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[racoonangel]

I just made a website you can become a user and become a part of my forum I've started on dicussion about bakuman but I'm hoping you guys can start dicussions on astro boy and other anime realated stuff ( new threads or polls) thank you for your time.

Come join my adventure of becoming a manga artist http://racoonangel.ucoz.com/

[Anime Girl]

I'm on there. My username is YamiOfDarkness.

[AprilSeven]

I have to wonder why you would think that creating another forum with Astro Boy content . . . and then promoting it HERE, would be a positive thing?

Racoonangel . . . look at the thousands and thousands of comments, insights, images, links, fanfics, here -- and the hundreds of members and guests who visit us everyday. What you might not realize is that we have many, many "regulars" who read our posts, but don't leave comments, or join as members . . . and most of them find us because we are large enough and established enough to come up an virtually any search for Astro Boy or Tezuka.

Your new forum will only be found by people who see your message here, and you invite personally for a long time. If, instead, you start a thread here with the same topic you were going to put on your own forum there is a much larger audience to respond to it.

By making a separate forum, and inviting people to join it . . . you are now asking them to share content away from here, and that means Astroboy Online will lose out.

There are a few ABO members who have forums where friends they've made here get together and talk among themselves - but they are still active members here, and this is where they contribute most of their Astro Boy conversations.

Sometimes you seem anxious for people to respond to your threads and videos, but you should know that most posts that are read do NOT receive comments by the people who read them. That doesn't mean we aren't following (or don't like) your threads or reading your fanfics or watching your videos. You contribute a lot of great stuff here, and we'd like to encourage you to continue to do that!

Having your own website is wonderful . . . but you could also posts links to your threads here - which is almost like adding a forum to your website.

[racoonangel]

oh there are only little sub forums there it's not for discussing all astro boy stuff it's really just letting me know if your an AB fan, as an artist I want them to know what a fan I am of different animation it's not just about astro boy it makes me sad knowing you said some of those things.

[racoonangel]

I'm sorry to say this but somewhat I made an astro boy topic over on my website is for people who aren't able to discuss here .

[Astro Forever]

If you have a site where you have art, and you want to share your art, I can understand you would want to share it with your friends here. I had seen your topic and didn't say anything for that reason when I first saw it. That said, we do have a general "no advertising rule", and we try to be fair to everyone. It gets akward if everybody has a site/forum/blog/fanfic here and bumps his own topic(s) once in a while just so other people will see new content; the purpose of a forum is discussion, and there isn't much discussions in those. We do allow links in signature, BTW. Most forum I know of work this way.

I'm sorry to say this but somewhat I made an astro boy topic over on my website is for people who aren't able to discuss here .

We do not own the rights on Astro Boy content and discussion, for sure, but I understand AprilSeven's point - that if we're all spreaded out on several forums, it's everybody's loss. For sure, this is the Internet, and people are free to come and go where they want, and create all the sites and forums they want. That being said, we're definitely not quick on banning people here, and if we do, it's because we have good reasons. I have no problem with those people discussing Astro Boy elsewhere, obviously; but if the purpose of that "elsewhere" is to allow a banned member to participate, it's even more strange to then use the same place where they wouldn't respect the rules and the members to advertise the new place, isn't it?

PM me if you (or anybody else) want to discuss this further. Thanks.