Not me! It's Orang Puteh! Ok, I have vented and I am cool..now to serious business..
Beth, the 2 things you mentioned are doable, let's keep that in mind for the proposal to Jarred when he's free to come back.
The other thing I have noticed is that being this is a polite, non-vulgar site, the folks here are very polite. So polite to the point that even though they know a couple of folks in a discussion, they won't join in cos they feel they don't know the others. Now, this idea is a little difficult but it can work;
Each of us do have our own
circle of friends from the different forums where we are active. We can use PM to alert them to get into a topic. This will increase the participation. On another level is that we should have
spotters who think which are the new members we can get to come in.
I am saying this cos, there was more than once I PM Beth to join in an ass kick. I did PM others too for similar reason, and it worked. This takes a bit of work, but if each does a little, it can go a long way.
In all, it should be our responsibility as the regular core members to do it. Besides roping in others, it goes for the regular gang too. PM each other to join in if a particular person is missing. So...in future, if there's even a
very tiny opportunity of a
Thread Wreck, don't bloody forget me!
I just had to say it. Can't let things get too serious cos the room will seem to get darker.