Our BetterMost Community > Chez Tremblay
New CT poll in development - your two cents, please
moremojo:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on September 06, 2006, 07:23:46 pm ---Also, IMO, we should encourage everyone at BetterMost to participate in the CT board, whether or not they frequented the PT board at imdb.
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Yes, I second that--everyone should feel welcome Chez Tremblay, regardless of how they came to be there.
RouxB:
my short and sweet
I would like to see CT remain kinda in it's free form state but with specific topics like discussion of movie themes, fan fiction etc. moved to other forums-well pretty much like it's shaking out to be already.
I have no wax.
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nakymaton:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on September 06, 2006, 07:23:46 pm ---Also, IMO, we should encourage everyone at BetterMost to participate in the CT board, whether or not they frequented the PT board at imdb.
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A non-Tremlayan's perspective:
I'm not sure if it's possible for a place to simultaneously exist primarily as a haven for people who became friends in another place, and to be a place that invites newcomers. No matter how friendly the original refugees are. New people change the dynamic of a place. Some people tend to find the changes invigorating; some people feel like they've lost their friends and intimacy. It's happened to other internet groups, too.
To be honest, I only posted in CT originally because 1) the one person on the board that I already knew (Meryl) was posting here, 2) the CT forum was, at the time, invisible to non-members, so I felt safer about posting personal stuff here than I did in open forums, and 3) the CT forum was a mixture of movie discussion and humor and personal stuff, and had a fun balance that was lacking in every other BBM forum that I had encountered. As all of BetterMost has grown, though, those parts of the mixture have spread out to the rest of the board.
Front-Ranger:
Yes, Mel, that reminds me of something else I'm really missing. A place to post personal stuff without guests, hiders, and the Forest Service come snooping around. A place where I can discuss the things I would tell my closest friends (which I don't have in so-called "real life" because I'm stuck behind a computer all day!)
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: nakymaton on September 06, 2006, 11:25:03 pm ---I'm not sure if it's possible for a place to simultaneously exist primarily as a haven for people who became friends in another place, and to be a place that invites newcomers. No matter how friendly the original refugees are. New people change the dynamic of a place. Some people tend to find the changes invigorating; some people feel like they've lost their friends and intimacy. It's happened to other internet groups, too.
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I know from past conversations that Mel knows more about the dynamics of online groups than I do. But I'd just like to throw in my observation that the makeup of the groups who post regularly on CT and on the OF have fluctuated quite a bit since I've been here. Some people run out of things to say about BBM or get involved in "real life" things and fade :-\, some feel tied to the community in other ways and stick around :D, new people come in from other boards or because they've just seen the movie recently :), and so on. From what I've seen, frequent posters on both boards (and the OF board, though not as finitely conceived as the CT board, can also feel like a fairly close-knit group) are flexible enough to adjust to, even welcome, newcomers. For example, among the people I feel closest to, a few have been here longer than I have, a few arrived fairly recently, and most are somewhere in between.
The mood could change, I suppose, if a gush of newcomers arrived and the veterans felt overwhelmed or outnumbered. But so far, it's been more of a trickle.
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