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There might be a few of you who remember This poll from awhile ago. Well I have finally done more upgrades on SimBox and have a motherboard from this decade which means I also have an RGB header. That means we aren’t limited to the mediocre built in colours of these fans, oh no, I can do any colour I want! Now they aren’t aRGB fans so the entire ring has to be the same colour (so no rainbow option) but I do have a lot more fine control than I had before. So therefore I leave it to you, VHL community, to choose my fan colour! I’ve added the same colour options to the poll as last time but also included an “other” option if you want to go for something else, just specify it and if you want to vote for that same colour just like the specified post. Make sense? I will leave this for around a week and then go with whatever is chosen.

They are just doing things that don’t require updater approval so it’s quicker. 1 to 6 is only a 5 TPE increase so welfare and then trivia would give 5 instantly. That welfare would also limit the amount you can earn in a week though so someone doing a PT and having to wait for it to be approved would still wind up with more in the end, it would just take a bit longer.

Hello @Members! It's that time of the season again, theme week! Everyone’s favourite week to complain about the theme while making sure they get that sweet extra TPE because it’s all that matters Of course, that also means that the Trade Deadline is Monday, November 27th at 3pm EST. This also means that anyone wishing to re-create for the S93 draft can do so starting at midnight that same day. --- Trade deadlines are boring though, you wanna know about theme week don’t you? The theme for S91 is: Sometimes you just gotta lean into the fire right? @Zetterberg made this a hit button topic in recent weeks so why not make it the whole theme? Make them some recruitment graphics or videos; give them suggestions in a media spot or podcast; he’ll praise the work that they already do. As long as it relates to recruitment you’re good to go To earn your Theme Week TPE, write an article, create a graphic, or record a podcast with some connection to “recruitmentp”. --- In order to claim the theme week bonus of 6 Uncapped TPE, simply submit your Themed PT (Graphic, Media Spot, or 6-TPE Podcast), and claim it as normal. After claiming the PT portion, you can use the same link, and claim the uncapped portion as follows: Claim Uncapped > Other > Doubles Week. (Note: you do not need to post your link in this thread to claim either portion of TPE). If you have already submitted a Point Task for this week, or are in the midst of claiming a multi-week Media Spot/Podcast, you may still submit a Theme Week PT this week, and claim the capped portion on the next available week, following your multi-week claim. And no, posting something last week that happens to reward to the theme this week doesn’t grant you the theme week bonus. Also, if you have a single job that pays 6+, you may claim the theme week bonus as long as you complete your duties for the week. If you are in the EFL or SBA and have completed their most recent Media Week, you may use that to claim the Uncapped theme week bonus, but a PT must be completed this week in order to claim the Capped portion, whether that is completed here or through Affiliate Welfare. Note: Only players who are S92 or older may claim the theme week bonus. @VHL GM @VHLE GM @VHLM GM

I was editing a comedy sketch this week that was meant to kinda emulate a cheesy government PSA with just slow zooms on photos right. To really emphasize the ridiculousness we decided to just AI generate the photos so I did that, got the 1024x1024 ones, and then ran them through photoshop to AI enlarge them. It worked surprisingly, and kinda terrifyingly, well. So this was for "smoking kills" and this was for "don't eat ketchup chips on a white couch" Like it's obvious they are AI and there's definitely some weirdness to clean up (his hand and the clock especially) but they didn't take long to make at all and it was a cool proof of concept for the kind of stuff you can make if a bit of uncanny valley is fine.

Hey if simmers have to do it Also just to mention it to quell some of the GFX questions in here: Yeah if you use AI to generate like an image of a player instead of finding an NHL player image or something that's fine so one as you put the regular amount of work in after. At that point you're just using a "fake" image instead of a real one which is fine in my books. You will just need to have proof of the original image and what you did in case an updater asks which they might with how obvious some AI ends up looking.

We have run them before. You can really pinpoint demographics which is nice but we spent hundreds and got exactly 0 registered members from it so it didn’t really seem worth the investment.

The thing even with that one is it got us a huge spike in registered users but a relatively tiny spike in active users. Like I think we retained 5 people out of 300 or something. The content of the ad matters a lot and since the content isn’t usually super clear when we are focussing on those franchise mode type of audiences we get users thinking the league is either a GM league or some type of EASHL thing or something of the sort. They don’t understand quite what they are signing up for. I would honestly, even for the same price, take an add that gets us half the registrations if it means that the read or the audience is better and we can retain twice as much. The bump in users matters a lot less than the bump in people that stick around.

