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The '''Paperpusher's Message Board''', often abbreviated to '''PPMB''', is the longest-running message board in Daria fandom history, and the major gathering place for ''Daria'' fans. Founded in 1999, it originally served as a replacement for the [[Lawndale Commons]] forum, and later the [[Outpost Daria Message Board]]. The board is named after its original owner and founder, the [[Paperpusher]]. It has over 600 registered users.

 

==History==

The PPMB was originally founded by the [[Paperpusher]] as early as October 13, 1999; its earliest saved copy can be found at www.webarchive.org, with its original address of paperpusher.simplenet.com. In the beginning, it served as a replacement board when [[Lawndale Commons]], the premiere message board, abruptly closed its doors in late 1999/early 2000. Until then, Lawndale Commons and the Outpost Daria Fanfiction Message Board were the two main message boards. When Lawndale Commons shut down, fans scrambled to find an alternative. The Paperpusher offered the Paperpusher Message Board, while [[Martin J. Pollard]], owner of the [[Outpost Daria Message Board]], expanded its topics beyond fanfiction. Because Outpost Daria's message board was already well known to fans, most spent the bulk of their time there, while the Paperpusher Message Board, with its single forum, was a slower-paced alternative. When the [[Outpost Daria]] website was "Foxed", or sent a letter by [[Viacom]] asking Outpost Daria to cease the alleged infringement of its intellectual property, the Outpost Daria Message Board was closed. The bulk of Daria fandom then migrated to the PPMB, which became the major message board of Daria fandom.

 

 

The board remained run by Paperpusher who kept control of the board in the hands of its staff of moderators. In 2005, Paperpusher turned the control of the PPMB over to [[Kara Wild]]. For the sake of continuity, Wild declined to change the name or alter the message board's design.

 

==Administrators and moderators==

 

After the creation of the "Paperpusher Message Board 2.0" in 2003, only Kara Wild, Steven Galloway, Chad Page, and J remained as moderators. They agreed to moderate the new board, which now gave them the option of moving threads, deleting entire threads at once, checking IP addresses of users, and locking threads. However, notably, this new message board stripped them of some powers they had on the original PPMB, specifically the power to delete users, mute users, or "undelete" posts that might have been deleted accidentally. This arrangement proved to be problematic when the Paperpusher spent less and less time interacting with Daria fandom and the PPMB found itself beset by spammers and other trolls. Kara Wild and Steven Galloway, the two remaining active mods, could only delete the posts, not the users.