Community Manager Water Bottle Posted June 5, 2021 Community Manager Share Posted June 5, 2021 Hello BOT community. Today I have some news to share with y'all. I am stepping aside as "Chief Admin" and instead taking a different role in the staff. I remember as a small-time poster from Box Office Mojo being extremely discouraged when we found out that BOM decided it wasn't worth bringing back it's forums. I remember helping Shawn set up the forum and in exchange he hired me as a moderator. My original idea was simply to moderate the TV forum but I think Shawn and I meshed together very well so I became an Admin then when he stepped back because he got too busy, the Chief Admin role. I would run the forum day to day while he remained as owner. For years, that worked well. I love BOT, the community, and movies so I was really happy with this role. But times change. I've started to get more and more busy and have had less and less time for BOT. I think I've also maybe gotten burned out a bit and it's gotten to the point where instead of checking into BOT daily, I would sometimes not get on the forums for days. I believe these forums deserve an active leader who is present every day and I don't think I can be that person anymore. As such, I told Shawn a few months ago that it was my intention to step down from running the forum day-to-day but if he wanted, I could remain as a more advisor/technical help guy. But first I wanted to find at least one person who I felt comfortable handing the keys to the forum. I will be remaining on the staff largely to help Shawn deal with technical issues as well as to help with sales and trying to bring donations back up: donations have completely shriveled in the face of the pandemic but now that movies are coming back, I hope you lot decide to help support us! Otherwise we will be very dependent on ad revenue to help pay the bills. Finally, I will occasionally help with settling any disputes but this won't be my primary role. I'd like to welcome @Cap as the new Chief Admin. As a moderator, I thought she was doing an excellent job. I think she has a good head on her shoulders, is active, and I think loves the community as much as I do. And like she once said, this site is about movies. It's supposed to be fun! So I brought her on as a Junior Admin a few months ago with the purpose of giving her experience in the hopes that she would eventually ascend to be the captain of the ship now...pun intended. As such, she is now in charge of the day-to-day running of the forum. I think she will do a wonderful job. 30 6 4 Link to comment
Eric Atreides Posted June 5, 2021 Share Posted June 5, 2021 I can't believe this site is now being run by somebody with COOTIES Spoiler I'm glad Cap is moving on up in the world. Yay to her! 3 Link to comment
Cap Posted June 5, 2021 Share Posted June 5, 2021 I want thank @Water Bottle for everything he has done over the years, and for trusting me with this endeavor!! I am literally walking into the Ford dealership to buy my Mach E right now, so I will write up a nice post in a couple hours. But, tl;dr: 😂😂😘😘 23 2 8 2 Link to comment
charlie Jatinder Posted June 5, 2021 Share Posted June 5, 2021 @Cap 👏 @Water Bottle thank you for everything. 4 Link to comment
charlie Jatinder Posted June 5, 2021 Share Posted June 5, 2021 1 minute ago, Cap said: tl;dr: should I be worried for not liking TFATWS. 3 Link to comment
Porthos Posted June 5, 2021 Share Posted June 5, 2021 I also want to to give a hearty thank you to @Water Bottle for quite literally everything he's done. He's been a fantastic steward for this board and I salute him for his service. Also glad to hear that he'll be sticking around and continuing to lend his expertise as well as sticking around to get folks to contribute to this site. As for @Cap? I like to imagine this was the scene as she ascended: (tried to find a good gif of Amanda chopping off a head and getting a quickening from the TV series, but alas....) Cap has the love of movies, a love of this community, and the level head to put up with all of us Yahoos be able to deal with our little eccentricities and thus to quote Han Solo "Better her than me!" she is a perfect choice, IMO. She may have large shoes to fill, but I think she be an excellent captain of this ship. 👍 12 Link to comment
Porthos Posted June 5, 2021 Share Posted June 5, 2021 56 minutes ago, charlie Jatinder said: should I be worried for not liking TFATWS. Nah, @Cap's not the type to hold grudges. *flash forward to Jat in a couple of months* You'll be fine, I'm sure. 👍 👍 👍 2 1 Link to comment
Fancyarcher Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 Congrats @Cap, you've been doing a bang up job as admin, so it only makes sense you'd get promoted. Also thank you @Water Bottle for you all your excellent hard work, wishing you the best. 3 Link to comment
