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The Story of Simply Buffy
What is Simply Buffy?
Simply Buffy is my Neopets guild. For those of you who don't know, Neopets is an interactive game where players create their own pets, play games, and interact with other members. It is a lot of fun, and I have met many great friends there. I encourage anyone to sign up, it is totally free. To create an account, click here
Guilds are in my opinion the best part of Neopets. Basically, a member can create a guild if they want. They make a layout, start some contests, and advertise. Soon people join. They post on the message board, and the guild grows. It is a great way to get to know people who share a common interest. When I decided to create a guild, I naturally started a Buffy one.
Story of Simply Buffy
On February 4th, 2005, Simply Buffy celebrated it's second birthday. It featured the debut of the games section of the web site and some long speeches by Erin and member of the year Kitty.
Well, two years ago I created this guild. At the time, I had some experience with neopets, about 7 or 8 months. I had been council in a guild...a SPONGEBOB guild. So I knew a little about guilds. Then that guild tanked. So, I decided to pursue my dream of creating my own Buffy guild. I went to the little create guild page and filled it out...originally I wanted to name it something else, I honestly forget what, but it was taken, so I thought up Simply Buffy pretty much right away. Then I got to the part where you actually add like a layout and content...and realized that I had no idea what I was doing. So I neomailed the one Buffy fan neofriend I had. Some of you probably remember Vanessa, raindrop_waterfalls. She agreed to help me, took the second council spot, and made our first layout. (Remember that I knew extremely limited html at this time.) And the second, third, fourth...she helped me a lot. And I admit that the guild was very slow in getting started. Our council seemed like a revolving door, only like less than ten members...for a while things were so slow that there was little activity. But then I decided to try again, and I started advertising, etc. Then alysonhannigan joined. One of the first things I did when advertising was type in the actors names and look for people, lol. And it turns out many others do the same, because many many people found this guild through her. That was around September 2003. That October, Episode of the Week quizzes were born. By this point the number of members was growing very quickly, and we had around 30. The quizzes became what I still consider our little trademark. For the first birthday one year ago today, we had between 40 and 50 members. And get this: I said that my goal for the second birthday was to have 75. -laughs and points at number of members- We have almost doubled that goal. Right now I am truly amazed at how far this guild has come. For one of the first times we have a stable, steady, active council that I trust completely. Tara has been there for a while, and I know that her activeness and easily findable user name helped this guild beyond belief, so thank you to her. Then we have Fred and Amanda, who have become established, active members in this guild. And outside the council, we also have many wonderful members who continue to make this guild a fun, active place every day! I could never thank you guys enough. Not only is this guild a fun, great experience but I have also met many very good friends through it.
Hmmm...am I forgetting anyone? -thinks- Oh yeah! Kitty XD. I think most people know how much you do for this guild but I will recap anyway, lol. Having joined this guild over a year ago, she has made many layouts, banners, and other graphics, completely redone the guild website, prepared the brand new games section for today which was NOT easy, and continued to be active throughout it all, answering quizzes, posting, and helping me whenever it was needed. I could never thank her enough, and for that reason she is the 2nd ever Member of the Year! The first was Vanessa. So congratulations kitty, I have already given you your little Faith-themed award that I made and you will be added to the hall of fame. So I just want to thank you all so much, for everything. Here's to another great year!
~Erin
Guild Members:151
To visit Simply Buffy, go here.
To visit our web site and learn even more, go here.
To visit our guild forum, go here.
