# WOW i can post again! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 2, 2008, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687 "2008-09-02T15:36:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/21 "2008-09-02T18:08:16Z")
Welcome, welcome, everyone! Looks like I have to get the big industrial-size vat of orange-pineapple-ginger ice cream mixing… but it still tastes as good. ---
**Author:** ![Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tequila_Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/22 "2008-09-02T18:12:18Z")
Hi there. Ltns. ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/23 "2008-09-02T18:12:33Z")
> [@Twisty](#): > > My new filing technique is unstoppable. Twisty as in twistydub?! ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/24 "2008-09-02T18:19:19Z")
I’m looking forward to the new blood, even the not-so-fresh returning blood… It was getting boring here. ---
**Author:** ![XJETGIRLX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9fc29f/32.png) [@XJETGIRLX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XJETGIRLX)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/25 "2008-09-02T18:21:21Z")
Huh, whaddaya know. I can post. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/26 "2008-09-02T18:22:23Z")
> [@Tequila\_Mockingbird](#): > > Hi there. > Ltns. HI! And HI to Twisty, too! ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/27 "2008-09-02T18:22:35Z")
We’ve missed you ---
**Author:** ![SpasticKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@SpasticKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpasticKitty)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/28 "2008-09-02T18:25:09Z")
Yaay! While I haven’t posted since 2004, apparently, I’ve been visiting and lurking ever since. When the boards went pay-to-post, I was still a poor college student who couldn’t really justify paying when I didn’t post that much to begin with. Even though I’ve been a graduate student for the past few years and have a “real” job, I could never bring myself to subscribe. I’m cheap, OK? But now it’s great to be back, and I look forward to actually contributing to threads. Not that I think anyone would ever remember me, but just a quick update on my life: I married my college sweetheart in August, and in two weeks we are going on an Alaskan cruise for our honeymoon! I remain a football fanatic and look forward to cheering on the Pittsburgh Steelers against the Bengals at Heinz Field in November. (tickets were a wedding present from my parents) It’s nice to be back! ---
**Author:** ![LordVor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90ced4/32.png) [@LordVor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LordVor)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/29 "2008-09-02T18:45:00Z")
Huh? What’s this then? ---
**Author:** ![troub](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troub/32/14802_2.png) [@troub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/troub)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/30 "2008-09-02T18:45:50Z")
I recognize so many of these names from way back when. . . **sailor** , **XJETGIRLX** , **Shrinking Violet** , **Tequila Mockingbird**. Nice to see everyone again! He says, until some of the old rabble-rousers show up again. ---
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/31 "2008-09-02T18:52:25Z")
> [@sailor](#): > > I cannot see / view / access / display / visualize posters’ profiles; not even my own. What kind of “guest” am I? Feels more like “trespasser”. > > And the board now is slower than it’s ever been. Maybe the new servers have significant inertia and require time to get up to speed. See we shall. I think user profiles are part of the privileges of being a member. You pay a small fee to have a post count and a user profile. No one is deliberately excluding you personally. Now _Charter_ Membership is a whole nother animal. We have the fancy bathrooms. And we get the best squid and goats for the initiations. ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/32 "2008-09-02T18:57:15Z")
Holy frikken sweet!!! I’ll be the first to admit I thought this day would never come. Nevertheless, I wasn’t going to reward the SDMB’s continued breaking of promises (nor potentially throw away good money) by renewing my subscription after they announced free posting to come. It was hard. I still read the boards every day, but suddenly I saw lots more threads I wanted to reply to! Several times I almost broke down and sent in my money, but I persevered. And now I’m back and I’m unstoppable! (Until my employer notices that my productivity has fallen by 90% or so…) I even get to keep my Charter Member title! Huzzah! ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/33 "2008-09-02T19:00:30Z")
Hey! I can post again!! ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/34 "2008-09-02T19:04:43Z")
> [@Alan\_Smithee](#): > > Holy frikken sweet!!! > > I’ll be the first to admit I thought this day would never come. Nevertheless, I wasn’t going to reward the SDMB’s continued breaking of promises (nor potentially throw away good money) by renewing my subscription after they announced free posting to come. > > It was hard. I still read the boards every day, but suddenly I saw lots more threads I wanted to reply to! Several times I almost broke down and sent in my money, but I persevered. > > And now I’m back and I’m unstoppable! (Until my employer notices that my productivity has fallen by 90% or so…) > > I even get to keep my Charter Member title! Huzzah! _puts fingers in ears_ lalalalalalala I don’t wanna hear it. I was a few weeks late renewing my charter-level subscription some years back, during a particularly chaotic chapter in my life, and I just can’t handle the double-standards. _chin quivers, eyes tear up_ ---
**Author:** ![ShotgunZen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@ShotgunZen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShotgunZen)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/35 "2008-09-02T19:07:32Z")
For my part in the multi-poster re-initiation I shall bring a giant mutant star goat. Now that it is done threatening Golgafrincham I posted way way back in the dark ages, and actually subscribed for a year then… I lapsed. I don’t know how it happened! Really, one minute I’m a charter member then the next… Ka-Pow… Lurking. But I never was that prolific, and I like lurking, and uh… actually the sound of my own voice is frightening me… ---
**Author:** ![bink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/439d5e/32.png) [@bink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bink)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/36 "2008-09-02T19:10:30Z")
Aloha! I signed up a long time ago, and read pretty much every day, but never upgraded my membership because free posting was just around the corner. It’s great to see this reply box. I wish we’d been allowed in before the Lost Weekend. It looked like you guys were having a rollicking good time. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/37 "2008-09-02T19:14:23Z")
I just came in to say a gleeful\*: ME TOO! _Hooray!_ 😃 \*Gleeful because no one likes actually, ya know, working at work. ---
**Author:** ![Anonymous\_Coward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/94ad74/32.png) [@Anonymous\_Coward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anonymous_Coward)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/38 "2008-09-02T19:27:52Z")
Now that I’m back I can continue posting like I always did… writing up replies then chickening out and deleting them before posting. ---
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/39 "2008-09-02T19:28:40Z")
> [@Anonymous\_Coward](#): > > Now that I’m back I can continue posting like I always did… writing up replies then chickening out and deleting them before posting. Doesn’t everyone? ---
**Author:** ![Anonymous\_Coward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/94ad74/32.png) [@Anonymous\_Coward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anonymous_Coward)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687/40 "2008-09-02T19:35:26Z")
> [@Oy](#): > > Doesn’t everyone? Would I be showing my age if I put forward the name **handy**? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-i-can-post-again/461687.md?page=3)