HikiCulture has been mentioned on quite a few sites; I've seen quite a few mentions ever since the forum received lots of traffic in late October.
Here are three mentions out of the many I've already seen: http://twowheeledmadwoman.blogspot.com/2009/11/forum-for-reclusive-people.htmlHere's the latest batch of HikiCulture members I've given VIP status to:
GlassesI've made the user Mikan a HikiCulture moderator as I feel she will do a great job of moderating.
Mikan is a relatively new forum-user, but I can already tell that she'll make a great staff-member. Congrats Mikan.I will start off by saying that I am impressed by how active HikiCulture has become, and how much it has grown since creating it in late July of this year (2009). I initially wasn't sure if the forum would ever get more than twenty members (if that). Secondly, I want to say that the amount of new posts being contributed to the site (on most days) is quite impressive, to say the least.
There is one slight "problem" though - there are far too few threads being created.Some of the HikiCulture boards have less than ten threads in them. Lots of guests who visit this site probably think that the place is somewhat inactive, or doesn't have much to offer when they see that the place has so few threads to discuss things in, thus preventing them from registering.If every member could create a couple threads a week, or even a new thread a day (some people on the forums I'm on do this), HikiCulture would really have a lot more to offer and would not feel so banal. Some members have been fine when it comes to creating new threads, but many have created hardly any, or simply no threads at all -- I am not sure if there's a reason for this, but it's a shame.Don't be shy to create new threads; doing so will help make HikiCulture a better place with much more to offer.I was going through new avatars to use on the HikiCulture forums on a near-daily basis without finding feeling full contentment with any of the ones I had used; today though, I found the perfect one:
Here's a recluse/hikikomori survey I've created using PollDaddy:
Click here to take the survey.
I want to let you people know of a great board that is somewhat similar to HikiCulture; the board is called A Lonely Life. I don't think that the people at ALonelyLife are quite as reclusive as the people on HikiCulture, but it's still a pretty similar board.
I updated the HikiCulture banner. In addition to updating the HikiCulture banner, I updated the banners for my Posterous, Tumblr and Blogger blogs.
The typeface used was Myriad Pro; bold was the weight I used for HikiCulture, and bold condensed was the weight used for A Forum For Reclusive People (and Hikikomori) part of the banner.
In Japan, there are generally two terms that are used to describe someone who's a hikikomori: ひきこもり and 引き籠もり.
