Hi, my fellow Tremblayans,
I've been thinking about intro threads around here, and am soliciting your thoughts and ideas. The main "Introduce Yourself" thread for all of BetterMost is in the Open Forum, and it's the only constantly-stickied thread there. Chez Tremblay has an intro thread too, and it's one of two constantly-stickied threads, along with the welcome thread. The ABCs and 123s forum has a thread called "ABCs Playerz at a glance," that the mods compile and keep updated. It's not stickied, but merely kept aloft with natural usage. No other forum here has an intro thread.
When we Tremblayans rafted our way over here to BetterMost in March and April, it made good sense for us to have an "Introduce Yourself" thread. We used it as a roll call, and a way to welcome each other to the new shores. Once most of the original Tremblayans arrived and settled in, it mostly became a way for other BetterMostians to introduce themselves to the Tremblayans, as those other BetterMostians made friends with the Tremblayans.
Well, this is what I've been thinking - At this point, many of the original Tremblayans know a lot about each other and could write each others' intros. There likely will be no oldtimer Tremblayans from over at IMDb showing up here for the first time now, and if they do, they can start their own thread. Other BetterMostians, ones who want to come get involved in Chez Tremblay, have likely already posted their intros on the Open Forum "Introduce Yourself" thread.
So I've come to think it no longer serves anyone really to have a stickied intro thread at the top of CT. What I haven't decided is my opinion on what should be the next step. Should the CT intro thread simply be unstickied, allowed to rise and fall through natural usage? Should it be merged into the Open Forum intro thread, and the CT welcome thread guide people to post their intros over there? Should an effort like the "ABCs Playerz at a glance" be created for CT? Should there be some kind of combination?
I'dl like to hear your ideas.
Clarissa
Update: I just remembered that there was a compilation of CT members made by Pete (ptannen). He created it when we were at IMDb, and then updated it very soon after we arrived here. It's in one of the early posts of the CT intro thread.