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AdorableStar posted:Came for Eve; stayed for who knows why. My first post in this thread is mostly bollocks. That right there is real success story!
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Kept getting linked here by a guildmate from a private RO server. Found out there was a griefing thread, immediately bought an account. First thing I did? Post in E/N.
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Jul 12, 2014 03:33
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I've been reading SA since whenever it was that "Horrors of Porn" was active & prolific--a friend told me about it; that and "Your Band Sucks." Later I got addicted to the Awful Movie Database. Until recently, I had some awareness of the Forums, but not much. But recently, I realized that SA was, truly, the only thing worth reading on the internet. I scan the headlines of NY Times every morning, and occasionally read an article that seems like it might be a legitimate news article and not just an article about business/"the economy" (usually I am disappointed). And sometimes, but less and less now, I look at the Onion--which is also a corporate juggernaut. So I spend what internet time I have with SA, where thoughtful and interesting and legitimately funny writing seems to be genuinely valued. On a whim signed up for the Forums, and it was the best $10 I've spent in a while--bizarrely (I'm sure the old hands would find this amusing) it seems to actually represent what the internet was intended to be, a place where people with things to say can talk to each other. So that's why I'm now a Goon.
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Jul 12, 2014 03:44
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I used to post on a private forum with a bunch of really knowledgable, world-aware guys who liked to argue about what was happening in the world, video games, music, movies, books, etc. the guy who hosted it had his web server meltdown, and we lost all the history and it never picked up again after that. I was talking to one of the guys about how much I missed it and he suggested SA as a place that was filled with smart people that generally knew what they were talking about. I got on to check it out and saw the $10 reg fee and it actually encouraged me that this could be an interesting place. So glad I joined. I run through my pulse hot list and then jump on SA every morning and usually spend lunch reading everything else. I read far more than I post, but love being a part of the community.
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Jul 12, 2014 18:55
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I started off browsing the front page and for a few years I didn't even know that the forums existed (much like many forum goers forget about the front page). When I got to the forums I discovered the Griefing thread and Space Station 13. Haven't looked back since.
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Jul 13, 2014 13:15
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I stumbled onto the forums years ago and got a lot of entertainment from reading the threads. Eventually I became a member to give a little bit back and occasionally post. Also, I've got an odd tie to SA in the fact that I was related by marriage to Tommy Burks, the guy that Byron "Low Tax" Looper murdered, which is where Lowtax got his name from. That, and my uncle's nickname for me when I was a kid was "Goon." Born to be a Goon, I guess.
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Jul 14, 2014 09:19
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If starterupsteve and Fark were 6's, the SA front page was an 11. Also, Goatse.
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Joined up to participate in the glory that was AYB.
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I stumbled across SA when reading up on the history of internet forums, I was also wondering what the most active were mainly because It seemed forums were becoming less relevant among a majority of the population as the social networking boom started. I visited it a couple times, lurked on the forums without an account. I forgot about this place for awhile, then a friend brought it up recently when we were talking about internet culture, MMOs, and our annoyance with twitter & facebook. I had $10 to spare and bought an account. I've never been more active on a forum than on something awful, why? I don't know, but I like it here.Venerable Monk posted:
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Jul 19, 2014 06:39
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What finally convinced me to join was the thread about the fat transexual Satanist. That literally made me laugh harder than anything else I'd seen on the internet up to that point. I also appreciated that the posters on this forum (usually!) use proper grammar & punctuation. Back in the day, that was saying a lot.
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Jul 20, 2014 19:48
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I ponied up the money after the leprechaun thing in 2005. The song by zoomzip actually came on random shuffle in my car today.
