OK bear with me have had no sleep been thinking about crap and thus am now posting here.
Anyway four months ago I had this weird idea that I would convince Kevin to sell TPM to me. Therefore a main site would return. Now this started cause I was gonna do some big tpm history thing, its like still somewhat going I'll have something for our 10th anniversary. At the time and still are undergoing some type of miraculous falling in love with pokemon again. Started going to pokemon chatrooms/forums and enjoying myself. Anyway I don't know about you, but I feel personally that the state of pokemon websites today is shit.
And I know this has nothing to do with the topic but it will later and I have not slept and just got thoughts going through me. Now you know things are bad with pokemon websites when the biggest one of the lot. The most berated Serebii.net does not have up-to-date TCG information. In fact Serebii has dropped the tcg section and hasn't updated it for months. The games stuff while informational, much of it goes back to before there was any release of Diamond and Pearl besides Japan and thus much of the information is lacking, out of date, not fixed or otherwise unreadable. I swear most of Serebii.net is unreadable. Also there is no news, unless it is about the games and perhaps the anime ie. dub titles or names of new episodes in Japan. See Serebii thinks it is unprofessional to post pokemon news. I don't know what that is about but it seems fucking stupid to me. Bulbagarden which calls itself the pokemon communities newspaper rarely has news and the bulbapedia is rather pathetic. Psypoke like Serebii only really posts news when it is about the games. Marriland the fat lard just doesn't seem to update his site anymore. While the two big news sites and its a sad day when I have to say that Water Pokemon Master's PokeBeach is one of those. Now WPM is a fuckface with a TCG section that according to people I speak to is written really badly and is a mess. On the other hand, of all the pokemon websites he probably posts the best and most varied of all the news site. Though there was the time he posted a fake. He also managed to snag a substantial interview with people behind the pokemon anime. Thus from what I see, right now he posts the best news.
The other one is pocketmonsters, they've been doing pokemon subs for a few years, its basically an irc chatroom with fserves and the likes. They also have a handy and rather attractive imageboard. Recently they have released a beta pokemon website with a Pokemon music database and a Pokemon anime database. Some interesting stuff from these guys but nothing to me that spells excitement. Smogon is smogon, a specialised pokemon battling website that while good for that type of stuff can be accused of acting too slowly and not all the information seems to be up. You would think they would have a nice article on pokemon natures but they don't.
So basically I think much of the pokemon community online is shit. I see a lot of news that seems to be missed including pokemon box office, game reviews from Japan, console and gaming charts from Japan. Game reviews from United States, England etc. Crappy coverage on pokemon events and TCG events besides the aforementioned WPM (Look you can crap on WPM all you want but he at least is posting this stuff). Much merchandise information is being overlooked. I just find it retarded that nobody besides WPM and maybe Pocketmonsters have much news and even then they miss a lot of stuff.
Whilst one can say much of the pokemon games information is out there I still think much of that can be handled in a more interesting way. The major sites are not updating TCG besides WPM and other things related to pokemon seem to be sorely missing.
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Now I don't know about you. But one of my favourite things about TPM use to be the reports that were made. These were on the anime, the games and TCG and for me they were fascinating and something that made you return to the site. And yet no one besides PokeCharms which is quite frankly the ugliest website in the world does this type of stuff. There are now ranger and mystery dungeon games that weren't even around in TPM's day and yet there isn't that much on this type of stuff. None of the big sites focus or have sections on fanfiction and fanart besides their forums. I just find it stupid that this stuff doesn't exist.
I go back to TPM's heydey and I see so much stuff from back then that is 100 times better than the majority of stuff that exists today. To me today is the perfect time for a site like TPM to return and it could be even better.
So anyway my idea was and part of me still says to at least try and go for it (call me stupid I really don't care) is to bring a site like what TPM had at one time but even more so I'll make a wee list of what I would I have.
1. Constant news. News from Japan, news from America, Europe, Asia, Australasia South America and hell there must be stuff from Africa.
