15:17 Jan 21 2012
Times Read: 640
I stumbled into the forum today. I know what a peculiar thing to do for me! I saw a post asking if the "old timers" were lazy because we aren't as active in the forum as we once were. I found myself crafting the below the response and I am including it here because I think a lot of my friends might fall into the same category of rarely digging into the forum like they once did.
Are we lazy? Maybe.
But frankly look where this forum began here.
That was 2004... over 6300 threads prior. We've seen lengthy discussions on vampires, daywalkers, pixies, faeiries, pagans, orbs in pictures vs dust spots, leprichans, esp, astral projection, dracula, black dracula, rps games, psy vs py, the lochness monester, the monster under your bed, contemporary criminals claiming to be vampires, werewolves, werevamps, bigfoot, wicca, magic, concepts of good and evil, De ja Vu, coffins, gothic architecture, makeup, clothing, dreams, satanists, hedoism, biblical vampires, rituals, blood letting, phobias, immortality, literature, music, muses, 2012, Elizabeth Bathory, possession, changes to VR like a thread when VR broke 300 members, when Cancer instituted the society system, user levels, anyone remember Blood and Water?
Frankly it is extremely rare to see a topic in the forum that hasn't been done before. Ah remember the day when duplicate threads were RIAd? Do you even remember what RIA is or was that prior to your time too?
Yes I sound like a cranky old wench. But we did post and we posted with the fear of Stabb, Billy, Sevenn, sahahria, or others Dominars who would delete your post if you didn't add to the discussion or copied from Wiki or another site to sneak posts in. We didn't have the sandbox or any other place to level our posts because the other sections weren't considered in the status.
I know how this thread turns out. "Everyone says the same b.s., nothing new" It will be 99 two sentences rendition of the same before it gets RIPed... and remember when threads used to get closed too for a discussion going no where?
See how easy it is now to level. To post without reading the 20 other responses before you? Because honestly reading is too hard, and I agree is quick and easy.
Now that I have sufficiently VR dated myself, I am going to run away back into my corner. I love VR, the discussions I've had, and the evolution of the site. But I've come to appreciate my little niche of friends and activities on VR that keep me coming back year after year to this site.
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Requiem
01:59 Jan 30 2012
Heh.
Elemental
23:58 Feb 04 2012
Ah.......but what does it mean??? grins....and flies.