When you join a new message board...

Thanx.

There certainly are specialized boards out there.

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I’ve been with this board for almost exactly 10 years. I’ve been with another board for over 10 years. That board introduced me to this one. I’ve belonged to a third board for almost 3 years. I have a harem of boards, or maybe I’m just a board slut.

I’m just a bored slut lover.

No, but I do feel guilty when I post on inferior boards. Like, it’s OK to cheat but I shouldn’t be slumming.

I wouldn’t know. This is the only board I post on regularly, because it’s just so darn cool. There is one other where I am an occasional poster, but mostly read. I spend more time on my blogs than that other board.

I join a lot actually, but stay on few. I’d say out of every 10 I join, only 1-2 are active enough to have new posts on a daily basis.

No and I don’t consider a vibrator cheating either!

It depends. Am I joining just to make a comment or two? Am I joining because it’s the official forum of a webcomic I want to comment on? In either of those cases, it’s more like just being friends. But if I actually start feeling more at home, I do feel a bit like I’m cheating.

I also felt like I was cheating on the board when I spent so much time here yet not only didn’t I pay, but I had to use Adblock. I don’t feel that way on any other board.

Are they the sorts you think deserve a passive/aggressive approach? You know.. a good old fashioned knuckle-buffing noogie to the tops of their skulls?

No?
I’d probably just keep a low profile, then.

I felt like I was cheating on my old message board when I first discovered the Dope, but the passion had been dying out for a while. I dumped it when this place made me realise what I’d been missing out on. Now I still occasionally post to the old one, but that’s not cheating, we’re just staying friends.

Not really. I register at other boards to discuss some burning question, and they greet me with open arms, and it’s like I’m this pristine, born-again, bright new thing to be welcomed and made right at home there. This honeymoon lasts until about my third posting, and then the relationship goes downhill, I realize I am dealing with 15 year olds who can’t spell, and I get bored and move on. I’ll never be at peace. I’m eternally moving on, but that’s OK. The search for knowledge never ends.