What kind of forums should we have?

Personally, I really like that we don't have a politics thread. It helps give this place a comfy feeling.

What kind of topics and sub-forums do you want or do not wish to see?

For some reason, I'm ambivalent about a dedicated Pokémon discussion (that's not about Poké/MLP crossovers), but I am also in favor of a book club thread (even if it's totally unrelated to ponies) or old-school forum games (penultimate post wins, various /r/Counting-style threads, etc…)

I am hardly finding myself being invested in pokemon discussion nor those other things you've mentioned but for a pure sake of community and bringing people together I'd cincerely love to try. The forum activity on ponerpics sits on its low with some occasional peaks and its just sad.

I remember watching pokemon series on TV back in the days when the internet wasn't a thing and you had to make whatever was on air the best of it. I remember seeing Ash hanging out with a two-ponytailed girl and a green looking nerd who… cooked? (my memories are all fuzzy now). I didn't even know that pokemon games existed back then. I thought it was just some anime. I loved it for a charismatic talking cat in the team rocket. Battles were also epic.

I'm currently on my seventh ep watching avatar the last airbender but as soon as I finish it I will get to watching pokemon. Merely just bringing this topic about pokemon made me want to rewatch it.

I'm of the opinion that more opportunity and possible hooks for discussion would be good. If the community bites in to it, it'll probably promote more community engagement with more of the site features.

As it is, I'm browsing boorus with external programs that let me easily mass download images I like, so it's less common for me to manually engage with the sites themselves. I'm making a bit of an effort when it comes to PonerPics, because the site browsing and tag searching is literally the best around.

I don't spend a whole lot of time on forums any more, at least not compared to a long time ago, and I kind of miss it. Anonymous imageboards are nice for a "stop by and say a few words if you feel like it" kind of thing, but it's just not the same.

With thread discussions, there are two extreme ends for subjects. The first is that it's going to be such an incredibly niche subject that there will be very little activity in it. The second is that it'll be such a common subject that it'll either warrant a whole subforum dedicated to it, or it'll be so ubiquitous that it'll show up now and then in almost any threads.

I see no convincing reason to ban any discussion topics, but I think that we all have access to enough sites that if we want a thorough political discussion thread, that archiving the information and discussing it is probably best left to the specialist sites.

@Soft Lava
If you're talking about the first season of Pokemon, which is the only season I remember watching, I remember a girl only having one ponytail. She had orange hair and a yellow shirt. Good gravy, old hand-drawn cell animation really went for bright, high contrast colour choices, didn't they?

After Avatar, I think you should consider Babylon 5 for your next show to watch. It's got the good characterization, worldbuilding, and long-form plot stuff that makes Last Airbender such a great show.

@ToastedTruffles
Also, when it comes to threads, you never know what audience to expect. Usually everything goes smooth when the platform is young and there is not enough traffic to shake the place up a bit. But as more people come aboard, a lot of complications arise presumably out of nowhere. This is also a situation with two ends where one is being an overcrouded and overblown platform that longs for strict moderation and other being an alien place with no activity at all.


@ToastedTruffles
Ah yes. Good old cell animation. By that time people really had to push themselves to come up with very limiting yet ingeniously effective color palletes for characters. Like Lisa Simpson for example. Minimalism and simple forms were things that catched the eye of millions and defined the animation of the late 90s. That's until the digital ink was introduced, which sucked the life out of most characters we knew from how they looked during the cell animation era.

Straight to babylon 5, huh? Nah, I guess I better then start with Babylon 1 and go all the way up to the fifth. I'll check once avatar is over, excluding the Korra continuation that is.

About pokemon, I did some research. I meant Iris. Gee wizz, I really assumed from the memory alone that those were ponytails. I remembered it all wrong.

I believe this thread can validate the need for any conversation people might want to join.

How about calling it "ponerpics geneal 1.0"? Or something among those lines?

Pesonally, I just like the idea of chatting with random folk. It's somehow revelating to a guy who barely goes past his six words per week.

I'm not sure why I was so down in my OP about a Pokémon discussion thread/subforum. I stand by discouraging (but not outright banning) explicit political discussion.

For the actual subforums themselves, are just this meta S&P forum and the General enough? Are they enough for now but more may be added once activity and topic diversity rise enough to warrant more dedicated subforums?

One other thread idea I had was a music thread. This was inspired by tonight being one of those nights I stay up all night watching music videos on YouTube.

@𝚽σ𝜏mares
The mlp fandom has a very productive music scene, so I think a thread or more on music makes sense

Let the era of music sharing begin

@Lotus
I missed out on the brony music scene back in its heyday. Mostly, it was that the stereotype was that it was all dubstep (a genre I didn’t enjoy at the time) or metal covers (which I occasionally enjoyed). Where are the smooth jazz covers?