Is LitNet Your One and Only Forum? [Archive]

Idril

11-15-2006, 11:17 PM

I belonged to a Tolkien forum for a few years before I came here and I still frequent some satilite sites from that first forum that were started by various members. I joined LitNet because I was really excited about being able to talk about books other than LOTR and authors other than Tolkien. I've also been a member at forums for Harvest Moon and Zelda but that was a while ago now.

cuppajoe_9

11-15-2006, 11:28 PM

I used to frequent the Soapbox, a particularly vicious imdB subforum. I left in a blaze of profanity. It was awesome. I still lurk there sometimes.

Virgil

11-15-2006, 11:29 PM

No.............but it was my first. I continue to enjoy it.

underground

11-16-2006, 12:04 AM

eh. more or less. i didn't use to be so active (online), but lately i'm required to sit in front of my computer everyday.

Laindessiel

11-16-2006, 12:40 AM

LitNet is my FIRST, the ONE and ONLY forum that I've EVER joined. I got here because I've always seen Toni spending her life (when she's not studying or reading) here, posting and reading and having good fun here. What got me hooked was the games really; it can make your brain perspire sometimes!! But I like giving it some exercises (I'm a super crossword puzzle lover and I've got piles and piles of them in my drawer's desk. I'm pretty good at it, I can say.) Now, I've learned to love not only the games but also reading the General Chat and Poetry forums. I especially love Dr. Eep's works (so very heart-tugging), Uncle Pen's poems and sonnets and Uncle Virgil's opinionated statements. Very elegant people.

Not only that, the people here are so nice; makes you wanna come back and have a nice chat with all of them! Love you all!

SleepyWitch

11-16-2006, 03:39 AM

the first forum I joined was Harry Potter Forums Uk. Somebody there recommended lit net, so I had a look and signed up.
I'm still registered with the HP forum but I haven't been active for more than a year. It's a cool place but then I'm not exactly a Potter maniac, so it can get boring talking only about HP things.

Neovia

11-16-2006, 04:21 AM

No. I often visit in an one general and an one horse forum. In a small art forum, too, but it was brought to an end. I also visit sometimes in couple other forums, maybe few times in a year.

mtpspur

11-16-2006, 04:25 AM

It is for now. I occasionally visit the Comicbook Resource forum (I have a small collection of favorites). This literature site is the only one I've ever visited (and stayed) but in fairness to all I found it by accident tracking an author on yahoo (probably Dashiell Hammett but forget now) and like the general sense of rapport here. I have no desire to go hunting around (at least until I burn out my welcome here as I keep reassuring the long suffering spouse (she's into prayer forums) Logos hasn't sent me a reprimand yet though I worried over a couple of posts.

One eye opener is I've discovered I'm far from being as well read as I thought I was when I signed up and there is a whole slew of intelligent people out there and here I thought all the dumb colleges kids became lieutenants in the Air Force (til they grew up to be captains).

Real soon I'm going to figure out these smiley icons and be really repetitous in the usage.

RobinHood3000

11-16-2006, 06:46 AM

It's perhaps the 2nd forum I've felt so integrated into the community. The other was PlanetAVP.

AimusSage

11-16-2006, 07:38 AM

I frequent many forums, but usually I'm a lurker, this is the only place where I act like a terrible post junkie and generally am a spam monkey. :D

optimisticnad

11-16-2006, 09:29 AM

You're kidding me right? :flare:

this forum is bad enough! Trying to keep up with everything here takes up all my time, god forbid, join another one? :lol: what an absurd idea!

if you havent realised from the above sentences, this is my one and only forum, well....i lurk in and out of other ones with pseudonyms (so might have met one of you guys!) but this is where I feel at home and home is where everyone else is a loser like me, with nothing better to do with thier life....lol. only kidding. hope i havent offended anyone and if i have....TOUGH. you just have picked up on what im like?

i have a terrible tootache. did not sleep at all last night. kept tossing around thinking 'if i just pretend that its not hurting i can fall asleep'. so I spent the night fooling myself into thinking im fooling myself to sleep. so apologies if im a little more cranky and acidicly witty than usual. my humble deepest apologies. (did i mention i never mean it when i say sorry? :lol: )

Shannanigan

11-16-2006, 10:41 AM

i have a terrible tootache. did not sleep at all last night. kept tossing around thinking 'if i just pretend that its not hurting i can fall asleep'. so I spent the night fooling myself into thinking im fooling myself to sleep. so apologies if im a little more cranky and acidicly witty than usual. my humble deepest apologies. (did i mention i never mean it when i say sorry? :lol: )

awwww, sorry to hear opti :(

Welll...I was on a forum before this, but I had left it looong before finding LitNet when searching for information about Othello :p I was on LitNet since near the end of last semester, but near the end of the summer I bought my new car and joined a forum to get help working on it (it needs a lot of improvement and the people on the forum can give you how-tos and tips to make life easy). So, I'm on two forums, but I spend much more time here because the conversation here is a tad more...intellectually stimulating:lol:

miss tenderness

11-16-2006, 10:57 AM

I'm registrered in many forums but active in only three of them.

optimisticnad

11-16-2006, 11:08 AM

*shock* those of you on other forums: betrayers! adulterers!

lol.