2. Regular reports and columns, that take a look at pokemon news for the week, what other pokemon websites have been doing, TCG, Dodrio's Nest/Vaporeon42's type columns (think rate my team, stuff about the games, perhaps a fanfic just overall cool), Ranger column, other pokemon games column, TCG in America column, TCG from Japan forum, TCG competitive scene, pokemon battling competitive scene, anime, Merchandise and Pokemon manga and hell an old games column and old nostalgia columns.
3. A full section dedicate to TPM and pokemon online community history.
4. Full Manga section with stuff from Japan not seen here.
5. Anime section with actual episode guides.
6. A comprehensive TCG section with TCG deck reviews and the likes.
7. A full and comprehensive Fanfic and Fanart section with newly implemented and more appropriate ratings/reviews with articles and opinions on what makes a good fanfic, how one can write fanfics and the likes.
8. A community roleplaying game. Not a fan-made game a ROLEPLAYING GAME.
9. Full information on all the video games, including lots of pictures, cheats/codes and stuff that one can actually read and is up-to-date with English releases and not from Japan. And where games such as ranger and dungeon games aren't thought of a side-thought.
10. A special section dedicated to older games. Think first two generations plus TCG, Snap and a few other things. With all the information that TPM once had plus more pictures. Better written walkthrus and interesting gaming mechanics. But that also looks at what impacts these games had on future games and how these games are perceived today.
11. A Trading and Battling section that isn't as shit as Serebiis. Go to Spp-wifi on purplesurge and take a look one day. Its scary.
12. The return of pokemasters chatroom (Has never died) but still much better than what is elsewhere.
13. A contemporary merchandise section that takes a thorough look at merchandise
available today as well as nostalgia pieces on older merchandise.
14. A encyclopaedia of sorts that is actually meaningful and not utter shit like a certain place. This would also have numerous and interesting editorials as well as including articles on such things as Digimon and Pokemon. Or "How pokemon was once a faze but its still cooking". Bare with me I have a whole slide of ideas on this one. I also think its time that one could even consider a look at Pokemon and academic studies. There is quite a lot out there, some of it I think interesting without being all mirrored in pathetic academic pretentiousness.
15. A site that accepts there are other pokemon websites out there, and use their information to show visitors to this site there are other places with interesting and different information. (There is a lot of smaller pokemon sites with a lot of interesting stuff where I think a bigger site could utilise and draw visitors to these smaller sites). While also engaging with bigger sites. And not having the attitude of OMG I MUST BE THE FIRST TO EVERYTHING OR OTHERWISE I AM GOING TO GET SHITTY.
16. Basically in comes to a contemporary pokemon website that has aspects of the old but also new stuff.
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Ok so if you are stupid enough to read this far down then you're wondering. WHY IN THE FUCK ARE YOU POSTING IT HERE FIREPOKEMON. Well at the same time I had all those thoughts plus some. I also thought carefully about the forums. Now since I would technically be the owner of the forums (DID I TELL YOU I HAVE NOT BEEN SLEEPING AND THUS MAY BE EXPERIENCING DELUSIONAL THOUGHTS).
Well a new site and the one that I described I am sure would bring in new members. However TPM can look old and a bit dodgy what with a bunch of adults residing in it. So here is another annoying list if you're stupid enough to keep reading this.
1. With a new site means a bit of the old is going to be lost. Thus a single forum for special extraordinary stuff is available to all active members from the past six months with a post-count of 20 or more. Older members from 2000-2008 would also be allowed in if they return. Its just a place for some members to post because some will be shitty cause there are fucking 12 year olds running all over the place asking who will win in a battle between MEWTWO AND ARCEUS.
2. Unlike the ONE THOUSAND AND ONE OTHER POKEMON FORUMS we would not have innate and pathetic rules crawling everywhere with stupid insane faqs sticked all over the place meaning actual threads get like five to a page. That doesn't mean we don't have rules. But we're a relaxed lot and I always think a strength of TPM is we didnt have rules everywhere.
3. Most threads would be archived and stacked away so we can say OH WASN'T 2007 A LOVELY TIME AT TPM NOT LIKE IT IS IN 2010. Basically this will be done, cause we don't want a rules thread in TCG by WPM like we currently do. Would someone remove that thing already please.
