18 Jun 2010
Introducing the Temporary Hikikomori StopGap Forum
Some of you may have noticed the new forum link below the blog title.Well, that’s a general forum I registered in MyBB as a Hikikomori forum.For more details, here’s the copy-paste details I’ve posted in the forum. NewsFlash, hikikomori forums exist already!Yeah…I can’t say I’ve been in every one of them but for the most part, this forum was a struggle for me.I have zero experiences with being an admin for a forum and I don’t even know most of the options on MyBB. I didn’t even visit the support forums yet and I don’t know if I’ve set anything incorrectly.For the most part though, some Hikikomories felt alienated or discontent with other hikikomori forums and I created this one as a temporary gap. Actually I’m one of the ones who left a hikikomori community but for the most part, I just post on free blogs.To avoid coming off like I’m competing with the membership of other hikikomori forums though, I’m making this a general forum for anyone even non-hikikomories to participate in. It’s just that for the most part, I am a Non-Japanese hikikomori and that’s the community I aim this forum for. Talk of the Differences!Well Hikikomories prefer Imageboards and this isn’t one for one thing.I do provide a “Trash Zone” sub-forum though if you haven’t noticed. I doubt it will inspire people to post anonymously though. Other rules I didn’t include in the main rules link are:*Sub-forums - This was a minor issue in another hikikomori forum I was in and my stance on this is simple. Setting aside my own preference, if you want a sub-forum made, there’s two paths you can go at it. Get enough topics made on a single subject that it fills up these original forums and I’ll make a sub-forum for it which is the more obvious path.(Although for the above, I don’t know if MyBB has anyway to mass-move forum topics to another sub-forum) The second one though is why I’m addressing this. If you want to request a sub-forum, my requirement is that you have a list of topics to fill it already. Be able to do that without flooding a forum like a spammer and you get to keep your sub-forum. Fail to do that in a day and I’ll delete it. Depending on my interest in the topic though, I might extend that to a week or a month and see how it goes.*Post editing - This was often a trick abused by hikikomories in another forum I was in. That’s why here, I’ve set a time limit for how long before you can edit your post. (It should be 30 min. per post if I set it correctly.) As far as requesting for a post to be deleted, I’m normally regretful of deleting posts but it’s your right. I can’t guarantee I can delete anything quickly though depending on how much I got flooded with these requests. *How Temporary is Temporary - For the most part, it’s based on how active I am at visiting and checking up on this forum.I’d like to think I would be an active admin but for the most part, I don’t think that’s possible. It’s not really very motivating to visit a mostly dead forum and if this does get enough members, I still can’t guarantee I would be here to moderate every hour. I’m very inconsistent even with my blog posting which is why I don’t schedule posts ahead of time. It’s more likely though that I may be fast enough to moderate any problematic posts but you’ll just have to determine that from my actions rather than what I say here.Temporary also represents my lack of ability. Eventually you may find a hikikomori forum you wish to moved into because of my lack of skills. All I can say is as long as there’s users here, I’ll try to be active. If you have anymore questions, feel free to ask.
