# Who joined SDMB as a consequence of the Lord of the Rings thread? \[poll\] **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 19, 2003, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-joined-sdmb-as-a-consequence-of-the-lord-of-the-rings-thread-poll/219983 "2003-12-19T16:08:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-joined-sdmb-as-a-consequence-of-the-lord-of-the-rings-thread-poll/219983/1 "2003-12-19T16:08:58Z")
One of our longest, and certainly one of our highest-profile threads, was the thread about “What if Lord of the Rings had been written by someone else?”. Quite a few people apparently registered in order to post to that thread, and I recall wondering at the time how many of them would linger to read our forums and post to other threads; and how many would stay on once that thread was no longer active. It’s been long enough now! Speak up – did you find the Straight Dope through a link to the LOTR thread? Where was it linked from? Did you immediately prowl the forums and read other threads, or only get around to that later on? How long before you were spending an appreciable portion of your time in here? ---
**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-joined-sdmb-as-a-consequence-of-the-lord-of-the-rings-thread-poll/219983/2 "2003-12-19T16:32:46Z")
\ I did! Not to post to the thread, but to read it. Then I got interested in posting to other threads. But I’d never heard of the SDMB before I saw a link to that thread somewhere else. ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-joined-sdmb-as-a-consequence-of-the-lord-of-the-rings-thread-poll/219983/3 "2003-12-21T01:47:58Z")
_raises hand_ That’s how I first found it. Didn’t actually register until much later, though, and I still mostly lurk. ---
**Author:** ![lilbtagna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4491bb/32.png) [@lilbtagna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lilbtagna)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-joined-sdmb-as-a-consequence-of-the-lord-of-the-rings-thread-poll/219983/4 "2003-12-21T02:54:38Z")
I joined because of that thread, which was linked to on [theonering.net](http://theonering.net). I might have posted one of those “this is great” posts in there, but I never contributed to all the interesting writings. Pretty soon I found myself interested in a lot of the other threads and decided to register. I think it took me a while to read anything outside of Cafe Society and it took me even longer to post much. I still find myself reading a whole lot more than I post nowadays, but I probably spend too much of my time here for my own good. Luckily, the semester’s over and I can be a computer nerd all I want. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-joined-sdmb-as-a-consequence-of-the-lord-of-the-rings-thread-poll/219983/5 "2003-12-21T03:51:29Z")
I didn’t post to the thread, but it got me here. I got an email from my husband with the word “amusing” and a link to it. He had no idea what he set in motion. koee (addict) ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-joined-sdmb-as-a-consequence-of-the-lord-of-the-rings-thread-poll/219983/6 "2003-12-21T06:49:22Z")
I arrived here via the slashdotting of that thread, and registered to post in it. Did a Antiques Roadshow and a Robert Ludlum, as I recall. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-joined-sdmb-as-a-consequence-of-the-lord-of-the-rings-thread-poll/219983/7 "2003-12-21T11:51:51Z")
A friend of mine signed on because of the LOTR thread. She had been making up her own parodies–the Simpsons version, the Muppets–and I sent her the link. She posted there and has since made only 3 or 4 other posts as far as I know. ---
**Author:** ![cromulent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b4bc9f/32.png) [@cromulent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cromulent)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-joined-sdmb-as-a-consequence-of-the-lord-of-the-rings-thread-poll/219983/8 "2003-12-21T17:03:52Z")
That’s how I discovered this board. My very first post was a poem in that thread – Lord of the Rings as written by Robert Frost. I still mostly lurk. Posting is fun, though, and recently I’ve been doing more of it. ---
**Author:** ![rickh57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/54ee81/32.png) [@rickh57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rickh57)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-joined-sdmb-as-a-consequence-of-the-lord-of-the-rings-thread-poll/219983/9 "2003-12-21T17:13:54Z")
I’m another regular reader and occassional poster who discovered SDBM through that thread (via SlashDot)… ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-joined-sdmb-as-a-consequence-of-the-lord-of-the-rings-thread-poll/219983/10 "2003-12-21T17:14:29Z")
I first posted in that thread, I admit it, and I’m still here.