Hindsight, and an Interesting Side-Effect of Online Forums

[TheBig3]

For the second, yes. I'm constantly going "Oh jesus, can we delete this friggen thing?" I mean, I was a class A **** for the first 1.5 to 2 years. Part of that is still me, I've just learned how on-line forums work and I've gotten to know these people. The other half is, unless you join when you're 30+, you're probably going to do some growing here. I joined when I was 22/23 (not sure) and I can tell you, I wasn't the same person half-year to half-year.

To the third point, most people think they post a lot because they see all of their own posts, but I only see you as a regular character as of recently. Part of this has to do with Avatars. I use user names as a secondary identifier, and only after I don't recognize the avatar. Its probably advantageous for new users to keep the same avatar for a year at least. As for the people who change their user names, I just give up on trying to get to know them. Its a hassle for me and I don't give enough of a crap.

What I've learned in my time here is that two people can be highly active users, but if their interests don't cross paths, they may never see one another. I'll sometimes walk across two members have a conversation in a thread, one I know, one I don't and think "who is this ****ing guy?"

I had more of an idea of who you were because you put your actual country in your little bio on the left there and that helps. When people put this stupid **** like "right behind you!" and "a dark and lonely place" its just an assimilator. You become just another number who's done that for god knows what reason.