ClaesGefvenberg

11-16-2006, 11:50 AM

Do you post on other forums Oh, yes. I have some 3.500 posts in a forum related to my profession (Quality Assurance) where I'm also admin. I am also a member of a number of other forums where I am a less frequent poster, but never quite content with just lurking.

and why did you join LitNet?Easily explained: LitNet is a very good forum, providing me with lots of hints and tips on my major interest (reading). Several people here also made me feel very welcome as soon as I found this place and registered. I feel that I have found a bunch of kindred spirits and generally nice people, and simply enjoy bantering with you lot. :D

those of you on other forums: betrayers! adulterers! :lol: But.... I have to. I'm male, and I have to prove my capacity for multitasking. If I don't, nobody will believe me :lol:

/Claes

Nightshade

11-16-2006, 01:12 PM

humm well sort of joined a keats forum the week before I joined this ( for school purposes no one ever showed up and you could ONLY talk a out keats so guess who left?
THis is my one and only now....and one that note
THE BIG MEANIE has gone and widened the gap...AGAIN!!

SleepyWitch

11-16-2006, 01:18 PM

this forum is bad enough! Trying to keep up with everything here takes up all my time, god forbid, join another one? :lol: what an absurd idea!

hehe, I'm the same :) even when I haven't read any book in ages there's always so many things going on in here that it keeps me busy enough

grace86

11-16-2006, 02:38 PM

This is the only forum I've joined. I didn't exactly know what one was. My fiancee compares it to an equivelent of myspace.com because I am on here all the time (my sister is glued to myspace so he compares us)...but goodness, forgive me but myspace is just trash. I joined because I didn't know too many people here in real life who like to read and all you guys do.

I wouldn't join another forum, you guys take all my time and that is fine with me.

What bothers me though is when someone over here says that I don't have a life because I choose to read or join literature forums. They should get a little life and try to read...sorry, just a little bitter toward non readers who make assumptions.

Nightshade

11-16-2006, 02:56 PM

Pensive

11-17-2006, 04:31 AM

What bothers me though is when someone over here says that I don't have a life because I choose to read or join literature forums. They should get a little life and try to read...sorry, just a little bitter toward non readers who make assumptions.
I totally agree! :)

For me, it is the opposite, because books have made my life good. Whenever I am sad, or have a crappy day at school, the first thing I do is to read a book or share problem with my beloved diary.

In fact, reading and writing has helped me a lot. In the dark night when I can't get myself to sleep, it is a book that helps me. On a very bad day when I fail my Maths test, it is the novel which shares my grief. Book is my companion which is always available. It wouldn't make faces like the human-beings do. It wouldn't take any offence. It wouldn't leave me, and still it would disclose itself to me telling me all its secrets. Isn't it wonderful!

I wouldn't say that I am always reading a book or I have no other hobbies, but still it is the hobby which has helped me the most in my life. I too hate it when people say that book-lovers have no life, because this is totally a misconception. :)

SleepyWitch

11-17-2006, 07:07 AM

hehe, you're so sweet Pensy :)

yeah, I'm a bit prejudiced against non-readers, especially since much of what they call their "lives" consists of doing the same boring things over and over again, especially with "cool" people. I mean, why should hanging around doing nothing be called a "life" when you can hang around and read a book (=be at least mentally active)?
In my experience the worst book-haters are those who don't even have any other hobbies or don't ever do anything interesting.

ClaesGefvenberg

11-17-2006, 09:32 AM

What bothers me though is when someone over here says that I don't have a life because I choose to read or join literature forums. They should get a little life and try to read...sorry, just a little bitter toward non readers who make assumptions.Yes... I see what you mean. I recently tried to discuss something I had read somewhere with a lady at work. No go: She just asked me: "You read a lot, don't you?" When I agreed that I did, she just stared at me and said: "God, your life must be boring". :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

But why be bitter? How could a non reader possibly fathom the joys of a good book?

