Sorry. =(
I'm an explainer-bot. I can't help it. None of the things on this site (hopefully) require any knowledge past being able to operate a browser, which is the idea. I try to be pretty keen on making sure things make sense to non-computer people, but I have this lingering feel of technical people feeling like they can't communicate with me either.
That being said, I do have a tendency to assume certain knowledge from certain groups of people. I expect all cel collectors to know who Miyazaki is and be able to name at least a half dozen of his movies, for instance. You can't expect that from the outside world. Not even at your local arthouse cinema.
Heck, I think most people even get turned off by my anime conversations. Even cels. The way I see it, the anime industry is built on a minimum wage workforce that just loves what they do. Inbetweeners make something insane like 200 yen a piece. Your typical American downtown street artist makes more per hour.
I would say most people just use this site as a free web host. As long as they remain model citizens and respect their fellow collectors, I think that's great. It would be nice to have more people to talk to on the forums sometimes, but I'd rather not attract inane converstaions that make it seem like anime fans have no cultural exposure to anything other than anime. (Who am I to talk though, I'm still only halfway through sensei's (
http://sensei.rubberslug.com) book...)
Ooh, IDEA.
An editorial section. Send me (or a moderator?) a few hundred words about any topic about anime or collecting and we'll post it and open discussion on it. That should attract people. I'd be really interested in shotgun debates with fans of above average education levels (making the assumption that cel collector = good chunk of expendable income = decent-paying job = above average level of education).
