> Just anything to keep the things we love about this whole spiel as alive and vital as possible for us.

And as one of those otakuist/japanophile, I want to add the possibility to get in contact with "our overlords" concerning this whole enterprise. Imageboards did get as popular and did not evolve as much in Japan for a set of reasons, most of which aren't really classified or properly examined yet (already existing otaku/visual culture, almost limitless bandwidth come to mind). In short: I think there's still a lot to learn and maybe even to work on, mutually. in the future. I think it would just ammount to a voluntarily self-blinding if that option would not at least be considered.

In more concrete words: Didn't WAHa once come up with the idea of getting in contact with the people of the 101Freeway posse (http://www.101fwy.com/) once? They seem to be in good spirits and linkage with quite a pack of other small communities. Maybe there's some chance to set something up. Of course, that's going to be difficult. The admin of the Magical Lounge, for instance, didn't react that much at all to our first, shy advances (concerning their spam problems back then, which still persist). Language barriers and all that are a problem here, of course. "What Is To Be Done?" (- Lenin)