Post by Admin on Jul 11, 2007 19:32:01 GMT -5
It's not like I didn't see this coming. =/ The first Afterward Happenings died out, and why shouldn't this one, right?
The difference with this one is that... we lasted over three months... and I love you guys. <3 Seriously.
I know I haven't been the greatest admin lately. I had other stuff to be doing... then stuff happened at school; if you were there during the 'Jordan phase', you'd know what that was all about... and I have relatives that moved in. The difference is, now rather than being depressed... I kind of... really want to roleplay, and I love the members of this forum.
I think I once thought to myself that if it died, I would be helplessly doing CPR on the Afterward Happenings and trying to resurrect it. D: But you know what? It's already dead.
No one roleplays anymore; everyone's stopped by but no one roleplays anymore. Maybe it's because of the summer, because the site didn't start losing members until around mid-June, but I still think the time is right to do something else.
In either case, now that that rambling thing is over, I think it's time to start a new forum. I wish I could bring this back from the dead, but really, how do you do that? As far as I can tell, we have maybe six active members left, not including me (and I /know/ I might have been neglecting this place lately). That's not nearly enough to bring this back to life.
Lately, I kind of really wanted to roleplay. I did a bit of brainstorming, and this was originally... not going to be a forum plot... but I thought it would be nice anyways; in either case, I came up with a plot, and it follows the same 'Death Eaters take over, not-so-happy ending'.
Basically, in short, Death Eaters have taken over, and in a desperate attempt to keep everyone safe, every wizarding family, and some Muggle families with wizarding children that'd be going to Hogwarts, have been evacuated to Hogwarts - the last safe place. (Ohemgee. That sounds like something from the Series of Unfortunate Events...)
Anyways, they've all been evacuated, and the plot would end with some cheesy paragraph like, "They now have no hope left. Hogwarts attempts remaining to live on, but how long can the students and parents conceal their desperation? What will happen next?", etc.
No, I'm not re-using the current plot. =/ I love it, but it bugs me.
Now for the important part. Here's what I need when re-creating the new Afterward Happenings (although I'm re-naming it):
-At least ONE more admin. For this, I'm going to take one of the current moderators, Stripey or Amanda, and maybe both of them. =/ Unless they don't want the jobs, in which case others can approach me.
-A skin-designer. I think I'm putting this back on InvisionFree, where the original AH was, so I'm going to need someone that can understand and help with CSS, and who already has some experience with InvisionFree skins. *I don't /need/ someone for this, but it would be appreciated.
-TWO new moderators. In the assumption that Stripey and Amanda will want to become admins, I'm going to need two new moderators, who will have two seperate jobs. One of them will have to search through the threads, finding ones that haven't been posted in, in say, a month, and moving them to the 'Dead' section. The other will... well, I'm unsure of this one's job at the moment, but I /know/ there's something else I need them to do. Something that right now, I'm the one doing, but I can't remember it. -.-; Er... suggestions of what it could be would be helpful. xD
-Advertisers. Yeah, I know - normally members just advertise if they like the forum and want more members to help us expand, but I think everyone's been lagging on that, and I want someone that will advertise, at least every... week or so. This has to be someone /extremely/ active, because hey - you can't advertise if you're not online.
-Otherwise new joiners. Yeah... Other than the staff positions, I'm going to need people to just re-join. <3 Please? You love us, right? Don't leave. D: We can re-start.
Those are the people I need to help me get started on this, and THESE are the ideas that I need to get as well:
-Name ideas. Yep, I want to re-name it. xD I think our name... kind of got boring, and if nothing really comes in, then I guess we could keep it, but ideas are always helpful.
-Opening "event". Yeah, you know how whenever stores open and such they throw huge opening events? We need something like that. =/ Very vague... ;D You'll think of something.
-Other? Anything else you think would be helpful upon starting this would be nice too. -sigh- I know I'm not exactly the greatest at planning things out; I forget things and always need a push in the right direction... but I still really want someone's input on this.
You can apply for one of the jobs using one of the codes below... If you have ideas or you'd like to just be a member on the upcoming forum, then you can just post them, there's nothing specific for that.
Also, if anyone would like to drop some characters, this would be a good place for that, because otherwise I'm planning to have everyone carry over their current characters.
If you'd like to be a MODERATOR;
Pretty straightforward, right?
If you'd like to be an ADVERTISER;
Of course, members can advertise as well... It's just that advertisers do it as a job? -.-; Well, I don't know. We don't realy /need/ advertisers... But they'd be helpful. xD
For Stripey and Amanda, if you'd like to be admins, just say so - I pretty much already have you listed as potential administrators anyways.
Post here. <3 Help the cause. If not, then... Well, I could do it myself, but I really don't want to. =/
[/size]The difference with this one is that... we lasted over three months... and I love you guys. <3 Seriously.
