Topic: when did you register? (Read 86330 times)

Eris · « **Reply #150 on:** 28 Aug 2009, 18:51 »

Quote from: supersheep on 28 Aug 2009, 07:50

[ I have very little memory of a lot of the things that happened before, cos of my ridiculously poor memory, despite the fact I've spent 55 and a half days here over the past three years.

I have spent, uh, 206 days, 4 hours and 31 minutes on here.

Jimmy the Squid · « **Reply #151 on:** 28 Aug 2009, 19:14 »

73 days, 23 hours and 1 minutes!

Woo! Something!

tania · « **Reply #152 on:** 28 Aug 2009, 19:41 »

suckers, i've only wasted 46 entire days of my life on this forum. you guys are nerds.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #153 on:** 28 Aug 2009, 19:52 »

I feel ashamed
96 days, 17 hours and 48 minutes.

sean · « **Reply #154 on:** 28 Aug 2009, 19:53 »

im at 56 days but i have been away from the computer with the internet for more than an hour so many times i've lost count.

est · « **Reply #155 on:** 28 Aug 2009, 20:48 »

I'm only at 37 days.

JD · « **Reply #156 on:** 28 Aug 2009, 20:50 »

27 days, 23 hours and 22 minutes.

huh

Edit:

Quote from: Eris on 28 Aug 2009, 18:51

I have spent, uh, 206 days, 4 hours and 31 minutes on here.

That is ridiculous.

Scarychips · « **Reply #157 on:** 28 Aug 2009, 21:03 »

I lost 24 days and 5 hours of my life.

20 jazz funk greats · « **Reply #158 on:** 28 Aug 2009, 21:41 »

25 days and 10 hours here.

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #159 on:** 28 Aug 2009, 21:54 »

Wow. 2 days, 15 hours, and I'm almost always doing something else at the same time. How do you people manage that much time?

Lines · « **Reply #160 on:** 28 Aug 2009, 22:27 »

Quote from: Professor Snuggles on 28 Aug 2009, 11:11

Now I am almost 22

What no way.

About 38 days for me. It could be worse.

Lunchbox · « **Reply #161 on:** 28 Aug 2009, 22:55 »

Almost 59 days. After nearly five years of checking the forums every day, I figured it would be more. Huh.
Also no way were any of those 59 days wasted! I love you kids!

calenlass · « **Reply #162 on:** 28 Aug 2009, 23:27 »

Quote from: negative creep on 28 Aug 2009, 12:15

Quote from: Professor Snuggles on 28 Aug 2009, 11:11
Devils_Daughter was big on the forums at tha time.

Oh man I miss her so much.

Yeah, me too.

Quote from: Professor Snuggles on 28 Aug 2009, 11:11

sideways and aphi

Aw I remember when she moved across Canadia to live with him or whatever. It was so cute. I wonder what happened to them. Sigh.

Trollstormur · « **Reply #163 on:** 29 Aug 2009, 00:48 »

Only 8 days here after being registered for 4 and a half years. I joined after I popped my head in and saw a familiar face -- Khar. I knew khar from a game forum years before I ever even read QC. I've known of jeph for longer than qc's been around, he was on the dumbrella boards when I was a long long time ago.

McTaggart · « **Reply #164 on:** 29 Aug 2009, 02:19 »

Quote from: Lunchbox on 28 Aug 2009, 22:55

Almost 59 days. After nearly five years of checking the forums every day, I figured it would be more.

Remember that it's only counting from when we switched over to SMF.

est · « **Reply #165 on:** 29 Aug 2009, 04:01 »

Maybe, not sure about that. We exported & imported info from the old forum. Not sure what came across and what didn't.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #166 on:** 29 Aug 2009, 04:34 »

I know my time got reset. At the moment it is 43 days and 59 minutes.

I've really only started posting a fair bit in maybe the past year and a half or so? I've posted pretty steadily since I joined, but it was mostly in forums that aren't HURR and entirely unremarkable. I think it was a very long time before anybody actually deigned to acknowlege one of my posts.

According to my old posts, when I first registered I only had one tattoo, and I was skinny! Dang!

One of my first posts was chewing someone out for not being nice to n00bs:

Quote from: David_Dovey on 18 Oct 2006, 01:10

Quote from: La Creme on 17 Oct 2006, 14:12
SHUT UP -> THINK -> WRITE -> REVIEW WHAT YOU WROTE -> POST

Yeah, cos pissing all over this thread -in 30pt bold italics, no less- is completely constructive. Unless you're a mod (I'm assuming you're not) then you're really in no position to bitch about the perceived worth of any thread. No one is forcing you to read it.

