04-22-2014, 12:42 PM
This has actually been a really interesting thread with little bits of history thrown in!
My reasons for joining are a bit less related than the rest of yours though. I met Dazz a very long time ago on one of his earlier forums called Broken Invasion. At the time, a friend of mine was a member and told me I should join. I wasn't a spriter or really any sort of artist so I questioned why at first but he said it was just a good group of people so I figured why not?
There were probably around 13 of us that were truly active and for a while, it was a great group. Eventually, Dazz moved on to some other project (I can't remember which but it was likely brought up in this thread) and left me in charge of the original forum. Long story short, that forum wound up getting deleted because the host at the time didn't realize we were still using it and for a while, I lost touch with most of that group.
Dazz and I would occasionally talk and I lurked here for a while but never actually got around to joining until we discussed redoing tSR. I originally joined specifically so I could have the access I needed to work on the current system and start implementing the newer one. We figured it would look odd for a brand new member to suddenly be a Tech Admin though so we hid that fact for a while. Eventually, it was made public and then I switched to the Administrators group when I started dealing more with the community on a day to day basis.
So, there you have it - my motivation for joining and a bit of back story for me as well. While I originally didn't stray outside of the staff forum much, I've definitely grown to enjoy this community and have been trying to be more involved in general.
TL;DR I joined to make the new sites.
My reasons for joining are a bit less related than the rest of yours though. I met Dazz a very long time ago on one of his earlier forums called Broken Invasion. At the time, a friend of mine was a member and told me I should join. I wasn't a spriter or really any sort of artist so I questioned why at first but he said it was just a good group of people so I figured why not?
There were probably around 13 of us that were truly active and for a while, it was a great group. Eventually, Dazz moved on to some other project (I can't remember which but it was likely brought up in this thread) and left me in charge of the original forum. Long story short, that forum wound up getting deleted because the host at the time didn't realize we were still using it and for a while, I lost touch with most of that group.
Dazz and I would occasionally talk and I lurked here for a while but never actually got around to joining until we discussed redoing tSR. I originally joined specifically so I could have the access I needed to work on the current system and start implementing the newer one. We figured it would look odd for a brand new member to suddenly be a Tech Admin though so we hid that fact for a while. Eventually, it was made public and then I switched to the Administrators group when I started dealing more with the community on a day to day basis.
So, there you have it - my motivation for joining and a bit of back story for me as well. While I originally didn't stray outside of the staff forum much, I've definitely grown to enjoy this community and have been trying to be more involved in general.
TL;DR I joined to make the new sites.