The Gang of Five
Beyond the Mysterious Beyond => The Fridge => Topic started by: Mumbling on October 28, 2022, 05:39:26 AM
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Seriously. I joined this forum when I was 14 and I am 29 now. A while back I used a website to calculate when I would reach my "half life" point, and it was yesterday, 27 October 2022. I reckon slightly older members will be reaching this milestone soon as well.
I don't think my 14 year old self would have believed me if I told her this would become a really big part of her life. Thanks everyone for all the good years.
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I wasn’t in the forum when you first joined, but what I can say is I’m proud of you for reaching this achievement. Congratulations!
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It's quite an achievement to have spent many years on a forum when most people just post once and never again or stay there for a while and then are never active again.
Well done! :)
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I actually already knew you joined the forums when you was 14.
But congratulations on your anniversary.
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Hooray for 2008! All the best users joined the forum then :P
The GoF had a huge impact on my personal growth as well, its quite a remarkable site and bunch of people. My Welcome thread is basically the first thing I ever posted on the internet under my own identity (everything earlier was like Wikipedia edits), so I basically learned how to behave online through how y'all treated me. And I couldn't have picked a better group to learn from!
I remember when landbeforetimelover messaged me a few days after I joined saying he'd removed the white background from my avatar (the same sandwich you see now) just because he figured I'd like it to look nicer. I was blown away by receiving a random act of charity from a regular when I didn't even have 10 posts yet. And then, sometime later, when I posted a cryptic vaguely-alarming message and left the forum without explaining why (wasn't y'all, was teenage depression mixing with real-life stresses overwhelming me) Malte emailed me to ensure I was alright, (he actually did it twice! Once immediately, and once a month later after I didn't reply to the first.) I never thought people online would care about other users to that degree, and his act of caring really helped me get through a tough emotional point in my life.
So yeah, I guess I'm trying to say I owe a lot to the GoF too, and I'm really glad its stuck around all these years. The current bunch of admins (especially rhombus, Mumbling, and nick22) really put a lot of work into fostering a positive and healthy community, carrying a torch that's been burning as long as I've been a part of the forum and earlier.
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It's always nice to know your experiences, guys, filled with good memories. :)
Congratulations!