Why did you come to this board?

[Fidel_Castronaut]

I started out at AF.com because one of the regulars, a guy by the username BadDogma, was a co-worker and turned me on to it. It was nice to be able to vent to a crowd of like minded people without worry. At the time, it was a vibrant, active community. Granted, it had its share of assholes, but only it's share. As time passed, the founder lost interest, the good regulars started to leave, server problems started becoming the norm, culminating in a horrific board crash caused by yours truly and my epic "the last person to post, wins" thread. Not something intentional, it seems their board just couldn't handle a 1000+ page thread. The second largest was their member picture thread at a mere 800+ and most threads, even the popular ones, never made it past 100 or so. After the crash (they were down for two or three days) the draconian policies started and I finally gave them up for the far superior AF.org, which was getting rather regularly bad mouthed when I left.

I was a member over there, and the crash was when I stopped visiting. I was already burning out on the fetish many there seemed to have for pedantry. Drunkenshoe couldn't make up her mind if she hated me or not, too, so it was always up in the air what sort of experience I was going to have on any given day.

I too was a regular at AF.com as some there might remember. I left after the board crashed and we lost many of our long term members. I still lurk there every now and again, but I found a home at AF.org and have remained ever since. I can't even really remember my time at AF.com anymore though I have fond memories of being there 5+ years ago when it was really vibrant. That was also the time I created the best thread ever there, the "Present evidence here" thread which someone described as the place where the internet goes to die.

My home is here now ^_^