/Claes

vheissu

11-17-2006, 04:20 PM

Unless you count my university's student forum, where I don't really post that much anyway....then LitNet is the only forum I post. I've realised that although I look at this forum nearly every day, I don't post as much; I'll make up for it during Xmas holidays, when I'll have a bit more time!!

optimisticnad

11-17-2006, 04:23 PM

Oh, yes. I have some 3.500 posts in a forum related to my profession (Quality Assurance) where I'm also admin. I am also a member of a number of other forums where I am a less frequent poster, but never quite content with just lurking.
Easily explained: LitNet is a very good forum, providing me with lots of hints and tips on my major interest (reading). Several people here also made me feel very welcome as soon as I found this place and registered. I feel that I have found a bunch of kindred spirits and generally nice people, and simply enjoy bantering with you lot. :D

:lol: But.... I have to. I'm male, and I have to prove my capacity for multitasking. If I don't, nobody will believe me :lol:

/Claes

shame men cant multitask in a certain 'department' that comes to mind.
by the way, this may be a silly question, but do you deliberately put the forward slash before your name (which we know! :lol: ). All right, so maybe we cant all multitask like you but wer smart enough to know its claes posting! :lol:

hehe, I'm the same :) even when I haven't read any book in ages there's always so many things going on in here that it keeps me busy enough

:lol:

dont sleep so much and ul find plenty of time to betray us to other forums!

:lol:

grace86

11-17-2006, 04:29 PM

She just asked me: "You read a lot, don't you?" When I agreed that I did, she just stared at me and said: "God, your life must be boring". :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

But why be bitter? How could a non reader possibly fathom the joys of a good book?

/Claes

Oh goodness yes, I've had someone do that to me too. How funny. My life is so busy that it could hardly be called boring...but I guess if you say you are a reader it just comes with the territory.

I suppose you are right on a non reader's ability to fathom the joy of reading...how could they know?

optimisticnad

11-17-2006, 04:41 PM

to be fair though-i think this attitude, i mean ours, is also a little cliched. we automatically think-and even like to think-that....I dont know how phrase this. god, im tongue tied for the first time in my life! only cos im sleepy. what i mean is we like the glow that comes with reading, we like people thinking wer boring but at the same time clever and intelligent. am i making any sense? both sides have jst become so cliched: the non reader thinking that the lover of books is just boring and the lover of books thinking hes somehow superoior for having this knowledge (that boks r great!) is great.

crisaor

11-17-2006, 06:15 PM

Not for me, I frequent a couple more forums, although this is the only one literature-related.

Shannanigan

11-17-2006, 06:28 PM

AimusSage

11-17-2006, 06:40 PM

I think I get what you mean...but at the same time...I wish EVERYBODY would start reading, so we wouldn't be alone outside of the forum, and because I think it would really expand a lot of people's minds who need expanding...
I object, my mind is very expansive already, despite me not reading that much, although, I admit, it's mostly filled with air. :D

kathycf

11-18-2006, 03:35 PM

Yes... I see what you mean. I recently tried to discuss something I had read somewhere with a lady at work. No go: She just asked me: "You read a lot, don't you?" When I agreed that I did, she just stared at me and said: "God, your life must be boring". :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

But why be bitter? How could a non reader possibly fathom the joys of a good book?

/Claes

Perhaps HER days are filled with such stellar interesting events as picking out Brussel spouts at the store, watching "Reality TV" and walking on sidewalks, avoiding all the cracks. :rolleyes: Honestly, that is such a rude and presumptious thing to say.

Usuallly when I mention about loving to read, someone will say "Wow, if only I had the time to sit around reading!!" because they are just so darn busy and I of course...have no life. I tend to reply "Too bad for you, reading keeps your brain from wasting away." Did I already mention rude and presumptious? :p

SleepyWitch

11-21-2006, 12:49 PM

Koa

11-25-2006, 08:14 PM

This is not my only forum and that's actually why I'm not so active lately, I mostly spend my free time on another one :blush: which I joined about 6 months before this - and for a while it was LitNet who kept me away from the other one. (it is a language-related forum)

I'm also active at an Italian forum related to my favourite band. I'm registered to tons of other forums on the same topic but I'm not active in any of those these days, though I used to be in some, in different periods.

Yeah I don't have a life :D
(well these days I sort of do but I also love to check my forums...)

thevintagepiper

11-26-2006, 05:47 AM

Mostly I'm busy on TeenHelp, a forum where I'm something like an online counselor/mentor with their email system. I also go to a Lord of the Rings forum (which is now just friendly spam because there are only ten of us hardcore members left!), and I moderate a Christian forum. Apart from that there are quite a few that I don't go to anymore.

I like lit-net because it has such intelligent, book-loving members (who don't make such rude and presumptious comments :p).

Schokokeks

11-26-2006, 07:42 AM

Perhaps HER days are filled with such stellar interesting events as picking out Brussel spouts at the store, watching "Reality TV" and walking on sidewalks, avoiding all the cracks. :rolleyes: Honestly, that is such a rude and presumptious thing to say.

For people of my age who look down their noses on voracious readers you'd have to add drinking, drinking and getting drunk to the stellar interesting events :rolleyes:. Fortunately, there are always always exceptions.

