A "Meet Others" section.

I realized today that our forum is missing one thing that is very popular on many sites, kin and otherwise- A "Meet Others" section for finding people in your area to possibly talk to, or for just finding interesting folks to talk to over ye olde nets. I know I'd like to pull the Ohioans out of the woodwork and annoy them myself.

What does everyone think?

I don't think there's anyone around here. The closest person that I noted on the map to the Twin Cities was Luin.

we have a frappr map here: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.frappr.com/otherkinphenomena/map">http://www.frappr.com/otherkinphenomena/map</a><!-- m --> if that is what you wanted...

kahoku Wrote:we have a frappr map here: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.frappr.com/otherkinphenomena/map">http://www.frappr.com/otherkinphenomena/map</a><!-- m --> if that is what you wanted...

That's not what I was talking about. I meant something like the "Seeking Pen Pal or Companionship" section at otherkin.com.

I don't know if we are quite big enough for that yet.

you can always look at the member list to see where everyone's from. Or start a topic in the off-topic section. as veritas said, we're not that many people here.

kahoku Wrote:you can always look at the member list to see where everyone's from.

Not really. A good chunk of the locations imputed are jokes. Mine's a case of that.

I have to say, that a function like that. A "seeking" something function to a place like this might make it come off as a dating site. Which isn't really something I'd find all too shiny.

this always reminds me of meet up groups. but i understand having a section for meeting people on a forum like this. but as it has been stated, i don't think this forum is large enough for a feature like that. really what could be done at this time is something in the general or off topic for people seeking penpals or companionship or just wanting to have a meetup. once the forum gets much larger it would make more sense to have a forum section dedicated to this. props to kayako for thinking ahead.

I'm generally against this, on the grounds that OK.com already has quite an extensive location directory, and rather than trying to post here I think it would be better to encourage people to post their locations over there. Of course if OK.net has died since the last time I posted this, feel free to disregard!