk with the group.

General chat is to provide everyone a general-purpose room. You can use this room for talking about anything, send memes, and throw out GIFs about your team. You can mute this channel if you don’t want to come home to 200 unread messages.

On this server, there will be several topical channels. People can choose to subscribe to these channels, but they are optional:

• “Trading Block” - Anything related to trading: sending out feelers, talking about how fair/unfair a trade is, etc.
• “Roster Moves” - All the Yahoo moves in one place. This is a convenience feature.
• “Polls” - Any survey we send out will have a duplicate poll in the channel. You can pick the one that’s easier to vote with.
• A channel per league rule - When a new rule is proposed, there will be a channel created for people to discuss about. These temporary channels will be deleted/archived when a rule is accepted/denied. This will prevent channel-ocalypse and being flooded with channels.

Email

E-mails are only going to be used for big topic items:

• Commissioner Announcements
• League Rules

Announcements will be reserved for important messages that the league should know about. As an example, telling everyone the draft date would be sent to a group email.

Every league rule will get a new e-mail thread. This will let people subscribe to rules they want to talk about. Voting on new rules will be sent in surveys from “Commissioner Announcement” e-mails.

Facebook Page

Meta/Facebook page will be used like a 1990s message board.

• Commissioner Announcements
• League Rule

Announcements will be reserved for important messages that the league should know about. As an example, telling everyone the draft date will be pinned on the Facebook page.

Every league rule will get an unique post to allow for conversations. Voting on new rules will be sent in surveys from “Commissioner Announcement” posts.

GroupMe

GroupMe  is a chatting app.

We will create a single GroupMe group with multiple topics.

• General – This will be used for general league conversations
• Commissioner Announcements – This will be reserved for important messages. This can be restricted to only the Commissioner sending announcements.

For every league rule, we will create a new GroupMe topic. You can choose to leave these topic threads if you don’t have anything to contribute to them. Voting on new rules will be sent in surveys. Once a league rule is submitted to a vote, the topic will be disbanded.

Messenger

Facebook messenger is a chatting app.

This is to supplement our current WhatsApp group. The WhatsApp group will be reserved for general league conversations.

We would use Messenger this way:

• 1 new Messenger group for commissioner announcements.
• 1 new Messenger group for each new rule

This keeps everything separated and lets your be subscribed to the groups you want. Commissioner announcements will be reserved for important messages that the league should know about. As an example, deciding on the draft date will be sent to this group.

Each new league rule will get a unique group to discuss about it. Voting on new rules will be sent in surveys. Once a league rule is submitted to a vote, the group will be disbanded.

Private Subreddit

Reddit is the Tumblr of the 2020s.

We will only invite the account you want. If you don’t want anyone to know about your Furry conventions, just make a new account.

We will have a private subreddit, using flairs & tags to help categorize posts based on what we’re talking about. Pinned posts will make sure that the most important things are at the top.

For posts, these will be the major flairs & tags:

1. Commissioner Announcements
2. League rules

Announcements will be reserved for important posts that the league should know about. As an example, telling everyone the draft date would use this flair. These will be pinned.

Posts tagged as “league rules” will be focused on talking about new rules. After the discussion has run its course, these posts will be locked to prevent people from having to keep up with everything.

Every other post in the subreddit will be what we want. Some ideas for flairs & tags are:

• Wanting to Trade – Post about trading, buy or sell.
• Memes – Meme content

Slack

Slack is a general chatting app that you can install on your phone or computer.

This will be exactly the same as “Discord”. Go read the “Discord” section.

WhatsApp

This is no different than how we’ve been communicating.

We will create multiple WhatsApp groups, each with their own purpose.

• Salt Lake City Shakers – This will be used for general league conversations
• Commissioner Announcements – This will be reserved for important messages. Although we can’t restrict who posts here, we have to mutually respect the rule.

For every league rule, we will create a new WhatsApp group. You can choose to leave these groups if you don’t have anything to contribute to them. Voting on new rules will be sent in surveys. Once a league rule is submitted to a vote, the group will be disbanded.