Who are some Dopers who know you better beyond just your posts on here?

I was thinking about it today and there’s a lot of posters on here who I’m friends with on Facebook. Those people, I feel, know me better than anyone else on here do. I really feel like those know the real me if anyone on here does, because I write much more personal statuses on there and I write them often. I write a lot of them. I write a whole shitload of them, to be honest…
…and in so, I wind up interacting with a lot of Dopers who I’m friends with on here more so than the average poster.

So I just wanted to make this topic to sort of give the chance to people to give a bit of a tribute to those on here who we have gotten just a little bit more close to than just “posting and replying to on the SDMB”.

So here’s to people like Johnny L.A., TheChilianBlob, swampbear, Sunny Daze, Leaffan, Locrian, Covered In Bees, AClockworkMelon, dropzone, AHunter3, MsRobyn, Loach, Asimovian, EvilTOJ, Biggirl, Boozahol Squid, P.I., burnmeup, Capt Kirk, Blaster Master, brewha, Buttercup Smith, choie, dalej42, DiggitCamara, dhkendall, dogbutler, FairyChatMom, Fiver, Drain Bead, Hal Briston, Ellen Cherry, Fiveroptic, interfacex2, Inner Stickler, IvoryTowerDenizen, Jophiel, Lucretia, Man With a Cat, Mama Zappa,
Moodindigo1, OneCentStamp, Picunurse, pulykamell, Rick, RealityChuck, Rhiannon8404, Rico, Shellibean, Silver Tyger, Suburban Plankton, Sampiro, ShibbOleth, silenus, sinjin, Spectre of Pithecanthropus, taters, Typo Knig, TubaDiva, twickster, VunderBob, Zeriel
, and ZipperJJ…who are all folks I tend to interact with outside of the SDMB just a bit more and who I feel know me just a bit (or a lot) better than 95 percent of everyone who posts here.

Who, on here, knows you better than most? I’m excluding obvious people like family or people who know you in real life.

By the way, if you would like to add me on Facebook, you can. Feel free. I am active on there every day and make updates/statuses fairly often, usually on thoughts or opinions I have on stuff. It’s almost like a blog for me.

How can you exclude people who know me in real life BUT who are dopers? I met them at dopefests. We talked and interacted like friends. Guess I don’t understand.

Ah, well…met at dopefests is fine. I was talking about those who knew you in real life before you ever came here. : p

What if a person didn’t become family until AFTER I met them on the Dope?

It counts.

None that I know of but there might be somebody keeping a dossier on me.

Idle Hahands, swampbear, and the rest of the Mumpers, The Chilean Blob

“Who, on here, knows you better than most? I’m excluding obvious people like family or people who know you in real life.”

I’m confused. Do you mean what other dopers are you connected to, and friends with, outside of the SDMB that you met through the SDMB?

I"ve never met a doper in real life.

I did IM with one for a while about a decade ago.

Thats about it.

Yes.

Put most simply, what dopers do you feel know you the best on here? People who have known you for most of your life don’t count, though.

Well, if I know them through here, and there are a few, I won’t divulge that because it’s kinda private.

I’ve met several local Dopers at Dopefests, like Robot Arm.

One Doper, who hasn’t posted in ages, was someone I knew long before the Dope Board.

Like, say, me and Typo Knig (my husband, whom I’ve known for just under 40 years!).

Aside from people I’ve very casually met once at Dopefests… there are you, Sampiro, and a few others I’m friends with on Facebook. We know a couple Dopers IRL (that we’ve met through the Dope) but I try to keep those separate so I won’t name names.

My first thought was you since we knew each other slightly through the RNS and other places before we compared notes at the one Dopefest.

I guess I would also say a couple of the Mumpers I could list (Dogbutler) who I have been able to meet as they passed through Pittsburgh and maybe Notheryinzer and IvoryTowerDenizen since we have common friends IRL.

And if you befriend Idle Thoughts on Facebook, whoo boy, buckle your seat belt and make sure your finer sensibilities are stowed in a shatter-proof container. :stuck_out_tongue: :wink:

Oh, and to answer the OP, here are some Dopers whom I know much better via other media. (Some of these might be old handles, Mello/Raffe handles, or both.)

Caerie/Zuul
CairoCarol/Hatshepsut
Cluricaun
Idle Thoughts
(obvs)
What Exit?
Elendil’s Heir

Not long after I registered here in 2005, WordMan emailed me about something I had posted in a thread about music or guitars. This led to some fairly regular correspondence between us. Then one day WordMan sent me an email and CC’d lieu. That led to what I think of as a three-man pen pal relationship that has lasted over a decade. We email each other often, many times per day when a topic is interesting to all. Sometimes the email chains begin in response to something that is posted on SDMB, sometimes one of us will email the others about something going on in our lives that we want to discuss. We have discussed politics, jobs, books, kids, wives and parents and many other things. These two guys have become my friends.

Because one of my sisters-in-law and then one of my kids lived in same general area as WordMan, I found myself traveling to his neck of the woods often soon after we met on SDMB. My wife and I saw his band play in late 2006, and visited his house a few years later. In 2013, WordMan and I toured the Martin guitar factory together, spent some time in vintage guitar shops while he schooled me on acoustic guitar tone, and played guitar in his basement for a few hours. When my wife and I visited San Francisco and Monterey a few years ago, he arranged for us to meet his mother, who gave us a personal tour of an old mission where she is a tour guide and had lunch with us.

I haven’t met lieu in person, yet. I’m pretty sure that will happen, though. Like I said, these guys have become real friends.

I have a few SDMB members as friends on Steam, although that doesn’t tell you much more about me than what games I’ve been playing lately and the occasional game review (SenorBeef and I have chatted about game related stuff a few times via the messenger system). Beyond that, I think nearly all the attendees of ChiDopes from my day have moved along to other pastures so pretty much no one here knows me above and beyond my postings.

Besides family (hedra, epeepunk, intaglio, AK dog Doc), there are a good number of 'Dopers I’ve met in person - at 'Dope fests, usually, but sometimgs in other ways. I helped Wierd Dave and Ginger of the North move, and know a number of others from places like the UnaBoard, or Facebook.

None.

I’ve met people IRL that I met through the internet through usenet/MUDing Monty Python fandom, and through the JREF forum. Consider that a bygone phase of my life though, so have never involved myself that deeply on the SDMB.