Welcome

[Phillip Dampier]

I am very happy to welcome IMDb users, and the rest of the BetterMost community, to this new forum devoted exclusively to archiving the remarkable threads from IMDb's Brokeback Mountain forum that are in peril of being trolled upon or outright deleted.  You'll see a variety of topics that have been brought here for your consideration.

Also remember, BetterMost has a fully searchable archive of all of our messages from the day this site went online -- simply use the Search box at the top left of the forum to locate messages based on keywords, phrases, etc.  We're very happy to make a home for your messages in a troll-free environment, and I've asked Bruce to come on board as a moderator here to help coordinate and maintain this archive.

We have a variety of forums already open to BBM discussions, if you'd like to start a new topic, I'd first recommend using our primary Brokeback Mountain Open Forum (the one you entered first before getting here).  Your message will be more readily seen by the entire BetterMost community.  But feel free to carry on replies to the wonderful threads that have been brought here by Bruce as well!

[David In Indy]

I'm really happy to see this Phillip! Thank you! 

Once again, I'd like to join Phillip in welcoming all our new members from IMDb. I hope you will feel comfortable in your new home here at BetterMost. If there is anything I can do to help you, please send me a pm! 

Congratulations Bruce on your new moderator position! I'm quite sure you will do an excellent job. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help you!

David.

[TOoP/Bruce]

Thank you Phillip and Dave for your support in helping me to get this off the ground.   

Many of you having arrived from The Other Board will recognize me as "True_Oracle_of_Phoenix", the REPOSTer of "gone but not forgotten" threads.   This forum is devoted to sharing "The Oracle's Archives" with all the members here and to preserve the work of our best and brightest from the other board, in a format that is safe from troll incursion. 

This is also a space that will allow the threads to remain free of the need of "Team Bump" (and I am so grateful to your all for all your hard work - you know who you are) to quietly nudge the threads every two weeks to keep them dropping off the back end of the board.  I recognize the massive commitment of time the members of "Team Bump" have made to maintain content on the other board, and we members there owe you all a huge debt of gratitude.  One person remarked to me by PM that s/he never had time to actually read the threads anymore, since s/he was too busy trying to preserve them. 

In REPOSTing, I claim two editorial privileges:  I will remove all bumps, and I will remove troll posts. 

The new format here will also provide something previously unavailable: content that is SEARCHable.

Transferring these threads will take some time, and for any assistance people are willing to provide in helping to transfer this material, your Oracle is Truly grateful.

TOoP

 

[Toycoon]

Many of you having arrived from The Other Board will recognize me as "True_Oracle_of_Phoenix", the REPOSTer of "gone but not forgotten" threads.    

The new format here will also provide something previously unavailable: content that is SEARCHable.

Congratulations on your new position as moderator, True. You're gonna be the best moderator this board has ever seen!

P.S. I was just checking IMDb and looking over the old threads. It's sad when I check threads I posted comments on back when I was a 'newbie' and almost the entire thread is marred by "post deleted". *Sigh*

[TOoP/Bruce]

Congratulations on your new position as moderator, True. You're gonna be the best moderator this board has ever seen!

P.S. I was just checking IMDb and looking over the old threads. It's sad when I check threads I posted comments on back when I was a 'newbie' and almost the entire thread is marred by "post deleted". *Sigh*

I'm excited to be here, and I am also excited to have you here as well! 

I look forward to leaving the [post deleted] experience behind, and to help my friends from both boards "mix it up a bit" in this forum.  This space gives IMDbers a place to look up familiar threads from the TOB, and Bettermostians a chance to find either familiar threads they left behind, or to experience some of our communal thoughts without requiring troll repellant. 

I know there is another BbM Archive in the original html format  --  and believe me, I am VERY grateful it exists -- but like IMDb, the content is not searchable, and the threads are preserved for all time as of their date of capture, with no possibility of continuing a discussion.  Moving the threads here in this format will help to keep the possibility of discussion open, and add the possibility of finding half-remembered things by searching for a keyword.

(By the way, "what are you waitin for CoowToy - a matin' call?"  You are needed in "Brokeback Mountainopoly"

[serious crayons]

Moving the threads here in this format will help to keep the possibility of discussion open, and add the possibility of finding half-remembered things by searching for a keyword.

I hope people will jump in and keep those discussions going! There's always more to say. 

[David In Indy]

I'd love to see this forum turn into another IMDb, with all the former IMDb members posting comfortably and happily.

And troll free of course!   

[Ellemeno]

You're gonna be the best moderator this board has ever seen!

Hey!  I resemble that remark!   We're goin a say, "ONE of the best moderators this board has ever seen!"  And then I completely agree!

[Kelda]

you RESEMBLE that remark!?

 

 

[TOoP/Bruce]

Toycoon and I are buddies from waaaaaay back.  I'm sure he meant no offence

Right buddy?

(sharply kicking toycoon's ankle under the table....)