The Dozerfleet Forum

The Dozerfleet Forum was the official message board of Dozerfleet Productions. It was hosted as part of Forumotion from late 2010 until February of 2011, replacing its counterpart at Proboards. In 2011, it was replaced with The Dozerfleet Blog.

History
The forum was founded in late October and early November of 2008, as a way to publish articles of importance to the Dozerfleet founder in a way that would allow others to join the forum and comment. Shortly after its creation, it began to replace the Dozerfleet MySpace Page as a blog archival center.

Issues with the staff at Mod The Sims led to the forum developing a section for the Dozerfleet Sims Downloads Collection, dubbed Utterly Sims. Downloads were first offered in a completed form on June 21st of 2009. In July of 2010, Utterly got a facelift, and became Utterly Sims 1&amp;2 and Utterly Sims 3. Later, the Utterly Sims category would be expanded to include sub-boards for all Sims games, as well as a board for Sims-related games and a sub-board for games not related at all to the Sims franchise.

Radical change arrived in September and October of 2010, when the forum was moved from Proboards to Forumotion. However, low traffic and skinning issues prompted yet another change. Blogger, part of Google's network, offered free blog hosting necessary for The Dozerfleet Blog. As another plus, Blogger/Blogspot offered better integration between its service and various social networking media sites like Facebook and Twitter. The forum's comments and articles were moved to the blog, while its Utterly Sims downloads were moved to DozerfleetWiki.

Sections
The following is a list and description of various sections of the forum, as it appeared before going offline.


 * Introduce Yourself: As the name implies, this section was for members to talk about themselves and things happening in their lives.


 * First Rule of Dozerfleet: Is to please talk about it! Often! The title was a reference to the "First Rule of Fight Club." Formerly "Dozerfleet General Discussion."  This section offered archives of material that the Dozerfleet founder found interesting, and also allowed for member Q&amp;A about things generic in nature concerning Dozerfleet.


 * Visual Media Central: This section was for all things entertainment-media-related, especially those that did not pertain to Dozerfleet directly. The sub-boards DozerfleetTV and Dozerfleet Film Reviews were for certain things as they were Dozerfleet-relevant.


 * Newsroom: Formerly the "Fun House," as well as "Misc House." This board is for discussion of serious non-Dozerfleet-related current events. This may include political discussion, current events in the news, etc. However, events in the lives of members belong in the Introduction section.


 * Dozerfleet Comics: This category contained two sections: "The Gerosha Multiverse" and "Stationery Voyagers Universe." The latter was for discussion of Stationery Voyagers episodes and for the release of all things relevant to it. The Gerosha Multiverse section was for discussion of all things Gerosha-related, including The Ciem Webcomic Trilogy and the novel series.  Ciem (2007), was syndicated in here around the same time that it was submitted to the Storytellers' Social Forums at Mod The Sims (Formerly known as the Sims2Community Storyteller's Section.)  All discussion of Ciem-related content that didn't belong in other categories (such as the TVTropes section) belonged in this section.

Utterly Sims
Main article: Utterly Sims

This section was for PC and video game players to talk about the games they love (or hate) and their achievements within. It was also for machinomics storytellers and machinimators to discuss their works.

The sub-section Utterly Sims 1 was a courtesy sub-board for everyone who still plays the original Sims franchise. The Dozerfleet Sims Downloads Collection was divided into two sub-boards: Utterly Dozerfleet Sims 2, and Utterly Dozerfleet Sims 3. There was a sub-board called "Utterly Sims-Related" for games like SimCity and The Urbz, Other games got to be mentioned in the Utterly NOT Sims sub-board. These included The Godfather and Counter-Strike.

Ultimately, Utterly Sims was moved to DozerfleetWiki and integrated into the Sims Help system.

Statistics
As of November 18th of 2010, the Dozerfleet Forum at its Forumotion host had acquired over 102 posts on various topics. It had not regained its members from Proboards, but hoped to generate buzz on its own. It gained up to 9 members before finally being canceled.