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MClovers · #141 Feb. 28, 2021 03:38:37

sti_scratch wrote:

Hey, you're the guy who helped me shape ShopBux.

78ch3 · #142 Feb. 28, 2021 11:55:47

Austinato wrote:

scratchieguy12345678 wrote:
Username: scratchieguy12345678
Shop name: The Tangerine Shop
What are you offering?: Ads in The Tangerine Shop
Describe in detail: Shops can advertise themselves in The Tangerine Shop
Any specific requirements?: Nope
Any other info?: None
Congratulations, your shop's application has been accepted! Although there may be a delay with having your shop added to the official member list, your shop is officially a member of the USS starting now! Feel free to share any questions/comments!

78ch3, here is a link to the shop for easy access.

That's not a shop application, it's a perk thingy

Sorry I couldn’t get on earlier, I’ve been busy. Can someone quote all the shop applications that I haven’t added yet?

Last edited by 78ch3 (Feb. 28, 2021 11:56:31)

RSriram2010 · #143 March 2, 2021 14:20:34

Could you update the Cloud Blue shop description to say:

We provide almost all your needs, in good speeds - that's Cloud Blue.

Also, we now have 7 employees(including me, the owner) and 6 excluding me.

Last edited by RSriram2010 (March 3, 2021 13:33:14)

Sciencemangoes · #144 March 2, 2021 14:26:58

Username: Sciencemangoes
Shop name: The Imagination Shop
Shop banner (link only): https://u.cubeupload.com/KokichiUchiha/Sciencemangoes.png
Shop Description: We offer fantastic feats of creativity
Staff members: 2 including me
Shop link: https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/489791/
Other info: None

Austinato · #145 March 3, 2021 00:34:04

RSriram2010 wrote:
Application for Rainforest Sunshine
Shop Description: We currently provide help with scripts and other questions you may have about the Scratch website. We also do BBCode, scripts, banners, profile pictures, thumbnails/logos, ideas, reviews, voice acting, and writing! However, soon, we will provide image hosting and sounds. We will also launch a Shop Directory eventually.
Shop link: https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/489291/
Other info: This is a side shop from Cloud Blue.

Your shop's application is on hold, for two reasons.

Firstly, I couldn't find any topic for “Rainforest Sunshine.” I do acknowledge that it's a “side shop from Cloud Blue,” but some quick research didn't yield any results. Can you provide me a different link to the shop if it's still up?

Secondly, I would like to ask the other application reviewers if we accept subsidiaries of existing shops that are already in the USS. I don't necessarily see any problem with it, but if any others do, I'd like them to say something now.

MClovers wrote:

Austinato wrote:
Attention staff (specifically application reviewers), I have created a new post with some helpful copy-and-paste content if you want to use it for reviewing applications! You can access it here .
Do I have permission to review applications?

This question made me realize that we don't have explanations for each roles' positions in a single post. However, as 84375 said, you do have permission to review applications, and I feel like every staff member does.

Here's my interpretation of the staff positions. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong:

Owner : Obviously controls the USS and is able to edit some crucial things for this thread (its OP and title.)
President : Second in command with mostly the same powers as the Owner, albeit they cannot edit the thread's title and OP.
Head Moderator : Leads the moderator team and is able to review applications and such.
Secretary : Conducts activity checks. Also oversees partnerships and advertising. ( source - MClovers )
Moderator : “The moderator position keeps things on topic, has votes on accepting new staff, bump things and accept shops.” ( source - 78ch3 )

I notice that 78ch3's description for the moderator position says that moderators have “votes on accepting new staff.” Should we vote for accepting new shops? Also, this means that all staff can accept shop applications, which comes in handy for future reference.
—–

78ch3 wrote:
That's not a shop application, it's a perk thingy

Oops. I knew it looked a bit different.

78ch3 wrote:
Sorry I couldn’t get on earlier, I’ve been busy. Can someone quote all the shop applications that I haven’t added yet?

I can help make a list soon.

Sciencemangoes wrote:
Application for The Imagination Shop

Congratulations, your shop's application has been accepted! Although there may be a delay with having your shop added to the official member list, your shop is officially a member of the USS starting now! Feel free to share any questions/comments!

I notice the thread for your shop was just created yesterday. Hopefully we can help you with growing your shop!
—–
I might start a shop… my first shop since the early days of the USS…

Edit: Here's a link to “Austinato's Art Market”, open from 2017 to 2018.

