Ever been addicted to a forum

[Kit]

Anyone here ever been addicted to a forum? How did you overcome it?


I am trying to not think of WP so I am going to other places and posting threads. I know I can always create a new account to make a post and keep creating accounts when they quit working just to make posts. Logging in as likedcalico and then logging back out seemed to get rid of the blank board. Someone suggested at another forum it could have been the cookies that was all messed up.

 

[Ana54]

I was addicted to MystCommunity when I was 15 and 16. Then crap started happening there. Now WP is going the way MystCommunity went years ago. What's scary is that their board is still up, but it's basically just the staff that hang out there now, just that one group of friends, the ones that think they're so special because they were there for a long time, or friends with the admins, or friends with people involved in making the games, or actually involved in making the games themselves, or because they were moderators on the site at some point, or they helped create the site. The regular member turnover rate was and is unbelievable. I was banned from the whole Myst community, which is about 10 boards. I kept coming back and yanking their chains in various ways.


I will not do that to WP; I actually want to do something productive with the people here that I care about. I want to make friends on WP and invite them here. Also, I used to chat with Sinsboldly in PMs and sort of feel bad even telling people it was her that banned me, let alone getting angry at her, but sometimes I have trouble controlling myself.


I'm addicted to the whole autistic community.

 

[Kit]

Why not create a new account and PM this link to the members there?

 

[Ana54]

They aren't Aspies. Well, they probably are, but they'd eat **** before admitting it.

 

[Kit]

Wait, you had NT friends at WP?

 

[Ana54]

I was talking about a different community than the autistic community. You thought I was talking about WP but I was talking about the Myst community I belonged to years ago and how WP went the same way.

 

[Kit]

Well you mentioned WP and said about wanting to make friends there and invite him here so I said why not create a new account and PM them.

 

[mikkyh]

Yeah, DigitalSpy (Cult section only) and Aspergic.com

 

[Chris]

I've been addicted to a few forums in my time, but the addictions have only lasted for a few weeks. I'm enjoying this forum so far.

 

[BigCisHere]

I have been addicted to a few forums over the years

From the times I was a GM on a private Mu Online server. I was responsible for keeping the forum under control, and for answering peoples posts. I was also a GM on a private WoW server. I spent a lot of time there reading posts about bugs or various other things of interest. It was sort of out of necessity that I kept the forums under watch on those, but it was also out of me feeling the need to constantly be on them.

There have been a few others, and I always run the risk of getting lost in forums. Often finding forums more interesting than the game it might be linked to.

I also find that I am doing it a little with this forum. I get online in the morning and the evening and always come here to check if there is anything new.

I am hoping not to get sucked into it all again. The problem is that I can't keep away from things like this, and I get incredibly addicted and drawn in to it if I do get involved.

 

[Calvert]

I used to be addicted to the Official European Playstation community forums. Now though, I don't go on them that much because the forum software they changed to is crap. Only forum that i'm addicted to now is Aspergic because... well... I have AS.

 

[Ana54]

Spokane Girl, that was just one friend whose name I forgot. I checked in with some of my old acquaintances and friends using my two new accounts (one of them, Stassia Florine, was then banned by Sins.)

 

[Calvert]

@Chair most people are.   

 

[Ana54]

I think I may be gone from WP too. I tried to log in as Ana54, could not. I searched the board using the search feature for "Ana54", and there were NO results. I'd better go ahead and try my mom and bf too now.

 

[superboyian]

I used to be addicted to Grapvine on MSN groups but the group and banned for me absolutely no reason and I was well behaved.... How on earth did I get banned?

Then I got addicted to yahoo answers but then the questions I always gave never worked apart from MSN questions they gave me but someone who spams and takes my credits... cheeky of them. :thumbsdown:

Then I got addicted to WP and so far, nothing bad as happened to me yet... but then i'm hearing alot of complaints about sinsboldly which seems to be scaring me a little.

 

[Emor]

I got banned from Y!A for answering and asking inappropriate questions ...
I was actually being serious, I wasn't asking and answering for the lulz.
My email got deleted too .
I used to be addicted to Sodaplay forums when I was around 11 and I'd be checking up every 5 minutes, and me and Lazlo actually published an e-newspaper on the forum news(dude, there was like, 10 active members, no bs). Then Lazlo got banned . So I quit. I'm actually a moderator on the forums now but I don't post as much as I used to when I was younger, and I only talk to JSF and Matt often on MSN. I only have under 4,000 posts there and it's been up since 2007 :/. On the old forums though I had like, 2,000 . I posted waaaay too much on them xD.
I'm not that addicted to any forum now tbh. I am a bit addicted to the internet though I suppose. As a whole. I don't think I'd struggle though if I was banned from any forum, 'cause I only go on to talk to the people there and I usually can contact them through MSN or something.
EMZ=]

 

[superboyian]

I'm in development on making my own forum and at the moment, ive been building it on and on but the only one problem i'm having is how i'm I going to get people to join it?

 

[Ana54]

What's your forum about?


Can you guys scrounge up some moral support to give a chicken? I just got a PM from Sinsboldly but I'm scared to open it, especially in light of what happened and what the conversation was about (it was something personal, about her losing her kid to Social Services, but she told everyone about it anyway).

 

[Ana54]

Ana54, I don't have a son. I have a daughter.
My heart went out to you being so far from your home and with people you didn't know in such an intimate setting with your in laws and thought you might be going through postpartum depression. I wasn't interested in judging you or comparing your story to mine, actually, as I have worked on walling off my emotions to all of that long time ago. I was so relieved to find out that you found some help to get all squared away again and back to your beautiful B.C.

oh, and you stayed so long on WP was because I convinced the other mods to let you slide, even though they were ready to take you out years ago. When I couldn't justify your behaviour any more I elected to be the one to ban you. That part about being a mod really sucks.

Who here believes this? I did very different things sometimes, but I never broke a rule more than once except on one occasion. I think she takes differences in behavior as rulebreaking because of the one-track mind thing but I really don't know; I'm not saying this is the case.

 

[Kit]

At least you got a PM from her. She has not PM me for an apology.

Why not ask her what made her turn against you and lie about locking your thread, why did she ban your bf and your mother?

Ask her how she is feeling about this whole thing.


I honestly don't know what to say about the PM.

Tell her she banned you for not reading the PMs. You saw her say it in a thread.