Posted: 09 Sep 2007, 17:40
in short:
i used to post on wishville - the chameleons forum that mik runs
it was ace. a great, vibrant community dedicated to an active band that i loved. the people were great and i got to meet a lot of them at chams gigs
at the same time as this, i was also a member of the sisters' dominion mailing list
unfortunately, dominion at this time was going through a bit of a bad patch. there were very few posts, and older members used to get fed up with newbies asking the same old questions.
it lacked the 'social' element of wishville, and any attempts at social chat were quickly put down as being OFF TOPIC
also, due to the group's format (an email ist) there was no readily available archive of old mails for newbies to read
(actually, there was, but it seemed that most new members couldnt find it)
it occured to me that i could start something very much like wishville, but for my favourite band - the sisters
so i went away and started a small forum
it seems that sinny had pretty much the same idea at the same time for when i announced HL on dominion she said she was looking into doing the same thing, but i had pipped her to the post
thus i invited her to help me moderate the place...
i then recruited a few friends, a few dominionites, and even a few wishvillers who liked the sisters.
the rest is history
the place was only ever intended to support dominion, and remove the unwanted chatter away from there. since day one there has been an open offer to dominion's admin - pete, aka -bat - to join in the fun and join the admin team here, but so far he has politely declined the offer (as far as i understand it, his job makes it difficult to spend time on the web, and so while mailing lists are quite anonymous and he can happily look after that site, he's not really able to spend enough time on the web to make it feasible)
there's a lot of stuff happened between then and now (such as padstar, the chairman, rj & mrs rj, weeding & sharing, markfiend & petseri, etc), and i can give you some edited highlights if you really want, but i'm sure other members can fill in the gaps better than i
nice thread
i used to post on wishville - the chameleons forum that mik runs
it was ace. a great, vibrant community dedicated to an active band that i loved. the people were great and i got to meet a lot of them at chams gigs
at the same time as this, i was also a member of the sisters' dominion mailing list
unfortunately, dominion at this time was going through a bit of a bad patch. there were very few posts, and older members used to get fed up with newbies asking the same old questions.
it lacked the 'social' element of wishville, and any attempts at social chat were quickly put down as being OFF TOPIC
also, due to the group's format (an email ist) there was no readily available archive of old mails for newbies to read
(actually, there was, but it seemed that most new members couldnt find it)
it occured to me that i could start something very much like wishville, but for my favourite band - the sisters
so i went away and started a small forum
it seems that sinny had pretty much the same idea at the same time for when i announced HL on dominion she said she was looking into doing the same thing, but i had pipped her to the post
thus i invited her to help me moderate the place...
i then recruited a few friends, a few dominionites, and even a few wishvillers who liked the sisters.
the rest is history
the place was only ever intended to support dominion, and remove the unwanted chatter away from there. since day one there has been an open offer to dominion's admin - pete, aka -bat - to join in the fun and join the admin team here, but so far he has politely declined the offer
(as far as i understand it, his job makes it difficult to spend time on the web, and so while mailing lists are quite anonymous and he can happily look after that site, he's not really able to spend enough time on the web to make it feasible)there's a lot of stuff happened between then and now (such as padstar, the chairman, rj & mrs rj, weeding & sharing, markfiend & petseri, etc), and i can give you some edited highlights if you really want, but i'm sure other members can fill in the gaps better than i
nice thread
thanks 
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