Sticking with a site, e.g., this one

[Amaris]

TrekBBS (12 years), Wordforge (10 years), Starscape (8 years, though now we're merged with Wordforge), and of course, Brony Kingdom (3 years this October!). I stay because I have friends here, and we've long since come to know one another very well. Talking Star Trek with people is fun, but talking with people you know, and you get their humor, and their other quirks, that's, to quote a great philosopher, where the fun is.

 

[MacLeod]

I wonder how many of us have picked up on others quirks even though we might not interact with them that often?

 

[Locutus of Bored]

This is the site I've been on the longest--lurker since 1999, member since 2002.

There's another site I started on even before that (late 1997), but it's been defunct for some years now.

There is yet another site I started on roughly the same time as TrekBBS, but it's also gone away.

There was another forum, too--joined up in 1999 and it died a couple years later.

I'd probably be active on all of them today if they were still around, but what can you do?

You can stop joining forums, online Ted McGinley. It's like the Grim Reaper showing up when you register.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

This board and this one are the only ones I use regularly. I have made a lot of friends here and I am very grateful for that!

It was the MLB discussion that made me want to stick around.

I'll have "Phrases I will never ever hear" for $1000, Alex.

 

[auntiehill]

Oh, come on. We all know you paid Pondwater to write that.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Believe it or not: My username has nothing to do with baseball. The acronym is a total and utter coincidence.

 

[Amaris]

Believe it or not: My username has nothing to do with baseball. The acronym is a total and utter coincidence.

Still, it's a lucky coincidence, and a fitting one.
I mean, I love baseball, but you like it so much, divine providence and serendipity sought you out personally.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

It's a reference to the Alan Parsons Project. ('Laser Beam' = anagram of 'Lee Abrams' who is a friend of Alan's)

Although: Even though I didn't originally choose the name because of baseball, that is the reason I switched back to it after having been Babaganoosh for so long.

 

[dg1379]

I joined when Nemesis was debuting a new trailer and website. I remember posting instructions on how to download the full screen hi-res file from the akami servers. Went away for awhile but came back when the blurays were announced. I was impressed that my password still worked! I was part of another tech website but that dried up. It's still around but very little activity. This is the only one I visit regularly.

 

[Amaris]

It's a reference to the Alan Parsons Project. ('Laser Beam' = anagram of 'Lee Abrams' who is a friend of Alan's)

...

*adds MLB to list of people who shall have power and influence in his global Administration*

 

[Yoda]

It's quite simple. This is the only site on the entire Internet where people discuss TV shows while utilizing passable grammar.

 

[Amaris]

It's quite simple. This is the only site on the entire Internet where people discuss TV shows while utilizing passable grammar.

Hey, it's not the only site, though it is likely the biggest.

 

[HIjol]

...and, to all of you above and, I am quite sure, many more, thank you very kindly for your excellent contributions and loyalty to this site...though I am still relatively new, I get much pleasure and stimulation from the threads and Fora...Huzzah to you all!

 

[Amaris]

...and, to all of you above and, I am quite sure, many more, thank you very kindly for your excellent contributions and loyalty to this site...though I am still relatively new, I get much pleasure and stimulation from the threads and Fora...Huzzah to you all!

You used the term "fora." I like you.

 

[Starbreaker]

Been here for 13 years now. It's the only board I visit on a regular basis. I was involved with a few other boards about 10 years ago, but none of them lasted.

 

[Toxteth O´Grady]

Without a doubt I've been visiting here the longest. I joined in 2006, but I had been lurking since at least the start of Enterprise, because I still remember the reactions to the show being in widescreen and that the theme would be a pop song and not an instrumental.

I initially joined this site to talk about Star Trek, but the best discussions have been in the non-Trek forums. I still visit every day even if I don't post.

 

[USS Triumphant]

I've been here on and off since '99, although you wouldn't know it to look at my user account. I was originally USS_Triumphant, but took a hiatus between 2002 and 2004, and either I forgot my password or my account got purged for inactivity - not sure which. Then I was Sarachan from 2004-2005 or 2006 (can't remember exactly) and dropped off again for a while - work was taking ALL of my time. And then when I came back in late 2008, that account wouldn't log in, so I signed back up with U.S.S. Triumphant, which then got changed to USS Triumphant when T'Bonz changed it back after one of the holiday name changes. (Which I didn't mind, because on reflection I figured it was better not to have those periods floating around in the user database fields like that, anyway - I was a little surprised when it took my username with the periods in the first place. Well, the third place, but you know what I mean. )

The only site I've been on longer than this one that I still visit is Slashdot - I joined there in '98. I've managed to keep my same username the whole time, there - it requires less of a time investment than TrekBBS does, because I mostly just read, rather than commenting.

 

[HIjol]

...and, to all of you above and, I am quite sure, many more, thank you very kindly for your excellent contributions and loyalty to this site...though I am still relatively new, I get much pleasure and stimulation from the threads and Fora...Huzzah to you all!

You used the term "fora." I like you.

My thanks, and I like you right back!

 

[HIjol]

I've been here on and off since '99, although you wouldn't know it to look at my user account. I was originally USS_Triumphant, but took a hiatus between 2002 and 2004, and either I forgot my password or my account got purged for inactivity - not sure which. Then I was Sarachan from 2004-2005 or 2006 (can't remember exactly) and dropped off again for a while - work was taking ALL of my time. And then when I came back in late 2008, that account wouldn't log in, so I signed back up with U.S.S. Triumphant, which then got changed to USS Triumphant when T'Bonz changed it back after one of the holiday name changes. (Which I didn't mind, because on reflection I figured it was better not to have those periods floating around in the user database fields like that, anyway - I was a little surprised when it took my username with the periods in the first place. Well, the third place, but you know what I mean. )

The only site I've been on longer than this one that I still visit is Slashdot - I joined there in '98. I've managed to keep my same username the whole time, there - it requires less of a time investment than TrekBBS does, because I mostly just read, rather than commenting.

More's the good fortune for me, Triumphant...I still remember the important lesson you taught me about people and the Internet...was just over reading the Ellison thread and more evidence of what you told me of abounded...but forewarned is forearmed, and I thank you again...

 

[RJDiogenes]

This is definitely the board I've been with the longest. I was kind of active on the AOL boards when I first came on the Internet 21 years ago, but those have been consigned to the dustbin of history. Like Naira, I'm nowhere near as active as I used to be, since most of the people I palled around with here are gone. But the friends I made here led to my being asked to Mod at KellyzKorner and Renaissance Next. KellyzKorner ("The Nicest Place On The Internet") is long gone now, too, and sadly missed, but I'm still in touch with (and occasionally collaborate with) people I met there. I'm now the Admin at ReNext, though the board is very quiet now-- we had a major Apocalypse in 2008 and a lot of people never came back after we were up and running again. Still, that's my "home base" where my best friends are. Other than that, I've been a member of Ex Isle for probably about six or seven years and TerranBBS for a while. I think I'm probably still a member of Starscape and Brony Kingdom, but I seldom get to visit. Between my job, my projects, and the Internet, I'm a bit overextended these days.