Holy fudgemuffins! Meri has just alerted me to the fact that people still post here, and that some are waiting to be modded/vice-captainedededed...ed. xd
I honestly stopped posting here because one new post every two days or so was basically the average for a while. I thought the guild would just die, because it had pretty much seemed destined for the grave after its first month.
In its prime (aka, pre Guild Forums), The Anti-Fangirl Guild was a bustling grove of wonderfulness. It was one of the fastest-growing and most populated guilds under the old system. It wasn't rare to go on a vacation for a weekend and to come back to over a hundred new pages. Despite high membership and insane post speeds, the place still felt like a close, tight-knit community, because it had its group of about a dozen dedicated posters that barely went a day without chiming in.
Changing the guild for a guild forum was a big mistake, it turned out. We thought having many threads for many subjects would make things more interesting, but it really just made things more distant. While having everything in one thread gave everyone a chance to post and write whatever they felt and have it read by many, having multiple threads in here created sort of cliques. True, they weren't as harsh or exclusive as the type found in cut-throat highschools, but for a time we had our "Clothing Thread" clique and our "Book Thread" clique, with very few people spanning over all the threads. Within the first month, everything good about the guild was diminishing, and within two months, membership dropped drastically.
I think it may have been four months or so into the forum that things got really bad, with only four or five dedicated posters, and maybe three others who posted semi-regularly. After giving the regulars the modship and taking the modship away from some of those who had dropped out, I just stopped coming. I felt there was little point. As much as I hated to think of my pride and joy being a flop, a flop it was. The Anti-Fangirl Guild was, at least to me, no more.
I can't say whether or not I'll try to reawaken my love for this place, but with the new rank of Vice Captain, your dear Merikins can take care of everything for you. Good luck, and keep giving the fangirls hell for me.
Oh, and, do whatever Meri says. Ever. ninja
I honestly stopped posting here because one new post every two days or so was basically the average for a while. I thought the guild would just die, because it had pretty much seemed destined for the grave after its first month.
In its prime (aka, pre Guild Forums), The Anti-Fangirl Guild was a bustling grove of wonderfulness. It was one of the fastest-growing and most populated guilds under the old system. It wasn't rare to go on a vacation for a weekend and to come back to over a hundred new pages. Despite high membership and insane post speeds, the place still felt like a close, tight-knit community, because it had its group of about a dozen dedicated posters that barely went a day without chiming in.
Changing the guild for a guild forum was a big mistake, it turned out. We thought having many threads for many subjects would make things more interesting, but it really just made things more distant. While having everything in one thread gave everyone a chance to post and write whatever they felt and have it read by many, having multiple threads in here created sort of cliques. True, they weren't as harsh or exclusive as the type found in cut-throat highschools, but for a time we had our "Clothing Thread" clique and our "Book Thread" clique, with very few people spanning over all the threads. Within the first month, everything good about the guild was diminishing, and within two months, membership dropped drastically.
I think it may have been four months or so into the forum that things got really bad, with only four or five dedicated posters, and maybe three others who posted semi-regularly. After giving the regulars the modship and taking the modship away from some of those who had dropped out, I just stopped coming. I felt there was little point. As much as I hated to think of my pride and joy being a flop, a flop it was. The Anti-Fangirl Guild was, at least to me, no more.
I can't say whether or not I'll try to reawaken my love for this place, but with the new rank of Vice Captain, your dear Merikins can take care of everything for you. Good luck, and keep giving the fangirls hell for me.
Oh, and, do whatever Meri says. Ever. ninja