Anyway, to topic :D:
Yepp, this is my one and only forum. I usually don't like sitting in front of a computer, I get tired very easily when staring at the screen for too long :D, but I have been a member of a number of fora in the past, yet never could stick with one for long. Except LitNet, of course - just another proof that you guys are just great ! *grabs the nearest LitNet member around (which would be Vintage) and bestows upon her a huge happy hug* :D

thevintagepiper

11-26-2006, 10:20 AM

*hugs Schokokeks back*

*turns it into one big lit-net group hug*

RobinHood3000

11-26-2006, 10:21 AM

WHOO!!

~joins group hug~

Taliesin

11-26-2006, 11:20 AM

So we are a member of an Estonian role-playing forum, an Estonian Tolkien-forum and two forums that are some breed of role-playing forums, fantasy forums and just society forums.
Mind you, those are Estonian forums and are much smaller than Litnet.

kathycf

11-26-2006, 12:35 PM

I belong to two gaming sites and I blush to say that I joined Myspace because a couple of my friends from the gaming places joined there. Myspace is ok, but it just isn't really my thing.

Madhuri

11-27-2006, 01:00 PM

I was a member of some software testing forums (work related), it was a year ago, and then I had not really understood the concept of forum-ing, for me it was just a few sites where one discusses serious things. I stopped posting in them, as there was this guy who got so offended that he started posting insults about me on these forums and on some others too of which he was a member and he made it a point that I was cc'ed all those posts as well. It became nasty. :(

And then litnet happened when I was looking for the story of Othello, I was going to watch a movie based on this story. I joined just like it and never really thought I will enjoy being here immensly.

As of now litnet is the only forum. :)

Laindessiel

11-27-2006, 01:07 PM

Those people were mean jerks, Mads! Insult a person? You? Ha, that has got to be the worst thing a person could ever do to a fellow man. I abhor these pachyderms. :rage: You deserve all the goodness in the world, Mads..

Madhuri

11-27-2006, 01:14 PM

Thanks, Lain. :)

Surprisingly, I never understood what offended him, anyways, I did not find it very professional, that being a different kind of forum. But it was a good way to keep myself updated with what was happening in my field and also discuss important stuff, I am thinking of joining a few, though. I'll make sure I dont come across such people. :)

Laindessiel

11-27-2006, 01:17 PM

Gof or it! But don't forget us all here! (But I don't think you'll be able to anyway...we are good people!!! :D :D :brow: )

Shalot

11-27-2006, 09:39 PM

I actually joined this forum in June 06 as WilliamBlake to complain about an online library service that I was upset with. I felt that they stole my money (and I still do) and I was searching the Internet for similiar complaints about the company.

I found this forum through a thread that was about the company and I posted there and shared my awful experience with them. I logged in as WilliamBlake and never logged out and forgot my password that I set up originally.

Then I had to wipe my harddrive and reload all my software because I picked up some horrible spyware that would not go away. And I also changed my email address because I was still using my old name so I couldn't figure out how to log back into to LitNet as WilliamBlake. (I have an insane number of passwords to keep up with work, home and banks etc! I was told you shouldn't use the same one but now I have too many!)

So I signed up again as Shalot (misspelled of course - a typical thing for me to do) and that is how I ended up here.

I actual do belong to another forum for professional networking, but noboday posts there and it's not fun. I love LitNet. I hope they never kick me out.

:D

brainstrain

11-27-2006, 10:41 PM

Yeah, RuneScape has a forum i get on occasionally. but its full of testorone-pumped young geeks. not the most pleasent of places. I get on MySpace once a month of so, also a RuneScape fansite called runehq with an amazing forums. much better than RS itself lol

I'm not particularly active in any of these, i have lots of other things to do hehe.

Madhuri

11-27-2006, 11:28 PM

Gof or it! But don't forget us all here! (But I don't think you'll be able to anyway...we are good people!!! :D :D :brow: )

How can I..Its one of the places I love visiting, and everyone is so nice. I can be just about myself, do silly things, if I write wrong English and nobody minds it, I can make mistakes and I am forgiven. :D

And you are such a sweet person, how can I forget you....:) :)

Rogers_68

11-28-2006, 12:00 AM

i frequent the forum on relevantmagazine dot com.

Laindessiel

11-28-2006, 12:31 AM

How can I..Its one of the places I love visiting, and everyone is so nice. I can be just about myself, do silly things, if I write wrong English and nobody minds it, I can make mistakes and I am forgiven. :D

You write good English, what are you saying?

And you are such a sweet person, how can I forget you....:) :)

Now that's what I call sweet...Mwaaah!
Back at cha, Mads, back at cha...

dramasnot6

11-28-2006, 04:34 AM

well, i have dabbled in other forums before this one. and still sometimes do. But i can honestly say that i have never been as dedicated to a forum as i am to LitNet. Hopefully this will continue for a long time:) Its definetly my favorite, I'm part of a Macrobiotics forum and one about nothing in particular that my friend started but this is the first one ive been to about Literature or philosophy and i am smitten. :D :D :blush: :)

SleepyWitch

11-28-2006, 08:32 AM

i completely forgot that I'm also registered with a German Star Trek forum. I've only posted about 3 times there so far. It's quite dull.

