Given that the comments section of this blog continues filling up and spilling over I thought I’d revisit the notion of a Man Boobz forum, as a kind of supplement to the comments on posts here. Let me know what you think by voting in the poll over there to your right, and by commenting below. [NOTE: The poll vanished from the sidebar for a bit but is back up now.]
The pros, as I see them: A forum would make it easier for you all to introduce topics or non-topics of your own, to do things like plan Man Boobz get-togethers, to pimp your own blogs and other projects (like Ami’s magnificent cards). The cons: it might draw energy and focus away from comments here.
I really like the dynamic we’ve got going in the comments here – the mixture of serious and not-so-serious, on-topic and off – and don’t want to screw that up. (I also think the Weekend Open Threads are working out pretty well and will keep them going.) But I’m sort of thinking we can pull this off.
I’ve already got a forum set up on proboards; all I need to do is click a button to make it public.
What say you all?
PS: There’s an obscure lesbian folk song reference hidden in this post. (Not so obscure, I guess, if you’re into lesbian folk songs.) Whoever can identify it first wins an Internet.
Oh, and @Ithiliana I’d love to talk more about books and adaptations some time! I am not nearly as well read as many people on here, as that lit thread proved, but I do love to talk :-). Another reason for forums (as I don’t have an LJ or such).
Oh, and is it officially ‘Magyc’ now? Because frankly I love it that way.
Oh, I forgot to mention: gabjoh wins one internet for correctly identifying my lesbian folk song reference: the “filling up and spilling over” line in my first sentence in the OP was a reference to “waterfall” by Cris Williamson!
As for private forums, proboards has some “registered members only” options. I can make all, or some, or none of the boards “members only.” I can also set up passwords for certain boards. My inclination is to keep things pretty open, but maybe there’s a role for more private boards as well. Thoughts?
Would that just make all the trolls or even honest critics not want to show up b/c they’re afraid we’re all mocking them behind closed doors? :
NiceGuy is a big name among the MGTOWers. He’s got his own forum (linked on David’s Boob Roll), and David has quoted from him in the past. That’s why I picked him.
oh ok :3 I thought that might have been but I wasn’t sure… sry 🙁 hrm… ok I got it :3 dun worry about it… just call him Nice Guy (with the space) I have an idea :3
hrm on NiceGuy, i guess since that’s his name.. I’ll figure it out :3
I’m sry again for not realizing 🙁 i suspected but I forgot b/c MRAL was making me laugh too much xD
I think there’s at least a small role for a single private board. As kirbywarp said, it would make getting friendlier easier. I don’t think it would be necessary for deciding meetup locations, for example, but if meetup coordinators wanted to exchange phone numbers it would be nice to have a private space where they could do so safely.
I don’t see a poll!! Is this a firefox thing? Do I need to use I.E.?
David, check your mod queue :]
I’m using IE and I don’t see the poll either.
Dedicated lurker here…
I’m with Ami on having locked forum areas not sending the right message. Maybe lock down the LJ and share secure stuff there?
If I were Empress of Everything, the comments here would be mostly on-topic and the forum would be for off-topic stuff (not only Magyc cards and recipes and such, but stories like the above that are Manboobz subjects but not about a specific post).
I’m leery of voting pro-forum because this is currently my favorite place on the internet and and I don’t want things to change (damn it!), but I’d probably contribute more on a forum.
(I don’t see a poll either and I’m on Chrome.)
Ami – which thread did Emcee call you an idiot and amira a genius? I must’ve flaked out of that thread too soon and missed it 🙁
Also – no opinion on whether we need a forum.
If the forum allows Private Messages, there would be no need for a members-only area. If people want to exchange phone numbers and stuff they can just PM each other.
Oh, I didn’t know there was a Private Messages option. That would be great.
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“Ami – which thread did Emcee call you an idiot and amira a genius? I must’ve flaked out of that thread too soon and missed it”
It was Arms and the Men’s Rights Movement. Go to the second-to-the-last page of comments and scrool down about two-thirds of the way. It’s really priceless.
Oh, Ami, THANK YOU!! That’s lovely!
“After divorce lawyers were outlawed, Hippodameia turned her sights to keeping the Armies of Darkynss well supplied using the same mathematical blasphemy she used to such great effect in her past life.”
I’ll try and think up some mathematical blasphemy: maybe 2 + 2 = 5? Because I’m a feminist?
AHAHAHAHA
Scroll, drat it.
The MRAs have their first “fatty” (big creature card) :3
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Our buddy, the guy who creates his own conspiracies xD
@Hippodameia Do not blaspheme.
Thanks Hippodameia!
This is the high point, Lyn: http://manboobz.com/2011/06/22/arms-and-the-mens-rights-movement/comment-page-10/#comment-34364
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