Welcome to Togepi's Message Board. TMB was founded in December 1999 as the forums for Frosterpie's Caterpie Forest and an emphasis on fanfiction writing. Over the years since then, TMB has become its own community, moved around several times (settled here in July '04), and most of the discussion today is just general chat, rather than pokemon or fanfiction.

Our userbase's age range goes from as low as 15 to as high as 22. (Edit Nov 2011: Probably more like mid-20s these days.) Users of all ages are welcome, but do note that we're not just another kiddie fan community. A certain amount of maturity (though not necessarily age) is expected if you're going to be posting here.

In general, we're a friendly community, and if you're nice to us, we'll be nice to you. We do want new members, but due to problems with spammers and the like, registrations require administrator approval. If you want to register, sign up and make a new post in the registration thread. If you don't do this, we won't know who you are, or be able to tell if you're a real person. So, if you don't post something in the registration thread, we can't approve your registration. You cannot log into your account until it is approved, and there is a window of 7 days before the account is automatically deleted if not manually approved by an admin. You must post as a guest in the registration thread stating the account name you've registered, or no one will notice because of the volume of fake accounts set up by spambots (around 200 every week now). Guests are, however, free to browse the forums and post replies in this forum only (Introduce yourself!).

UPDATE November 2011: Because Spambots are a nuisance and so few real people try to register, registration is disabled. To join, contact an admin in person so we can manually create an account for you. You can contact me by the means listed below.

If you've got any further questions, you can IM me (MSN: crysmmew@hotpop.com, AIM: crysmmew, YIM: karyuu_palustris), or another admin or moderator. Our admins are Kentucky Fried Pidgey (who pays the bills), Crysm (yours truly), and Zero. Quazaplat is our moderator.

A list of rules can be found here, but it's mostly common sense. Be nice to each other, that sort of thing.

As a final note, all fanfics and artwork MUST remain on the board ONLY unless you have the specific permission of the creator. You may link only to the topics containing them.

All that said, welcome! We look forward to meeting you.