Cap Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 11 hours ago, charlie Jatinder said: should I be worried for not liking TFATWS. IDK, should you? 11 hours ago, Porthos said: As for @Cap? I like to imagine this was the scene as she ascended: MORE LIKE: 😇 Hello! Thank you all for this opportunity. I won't front, I'm a little daunted by the whole endeavor. I don't think that's a bad thing. My moderating philosophy is I think we have a phenomenal user base, and I want a lighter touch so people feel free to engage in robust and lively discussions. This place ultimately is about movies and cinema, television and streaming, and it Should. Be. Fun. I am all for Art Gratis Artis, but it's called entertainment. As we have seen through this incredibly difficult pandemic, people turn to the arts for solace, escapism, and joy. I don't want to ever loose sight of that while we're in the weeds arguing about if Disney is evil or EVIIIIIIL. That said, do not mistake this principle for "while the cats are away the mice will play". I have zero tolerance for Bullying. The moderating staff will bring down Mjolnir faster than one can blink if we think a user is creating a toxic environment that's harming our users. I’ve been deeply obsessed with television and fandom since I started watching this show called Alias (it was by this dude called JJ Abrams, wonder what happened to him). For a while I thought I wanted to do it, live the dream and all. Went to the New York Film Academy for screenwriting intensive, before graduating from the Vancouver Film School in Writing For Film and Television. I bummed around Los Angeles for a couple years, worked for The Weinstein Company (I only saw Harvey once at a party. I looked at him and ran in the other direction) and a YouTube Channel founded by this guy named John M Chu (again, wonder what happened to him). After not getting a gig as a writers’ assistant on a network show, I kind of reassessed. Realized I wasn’t going to spend $60k a year for USC just to access their alumni network, so I packed up and moved home. Continued to work as a PA on a couple independent features while I finished my Media Studies BA. Then I started to do an independent web series project that took up all my time and money. I did that until basically I was the last woman standing, and exhausted. Then, one day, I woke up and signed up for my real estate license. Now that's what I do. I never really lost my love of Hollywood. I think it's why I took such a liking to BOT when I first discovered it in 2017 after Wonder Woman. It felt like this delightful amalgamation of Hollywood gossip, data analytics, film snobbery, and fandom tomfoolery. (All of my favorite things!) There's really no other place like it on the Internet, and I am really excited and hopeful to help it continue to prosper, even in the uncertain times we live in. Theaters are re-opening, and we have a stacked 2021 with In The Heights, Eternals, F9, Eternals, Space Jam: A New Legacy, Eternals, Snake Eyes, Eternals, Jungle Cruise, Eternals, Suicide Squad, Eternals, Respect, Eternals, Candyman, Eternals, Shang-Chi and The Ten Rings, Eternals, Everybody's Talking About Jamie, Eternals, Let There Be Carnage, Eternals, Dune, Eternals, Top Gun: Maverick, Eternals, House of Gucci, Eternals, Matrix 4, and ETERNALS. We have enough films that -- if the industry ever goes back to reporting Numbers consistently -- we could reopen The Summer and Winter Games! In the meantime while we wait for Eternals: The Tracking Thread is back alive and doing the best work on the site! Make sure to submit your list for @chasmmi's BOT's Top Animated Films Of All Time and @4815162342's BOT Top 100 Film Scores: Fifth Edition Swing by the CAYOM subforum for some fantasy box office Leave Your Reviews (Or Link Your Letterboxd) in Review That Movie Tell us what you're watching... and loving or hating Join Our Telegram Group Join @AniNateDisneyWatch Group (Saturday Nights) (use Telegram Group link) And of course: Watch REALLY COOL old movies with @Plain Old Tele, me, and the Wondyful Projection Group. I'm suuuuuper bias, but it's kind of uh-MAZ-in' (Wednesday and Saturdays, schedule permitting) So here's to a New Chapter for BOT. I hope it's as fabulous as the previous ones. 26 Link to comment
