(07-21-2017, 09:39 AM)Travis McCoy Said: I personally have no issue with summary results unless it's a big match. I understand giving the promoers more but in the end a summary can do quite a bit.

I also mentioned it to Vinnie in a PM (thought this thread was closed for some reason) but I think it'd be a good idea to A. Give people credit for their matches they write, not sure if it's in the shows but a written by: would be nice.

The flip side though if someone doesn't send a match it should be known who. If that person wants to apologize and explain themselves to all of us then cool. But not sending matches effects all of us. People not promoing effects who ever is in the match and there is way more shame on that currently.

I want to speak to the second sentence here by Travis. I get where he is coming from and maybe that is something Vinnie might consider however as a former GM I want to urge some caution there.

I used to keep match writers a secret because if for some reason someone took issue with how their match was written I did not want that being thrown at the match writer. They are doing the staff and the fed as a whole a favor by helping out and writing matches. The last thing I'd want is for them to have to hear negativity. Justified or otherwise. Now there were times when people would blatantly say they wrote such and such a match and so be it, that is on them but I personally would be hesitant to put that information out there.

I think a fair compromise would be a list of thank yous at the end of shows. At least then the person who helped with the show gets some recognition without it being publicized what part they helped with. It also allows the rest of the fed to see which members are going above and beyond on behalf of the fed. Or maybe a badge can go under/above their avatar like we did/do for those who donate. Something that lets others know how awesome you are for match writing.

To that end, again as a former GM, putting shows together is hard, it is extremely time consuming and honestly, painful to do without the help of the rest of the roster. It might not seem like much but it is. As Vinnie said, there is a lot of work that goes into being a GM that doesn't show up on the boards.

This fed/community is only as good as those who are part of it and if you want the XWF to continue to be a great place then it would be most helpful if those of you who have the time and can step up and write some matches so that the GM's done have to do them all because as you've seen when that happens, shows are days late. And no one wants that.