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I can understand looking down on any board that's not your own, but you'd be mistaken if you thought TMO was some dying Earth-Shite trying to latch onto yours.
potted history of the TMO-Universe
began as an interesting corporate experiment, Seethru.co.uk, designed to mirror the site of that name in the start-up dot-com BBC2 series, Attachments.
the site, run by World Productions rather than the BBC, pretended to be written and operated by the characters in the TV series.
the site's discussion board became occupied fairly early on (Sept 2000) and quickly moved away from talking solely about the TV show.
the show ended and the discussion board continued; by the time Attachments series 2 began, most contributors were hardly even aware of it and were more focused on the community dynamic.
by April 2002, when the Seethru website finally closed down -- that is, it still exists but without any updates -- the community had firmed up into a pretty regular hardcore with its own rituals, jokes, hierarchies and so on.
looking for a home, it drifted for a week or so before fixing on the discussion boards of The Moon Online, a site that already existed as the creation of a Seethru board regular.
the Seethru community therefore transferred fairly wholesale to "TMO" and has remained there for two years. It no longer has any connection to the original show and Attachments is very rarely even mentioned.
I don't know how many members TMO has, as of course only some of them actually post. But there are regular real-life meets, some of which have collected 50 people in one place: and perhaps more importantly, unofficial qnd small-scale "meets" that have little to do with the board anymore and are simply the result of people being friends who met through the community. TMO has enabled many actual, valuable, real-life friendships and romantic relationships.
I'm no soft touch! TMO ebbs and flows in quality. But it does have its virtues and a rich history. |
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