Founder's Diary

Welcome, friends

"Courage and perseverance are important if one is to run anything resembling a news organization...the folks at theOtaku.com have demonstrated themselves to have ample quantities of both."
~ TCJ (The Comics Journal)

"A couple years of experience in the Otaku circle have taught me at least one good lesson--to trust Adam."
~ myO member

"Adam is actually a decently accomplished troll."
~ Allamorph

"The scale of Adam's cunning genius is truly frightening."
~ TimeChaser

Created By Adam

Special Thanks to Petie

For his patience in working with me to implement our "challenge prize" feature.

(Also thanks to the legendary Justin Blessing, original programmer of theOtaku.com, for inspiring the layout.)

If you don't know what it is, hunt around your backroom.

Here's a hint: I used it to help me write this post.

Foxy Snow

Snow Fox is back with a VENGEANCE!

Courtesy of Beth

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New Phrase + Causing Trouble

"The Bossman Flip" - When we take something that we suck at and transform it into something that we're best-in-the-world at.

If you think having a 'best member of the year' award, putting everyone's comment history on display, and tripling the # needed for our comment slam caused a huge ruckus around here, just wait until we announce the feature you're all going to receive by winning the challenge slam.

It might be the most important policy change we've ever had. It could either (1) cause a lot of controversy, (2) be widely ignored, or (3) be a massive success.

I'm really hoping for option #3 - it has that potential.

Improving the Category List

One of the things I hate about theO is that it's annoying to use the super-long category drop down menu that's all over the place. We definitely need to upgrade that.

Here's a quick idea that's already much better:

Category (Required):

Are there any other sites that do category selection very easily? We need inspiration.