As of August 7th, 2006

[Asuka Was Here]

So I figure it's been awhile since I made one of these lovely admin posts regarding the happenings of these forums of mine, which, though it could be attributed to my slackign in the performance of my admin-ly duties, is mostly just because there's been nothing to say.

Mind you, there's still not much to say, I just decided it had gone on long enough. -.-'

So, I will proceed to post all sorts of boring forum statistics which may make me want to cry, followed by some pleas for things and finally, the interesting stuff that you might actually care about.

But, on with the boring!

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FORUM STATS
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Current Total Boards: 18
Current Total Threads: 220
Current Total Posts: 3,521
Current Total Members: 72
...of which some are duplicate accounts and many are inactive
Current Total ACTIVE Members (as deemed by me): 8

Top 5 Most Popular Boards:
1. Drastic [s-CRY-ed Board]: 1,704 posts and 46 threads
2. CHLOROX [Bleach Board]: 465 posts and 46 threads
3. Random Babble [the Spam Board]: 339 posts and 13 threads
4. Artwork [the... Artwork Board... duh...]: 223 posts and 24 threads
5. Anime [Board for all anime which lacks its own board]: 168 posts and 15 threads

Longest Thread: s-CRY-ed Time ^_^ ! Started by me, with 458 posts and 2,606 views, in Drastic

Current Mascot: Aoi (I want to change that, though...)

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DESPERATE PLEAS
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1. PLEASE RECRUIT MORE (*cough*ACTIVE*cough*) MEMBERS! I do like the small-community, tight-knit feel here, but at this point we're so small that losing one member would kill all conversation for a week. We do really encourage you to get your close friends to join, to maintain the close-knit thing, but anyone with similar interests will do. Really. We like new friends.

2. Well... I don't know what else. I'm sure if I thought long and hard I could come up with another plea, but it wouldn't be so reasonable.

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THE INTERESTING STUFF YOU MIGHT ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT
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1. To encourage activity levels, I'm holding a kiriban-esque contest - whoever reaches 600 posts frist (aside from me, obviously), please send me a PM (I can tell your post count on my own) and I'll take a small art request* from you ^^ However, if you're caught making stupid three-word posts or double posting to up your count, you'll be disqualified. And don't think I won't know; I know everything that goes on here, sillies (well, it's not terribly hard to keep track of, yknow?)

*Winner's request limited to a one-character, no background (or solid color/ random sparkly bg, just no massive architectural/ landscape feats of pencilwork), full-color piece, inked or pencil-lined, anime/fantasy thing. Can be a character from a series, your own, totally random, mythical or human, animal (although I can't draw canine/feline bodies, I'll warn you now -.-') or sentient being, or whatever else as long as I think I can draw it.


2. I'm thinking of getting rid of the Roleplay and Trivia boards, due to a simple lack of activity. Poor cannon is all alone on the RP scene and Trivia has never seen any real use whatsoever. Anyone have objections? Or would you all support/be indifferent to it?

3. Does anyone think I should make this sort of post more often? Or do you all generally not care?




Well, that's about it. If anything, I have learned from this that I can make a whole lot of nothing take up a lot of space.
Now I am tired, and going to bed soon. -.- z... z... z...
^ph34r my e-snoozing

[compilingautumn]

we have video games and dungeons and dragons type of games for role playing, and trivia.. umm yeah.. off with both of their heads.

[Autumn]

I can recruit!
Woe is meh, I'd have to go berserk to get 600 posts
*looks at pitiful post count*
It all sounds good
Yay

[Asuka Was Here]

compilingautumn said:

we have video games and dungeons and dragons type of games for role playing, and trivia.. umm yeah.. off with both of their heads.

That's sorta what I figured... I'll see what everyone else says, tho'.

autumn said:

I can recruit!
Woe is meh, I'd have to go berserk to get 600 posts
*looks at pitiful post count*
It all sounds good
Yay

Yay, indeed! Recruiting makes me happy
And you'd be surprised how quickly posts accumulate when you get deep into conversations ^^ Critique on art posts and random babble are both other good post-builders (although you have to watch out with RB, it's a fine line between "relevant" spam and the kind that's not allowed for the count contest.
'Course, I'd prefer the real conversations, but it's all up to you. If this is a hit, we may have other contests in the future with similar prizes, so even if you don't win, there'll be other chances

[Sathira]

I can recruit once school year hits, I'll get people from school to join so that should help if they do.

Umm yea I need to haunt this place more, I keep forgetting about it ><

[Asuka Was Here]

Coolness ^^

Haunting les forumses is fun, I tells you! Plus... I dunno.

How was camping??

[Vulpes]

I love how you worded your agreement that the Roleplay and Trivia boards should go, Billy. That was awesome.
And the fact that Random Babble is #3. Bwahahahaha! But, with this group of people, what do you expect? Sanity? If so, you're sadly in the wrong place. We like our randomness, it keeps us out of the pysch. wards. We don't like those places, they smell funny.
As for the C.T.O.I.D. (Camping Trip Of Impending Doom), it went well. We had fun. There is more info to be found on our LJs if you want more that what I've told you.

[Asuka Was Here]

It is a sad fact when a board's third most popular board is a board of spam -.-' so shaddup

[Sathira]

Haha.. oh man the camping trip totaly pwned... we must do that again sometimes ^-^

[Asuka Was Here]

Glad to know you enjoyed it ^^ And that Kettletown wasn't totally scummy; I was araid it would be like it was when I was a kid.

[Sathira]

Na it was really nice

[Asuka Was Here]

Cool. Glad to know they cleaned the place up. Last time I was there it was... bad, to say the least. As in, green scum all over the water, dead fish on the beach, trash all over the trails dirty.

[Vulpes]

No scum in the water, though there was a lot of seaweed. It kept floating by, so I'd pick it up and throw it toward the other people there (they never noticed), so it could bother them. No dead fish or trash, either.