Terthna
Professional Lurker
Hello; not sure if anyone recognizes me, seeing as, after six years of being an active member, I stopped posting on SB (as well as other forums like QQ) back in late 2018. I figured a thread like this where people can introduce themselves, and share stories about what led them to joining this forum, or their lives in general, would be a good idea.
If anyone does remember me, it’s probably first from the old Gamergate thread on SB; I was something of a regular there, and my posts in that thread represented the lion’s share of my early history on SB. Though I’ve posted before, during, and since everywhere from Games & Gaming, to the Anime Forum, to Creative Writing, to even Whitehall a couple times. Only a couple, mind you; I saw the writing on the wall for where that sub-forum was going even before the 2016 election, which ended up driving nearly everyone who posted there regularly off the deep end. I remember several posters I used to respect counted among them.
Anyways, I ended up finding out about this forum when someone brought it up over on Digital Wild West; a forum created by THASF (there known as Train Dodger) with the intent of being a return to the old days of the internet, when people could say just about anything. Honestly, it was the PM debacle over on SB that got me to start paying attention to the various communities again, and I was not a fan of what I saw. QQ shut down discussion of it almost immediately; and while I understand why, it still frustrated me to see the only forum that didn't either condemn every single member of the PM as evil, or refused to allow discussion of it, was the veritable ghost town of DWW.
Ironically, it was an argument over politics on that forum that got me to go back to my lurking ways for over half a year; long story short, I’m not the most skilled debater in the best of times, and I lost my temper. At that point, considering that this was not the first time something like that had happened, and incidents like that were only getting more and more frequent despite the multiple month long breaks I’d taken to try and clear my head, I decided it might be best to just go back to being a lurker. Fast forward to now, and I think The Sietch might be a decent place to try and start again.
I still get angry with people I don’t agree with, and I still care a lot more about what other people think of me than I should; but, maybe I can still improve. That’s just my story though; feel free to share your own.
If anyone does remember me, it’s probably first from the old Gamergate thread on SB; I was something of a regular there, and my posts in that thread represented the lion’s share of my early history on SB. Though I’ve posted before, during, and since everywhere from Games & Gaming, to the Anime Forum, to Creative Writing, to even Whitehall a couple times. Only a couple, mind you; I saw the writing on the wall for where that sub-forum was going even before the 2016 election, which ended up driving nearly everyone who posted there regularly off the deep end. I remember several posters I used to respect counted among them.
Anyways, I ended up finding out about this forum when someone brought it up over on Digital Wild West; a forum created by THASF (there known as Train Dodger) with the intent of being a return to the old days of the internet, when people could say just about anything. Honestly, it was the PM debacle over on SB that got me to start paying attention to the various communities again, and I was not a fan of what I saw. QQ shut down discussion of it almost immediately; and while I understand why, it still frustrated me to see the only forum that didn't either condemn every single member of the PM as evil, or refused to allow discussion of it, was the veritable ghost town of DWW.
Ironically, it was an argument over politics on that forum that got me to go back to my lurking ways for over half a year; long story short, I’m not the most skilled debater in the best of times, and I lost my temper. At that point, considering that this was not the first time something like that had happened, and incidents like that were only getting more and more frequent despite the multiple month long breaks I’d taken to try and clear my head, I decided it might be best to just go back to being a lurker. Fast forward to now, and I think The Sietch might be a decent place to try and start again.
I still get angry with people I don’t agree with, and I still care a lot more about what other people think of me than I should; but, maybe I can still improve. That’s just my story though; feel free to share your own.