Serenata

12-02-2006, 11:38 PM

Alas! This is not my first forum. But I post here more often.

Niamh

01-15-2008, 05:09 PM

I think the last time i posted here Litnet was my only forum. I'm now on five, but only participate in two and a third one every once in the blue moon...

Dori

01-15-2008, 08:55 PM

forums.onlinebookclub.org
www.asrai.org

I visit the first one regularly and the second one rarely (even though I'm a moderator :lol:).

Weisinheimer

01-15-2008, 08:58 PM

This is my first and only forum. I came across it by accident and it looked awesome so I joined.

Lily Adams

01-15-2008, 10:12 PM

Technically I'm a member of *counts* four, but I quit two and was on this one only for a looooong time but I recently joined Booji Boy's Basement. But it's dead there, pretty much. :(

But LitNet gets 99.9999999999% of my love. :D

RoCKiTcZa

01-15-2008, 11:25 PM

Yep, litnet is my one and only forum. When I was a kid I was a member of the Annetoon forums (cartoon version of Anne of Green Gables). I don't know if it still exists. I've also seen a lot of forums uniting people in my place. I used to be interested in joining, but not anymore. Aside from having limited internet time (all I have is my 3G broadband at home and my school's internet connection), litnet is the only forum I have ever enjoyed this much. Joining yet another forum will only distract me (even more). :)

Why did I join litnet? To tell the truth, I don't know. I joined because I was looking for an internet forum to spend the summertime in (because I was bored). The mods even came close to banning me because I wasn't making any sense! :blush: I believe there was a time when I stopped being active, yet I resumed litnetting again.

LadyWentworth

01-15-2008, 11:45 PM

I am currently a member of 3 forums (including this one). I frequent this one the most. I used to belong to two others, but they changed. The one died after the TV program went off the air. The other one had just too many narrow-minded people on there. One of the forums that I belong to now has a lot of childish members (silly bickering and name-calling all the time). The only reason that I deal with these people is because they have the information that I want to know about the particular topic that the site is based on.

I joined this site for the sole purpose of discussing books. That is my reason for joining. :)

Shea

01-16-2008, 04:59 AM

This is my first and only forum. I came across it by accident and it looked awesome so I joined.

This goes for me too.:)

Klingsor

01-16-2008, 07:48 AM

I belong to some German literature forums, and I visit two philosophy forums, one in German, one in English.

thelastmelon

01-16-2008, 10:41 AM

I'm part of four literature forums, two Swedish and two International (this being one of them). I joined both of the international ones around the same time, because I felt like discussing literature and get new ideas on books to read. :)

Niamh

01-16-2008, 03:46 PM

Lily Adams

01-16-2008, 04:56 PM

Dont you mean four? you are forgetting the one that isnt that active, more ghostly guests than members.;) :D

Ha ha!

LadyWentworth

01-16-2008, 08:03 PM

Dont you mean four? you are forgetting the one that isnt that active, more ghostly guests than members.;) :D
:lol: Well, then it must be active in the paranormal sense! ;)

No, I mean only 3 forums. I used to be a part of 2 other forums. If I included those then it would be 5. I just dropped them. I haven't even visited them for a couple of years. So, I am now down to this one, one for theater and the above mentioned. :)

aeroport

01-17-2008, 03:16 AM

This is the only one I come back to regularly. I'm also a member of the Dream Theater forum, and have maybe 100 posts or so; and the Porcupine Tree forum, where I have 1.

amanda_isabel

01-17-2008, 03:23 AM

good question. well, no, Lit Net is not my one and only forum, but its the one i've been part of the longest, and so far the only one i've considered going back to time and time again :) i'm part of a magazine forum and i just stopped checking that, and just recently i joined our new school web page's forum... that's all, i guess.

Niamh

01-17-2008, 05:56 AM

:lol: Well, then it must be active in the paranormal sense! ;)

No, I mean only 3 forums. I used to be a part of 2 other forums. If I included those then it would be 5. I just dropped them. I haven't even visited them for a couple of years. So, I am now down to this one, one for theater and the above mentioned. :)

Ah now i get ya!
I've five.
Litnet where i live
David Wells where i visit
MHF where i wander
Living which i keep saying i'm giving up because they are all bitter mean people
and Karl Beattie that i joined but never revisited....

LadyWentworth

01-17-2008, 11:18 PM

Ah now i get ya!
I've five.
Litnet where i live
David Wells where i visit
MHF where i wander
Living which i keep saying i'm giving up because they are all bitter mean people
and Karl Beattie that i joined but never revisited....

Are these the David Wells and Karl Beattie sites where you actually have to be a member in order to look at any of the threads? I tried to check them out, but, of course, I wasn't allowed to even sneak-a-peek at them.

