Friendly Chat (or other appropriate name)
Board for us all to talk about family, ourselves, our jobs, etc.
Lost Friends
Threads dedicated for posters who are gone. J.R. and JohnL have been on my mind lately, along with people like David Emery, Squishy, Deej, Fearless Freep, and others.
Although it is a well intentioned and likeable idea, it may not wash as a public forum.
The forum has certainly grown both in its scope and in the number of active members, both of which are good for the site and forum. However, with its growth comes a certain loss of tight knit community.
Overall, this is not a bad thing. With us old farts who had been on here for quite some time, the board was slowing to a crawl and needed some new life breathed into it.
The downside is I would not feel comfortable talking about my personal tragedy the way I did, nor do I think it is a place that JohnL could have talked about his tragedy. A high percentage of the members of this board are wonderful people, but there are just a handful that I would not want to have know the things I have shared with the old regulars (and I do mean old
).
It would be great to have a friendly lounge where some of us could table talk about the things in our lives, but about the only way to do that with a sense of security is to have a private board specifically for that, and I wouldn't think that it would be an easy nor desirable position deciding who gets in and who doesn't. The idea of a separate but private forum does not set well with me anyway.
The idea alone of a section for chat about friends, family, and old board members would be great for the board as a whole, but how much does that differ from the off-topic section and would there be enough interest to justify it?
If you do have a friendly chat board on the forum, I would ask that you dedicate it to JohnL so that we will be reminded always what it is for, and in the hope that he is okay and some day will return.
Yeah, kind of a mixed dialogue there. I don't believe that a new board could be a place for sharing like we used to have, but I, like the rest of us, sure hope it could.
Along the lines of what LilCerberus and
Scott* mentioned, a board could be added that would be a place for memebrs to tryout their stories, novels, scripts, or other creations. In order to protect the authors, it would have to be bot restricted. So long as the author includes their name (real name) along with their work, for all intent and purpose it is considered their copyrighted property.
*It's an old and not particularly funny joke as to why I put
Scott's name in bold font. On the old Phorum script, the moderators' names would always be in bold, even in the heading of a thread or post they started. Someone had made a comment about how neat it was that
Scott could get his username to show in bold letters, so I just started always putting his name in bold letters when I mentioned his name in a post (uhhh...not like I picked on him or anything...ahem
). Just in case anybody was wondering.
Missing member update: I saw Deej on the board a few days ago. His username was in the active members list. I PM'ed him, but got no reply.
Just a few inane rants; carry on.