Last edited by Austinato (March 3, 2021 00:56:44)

Ihatr · #146 March 3, 2021 00:39:42

offtopic but I love how austinato's posts take up half the page haha

84375 · #147 March 3, 2021 00:48:26

Ihatr wrote:
offtopic but I love how austinato's posts take up half the page haha

xD it makes them look official, ig

or somethn like that…

Last edited by 84375 (March 3, 2021 00:48:51)

Austinato · #148 March 3, 2021 00:51:50

Shops that have been accepted but not added to the members list (with links that lead to their applications):

These applications go back to page 4. Also 10 total! Again, thanks to everyone for joining the USS!

84375 also hasn't been added to the staff list yet, and there's a request (updated link!) to update Cloud Blue's description/population count.

This list took a little while to compile, lol. The two posts before this one were posted while I was making this list.

Update (Mar. 3): New update for Cloud Blue

Last edited by Austinato (March 3, 2021 19:31:20)

Austinato · #149 March 3, 2021 00:53:05

84375 wrote:

Ihatr wrote:
offtopic but I love how austinato's posts take up half the page haha

xD it makes them look official, ig

or somethn like that…

It's rather unintentional.

Also, wow, I just handled quite a bit of stuff for the USS within my last three posts. Woohoo!

Last edited by Austinato (March 3, 2021 00:53:39)

MClovers · #150 March 3, 2021 02:42:44

Austinato wrote:
Shops that have been accepted but not added to the members list (with links that lead to their applications):

The Night Wolf

Ihatr's Images

Milky's Image Hosting Service

Bumpy Banners

Hunter's Voice Acting Shop

The Winter Shop

The Tangerine Shop

The Intro Maker Shop

Rainbow Sunshine (PENDING)

The Imagination Shop

These applications go back to page 4. Also 10 total! Again, thanks to everyone for joining the USS!

84375 also hasn't been added to the staff list yet, and there's a request to update Cloud Blue's description/population count.

This list took a little while to compile, lol. The two posts before this one were posted while I was making this list.

pls add soon we gonna get yelled at by the shops

scratchieguy12345678 · #151 March 3, 2021 02:45:48

MClovers wrote:
pls add soon we gonna get yelled at by the shops

As a shop owner, I can in fact confirm that I will yell at you if you don't add it.

MClovers · #152 March 3, 2021 02:47:35

pain.

84375 · #153 March 3, 2021 02:49:30

MClovers wrote:

pain.

Aw.

Austinato · #154 March 3, 2021 03:18:19

84375 wrote:

MClovers wrote:

pain.

Aw.

USS canon spoilers below (select the weird gap after this text)
i'm actually preparing to open a shop soon :D

MClovers · #155 March 3, 2021 04:05:07

Austinato wrote:

84375 wrote:

MClovers wrote:

pain.

Aw.
USS canon spoilers below (select the weird gap after this text)
i'm actually preparing to open a shop soon :D

you better have an opening post like: ok guys the shops back from its break

78ch3 · #156 March 3, 2021 05:14:46

Austinato wrote:

RSriram2010 wrote:
Application for Rainforest Sunshine
Shop Description: We currently provide help with scripts and other questions you may have about the Scratch website. We also do BBCode, scripts, banners, profile pictures, thumbnails/logos, ideas, reviews, voice acting, and writing! However, soon, we will provide image hosting and sounds. We will also launch a Shop Directory eventually.
Shop link: https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/489291/
Other info: This is a side shop from Cloud Blue.
Your shop's application is on hold, for two reasons.

Firstly, I couldn't find any topic for “Rainforest Sunshine.” I do acknowledge that it's a “side shop from Cloud Blue,” but some quick research didn't yield any results. Can you provide me a different link to the shop if it's still up?

Secondly, I would like to ask the other application reviewers if we accept subsidiaries of existing shops that are already in the USS. I don't necessarily see any problem with it, but if any others do, I'd like them to say something now.

I guess I could accept them as a subsidiary, but just add the link underneath their shop.

Austinato wrote:
Shops that have been accepted but not added to the members list (with links that lead to their applications):

The Night Wolf

Ihatr's Images

Milky's Image Hosting Service

Bumpy Banners

Hunter's Voice Acting Shop

The Winter Shop

The Tangerine Shop

The Intro Maker Shop

Rainbow Sunshine (PENDING)

The Imagination Shop

These applications go back to page 4. Also 10 total! Again, thanks to everyone for joining the USS!