As @samx pointed out YouTube is kinda a return on investment problem. It’s always been a bit of an expensive gamble that costs more than anything else for the site and brings in hundreds that get dwindled down to a half dozen so the return was never great but it was present and we were willing to do it. Problem is that a lot of the ad reads (which also usually fail to adequately represent the league) have over doubled in price so that return, that was already small, has gotten proportionally smaller essentially. I have voiced an opinion that I wonder if we should push into a space that ISN’T hockey dominated videos, into other gaming and media content, but I don’t know if it’s been explored and found to be super expensive or what. In theory it makes more sense to stick with NHL content since you know you’re getting hockey nerds BUT if that’s our only market it’s a small one and viewers tend to think they are getting something they aren’t. That’s why I want to lean on the “gaming” side of it more than the hockey side and see what happens but again, maybe it has been looked at and was just far too expensive to be reasonable. I know we approve any ad amount before we send off the go ahead and I haven’t seen any proposals for non-hockey channels but that could easily just be “yeah they want like 5x our normal amount so we didn’t even mention it.” TLDR this time: YouTube is expensive as hell and doesn’t usually work to do much but flood the market with members that will be inactive in 2 weeks. Sometimes that flood is worth the price, sometimes it’s not.

Obviously things in here got a bit off the rails after this but just to be clear: that’s not up to us. The recruitment team I know would LOVE to use Reddit again, it was by far our biggest recruitment tool back in the day and brought people in by the hundreds. Unfortunately a member of another community decided to basically shutter that method for every league (except somehow the SHL, they have friends in high places) by saying we violated the Reddit TOS so the subreddit mods for the most part don’t let ads get posted anymore. We also had a former member decide to run unsanctioned ads for their league that basically mimicked us completely (IYKYK) and some mods have essentially black listed us because they equate his [failed for obvious reasons] league with ours. So yeah, TLDR, Reddit is essentially out the window. We try every once in awhile, or we were anyway I can’t confirm if we still are, to rekindle old relationships there but haven’t made any major headway.

@v.2 Will officially be joining our staff as head of Point tasks. Thank you to everyone who applied.

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Welcome to the VHL, Windows! We're happy to have you. You should have received a PM with some more detailed information, but to get started quickly you will want to head over to the "How to Create a Player" topic. That topic will offer you detailed information about how to use the VHL Portal to create your player and get you started. We also highly recommend joining the VHL Discord where there is a channel dedicated to helping new members with any questions that they may have about the league or improving their player. Once your player is made VHLM General Managers will be in touch with you about joining their teams. In the meantime, please feel free to ask any questions you have here or in your create-a-player thread. We're happy to have you in the community and we hope you stick around!

FWIW I would like to have the position have a bit more authority to put forth thoughts on them when warranted. The mods have enough on their plates.

We’re more than fine with a current updated taking the job in addition to keeping their updating duties, it doesn’t necessarily need to be an “outside hire” so to speak.

It's been so long since @DollarAndADream took the job that I don't think I've ever even had to write a job posting for this one but alas, he has stepped down and it's not a job that's needed every day but important when it comes up. The Head of PT position basically works alongside the Updaters and RGB teams to make sure PT's are running smoothly. This means mostly handling complaints about plagiarism and lack of effort being put into things but also judging whether certain things count as league related and that sort of thing. They are given a lot of freedom to make decisions for themselves without really needing the oversight of the staff in most cases. Pay for the job is 2 TPE/week. If you are interested in the opening, please post in this thread. Please do not contact the Commissioners outside of this thread, we will reach out to the chosen candidate privately. ***Please refrain from making comments regarding any candidates and their "worthiness" of being hired for this job, positive or negative. Any comment that is not an application will be removed to maintain a clean list of actual candidates, and (I hate that this actually needs to be said, but...) any member bashing will not be tolerated.***

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Welcome to the VHL, JartY! We're happy to have you. You should have received a PM with some more detailed information, but to get started quickly you will want to head over to the "How to Create a Player" topic. That topic will offer you detailed information about how to use the VHL Portal to create your player and get you started. We also highly recommend joining the VHL Discord where there is a channel dedicated to helping new members with any questions that they may have about the league or improving their player. Once your player is made VHLM General Managers will be in touch with you about joining their teams. In the meantime, please feel free to ask any questions you have here or in your create-a-player thread. We're happy to have you in the community and we hope you stick around!

Welcome to the VHL, Dunzapp! We're happy to have you. You should have received a PM with some more detailed information, but to get started quickly you will want to head over to the "How to Create a Player" topic. That topic will offer you detailed information about how to use the VHL Portal to create your player and get you started. We also highly recommend joining the VHL Discord where there is a channel dedicated to helping new members with any questions that they may have about the league or improving their player. Once your player is made VHLM General Managers will be in touch with you about joining their teams. In the meantime, please feel free to ask any questions you have here or in your create-a-player thread. We're happy to have you in the community and we hope you stick around!

Welcome to the VHL, Maxx! We're happy to have you. You should have received a PM with some more detailed information, but to get started quickly you will want to head over to the "How to Create a Player" topic. That topic will offer you detailed information about how to use the VHL Portal to create your player and get you started. We also highly recommend joining the VHL Discord where there is a channel dedicated to helping new members with any questions that they may have about the league or improving their player. Once your player is made VHLM General Managers will be in touch with you about joining their teams. In the meantime, please feel free to ask any questions you have here or in your create-a-player thread. We're happy to have you in the community and we hope you stick around!

Double sim today, I'm away from my computer tomorrow night and didn't seem worth it to pass things off to @N0HBDY for a single sim. I'll resume sims on Sunday.

G - Matt Murdock F - The Frenchman @Zetterberg