Plain Old Tele Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 4 minutes ago, Cap said: IDK, should you? MORE LIKE: 😇 Hello! Thank you all for this opportunity. I won't front, I'm a little daunted by the whole endeavor. I don't think that's a bad thing. My moderating philosophy is I think we have a phenomenal user base, and I want a lighter touch so people feel free to engage in robust and lively discussions. This place ultimately is about movies and cinema, television and streaming, and it Should. Be. Fun. I am all for Art Gratis Artis, but it's called entertainment. As we have seen through this incredibly difficult pandemic, people turn to the arts for solace, escapism, and joy. I don't want to even loose sight of that while we're in the weeds arguing about if Disney is evil or EVIIIIIIL. That said, do not mistake this principle for "while the cats are away the mice will play". I have zero tolerance for Bullying. The moderating staff will bring down Mjolnir faster than one can blink if we think a user is creating a toxic environment that's harming our users. I’ve been deeply obsessed with television and fandom since I started watching this show called Alias (it was by this dude called JJ Abrams, wonder what happened to him). For a while I thought I wanted to do it, live the dream and all. Went to the New York Film Academy for screenwriting intensive, before graduating from the Vancouver Film School in Writing For Film and Television. I bummed around Los Angeles for a couple years, worked for The Weinstein Company (I only saw Harvey once at a party. I looked at him and ran in the other direction) and a YouTube Channel founded by this guy named John M Chu (again, wonder what happened to him). After not getting a gig as a writers’ assistant on a network show, I kind of reassessed. Realized I wasn’t going to spend $60k a year for USC just to access their alumni network, so I packed up and moved home. Continued to work as a PA on a couple independent features while I finished my Media Studies BA. Then I started to do an independent web series project that took up all my time and money. I did that until basically I was the last woman standing, and exhausted. Then, one day, I woke up and signed up for my real estate license. Now that's what I do. I never really lost my love of Hollywood. I think it's why I took such a liking to BOT when I first discovered it in 2017 after Wonder Woman. It felt like this delightful amalgamation of Hollywood gossip, data analytics, film snobbery, and fandom tomfoolery. (All of my favorite things!) There's really no other place like it on the Internet, and I am really excited and hopeful to help it continue to prosper, even in the uncertain times we live in. Theaters are re-opening, and we have a stacked 2021 with In The Heights, Eternals, F9, Eternals, Space Jam: A New Legacy, Eternals, Snake Eyes, Eternals, Jungle Cruise, Eternals, Suicide Squad, Eternals, Respect, Eternals, Candyman, Eternals, Shan-Chi, Eternals, Everybody's Talking About Jamie, Eternals, Let There Be Carnage, Eternals, Dune, Eternals, Top Gun: Maverick, Eternals, House of Gucci, Eternals, Matrix 4, and ETERNALS. We have enough films that -- if the industry ever goes back to reporting Numbers consistently -- we could reopen The Summer and Winter Games! In the meantime while we wait for Eternals: The Tracking Thread is back alive and doing the best work on the site! Make sure to submit your list for @chasmmi's BOT's Top Animated Films Of All Time and @4815162342's BOT Top 100 Film Scores: Fifth Edition Swing by the CAYOM subforum for some fantasy box office Leave Your Reviews (Or Link Your Letterboxd) in Review That Movie Tell us what you're watching... and loving or hating Join Our Telegram Group Join @AniNateDisneyWatch Group (Saturday Nights) (use Telegram Group link) And of course: Watch REALLY COOL old movies with @Plain Old Tele, me, and the Wondyful Projection Group. I'm suuuuuper bias, but it's kind of uh-MAZ-in' (Wednesday and Saturdays, schedule permitting) So here's to a New Chapter for BOT. I hope it's as fabulous as the previous ones. 2 1 Link to comment
charlie Jatinder Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 The lack of Eternals in your post is disturbing @Cap 1 1 Link to comment
Cap Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 1 hour ago, charlie Jatinder said: The lack of Eternals in your post is disturbing @Cap E T E R N A L S 1 Link to comment
Porthos Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 1 hour ago, Cap said: (A) delightful amalgamation of Hollywood gossip, data analytics, film snobbery, and fandom tomfoolery. If this isn't the new site motto, like pronto, what are we even doing here? (back to reading the rest of the excellent post) 2 2 1 Link to comment
fmpro Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 On 6/5/2021 at 5:50 PM, Cap said: I want thank @Water Bottle for everything he has done over the years, and for trusting me with this endeavor!! I am literally walking into the Ford dealership to buy my Mach E right now, so I will write up a nice post in a couple hours. But, tl;dr: 😂😂😘😘 You got quite the sign on bonus huh😗 1 Link to comment
Cap Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 11 hours ago, fmpro said: You got quite the sign on bonus huh😗 HER NAME IS STEVE 1 1 Link to comment