Practice what you preach there buddy

This forum would just about be the greatest place on the Net if all the "veterans" got off their high horses and eased off the newbs a little bit.

HILARIOUS!

Oh shit:

Quote from: Favourite lyricists thread

Neil Peart (Rush)
Cedric Bixler Zavala (The Mars Volta)- yes, really.

WHAT

It turns out many of the forumites I admire and think of as the "forum celebrities" have been here for far less time than me.

I think the thing that people would actually remember as happening around the time I registered was that we had that "Australian Eyes Only" thread, where all of the Australians made plans to attack the rest of the world with our most deceptively cuddly wildlife. (Instead of the usual, obviously deadly wildlife)

Also, this is my 4000th post. Jesus fuck! I think the past 3000 have been since about a year ago.

(OK enough nostalgia)

pwhodges · « **Reply #167 on:** 29 Aug 2009, 04:35 »

Quote from: Professor Snuggles on 28 Aug 2009, 11:11

When I joined the first time I thought the Internet was really super awesome, please, and I think I was like 16? Now I am almost 22 and I kind of hate the Internet but it is in my fuccin blood and all. And sometimes I try to make the board awesome again but I think that if I do I will just get banned again.

If making it awesome means reliving your experience as a 16-year-old, perhaps it would be better to move beyond it...

CardinalFang · « **Reply #168 on:** 29 Aug 2009, 05:39 »

55 days, 11 hours and 23 minutes.

Also I have never posted at Midnight or 1:00 AM. I post most often 9AM, 5PM, and 4AM. 4AM?

nobo · « **Reply #169 on:** 29 Aug 2009, 07:20 »

I dunno PW, I was having a great time at age 16. No work, no responsibilities, school was easy, friends were great. Still have the great friends, but not much else left over. Then again, at 16 I barely spent any time online.

tania · « **Reply #170 on:** 29 Aug 2009, 07:34 »

Quote from: Bastardous Bassist on 28 Aug 2009, 21:54

How do you people manage that much time?

i don't know what the current meebo situation is, but way way back when i actually used to participate in gabbly it was hosted on the forum and so all of the time you spent in gabbly was also recorded as you being logged into the forum. i also used to leave myself logged into the forum way more often when i was still in school cos i'd spend days off studying while checking new posts every few hours between study breaks, and even if i spent a total of maybe 10-15 minutes actually reading and posting i would ultimately appear to be logged in all day for like 15 hours.

...except i have also quit the forum a whole bunch of times since i joined and my time off has added up to maybe two years total so uh, part of that might also be all of those times i have sat in front of my computer on the forum with nothing to do except hit the refresh button every 30 seconds.

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #171 on:** 29 Aug 2009, 08:20 »

That makes sense now. Also, if what I've quoted below is true, then it'll make even more sense, because that'll mean I've spent as much time as I have over the past week, rather than over my entire time on the board.

Quote from: McTaggart on 29 Aug 2009, 02:19

Remember that it's only counting from when we switched over to SMF.

Lines · « **Reply #172 on:** 29 Aug 2009, 08:23 »

Wow, I actually posted in the music forum when I joined. That is until someone told me my music sucked and I stopped posting in there for the longest time.

bbq · « **Reply #173 on:** 29 Aug 2009, 08:26 »

I joined, like, more than two years ago. Not that anyone knows who I am.

Trollstormur · « **Reply #174 on:** 29 Aug 2009, 08:29 »

LURK MORE

snalin · « **Reply #175 on:** 29 Aug 2009, 09:18 »

Could you change that avatar, please? It makes me a little sick each time I see it.

Professor Snuggles · « **Reply #176 on:** 29 Aug 2009, 09:32 »

Quote from: David_Dovey on 29 Aug 2009, 04:34

I know my time got reset. At the moment it is 43 days and 59 minutes.

I've really only started posting a fair bit in maybe the past year and a half or so? I've posted pretty steadily since I joined, but it was mostly in forums that aren't HURR and entirely unremarkable. I think it was a very long time before anybody actually deigned to acknowlege one of my posts.

According to my old posts, when I first registered I only had one tattoo, and I was skinny! Dang!