I know I haven't been the greatest admin lately. I had other stuff to be doing... then stuff happened at school; if you were there during the 'Jordan phase', you'd know what that was all about... and I have relatives that moved in. The difference is, now rather than being depressed... I kind of... really want to roleplay, and I love the members of this forum.
I think I once thought to myself that if it died, I would be helplessly doing CPR on the Afterward Happenings and trying to resurrect it. D: But you know what? It's already dead.
No one roleplays anymore; everyone's stopped by but no one roleplays anymore. Maybe it's because of the summer, because the site didn't start losing members until around mid-June, but I still think the time is right to do something else.
In either case, now that that rambling thing is over, I think it's time to start a new forum. I wish I could bring this back from the dead, but really, how do you do that? As far as I can tell, we have maybe six active members left, not including me (and I /know/ I might have been neglecting this place lately). That's not nearly enough to bring this back to life.
Lately, I kind of really wanted to roleplay. I did a bit of brainstorming, and this was originally... not going to be a forum plot... but I thought it would be nice anyways; in either case, I came up with a plot, and it follows the same 'Death Eaters take over, not-so-happy ending'.
Basically, in short, Death Eaters have taken over, and in a desperate attempt to keep everyone safe, every wizarding family, and some Muggle families with wizarding children that'd be going to Hogwarts, have been evacuated to Hogwarts - the last safe place. (Ohemgee. That sounds like something from the Series of Unfortunate Events...)
Anyways, they've all been evacuated, and the plot would end with some cheesy paragraph like, "They now have no hope left. Hogwarts attempts remaining to live on, but how long can the students and parents conceal their desperation? What will happen next?", etc.
No, I'm not re-using the current plot. =/ I love it, but it bugs me.
Now for the important part. Here's what I need when re-creating the new Afterward Happenings (although I'm re-naming it):
-At least ONE more admin. For this, I'm going to take one of the current moderators, Stripey or Amanda, and maybe both of them. =/ Unless they don't want the jobs, in which case others can approach me.
-A skin-designer. I think I'm putting this back on InvisionFree, where the original AH was, so I'm going to need someone that can understand and help with CSS, and who already has some experience with InvisionFree skins. *I don't /need/ someone for this, but it would be appreciated.
-TWO new moderators. In the assumption that Stripey and Amanda will want to become admins, I'm going to need two new moderators, who will have two seperate jobs. One of them will have to search through the threads, finding ones that haven't been posted in, in say, a month, and moving them to the 'Dead' section. The other will... well, I'm unsure of this one's job at the moment, but I /know/ there's something else I need them to do. Something that right now, I'm the one doing, but I can't remember it. -.-; Er... suggestions of what it could be would be helpful. xD
-Advertisers. Yeah, I know - normally members just advertise if they like the forum and want more members to help us expand, but I think everyone's been lagging on that, and I want someone that will advertise, at least every... week or so. This has to be someone /extremely/ active, because hey - you can't advertise if you're not online.
-Otherwise new joiners. Yeah... Other than the staff positions, I'm going to need people to just re-join. <3 Please? You love us, right? Don't leave. D: We can re-start.
Those are the people I need to help me get started on this, and THESE are the ideas that I need to get as well:
-Name ideas. Yep, I want to re-name it. xD I think our name... kind of got boring, and if nothing really comes in, then I guess we could keep it, but ideas are always helpful.
-Opening "event". Yeah, you know how whenever stores open and such they throw huge opening events? We need something like that. =/ Very vague... ;D You'll think of something.
-Other? Anything else you think would be helpful upon starting this would be nice too. -sigh- I know I'm not exactly the greatest at planning things out; I forget things and always need a push in the right direction... but I still really want someone's input on this.
You can apply for one of the jobs using one of the codes below... If you have ideas or you'd like to just be a member on the upcoming forum, then you can just post them, there's nothing specific for that.
Also, if anyone would like to drop some characters, this would be a good place for that, because otherwise I'm planning to have everyone carry over their current characters.
If you'd like to be a MODERATOR;
[b]Name;[/b]
[b]Why You Should Be a Mod;[/b]
Pretty straightforward, right?
If you'd like to be an ADVERTISER;
[b]Name;[/b]
[b]How Often You Can Be On;[/b]
[b]Why You Should Be An Advertiser;[/b]
Of course, members can advertise as well... It's just that advertisers do it as a job? -.-; Well, I don't know. We don't realy /need/ advertisers... But they'd be helpful. xD
For Stripey and Amanda, if you'd like to be admins, just say so - I pretty much already have you listed as potential administrators anyways.
Post here. <3 Help the cause. If not, then... Well, I could do it myself, but I really don't want to. =/