New site local.

[Cygnus X-1]

Zorak has some ideas about making the place a little less stagnant and it involves an address change. I'll let him elaborate, but I'll put it up to poll in a few days. This is for people's opinons on the matter.

Proposition.

[Juan]

Well, as you might notice MSPB lately has been rather quite frankly dead. We have the core members, you all that are reading this right now, and that's it. A total of eight or so people who actually come to the board. We have numerous members who have shown interest in the past and been very active but that's it.

Part of the issue as I see it is that the site has been stagnate. No one comes in, nothing changes. It's just a endless drall of just nothing. Sure there are of course hillarious moments and it's still the site we used to love, it's just that nothing happens. Stagnacy is the death of a forum, eventual or otherwise. While of course we're getting on with our lives (as it were), that doesn't mean that the site has to die. Many of us are still on the internet alot, and just because we're less animu (some of the member base anyway) doesn't mean we have to forsake the site and it's namesake central feature (the Bar).

The first part of my hypothetical revitalization is a site change. Proboards is really shitty to use, and its bad format just is annoying. Compare it to a professional or private forum and you can see the difference. While this isn't that big of a deal to you guys, a change wouldn't be bad. Changes in general are good for the site since change isn't stagnacy. As Lowtax put it, you've got to keep moving like in Gauntlet. (Wizard needs food badly)

Second, InvisionFree is a self-supplying community. I admin another board on Invisionfree (an anime-highschool, not your guy's type of thing generally), and it's unusual in that members consistantly come. I think it's partially to do with the site's active member base moving it high in the statistics in general and the fact that people tell people about it, but invisionfree has a large group of people who actually seek boards through it. MSPB wants to support it's core members of course, but to avoid stagnacy there has to be SOME influx, how minimal. There is none happening here, partially because we have abandoned much of our earlier efforts.

In addition, despite how silly as it sounds, moving to another board gives us "an excuse" to contact all our "lost" members, be it by messenger or by board mass-email, and tell them about the change. A change means "oh hey let's check it out again", which is never bad.

In addition, it may be in out interest to move away from the whole "Anime" orientation of our board. A good majority of our board has in fact quit watching Anime period, or never really watched it at all. I'm not saying we should move away from the site name or say the Haro icons; that's tradition. Abolishing some of our site sections and combining others, subdividing some and making the board into a more relaxed thing could be better for the site in terms of our ideal member base. Something along the lines of other laid back humor forums (you know the ones, I'm sure you can connotate some thoughts in your mind.) While these features can of course be done as this site, like I said, change is change. We shouldn't try hiding the site's past, we should just shrug and keep with the future. And again, change is good. Mmm change.

There are other plusses but I can't recall them offhand right now, I had the idea last night.

[Ai]

If I ever find out who you are and where you live, Zorak, and if you happen to actually be a girl, I'm going to make sweet, sweet love to you

[Juan]

Is there anyone actually with issues with this? How many core members do we even have honestly anymore?

Edit:


Ai
C8
Cyg
Cyrus
Draco
Ellis
Evilmac
Goji
Libra
Manae
Otaku
Viper
Wag
Xtermo
Zorak

Blue = OK'd

Posted in this bar. Guess it was more then I thought. I've got 1501 posts now, hooray.

[Craze]

You forgot Xtermo.

[Juan]

He posted in this bar? Must have missed his username.

[Kensai]

Zorak said:

Is there anyone actually with issues with this? How many core members do we even have honestly anymore?

Edit:

C8
Ai
Ellis
Draco
Cyrus
Cyg
Viper
Wag
Goji
Otaku
Evilmac
Libra
Manae
Zorak

Posted in this bar. Guess it was more then I thought. I've got 1501 posts now, hooray.

Why do you and C8 get blue font, and why don't you alphabatize the list?

[Edit] Touche....

[Juan]

I decided to blue the people who openly Ok it so far. DO YOU OPENLY OK IT?!

[Kensai]

Well y'all already did this, so it makes no differance wheather or not I endorse it. so go ahead and do whatever.

[Juan]

We haven't already did "this". That's a hypothetical model of the site. I was bored last night so I spent ten minutes making it. As the site says, it's purely for the showing of what it'd be like, nothing more. The descision is completely up in the air still.

[Draco Starcloud]

I approve.

[Wag - Now And Forever]

A few comments:

How can the board separate itself from anime and still call itself the MSPB? Granted, the MSPB will always be the MSPB - you can't change the name (unless of course it follows the natural progression to Zeta), but still the fact remains that the board was built on anime and is just innately associated with anime due to it's name.

But yes, making the board's topic more broad will draw potentially a broader audience - meaning more members. Everything sounds fine and I agree so long as I get godly admin status on the new board - of course I will maintain sufficient activity to justify the rank as I always have in the past!

[Juan]

We were in fact built on Gundam, admittedly. That doesn't mean we have to stay that way. It's evolution, it's a development cycle. It may not actually be improving, but it's changing. We've all changed, we've all matured. Our target posters aren't your generic anime fans anymore, it's a more I don't know, whatever the hell Ai and the rest us are.

We've not been an anime forum for a long time. We can always have a place for roleplaying and anime discussion if necessary, but we don't need to make it seem like that's our focus; it never has been, not for over two years.

We would keep the name, if either in acronym or otherwise, because that's what we are. We're the MSPB.

Also, I'm pretty sure you'd maintain your admin powas because you're Wag. You're Wag.

[Ai]

you know what would be cool?

If I were an admin.

>.>

<.<

[Juan]

MSPB-Formers, TRANSFORM AND ROLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL OUT.