This list took a little while to compile, lol. The two posts before this one were posted while I was making this list.

Oh, there's more than 10.
I will add the shops every so often, and not in any particular order. It might take a few weeks to get up to date.

Edit: my device shows an error when I try to access the OP, and refuses to show it. It's not a one off either.
Would like to thank school for making it harder to get onto this stuff earlier.

Last edited by 78ch3 (March 3, 2021 05:17:19)

RSriram2010 · #157 March 3, 2021 13:31:07

Austinato wrote:

RSriram2010 wrote:
Application for Rainforest Sunshine
Shop Description: We currently provide help with scripts and other questions you may have about the Scratch website. We also do BBCode, scripts, banners, profile pictures, thumbnails/logos, ideas, reviews, voice acting, and writing! However, soon, we will provide image hosting and sounds. We will also launch a Shop Directory eventually.
Shop link: https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/489291/
Other info: This is a side shop from Cloud Blue.
Your shop's application is on hold, for two reasons.

Firstly, I couldn't find any topic for “Rainforest Sunshine.” I do acknowledge that it's a “side shop from Cloud Blue,” but some quick research didn't yield any results. Can you provide me a different link to the shop if it's still up?

Secondly, I would like to ask the other application reviewers if we accept subsidiaries of existing shops that are already in the USS. I don't necessarily see any problem with it, but if any others do, I'd like them to say something now.

Yeah, I shut the shop because of increasing orders at Cloud Blue and not enough orders at Rainforest Sunshine. You may remove it from the Pending list.
Edit: Also, could you update the Cloud Blue shop description to say:

We provide almost all your needs, in good speeds - that's Cloud Blue.

Also , we now have 8 employees(including me, the owner) and 7 excluding me.

Last edited by RSriram2010 (March 3, 2021 14:00:24)

Albraa60 · #158 March 3, 2021 13:43:23

Username: Albraa60
Shop name:The Night wolf
What are you offering?: ADS page
Describe in detail: We can put your shop link
+ Animated Banners (optional) in our ADS page
Any specific requirements?: Shop Link , 100+ Views
5+ Staff
Any other info?: Nah

Austinato · #159 March 3, 2021 19:26:39

MClovers wrote:
you better have an opening post like: ok guys the shops back from its break

Great idea!

78ch3 wrote:
I guess I could accept them as a subsidiary, but just add the link underneath their shop.

I suppose this has already been dealt with!

78ch3 wrote:
Oh, there's more than 10.

There is? I think that should be all of the “missing shops.” When I compiled that list, I went back and noticed that the last added shop was Warm & Cozi Aesthetics and worked down the pages from there. Maybe there might be a few (perhaps on previous pages) that slipped by; I can double check.

Edit: All “missing shops” seem to be included in the list I made.

78ch3 wrote:
I will add the shops every so often, and not in any particular order.

With all due respect, is there any reason why you can't add all of the “missing shops” at once? If you're a bit too busy, I can help by compiling the BBCode that you can simply paste into the members list whenever you're on.

Also, is there a particular reason why you don't add them in order of approval/admission into the USS? I think by doing it that way it's quite easy to keep track where we left off with adding shops to the list.

78ch3 wrote:
It might take a few weeks to get up to date.

Although I understand you may be busy, I fear that repeated delays in this process might create a significant backlog of entries to the list, which might become a bit stressful to sort out. Regardless, I'll try to help you out, and we can temporarily restrict entry (i.e. pausing applications) if necessary.

78ch3 wrote:
Edit: my device shows an error when I try to access the OP, and refuses to show it. It's not a one off either.
Would like to thank school for making it harder to get onto this stuff earlier.

Yikes!

RSriram2010 wrote:
Yeah, I shut the shop because of increasing orders at Cloud Blue and not enough orders at Rainforest Sunshine. You may remove it from the Pending list.
Edit: Also, could you update the Cloud Blue shop description to say:

We provide almost all your needs, in good speeds - that's Cloud Blue.
Also , we now have 8 employees(including me, the owner) and 7 excluding me.

Thanks for letting us know. I'll link your most recent update post to the list I compiled for 78ch3 yesterday.