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Jul 22, 2014 00:57
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Cool to see a thread for this; it's really interesting hearing other goons' stories about how they came to the site.  Well, my own story is probably similar to a lot of yours, it was around 1995/96 and I'd just dropped out of college (21 years old at the time), I was pretty much lying around my room in my mom's house playing wipeout. We didn't have an Internet connection in the house back then so I'd go to the library a lot. I think it was someone on an angel fire site who linked a jeffk article, which I really liked due to my sarcastic sense of humour. I noticed the forums and thought it was horse poo poo that you had to pay to sign up, so I just lurked at first - and wow wow wow! All the classic threads were there, p-p-powerbook, it is a mystery, the webcomics mock thread, this blew my goddamn tittyshitting intj mind back then - and there was free porno and mp3 there too!? Needless to say I signed up that day. All the classic posters were there back then: Low Tax, (of course, lol) Fragmaster, Billaboj, Warb Worb, Adolf Hitler 2... all the greats. These days I mostly lurk in Let's Play and the Goon Doctor, I'm also a highly successful CEO of one of the top 5 tech companies in America with a multi million dollar salary. Here's to another 18 
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Pretty cool to see this thread, got linked here from tge #DigiPokéGoons irc channel on synirc, which is an irc channel of goons dedicated to proving (unsuccessfully so far  ) that several prominent Pokémon are just plagiarised versions of Digimon. I first got interested in the forums about five years ago, when I was first diagnosed with a rare bone disease that confined to my bed pretty much 24/7. Distraught, I turned to the Internet, and I was a big fan of the front page of something awful dot com. After checking out the forums I gravitated towards GBS, and was greatly entertained by all the discussion of zombies and elves and crap and the news articles with the puns.I'm now a true blue goon lol, I even "sperg"  (word I learned from here) about stuff some times and I have stairs in my house. Whenever my primary care physician comes by I say gbs memes and stuff and talk about classic everdread gifs. Overall if it wasn't for the SA forums I would have killed myself long ago because every day of my life is a painful joke.
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Aug 11, 2014 14:53
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I joined to see what was causing my best mate to go ape poo poo obsessed with this forum.. And all i can say is.. Holy poo poo.. You guys are awesome.
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Aug 12, 2014 03:08
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I lost my job and figured I might as well buy an account if I was going to be sitting in front of the computer all day refreshing Craigslist.
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Aug 14, 2014 13:46
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I was reading the front page a lot in middle school, and my brother bought me an account right before  so he wouldn't have to constantly be downloading stuff for me. The rest is history...
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Aug 15, 2014 01:21
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Zyntherius posted:I joined to see what was causing my best mate to go ape poo poo obsessed with this forum.. wow thanks buddy
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Aug 15, 2014 11:56
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John Romero and the Pod People. Discovered the forums after reading that article. Got probated about a week in. Best $10 I've ever spent.
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A friend of mine was constantly going on about things he'd read on SA, while I just nodded and pretended to listen. Then one day he must've gotten fed up with me never knowing what the hell he was talking about, and out of the blue I got an e-mail asking me to confirm my gifted account. Though in all actuality, at the time the only forum that kept me coming back was TCC. For all the poo poo it gets from the rest of the forums, it's easily one of the best places on the internet for learning safe usage of drugs outside of erowind. Though I eventually grew out of my young adult drug phase and moved on to other parts of the forums.
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The funniest and best thing about this thread is that op admits he j4g, says evegoons will let him in once they see his superior posting skills, then stops posting. OP has three posts total.
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Aug 18, 2014 06:58
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Some dude who I met through a really bad browser game bought me an account. Maybe one day I'll try to become j4g scum, l0l.
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Aug 18, 2014 07:01
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The HotU forums went down.
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Like many others, I too got hooked by the flamethrower thread. I lurked for a few years because only NERDSSSS pay to look at a website, and I was a teenager with no money or credit card anyways. But then I had money and a card, and decided ten bucks was indeed worth it for endless access to pants making GBS threads stories. Then I dropped ten more bucks on archives because I was feeling fancy.
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A confluence of factors. I frequently have opinions/questions about front page articles, but was always frustrated by the lack of people with whom I could share said opinions. SA has always seemed to me to be the Superego of internet culture (stretching the analogy would make 4chan the Id and all social networking sites the Ego). Based on lurking, the posters here seem to have the lowest level of self-delusion of anywhere else I've been on the internet. SA forums appear to be a major nexus of original content and discussion. I draw/write creatively and SA seems like a good place for honest and in-depth feedback if I ever get around to posting my work. I'd just sworn off posting on the CNN comments section and I needed a fix real bad, man.
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Aug 20, 2014 19:33
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Applewhite posted:I'd just sworn off posting on the CNN comments section and I needed a fix real bad, man. I've never met anybody who regularly contributed to the comments section of a news website before. Was there a tightly knit community of commenters and actual discussions happening or did people mostly just yell opinions past strangers into the void?
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Applewhite posted:Based on lurking, the posters here seem to have the lowest level of self-delusion of anywhere else I've been on the internet. You're wrong about this buddy.
