Website Design by DianeHeather Designs © 2009
Vol: 1. Issue No: 1
August, 2009
Copyright © 2009 Community Voice News
All rights reserved
Page last updated: July 9, 2009
Welcome to the Community Voice News and our inaugural issue. We are very pleased to be here and to step into some very large shoes in offering this service to the Delphi community of which we are proud members.
Our primary purpose is to provide an information clearing house regarding what is going on at Delphi at a forum and individual level. Likewise we hope to educate, expand and entertain as well, though we’re still trying to figure out which one of those categories the hybrid powered Chihuahuas belong to as some of us have doubts about gravy covered Twinkies™ as a power source.
To this end we are not a substitute for the official Delphi Forums in regards to technical support or with the management. We are here for us to share among ourselves and to see what is best about the community.
Our primary staff should be familiar to most of you. Diane is well known for her
Our First Issue
By: CVN Assistant Editor, Absalom (STABSALOM)
Featured Forum of the Month - The Poll Vault
CVN Editor, Diane (DIANEHEATHER)
chats with The Poll Vault Host: Kim (SSHOST)
The Poll Vault is very much a self-moderating community. Forum staff tries to keep from acting in an official capacity as little as possible. We don't like telling our members how to behave. Because of this, things often get heated and egos get bruised. That said, this is a community that knows how to roll with the punches.
Even when people seem to take differences of opinions as personal slights, they quickly get over it. You'll notice members bickering contentiously in one thread and acting like BFFs in another. That is life at TPV.
Diane: Well, The Poll Vault certainly sounds like a very interesting forum... and I highly recommend it to everyone. You have another forum on Delphi, don't you, Kim? Why don't you tell us a little about that?
Kim: Thank you, Diane. My other forum is a signature forum. It's called Kiddie Table Designs, and it's a hangout for friends as well as a place where several of us offer signature graphics and scrap tags. We also offer graphics related freebies.
If you're a music fan, you'll find a ton of music videos and related conversation. You will also find recipes, the occasional frivolous poll or web article and anything else we want to post at any given moment.
We are a little different than other signature forums in that we don't hug and greet everybody who stops in. We don't think it's horrible if other forums wanna, but it's not our style. We feel it is an invasion of lurkers' privacy.
We also offer goth and pagan graphics and will be adding more in the days to come. If any of this sounds interesting to you, feel free to drop by and say hello.
Diane: Thank you, Kim, so very much for taking the time to speak with us today. It has been fun and interesting.
Kim: Thanks Diane, it has been fun.
Diane: Hello Kim. Thank you for agreeing to be our very first interview. It's really great having you here with us.
Kim: It's my pleasure. Thanks for thinking of The Poll Vault (TPV) for your newsletter.
Diane: You are very welcome. Kim, you are the co-owner of The Poll Vault, which is an all polls forum here on Delphi. You and your sister, Lori, have run this forum for several years, and you have consistently remained among the top forums on Delphi. To what do you attribute this remarkable success?
Kim: There really isn't any special trick to it. It's the polls. If you keep adding new ones on different subjects, you get conversation. Where the magic comes in for PV is that we have grown a very nice community, but we can also credit that to the fact that new conversation is constantly being started on PV. If not for new polls, the forum would never have grown the way it did. We'd have just become one of those boards where people surf in to answer promo questions once in awhile never to be seen or heard from again.
Diane: I've always appreciated the clever play on words for the name of your forum. Whose idea was it to start this forum, and how many years have you been in business?
Kim: Thanks, Diane. The name was my idea, but Lori was the one who said an all-polls forum would be a good idea. She told me that shortly after Delphi introduced the poll feature. Within days I took it upon myself to actually start the forum, and she agreed to co-host it. It has been a decade since the forum was started.
Diane: What sort of topics do you discuss at The Poll Vault? Is there anything off-limits?
Kim: Everything is up for conversation. Aside from making sure Delphi's TOS is followed, forum staff doesn't really police topics. We encourage people to speak as freely as possible and also to be prepared for whatever reaction their own words or polls receive.
If you would like to be featured as "Forum of the Month"
please send email to:
Please include the name of your forum along with the url... and put
"Forum of the Month" in the email title.
signature and forum theme design work, the forums she hosts such as Philosophy of Consciousness and Community Voice News, as well as being an active Staff Member and participant in many forums within the Delphi community. Dasha (Dashablade) is also well known in several forums for her incisive wit, strong writing style and a knack for making detractors wish they’d stayed illiterate. Absalom is known mostly for his posts at the Philosophy of Consciousness forum which he co-hosts with Diane. He plans to look in on other forums in the near future, assuming they lift the restraining orders.
So please come in and look around and oh, those are not horses in the living room, those are Diane’s Rhodesian Ridgebacks. Just give them a cookie and all will be well.
We are delighted to see you here and look forward to your ideas and suggestions for making it even better and helping us shape this newspaper into a common place for all the forums to come together and see just what an amazingly diverse place Delphi is because of all of us.