Albraa60 wrote:
Username: Albraa60
Shop name:The Night wolf
What are you offering?: ADS page
Describe in detail: We can put your shop link
+ Animated Banners (optional) in our ADS page
Any specific requirements?: Shop Link , 100+ Views
5+ Staff
Any other info?: Nah

I am fairly sure that this post marks the third time that we have accepted this shop's application. Your shop is part of this federation, even if it's not listed in the members list yet. Hopefully we'll get that sorted out soon.

Last edited by Austinato (March 3, 2021 19:57:14)

Austinato · #160 March 3, 2021 20:32:44

Here goes another long post!
I've noticed that it's been a while since we last discussed perks for shops in the USS. Here I am to revive the discussion.

Here is a recap of what has been discussed and potentially even agreed upon:

To begin with, the OP already reads, “The USS offers shop assistance in endorsement, order completion, marketing/promotion, and representation.” The next few bullet points are dedicated to reviewing each of those supposed perks for shops.
For endorsement, that likely currently refers to the fact that shops are included in an official list that is regularly maintained by USS leadership. We have discussed expanding what “endorsement by the USS” would mean, but more on that later.
We will keep the inter-shop order completion system, even if it goes underused.
As for marketing/promotion, we've discussed creating some sort of directory. Out of all of these, this received the most discussion about (and I feel might have to go into our first vote under new leadership.) Currently, there is my suggestion of creating some sort of seal for the best of our shops to receive, whereas MClovers proposed a more friendlier model in which someone ranks each shop's services and we use that info to create a (possibly continuously-changing) directory. andyman11 indicated strong disapproval of these ideas. Interestingly, RSriram2010 indicated that their shop might begin working on a Shop Directory sometime soon, according to a since-withdrawn shop subsidiary application . Another thing to consider is the fact that it is one of the Secretary's duties to oversee advertising . While I'm not sure how advertising would work, it would be interesting to hear p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-'s opinion on this (since a shop directory might constitute as advertising.) It's also at least partially agreed upon that expanding the use of our member list into some sort of shop directory can be something we can explore as a federation ( link to the post itself / MClover's approval .) Although I already know this bullet point has gotten lengthy, we may have settled on creating some sort of shop directory divided into categories without any ranking. This suggestion was some sort of settlement with andyman11 .
It seems to have been unanimously decided that somehow the following phrase could be incorporated into the OP or any texts that explains the benefits of having a shop join the USS: “By becoming a member of our federation, we can guarantee that your opinions and feedback are heard.”
The USS also provides consultation and advice for shop owners.
Moving onward out of what has been explicitly outlined in the OP, MClovers suggested that we start a (perhaps weekly) newsletter. Within that newsletter could be a summary of what has happened in the USS for the last week (or month, or whatever interval we do this in), recent shop additions, and perhaps even a promotion for another shop's services. At its current standing , it seems this newsletter would be sent out to each shop's topic if they opted into receiving this newsletter.
The suggestion of bumping topics for shops themselves was brought up by YeahImaHunter, but we seem to agree that is a bit of overreach on the USS's part. Instead, the newsletter (if the shop opts into it) can serve as a weekly bump at most. Anything beyond that is each shop's responsibility.
We can encourage shops to follow the #SimplifyShops campaign by Ihatr.

(The last post regarding this discussion was on February 23.)

During these discussions, it has also been brought up that we can likely withdraw any mentions that the USS is partially open or “under construction” at this moment. We seem to have things sorted out, excluding the current delay with adding shops to the members list.

Also, p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-, may you please consider doing an activity check sometime soon? I'd like to try to keep this as close to the beginning of each month as possible (as we agreed upon previously.) It may not help that the members list isn't complete, so here's a list of “ghost/missing shops” that are part of the federation but not included in the official list.

78ch3's current inability to frequently update the OP and certain posts may bear some sort of obstacle to getting these things done, but I believe we can still work on agreeing upon these suggestions and consolidating them once 78ch3 is able to do so again.

Edit: If it wasn't clear, I'm asking everyone…
Do you agree with these suggestions? Do you suggest any changes?
Also, perhaps less importantly…
Should the suggestions for the fourth bullet point go into a vote at some point?
We'll probably be able to answer that later depending on reception on the current suggestions.

I might also make some sort of easier representation of the three suggestions in bullet four at some point, but not right now.

Last edited by Austinato (March 3, 2021 20:41:36)

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