As for the one where everyone is so bitter that you belong to, that is exactly why I won't join the Travel Channel one here. I considered it at first, but I just decided that I didn't care to bother with their nastiness all the time.

That is basically how I feel about the theater site. They are REALLY bitter and mean and nasty on there, but they have the news that I need to know about. So I basically have no choice. My posts on there are few and far between. I get tired of posting a comment (even something as silly as favorite showtune) and then someone snaps at you and calls you crazy for choosing that song as a favorite! I don't have time for that nonsense.

Tersely

01-18-2008, 09:53 PM

This is the only one I signed up for to become an offical member. I stalk all others.

aabbcc

01-19-2008, 06:42 AM

I had an account on a couple of other forums, but it lasted for a couple of days, perhaps weeks. I am not really internet-type of the person nor tied much to my computer, so forums tend to become boring to me after a couple of days; Litnet is the only exception.

I do lurk on some other forums, though, but am an active member only of Litnet.

Niamh

01-19-2008, 06:44 AM

Are these the David Wells and Karl Beattie sites where you actually have to be a member in order to look at any of the threads? I tried to check them out, but, of course, I wasn't allowed to even sneak-a-peek at them.

As for the one where everyone is so bitter that you belong to, that is exactly why I won't join the Travel Channel one here. I considered it at first, but I just decided that I didn't care to bother with their nastiness all the time.

That is basically how I feel about the theater site. They are REALLY bitter and mean and nasty on there, but they have the news that I need to know about. So I basically have no choice. My posts on there are few and far between. I get tired of posting a comment (even something as silly as favorite showtune) and then someone snaps at you and calls you crazy for choosing that song as a favorite! I don't have time for that nonsense.
Yeah they are. i ended up joining them from link in MHF site when Admin there posted mes about David Leaving. I love the DAvid Wells site. Everyone is so sweet. I had to set up a yahoo account just to join.

farnoosh

01-19-2008, 07:23 AM

for me this forum is the first forum

mercy_mankind

01-19-2008, 01:50 PM

I'm new to this whole forum business and this is the first forum I have ever joined. How 'bout the rest of you? Do you post on other forums and why did you join LitNet?

Actually it is not the first forum , and also it is not my only forum .
I had joined that forum because it is belongs to my study , I'm studying the English Literature ,
Thanks Shalot , :)

JuniperWoolf

02-28-2012, 03:24 PM

Fess up, cheaters.

Calidore

02-28-2012, 05:13 PM

This is the first, and still only, forum I participate in regularly. I'm signed on with a few others but hardly ever read or post to them.

Varenne Rodin

02-28-2012, 05:40 PM

I have a Facebook account. The friends list is comprised of morons. I tried WetCanvas and couldn't find conversation to be interested in. I'm part of several art networking forums to coerce people into buying my sculptures. Litnet is the best forum I have found. It seems to be the last space on the internet for intelligent people to collectively convene. I hope it's not the last, but I can't find anyone else in the now expansive sea of angry, illiterate house moms. Whoever told them about the internet should die. ;)

OrphanPip

02-28-2012, 05:41 PM

I also participate at a science discussion forum and a LGBT community forum.

Drkshadow03

02-28-2012, 05:46 PM

I also participate at a science discussion forum and a LGBT community forum.

Which science forum?

OrphanPip

02-29-2012, 03:00 PM

Which science forum?

I used to post semi-frequently on thescienceforum.com, but I admit I haven't been doing it a lot recently since it got new ownership. But these things consume so much time sometimes that it's probably a good thing I don't have much time for it anymore.

Maximilianus

02-29-2012, 11:24 PM

I have a Facebook account. The friends list is comprised of morons.
That's because I'm not on such list. If I were on it I would surely be the only non-moron :p :D

Litnet is the best forum I have found. It seems to be the last space on the internet for intelligent people to collectively convene. I hope it's not the last (...)
I've sometimes visited The Free Dictionary Language Forums (http://forum.thefreedictionary.com/), although it's mostly aimed at language-related conversations, such as grammar, vocabulary, and such... the sort of thing I'm into at the moment :) Looks like a nice place, as far as I've seen.

(...) but I can't find anyone else in the now expansive sea of angry, illiterate house moms. Whoever told them about the internet should die. ;)
Let's kill them! http://smiles.kolobok.us/user/Gigakach_01.gif http://smiles.kolobok.us/artists/just_cuz/JC_rockin.gif :p

stlukesguild

02-29-2012, 11:49 PM

I have a Facebook account. The friends list is comprised of morons. I tried WetCanvas and couldn't find conversation to be interested in.

Yes. Wetcanvas used to be great, but it is dying. I go to some of the sub-forums there and find that there have been only one of two new posts over the last few days when I used to miss a day and find that some interesting threads had pages of new posts.