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tehloki posted:I've never met anybody who regularly contributed to the comments section of a news website before. Was there a tightly knit community of commenters and actual discussions happening or did people mostly just yell opinions past strangers into the void? The second thing. The CNN forums were a nightmarish hellscape of trolls, hyperbole and the worst examples of any group on the political spectrum. I registered there to fight monsters, but ended up becoming one myself. Toward the end, I was just taking the opposite side of whatever argument I came across. I'd post sprawling, intricately constructed treatises on feminism, only to turn around and smash every argument to pieces on the next thread, where I'd take on the character of a slimy MRA with no compunction or scruples whatsoever. Liberals would find themselves facing the worst kind of rabid Teatard, while Republicans met me a genderfluid hyper-atheist that considered the Pledge of Allegiance tantamount to a mandatory Christian mass. Once I went head to head with a Christian fundamentalist and mother of three. The argument lasted for three days and became so venomous that the mods eventually had to nuke the whole page. When the two of us looked back across the ruins of our thread and saw what we'd done, we both cried. She told me she'd never been so ashamed of her behavior, and I asked for her forgiveness, which she granted in return for mine. Coming to SA, I feel like a nuclear wasteland wanderer who has stepped inside the walls of the last civilized city on Earth. As long as there is food ans shelter here, I promise to behave.
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Aug 21, 2014 01:53
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Applewhite posted:A confluence of factors. lol
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I joined SA because I've always enjoyed posting in various forums and heard great things about this site. I like the fact that this place is so active and filled with informative, highly original, and often times hilarious topics.
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Applewhite posted:The second thing. The CNN forums were a nightmarish hellscape of trolls, hyperbole and the worst examples of any group on the political spectrum. So you roleplayed with other virgins on a news website. You come to the right place
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Aug 21, 2014 11:21
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Applewhite posted:The second thing. The CNN forums were a nightmarish hellscape of trolls, hyperbole and the worst examples of any group on the political spectrum. TYou win the loving internet my sir
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Aug 21, 2014 11:59
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Applewhite posted:The second thing. The CNN forums were a nightmarish hellscape of trolls, hyperbole and the worst examples of any group on the political spectrum. ha ha ha
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Applewhite posted:The second thing. The CNN forums were a nightmarish hellscape of trolls, hyperbole and the worst examples of any group on the political spectrum. Same for me.
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I got tired of teenagers on the internet, and the 10bux filters a lot of that out. I gave up on reddit around the point I noticed I was only participating in subreddits devoted to pointing out how stupid reddit is. The format is somewhat intimidating, given the hundreds of posts in threads I feel like I have to read before figuring out whether I have anything to add. But the signup fee combined with aggressive moderators maintain high quality I appreciate. I will probably last until I get probated for making a stupid post I thought was sowitty, at which point I will most likely get super offended, overreact, and get banned. I'll throw another Hamilton SA's way about two weeks after that.
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tehloki posted:I've never met anybody who regularly contributed to the comments section of a news website before. Was there a tightly knit community of commenters and actual discussions happening or did people mostly just yell opinions past strangers into the void? The old yahoo.com comments section was a hotbed of master trolls unsheathing their swords and ratcheting up the histrionics and sarcasm to 100% on every single topic. Also, interjecting the most insane unrelated topics creatively into completely benign articles. The comments were regularly so threatening and hyperbolic (both to other yahoo posters and public figures/politicians in general) that they started putting up warnings before every post saying "Your public IP WILL be sent to gov't officials if you threaten the lives of posters and public figures etc.) but most posters were not dissuaded at all. They eventually revamped it and gave people avatars and a metric system to rate posters as good and bad and the culture changed. Applewhite posted:Once I went head to head with a Christian fundamentalist and mother of three. The argument lasted for three days and became so venomous that the mods eventually had to nuke the whole page. When the two of us looked back across the ruins of our thread and saw what we'd done, we both cried. She told me she'd never been so ashamed of her behavior, and I asked for her forgiveness, which she granted in return for mine. Not everyone is born with the gift of being a master troll who can see multiple sides of an issue. You should be safe here if you carefully hone your skills and don't wantonly flaunt them.
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Applewhite posted:The second thing. The CNN forums were a nightmarish hellscape of trolls, hyperbole and the worst examples of any group on the political spectrum. same
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As of this post I've ended up accruing nearly 10k posts on Facepunch and I've been getting sick of that site, so I figured I'd go someplace better.
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I read a story about dressers and some girl named Laura. All I remember from back then (it was ten years ago cut me some slack) was that it was hilarious and I had to be a part of this community.
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I post on rpgcodex and SA looked like a good forum by comparison
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Honestly, my boyfriend. I didn't join until about a year into our relationship 'cause I didn't think I'd use it, but all the up-to-minute memes, news and awesome sources of information on science and politics he would share with me kept prompting me to ask him where did you find this/hear about this? The answer was always Something Awful. So, here I am. Nice to meet ya! 
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