4. A few new forums would be created but other than that it'd be pretty much what it is now.
Now onto the actual point of this thing all along. So we get a main site and we get new members. That means more mods and stuff now doesn't. Why yes it does. Now some of this is old, since certain people have disappeared as of late.
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FP - THE HEAD (Its fantasy and lack of sleep again).
Kevin - Still there dead but still there. (I can't exactly say and fuck off now).
Chris - Dead but he can be TECH GUY.
Little_Pikachu - (Bitch but this is tpm not firepokemon's playhouse) so she can do extra stuff and would be the HEAD ADMIN.
Lady Vulpix Goes from Super Moderator to newly ADMINNED. I know she hasn't been round much as of late and to be honest I can't say I like her. But for years she has been rather bossy to some or perhaps most of us. But she knows stuff, she is a smart person, she would be good at it and I think even though I don't really like her. SHE DESERVES IT.
Now as more members come to TPM because omg it is so much better than that Serebii site. Zak and OzAndrew move to being Admined as well.
Mr. Pikachu you would find was always on his way to be Super Modded if I ever somehow got my hands on TPM. Lets be honest, he is perhaps too much focused on rules and the stuff and he wouldn't let a flame war descend anywhere but you know he'd be good at it and hes dedicated and the like. SO CONGRATULATIONS MR. PIKACHU YOU ARE A SUPER MODERATOR.
As for other SuperMods. It was always going to be, that I would leave it alone till some mods in a newly refreshed and more active forum. Some naturally become better fits than others. And of course this would be discussed with other admins and super mods.
So onto the moderators. Now since this isn't an autocracy by one person alone. This means I would have to discuss it with the admins, super-mods and moderators. But this is where I was sort of going.
Get rid of anyone not online in 2008. Then give warnings to any moderator that has not been active for 3 months.
Roy_Karrde - Possibly a future super modder, he would naturally fit in well at Miscellaneous where he can debate the hell out of the more leftist or extreme leftist newbies that TPM attracts. Quick to close things, hes warned to be less strict and soon fits in extremely well in this role.
Dark San - Where is he? Four months or so ago I would have said to mod him in more places with a possible future as SuperMod.
Heald - The Big man from Great Britain, is an ass, will always be an ass but he can go bump his old mate Razola and possibly become moderator in the Video Games forum.
Shazza - Dear old Shazza, former complete dickhead, former PCG mod, why all the newbies are gonna go there, which means a whole separate polls forum would likely have to happen and just look at the games Serebii has so he gets modded somewhere here. If I had my way he'd be a super-mod at least.
Mikachu_Yukitatsu - The man from Finland with knowledge of Japanese could fit in well many places. Miscellaneous Discussion? What about General Pokemon Discussion? What about PCG? A most necessary contender anywhere.
Crazy Elf Boy - Four months ago he was extremely active in both Polls, Clubs and Games and the ASB forums thus would have been under serious consideration.
Inferno_Dragon Same as Crazy Elf Boy.
FANFIC MOD - With Mr. Pikachu becoming supermod and new activity spreading everywhere Fanfics becomes in desperate need for a new forum. There's plenty of great fanficcers so major discussions for this spot but I'm sure someone could be found to be hugely beneficial for that forum.
DarkestLight - The super ref the machine of the ASB forums. Without him ASB would be over. This is a DESPERATE NECESSITY.
NOTABLE OTHERS MENTIONED. Charles Legend, Mew Master, Blademaster (At this rate only I would be voting no), Ultimate Charizard, Dracoknight, Toxicity, Crystal Tears, Classy_Cat18, Christ2.1, Jeff, Magmar (NOSTALGIC MOD), Knight of Time, Poryhedron, CrystalMaster Mike, Dark Sage (TCG), Shuppet Master, Sike Saner, Houndoom_Lover, Fett_One (Games, Games, Games), Shinypkmnmaster and numerous other active members at the time site is opened.
AND NOW I'M TIRED.