Litnet is the best forum I have found. It seems to be the last space on the internet for intelligent people to collectively convene.

It is one of the best I have ever participated on... as I said, Wetcanvas used to be great, and I post on several classical music sites.

I hope it's not the last, but I can't find anyone else in the now expansive sea of angry, illiterate house moms. Whoever told them about the internet should die.

:smilielol5: Indeed!

In the earlier days of internet forums I was rapidly banned at one "literature" site for simply suggesting that Edgar Allen Poe wasn't all that good of a poet. I was taken to task by an administrator for the negativity of my comment. When I wrote back to her defending my opinion, she responded that it wasn't my place to question her, it was my place to "obey". :eek2: I just about lost my mind and hit her with a paragraph of the finest profanity which quite likely left her in need of therapy for months.

There are far too many such sites out there run by such illiterate house moms who think that a great literature site consists of a mutual admiration society in which dialog runs along these lines:

"Good in Bed is the greatest book I've ever read." (As if anyone should admit to such.)

"Oh! Yes!!! I loved it too!"

"Me too! Me too!"

:grouphug:

At this point I want to barf... or begin a discussion of Jean Genet, Bataille, or the Marquis de Sade just to stir things up.

Varenne Rodin

02-29-2012, 11:52 PM

That's because I'm not on such list. If I were on it I would surely be the only non-moron :p :D

I've sometimes visited The Free Dictionary Language Forums (http://forum.thefreedictionary.com/), although it's mostly aimed at language-related conversations, such as grammar, vocabulary, and such... the sort of thing I'm into at the moment :) Looks like a nice place, as far as I've seen.

Let's kill them! http://smiles.kolobok.us/user/Gigakach_01.gif http://smiles.kolobok.us/artists/just_cuz/JC_rockin.gif :p

Hahaha. Yes! And thanks for the info about the language site. Sounds good.

Mutatis-Mutandis

03-01-2012, 12:22 AM

This is the only forum I participate in regularly. I occasionally peruse the troll infested boards of IMDb.

My first forum was a video game forum where I became, get this, an administrator. Not just a mod, but a full blown admin who could ban members and everything. Mine was a chaotic and despotic rule . . . in all actuality, I barely did anything except screw with the board's runner (who made me an admin in the first place), starting such debates as demanding that mods and admins get payed, various radical forum changes, and sometimes just being a troll myself, in which case no one could do ****. I ALMOST banned the forum runner at one point, but a fellow mod talked me out of it. I was in high school at the time.

I also sometimes go to the progressive rock forums at progarchives.com. It's a pretty good site for discussion of any type of music (except rap and country), classical included.

Maximilianus

03-01-2012, 12:27 AM

Hahaha. Yes! And thanks for the info about the language site. Sounds good.
Welcome, Var http://smiles.kolobok.us/personal/hi.gif

I also sometimes go to the progressive rock forums at progarchives.com. It's a pretty good site for discussion of any type of music (except rap and country), classical included.
Sounds appealing.

Varenne Rodin

03-01-2012, 01:26 AM

Snowqueen

03-01-2012, 04:53 AM

This is the first, and still only, forum I participate in regularly.

Same here, I also have facebook account but I rarely visit that site.

cacian

03-01-2012, 05:42 AM

I used to frequent the Soapbox, a particularly vicious imdB subforum. I left in a blaze of profanity. It was awesome. I still lurk there sometimes.

This sounds awesome.

Pensive

03-01-2012, 07:24 AM

It has been about ten years wandering around the virtual world, and litnet has still got to be my favorite discussion board! :) Social networking sites like facebook can be alright for remaining up-to-date with your family/contacts or maintaining old friendships but when it comes to variety and getting to meet new and interesting people I personally believe it totally fails. I am sure there must be many intelligent people out there in facebook too but just because everybody has joined it makes it harder for people to converse at a personal level (I am talking about those outside your contact list). And it just doesn't target a certain set of audience (based on similar characteristics) as discussion boards like litnet do.

Maximilianus

03-01-2012, 07:58 AM

I am sure there must be many intelligent people out there in facebook too
Don't be so sure unless you love disappointments :svengo: :p

Pensive

03-01-2012, 08:10 AM

Don't be so sure unless you love disappointments :svengo: :p

And you don't have an fb account, Max, I assume? :p

Maximilianus

03-01-2012, 09:03 AM

And you don't have an fb account, Max, I assume? :p
I do have one, and I am constantly disappointed and usually appalled down to the bottom of utmost dismay :p

LadyLuck

03-01-2012, 10:20 AM

This and Facebook are all that I really use. Facebook I only visit half heartedly. I love it for keeping in touch with some family and such, but mostly I don't want people to know where I am and what I'm doing. I do use it to post pictures of my children for family and such to see, but other than that, I don't do much with it. I'm still finding myself a bit perplexed at the whole appeal of Facebook. LitNet is one I've always loved. I've been a member here in one form or another for some 8 or 9 years... maybe more.

