Hindsight, and an Interesting Side-Effect of Online Forums

[Scarlett O'Hara]

MLS, I feel exactly the same! I was 16 when I joined, now I'm 23. What an old hag I am now.

I used to be soooo stupid, I thought I was mature and that I knew a lot of things for my age but I didn't! Here is an example thread of mine which shows how young and naive I was:

http://www.musicbanter.com/introduct...-suspense.html

http://www.musicbanter.com/lounge/12...e-couples.html

http://www.musicbanter.com/lounge/11...unpopular.html

http://www.musicbanter.com/lounge/11...ure-fat-2.html

How awful were my thread titles. I have improved big time. I mean nothing beats Man Parts.

Now I realise I've grown up a lot. I've changed in music taste, the variety of music and I am proud of what I listen to. I used to care what other people thought so I followed what people liked. Now I loudly shout from rooftops that even though I'm an avid collector of The Rolling Stones particularly by vinyl, I also love Lady Gaga!

I remember being a real bitch on the forums, it was all about flaming back then, I got into huge fights with other members and funnily enough no one pinned us for it, not one infraction was given. These days I get one for merely hinting an insult. I learned to have attitude through not taking **** from people but at the same time only giving people crap when I'm not being respected, or when they are being just plain stupid.

Interesting fact: I have made 92 threads!

[MoonlitSunshine]

Originally Posted by Vanilla

MLS, I feel exactly the same! I was 16 when I joined, now I'm 23. What an old hag I am now.

I used to be soooo stupid, I thought I was mature and that I knew a lot of things for my age but I didn't! Here is an example thread of mine which shows how young and naive I was:

http://www.musicbanter.com/introduct...-suspense.html

http://www.musicbanter.com/lounge/12...e-couples.html

http://www.musicbanter.com/lounge/11...unpopular.html

http://www.musicbanter.com/lounge/11...ure-fat-2.html

How awful were my thread titles. I have improved big time. I mean nothing beats Man Parts.

Now I realise I've grown up a lot. I've changed in music taste, the variety of music and I am proud of what I listen to. I used to care what other people thought so I followed what people liked. Now I loudly shout from rooftops that even though I'm an avid collector of The Rolling Stones particularly by vinyl, I also love Lady Gaga!

I remember being a real bitch on the forums, it was all about flaming back then, I got into huge fights with other members and funnily enough no one pinned us for it, not one infraction was given. These days I get one for merely hinting an insult. I learned to have attitude through not taking **** from people but at the same time only giving people crap when I'm not being respected, or when they are being just plain stupid.

Interesting fact: I have made 92 threads!

The forum I moderate has.. Threads: 193,157, Posts: 5,197,593, Members: 95,885, Active Members: 4,765 - according to the stats at the bottom. I've always seen this forum as kinda lenient in comparison to what we have to be! I think because MB was that much smaller back then, it was easier for the mods to keep tabs on people, and so they could be more lenient.

This

How awful were my thread titles. I have improved big time. I mean nothing beats Man Parts.

Made me laugh

Regarding Music taste, yeah, I know exactly what you mean. I when I joined this forum, I was reaaaally narrow in what i'd listen to. Nowadays, I'm happy to listen to anything once, no matter what it is, no matter what people say about it.

[Seltzer]

When I look over some of my old posts from '05, I retch in disgust. Especially the ones where I absolutely ripped into anyone who so much as criticised Bruce Dickinson. I'm far too embarrassed to resurrect any of them... was I really that much of a mentally imbalanced twat when I was 16-17?

It's quite normal for people to feel repulsed by facets of their 'foolish' past selves and former perspectives... what differs between people is the period of time over which this happens and how much they choose to retain over time. I know someone who'll probably hate everything he currently stands for in a year's time. It's the incremental growth approach to life vs the clean slate cyclic destruction approach. The difference for us forumers is that, regardless of approach, we have it all documented whether we like it or not