Dob nears 1000 and reflects on his time in the SDMB

Wow, the time has just flown by. Almost 3 years ago and almost 1000 posts I have spent here in the good ol’ SDMB. I was just a shy, young lurker back in those days. A random website on Creationism lead me to a debate in GD. After reading the first 4 pages, I was hooked!

'course back in those days subscriptions were free, and we always thought they would be. We were all so young and naive!

Back then Aldebaran was just a young, cynical, American hater. Oh but the threads he started! So much fun, gone so fast.

What I have been doing with my time on the SDMB? Have I fought the good fight? Slain some some ignorance? No, probably not. But some ignorance in me has been slain, and this place has definitely made me more critical of wild claims and helped to me see more than my side of anything.

But, personal growth aside, what I have I done? Well, glad you asked! Being the not very productive worker today I came up with these little tidbits of my time here.

Thread with most views/replies:

Apologizing for Slavery. Does it matter? 331 replies/4267 views

My only thread with zero replies (that I could find, so dont go looking!):

Cyber stalking/annoyance unlawful?

Number of threads I started:

115 (search only went back to june of 03, but its close enough)

Where do I post?:
GQ 6
GD 28
MPSIMS 19
IMHO 7
PIT 20
Cafe 35

Personal fueds:

0

Posters I dislike:

0 (well maybe a few more than that…)

Goats sacraficed to the god of Cecil:

1,334

Number of times I lost my Charter designation:

1

Warnings from the Mods:

0

Favors done for the Mods to avoid warnings:

340

Number of laughs at postings, and posters:

hundreds

Things learned:

hundreds (at least I like to think so!)

Sorry, Dob, we currently restrict post-count parties to a total of zero (per person). Check out this forum sticky, here.

Of course, regardless of the closed thread, we’re glad you’re still here with us. :slight_smile: