A Funny Thing Happened On The Internet Forum

I've had this idea knocking around my head for a while, but haven't been able to get good ideas for the characters. It's a story set online, largely on one internet forum, told in episodic fashion.

I've got a setting, a hypothetical forum called smorgasbord, and a two of the characters, the forum creators for my hypothetical forums, but I need more inspiration than that, because I'd rather center it on the regulars, not the creators/mods of the forum, and I can't think of good plotlines until I think of good characters.

I can imagine loads of directions you could go. Veterans, trolls, romance, wars, whole LIVES. You could do epic things with stories about the internet, but no one really has as of yet.

PS:If I write a story set in an internet forum, would you become angry with me?

A Sitcom Inside The Internet? Could be very fun. It's like an normal TV series, but instead of faces, you have avatars; instead of voices, fonts; instead of names, nicknames, etc.. A much larger fluidity of the cast is a must (there are the core members of the forum and the members-of-the-week of sorts). What is the topic of the forum? That will determine what kind of people will be the first to join and probably, the first story arcs, as well.

For optimal craziness, you should make a forum just for this story and post as the characters.

I agree with the above statement.

I came up with something like this a long while ago, but I never did anything with it.

You could do so much with this! You can make people who could never possibly be friends with each other be friends together online! Hell, just look at this site!

It has a few Shout Outs to TV Tropes on it.

What I've got so far:

The settings

• Smorgasbord: A board originally created by a high school student to complain about how the school should serve better lunches. It slowly expands past the school, changes in the process, from a forum about school lunches, to a general food forum, to a forum for all sorts of discussion, from food to politics to sex. Smorgasbord has many subforums, each with its own topic and regulars. The layout and names retain their food theme as The Artifact.

The characters

• Three_Minute_Eggs: A student at a boarding school, tired of their horrible food. After learning that student council has no power to change this, he creates the forum smorgasbord. A strict admin who takes his life and his forum seriously, but is often busy with all of his Real Life activities.
• Skillet: The cofounder of the site. A laid-back Brilliant, but Lazy school janitor. Something of a Gamer Chick and Wrench Wench in Real Life. As an admin, she is accessible, permissive, and friendly.

If I were writing this the other cofounder would be a slightly narcissistic Pungeon Master who goes by the handle "Smorgas".

(Just a thought; you do what you want, of course... :D )