:smack: 
Wuss.
I’ll wait for Satan to come back.
I know a couple of longtime Dopers who say (rather smugly) they have “outgrown” the Board, or it’s become boring, or they prefer LiveJournal.
Me, I’m going to have to cut back simply for time and energy reasons: I’m working ten-hour days, going back to school nights, visiting my mother in her assisted-living home every couple of weekends, writing a book . . . I don’t have the time or energy to brush my hair, let alone play on the computer. My social life is dead, and I’m having to explain to friends why I can’t meet them for dinner or drinks. “I don’t have the time, the money, the energy.”
So if my presence fades away, it’s not 'cause I don’t like it here . . .
I think a lot of people feel that way after approaching the boards as a cohesive community or chatroom. I’ve always held the boards more at arm’s length; reading and utilizing GQ for those quirky little questions in life, GD when I want to talk about a big current event or profound idea I’ve had, the pit when I occasionally want to vent or see what’s pissing people off, and - probably most of all since it has opened - the Cafe when I want to discuss media that none of my real-life friends are interested in.
This way I’ve stayed fairly consistent here for almost 5 years without really overdoing it or feeling burnt out. I know a lot of people just enough to smirk at inside jokes and jabs, but no one really enough to be emotionally involved in any of the ridiculous drama that goes on (often behind-the-scenes) around here.
People that approach the boards with an idea that they need to “fit-in” or be “popular” are almost invariably going to crash-and-burn.
I renewed my membership because I had some extra cash for Xmas, and I was having some health problems and had to take a month or so off from a PT job (looking for a new one now) so I had time to post. But when I start working outside my home again in another 2-3 weeks, I imagine it will drop off considerably. I’m working on two books right now among a huge pile of other stuff, and when I’m working in and out of home it just takes too much out of me, and I don’t have the extra time.
I probably won’t renew my membership next winter unless I really feel like I want to stay, and I’m actually in a position where I don’t have to work two jobs to make ends meet. It all depends on how things go. I’ve been a bit disappointed with a few things I’ve seen since I rejoined, to be honest.
My posting rate may drop from time to time when stuff comes up, but I get the feeling I’ll posting here forever!
Depends. If I find another message board that’s more interesting and isn’t plagued with trolls and morons, I might lose interest. But that seems unlikely. So, assuming we get to stay charter members at a modest annual membership charge…probably for a while (if off and on).
Until I die of course
Until I have exactly 1337 posts. Unless… oh look, a kitten!
Most likely for a good long time. After all, if I stop posting, I’ll stop getting invites to DopeFests, and I can’t imagine giving them up! I’m hooked, I tell ya!
Until-[ul]
[li]I get bored of it[/li][li]I get banned (not that I think I will, I’m certainly not trying to)[/li][li]I can’t afford to subscribe anymore…which may be this April 
[/li][li]The boards go belly up[/li][li]I die[/ul][/li]Whatever comes first.
I guess if I ever have a job that does not require me bing on a computer 10 hours a day or I run out of movies and TV shows to bitch about.
Right up to the point where I suffer a meltdown over some political figure while discussing meat loaf recipes in Cafe Society.
I don’t use my computer much at home, so I would probably all but stop posting if I lost the ability to post from an office.
It’s hard to say whether I would stop completely. If the activity dropped off I would stop posting. It’s no fun posting on inactive boards.
When message board technology merges with MMRPG technology, that will be cool. I’d come back or stay for that.
Or I might just get sick to death of trying to post here. In about ohh 2 weeks. :rolleyes:
Until the end of time, the end of the Board, my death, or the standard of Fighting Ignorance goes out the window to be replaced by leetspeak & groupthink.
I hope.
I’m very much in agreement with pretty much everything Cisco said in his post. That’s more or less how I approach all online boards.
I see my self here for the long haul or at least until my welfare cheques won’t cover the subscription fee.
I suppose that if there were a dramatic drop in quality I’d consider leaving, but there has been no indication of that.
I’m quitting at 1,000 posts, so that means I’ve still got another 15 years here.
Until I am…gulp …banned.
Hey, it happened to vanilla and handy.