One of my first posts was chewing someone out for not being nice to n00bs:

Quote from: David_Dovey on 18 Oct 2006, 01:10
Quote from: La Creme on 17 Oct 2006, 14:12
SHUT UP -> THINK -> WRITE -> REVIEW WHAT YOU WROTE -> POST

Yeah, cos pissing all over this thread -in 30pt bold italics, no less- is completely constructive. Unless you're a mod (I'm assuming you're not) then you're really in no position to bitch about the perceived worth of any thread. No one is forcing you to read it.

Practice what you preach there buddy

This forum would just about be the greatest place on the Net if all the "veterans" got off their high horses and eased off the newbs a little bit.

HILARIOUS!

The funny thing about this is the veterans got off their high horses and eased the newbs in and the forum is way way LESS great than it used to be!

Skibas_clavicle · « **Reply #177 on:** 29 Aug 2009, 09:47 »

When there is no standard people just aim fucking low.

Sox · « **Reply #178 on:** 29 Aug 2009, 09:57 »

The forums are significantly bigger than the used to be, and the comic attracts a different sort of person these days. We can say it's because we don't chew on new members anymore but I think it's because we're harder to please than we were four years ago.
You could say that being more tolerant has persuaded some less than desirable folk to stick around a little longer than we'd like, but at the same time a lot of the core regulars now are people that would almost certainly not have stayed if we were as hostile as we used to be. I'm fairly comfortable with this.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go look for somebody to bully in the music forum.
*cracks knuckles*

JD · « **Reply #179 on:** 29 Aug 2009, 11:18 »

Wait, how many posts do you need to become a regular?

Professor Snuggles · « **Reply #180 on:** 29 Aug 2009, 12:20 »

Quote from: Zombiedude on 29 Aug 2009, 11:18

Wait, how many posts do you need to become a regular?

It's quality not quantity, buddy.

Really all I want is new threads, less megathreads, and less boring talk about feelings.

is that so much to ask?

Sox · « **Reply #181 on:** 29 Aug 2009, 12:24 »

I want new threads too, most of my clothes are worn out. I should go post in the clothing and accessories megathread to ask what other people feel I should wear.

Lines · « **Reply #182 on:** 29 Aug 2009, 12:36 »

Walk around naked instead.

JD · « **Reply #183 on:** 29 Aug 2009, 13:02 »

Quote from: Professor Snuggles on 29 Aug 2009, 12:20

Quote from: Zombiedude on 29 Aug 2009, 11:18
Wait, how many posts do you need to become a regular?
It's quality not quantity, buddy.

Oh I guess that means I'll never be a regular. I am fine with that.

pwhodges · « **Reply #184 on:** 29 Aug 2009, 15:58 »

Quality is, of course, a moveable feast depending on who's watching.

Tom · « **Reply #185 on:** 29 Aug 2009, 16:52 »

I tend to leave my computer running for ages without thinking about it. Realistically, I've wasted approx. 24 hours.

Eris · « **Reply #186 on:** 29 Aug 2009, 19:52 »

It's not just time logged on, it's time active. Leaving your computer logging in to the forums for days will not work because it goes by if you have done something in the past 15 minutes. I got this amount of time because I have my computer on basically as soon as I get up and the forum running and I check threads and refresh in the hopes that something interesting has happened fairly regularly while doing something else. I also didn't have a job for a long time, so I had a lot of spare time.

Still, 206 days is a lot.

sean · « **Reply #187 on:** 29 Aug 2009, 20:06 »

oh really?

fuck than i actually have spent 56 days here shit.

yelley · « **Reply #188 on:** 29 Aug 2009, 22:31 »

May 19, 2004 I registered as toastess. Long ago enough to remember a time without Mr. Dski.

I have spent 15 days, 15 hours, and 23 minutes online.

2004 yelley would probably not believe the way things have turned out for 2009 yelley.

Tyler · « **Reply #189 on:** 30 Aug 2009, 06:39 »

Regged on October 8, 2006 which is about a month and a half after I snuggled up with the QC kids.

I remember "doing it wrong" and randomly showing up on gabbly before I even had made an account. I used to talk with vegikitkat, nolawnocrime, supersheep, fatty, princy, tommydski, and valleyparade every day on gabbly and had early forum crushes on Tania and Julia. For about two weeks everyone assumed I was Kieffer, then the argument became whether I was more like Tommy or Kieffer, or some terrible hybrid of the two. I used to just post and hang out on gabble gabble hey! during work when I was trying to get fired, which also lead to my first thread creation, as Tommy demanded I document my efforts with the forums. Within 2 months of joining, I was hanging out with Kieffer and Huda in NYC, and it has been a swift downhill road since.

