Will you be decorating your website or forum for Easter?

[Shortie]

Easter is a lot closer than I thought and with that comes possible decorating of our forums and websites.

I like to add a little something to my forums and websites for Easter as I feel it is a nice touch but I know some people prefer to not decorate.

Do you decorate your forum or website for Easter? What do you usually add?

 

[Nomad]

If I had organic activities on my forums, I would have definitely done this. It is cool to give your site makeover for various events it you have a lot of users.

 

[Kennysplash]

Every user is delighted when they are reminded of special days on any forum they visit. Not just Easter but every holiday.

 

[Arantor]

Every user is delighted when they are reminded of special days on any forum they visit. Not just Easter but every holiday.

No, they’re really not. To me decorating a forum in a religious holiday’s trappings when I’m not a follower of that religion is questionable.

Would you have the same reaction if a forum were to decorate itself for Diwali? Tu B’Shvat? Eid ul-Fitr? Hanukkah?

 

[Kennysplash]

No, they’re really not. To me decorating a forum in a religious holiday’s trappings when I’m not a follower of that religion is questionable.

Would you have the same reaction if a forum were to decorate itself for Diwali? Tu B’Shvat? Eid ul-Fitr? Hanukkah?

I beg to differ. There are hundreds if not thousands of holidays all over the world, one cannot be a follower of them all. But the fact that I don’t observe such holidays does not mean I frown at them, or feel inconvenient.

For instance when I see a a forum having Christmas decorations (I don’t celebrate Christmas), I don’t feel any different. It’s your holiday, enjoy.
Same thing I’ll do when I enter a mall and I’m surrounded with such decorations.

 

[Arantor]

Sure, but that’s a far cry from “every user feels delighted”.

 

[joelr]

In the real world (and we do live in the real world), your community targets a certain audience. And that audience probably overlaps to a certain degree. And as long as you stay mainstream in context to your audience for things like holidays, you should be fine.

Also, for Easter, I think it's important that there's a wide range of what you can do. You can do:

• Fluffy cute bunnies and colorful eggs, or
• Blood-soaked Jesus and sins of humanity

One of these choices is socially harmless in probably any context. The other is more divisive.

 

[Dismal_Bliss]

Nope. I think it's cheesy

 

[Ravenfreak]

Nope I'm not religious for one thing so I don't really celebrate the holiday, but I usually only decorate forums here and there for major Holidays like Christmas.

 

[Tracy]

Personally.. no. I don't "change' anything to reflect holidays or such.
In fact, I will usually quit visiting any of my "constant" sites that do so until that holiday is over... I really don't want to see "floating hearts/unicorns/farts" when I visit.

 

[Jay™]

I firmly believe that everyone has their own opinion, and for me, there's nothing better than visiting websites that celebrate holidays.

 

[Ja sa bong]

It depends on what you're forum is all about and also the level of activities you're having daily. If there isn't much interactive sessions in your community, it's a waste of time and resources to decorate for this because who are you even doing it for - ghosts?