When Chad gets around to working on the new site again, I asked him about Fanfiction in its current status. I had many suggestions for its improvement, and I have discussed it with a few of my fellows.

Chad wants to speak with me in the future about this new Fanfic section, and our discussions will be the basis for the new section, and will be what the new board will be like.

Some new addidtions will be:

~Obviously, no more isolation from the Messageboard.
~Moderator ability to ammend flame ratings
~The EDIT ability for fanfiction
~Links within fiction, so that the author may ILLUSTRATE the fanfic.
~Compiled Genres (seperating Franchise fiction from the Crossover section)
~New system of organization, so that older fics do not fade into obscurity.

Those are just some, but I am opening up the floor to the writers, and to everyone else, so that I know what YOU want to see. I want to (and I speak for all of my fellows here) make the fanfiction section a great place for everyone to enjoy.

If you have any further questions on the board ammendum, ask Kingpin, as I have spoken with him on the matter more than anyone else.

Any other questions may be directed at your friendly neighborhood Fanfiction Moderator! (*egon) (*peter) (*ray) (*winston)

(*peter) Vincent! I love this plan! I'm excited to be a part of it!!!

One big one to me (and Vincent and I've both spoken out about it before) is the genre listings. This is the proposed breakdown I posted on the Mod board:

The Original Ghostbusters
Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, Egon Spengler, Winston Zeddemore, Janine Melnitz, Dana Barrett, Slimer–the characters from the legendary movies, the groundbreaking animated series The Real Ghostbusters, the new comic book, and the iBooks novels

Extreme Ghostbusters
The failed sequel to The Real Ghostbusters nevertheless has a loyal following. Ge the further adventures of Garrett Miller, Roland Jackson, Eduardo Rivera, and Kyle Griffin here!

Ghostbusters International Franchises
As Venkman once said, “The franchise rights alone will make us rich…” These are the adventures of the hardy souls of Ghostbusters International. Battling ghosts, goblins, and the inflated franchise fees Venkman and Louis Tully keep inventing.

Ghostbusters Cross Overs
Team up the Ghostbusters with just about anybody! The Filmation Ghostbusters! The X-Files! Other Ghostbuster Franchises! Digimon! Aqua Teen Hunger Force! The possibilities are endless!

Ghostbusters Universe
Stories from the Ghostbusters Universe that do not fit the above. (For example, fan fic teams of fictional character ie Penguin King's Ghostbusters Prime)

Just to give you an idea of what I'm thinking. Granted, “Original Ghostbusters” could be broken back into GB Movies, RGB, and even Comic Book; I prefer one category, but that may just be me.

That sounds excellent for a division of Genres, and it will cut down on many huge sections, and spread out fics evenly.

Wow, pretty impressive stuff so far.

Maybe it's time I announced this?

I've been working on a short tutorial for formating stories with HTML coding, that'll cover Bold, Underlined and italic, as well as potentially illustrations, and maybe even link to music for stories?

Wait hold ona sec Belmont…Chad is working on a new GBN site or just updating another site so we'll be able to post our GB stories?

New GBN site….. Everything is still in the works.

Don't get overly excited just yet. I made this announcement just to get some feedback as to what people will want to see on the site…in this case, fanfiction.

BTW, please do not give suggestions at to HOW to run the site, please. We're not here to garner the whole wave of “I wanna be a moderator”, or “We need new moderators.”

We just want to know CONTENT wise what people would like to see on this new fanfic section. Any other NON-Moderator feedback (not that I don't want Fritz or Kingpins input…)?

I'll post something when it comes to mind, Vincent

Maybe something interactive. A few games or quizzes or something. Nothing way out there. Just add something to make it different from all the other sites out there. A way for it to stand out and say come visit this site.
Whatever you do don't make it too flashy because that distracts people. Otherwise just do whatever you feel is right.

Content wise, I'd actually like to see the Fan-fic section.

I just now noticed this topic… *shrug*


I would like to see fan-owned sites make a come back. Since the fan fic section of this site went up (as well as the popularization of fanfiction.net), all the big name GB sites like Doreen and Sheila, etc have blinked right out of existence. Sure the sites themselves are still around, but they haven't been updated in years. My site the Nexus is in this category as well, but I'd still like to be around. When I spoke to Chad about this, he sort of tap-danced around or ignored my concerns (not that I'm trying to start a fight). He did say that people putting content on GBN would make small sites like mine more popular, but I just don't see it. Maybe I'm missing something. Small time places become popular when their content is regularly expanding, not when its out-sourced to someplace else. Unless you only post a portion of your story to entice people to come read the rest at your site and hope they check the rest of the content, but that's not always a guarantee. Or, like Fritz, you simply post a link.

I know I'm probably alone in this idea, and I don't expect that the fan fiction section is going to be scraped just because I said so. Fan sites survive on fan-made content, places like GBN and GBfans survive mostly on fan-to-fan interactions. Ida know, maybe certain limitations might be mutually beneficial. Maybe it could be more like a catalog than an actual fiction section… maybe like a search engine of sorts where users can submit links to their stories wherever they may be, plus a couple vital keywords, ghost name, author name, etc.

I just miss kicking it old school, I guess.