Check out my awesome intro post dudes:

Quote

After a good 5-10 minutes of debate, I have decided to give in to my inner internet addict and joined the forums. I only recently discovered the love that is QC, and ended up reading all 700+ comics in one day. Luckily my job is slow, and boss slower. The only downside being, now I go from 100s per day, to 1.

Anyhow, the mushy about me stuff:
During the day I get my liberal arts education on at the University of Connecticut and work as office bitch in a business department there for my staying alive money.
When not chained into a desk or cubicle, I'm usually either wasting away hours on the internets, or out doing the hipster college kid act. I live about an hour outside Boston, so I all too often empathize with Marten being scrawny indie kid without a clue.

I am sure I will quickly become far too addicted here for my own good, so thanks a lot you enablers.

I will never leave.

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #190 on:** 30 Aug 2009, 12:55 »

I somehow read Oli's old username as "No Lawn O Crime"

IronOxide · « **Reply #191 on:** 30 Aug 2009, 13:02 »

Quote from: yelley on 29 Aug 2009, 22:31

May 19, 2004 I registered as toastess. Long ago enough to remember a time without Mr. Dski.

I have spent 15 days, 15 hours, and 23 minutes online.

2004 yelley would probably not believe the way things have turned out for 2009 yelley.

Yelley, you should post more. A lot more.

I also remember when our dear Yelley was known as a world renowned Internet predator.

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #192 on:** 30 Aug 2009, 13:04 »

from the orient.

yelley · « **Reply #193 on:** 30 Aug 2009, 14:19 »

Yes, at one point in my life I suppose I was an internet predator in the Orient.

But now I am just yelley on the work, sleep, repeat cycle... not much of interest to post about.

Hey totally unrelated - what happened to meebly? It doesn't work for me anymore. Did we change to a new thing and everyone forgot to tell me (or purposefully didn't tell me to keep me away)?

IronOxide · « **Reply #194 on:** 30 Aug 2009, 14:36 »

No, I don't think anything has changed in meebly since its inception. It's actually gotten a fair amount more reliable.

Skibas_clavicle · « **Reply #195 on:** 30 Aug 2009, 15:39 »

Quote from: Sox on 29 Aug 2009, 09:57

You could say that being more tolerant has persuaded some less than desirable folk to stick around a little longer than we'd like, but at the same time a lot of the core regulars now are people that would almost certainly not have stayed if we were as hostile as we used to be. I'm fairly comfortable with this.

That's pretty much my problem with this place altogether. Like, I'm obviously not gonna become like a troll and just fuck with shit, that not my style, but I will show up and grumble occasionally about a place I really enjoyed before now being kinda lame and shitty. Like when your favourite local hotspot gets infested with tourists. Take that analogy how you want.

For the record, I joined on March 10th, 2004.

Tyler · « **Reply #196 on:** 30 Aug 2009, 18:19 »

bitch, please

BrittanyMarie · « **Reply #197 on:** 30 Aug 2009, 18:47 »

Julia, you are clearly not hip enough. If you are hanging at a place long enough to where it is infested with "those people" (you know the ones) you are just not as undie. You need to always be at the forefront of knowing where the old man dives are. HEAVY WINK.

Hey, guys, remember "undie" and "De-pop"? Do we still use those?

David_Dovey · « **Reply #198 on:** 31 Aug 2009, 01:44 »

I didn't think "undie" ever really caught on in the first place. I wish we still used "de-pop".

Chesire Cat · « **Reply #199 on:** 31 Aug 2009, 02:09 »

Im not reading through 5 pages of this, but like Est, I am one of the oldies.

March 16th 2004.

I remember posters like Cheesegimp, and the conincidental duo hoopyfroodcat and thehoopiestfrood not to mention back when Jeph was an active member of his own community. Out and back when Jeph and Heather were doin there thing. Also this was back when Claire was the forum mascot.

This is actually the second forum Ive really had a presence on, the prior one being www.evilstar.net before it tanked.

*edit*

Oh and other things like Ruyi hadn't yet shown her face, or that stupid ORLY meme with the owl.

*edit again*

My time is only 9 days 17 hours and 11 minutes, nerds!

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