Darcy88

03-01-2012, 11:23 AM

I belong to a few other forums, but I haven't posted much if anything on them in over a year.

aliengirl

03-01-2012, 03:11 PM

I'm here most of the times and take a peep occasionally on the facebook. FB is fine to keep in touch with friends and wish them on their birthdays but it really gets annoying when the news displays such stuff as "Achoo! i've a bad cold" and 7 people like it. That simply makes me log out and forget its existence.
There are some others but I don't visit them regularly.

Mutatis-Mutandis

03-01-2012, 05:51 PM

Is FB a forum, though? I don't consider it as such. You don't go to FB to discuss things.

Maximilianus

03-01-2012, 09:25 PM

I'm still finding myself a bit perplexed at the whole appeal of Facebook

FB is fine to keep in touch with friends and wish them on their birthdays but it really gets annoying when the news displays such stuff as "Achoo! i've a bad cold" and 7 people like it. That simply makes me log out and forget its existence.
FB has that effect on non-brain-dead people. On the other hand, it appears most people on FB are brain-dead, or training hard to become... take the gazillion "LOLs," "hahahas," and "wows" for example :p

Is FB a forum, though? I don't consider it as such. You don't go to FB to discuss things.
I think "social network" is a more appropriate name for it.

Veho

03-01-2012, 10:06 PM

Is FB a forum, though? I don't consider it as such. You don't go to FB to discuss things.

I don't have Facebook anymore but I never considered it a forum although there are places on pages for discussions. I don't wish to judge but I reckon not many serious or interesting discussions go on on there!

Haunted

03-02-2012, 03:18 AM

what is facebook?

Helga

03-02-2012, 03:51 AM

I don't have facebook and never did, when I started coming here I was also at a Star Trek forum but man those people are crazy, so I quit. so now this is my only forum, I did just sign up for goodreads but I don't know how the forum part there works, I just wanted to rate books and have a to read list.

aliengirl

03-02-2012, 10:06 AM

Is FB a forum, though? I don't consider it as such. You don't go to FB to discuss things.

I too don't consider it a forum. Its a social networking site. But I've seen people posting their poems, notes, and stuff on it and later they take you to task for not liking it or not posting a comment. :frown2: :iamwithstupid:

FB has that effect on non-brain-dead people. On the other hand, it appears most people on FB are brain-dead, or training hard to become... take the gazillion "LOLs," "hahahas," and "wows" for example

Not to forget the endless exclamation marks after each sentence. :p

Mutatis-Mutandis

03-02-2012, 11:02 AM

I don't have Facebook anymore but I never considered it a forum although there are places on pages for discussions. I don't wish to judge but I reckon not many serious or interesting discussions go on on there!

Depends on your friends.

Veho

03-02-2012, 11:35 AM

Depends on your friends.

True.

JuniperWoolf

03-03-2012, 01:54 AM

Before litnet I was on a really cool forum which randomly disappeared from the internet one day, that was lame. Besides that I've actually not extended myself overmuch in terms of social networking, these things take up a lot of time. I was briefly on an alternative fashion forum, but I got really bored because they all had the same personality, which just so happened to be "Nazi liberal feminist." I might enjoy hanging out with one or two Nazi liberal feminists peppered throughout a larger community, but not an entire horde of them.

I reddit sometimes, not often, and to me facebook is just like an extension of my irl life so I wouldn't even really count it as an online thing oddly enough. It's more like a datebook. "What's going on this weekend? According to facebook, everyone's going to the Icebreaker. Sounds like a plan."

KCurtis

03-03-2012, 11:17 AM

I was briefly on an alternative fashion forum, but I got really bored because they all had the same personality, which just so happened to be "Nazi liberal feminist." I might enjoy hanging out with one or two Nazi liberal feminists peppered throughout a larger community, but not an entire horde of them.

:lol::rofl::smilielol5: You need to write a book of these- each page would be a quote like the one above, for each day of the week. :biggrin5:

qimissung

03-03-2012, 01:32 PM

I joined Facebook briefly, but found it scary, so I quit. I'd like to go back semi-anonymously so I could say 'hey" to former students occasionally. Is there any way to manage that, I wonder?

Wha happened to WetCanvas? I've looked it over and read a few threads that had to do with something I was working on. I liked it, but never joined.

I read Salon and Slate and comment occasionally, but they are not really forums. So I guess this is IT.

Maximilianus

03-03-2012, 05:28 PM

I joined Facebook briefly, but found it scary, so I quit. I'd like to go back semi-anonymously so I could say 'hey" to former students occasionally. Is there any way to manage that, I wonder?
I don't think it's possible. You can create an account with a fake name, but you won't be able to communicate unless you tell people who you really are, and therefore your real identity would be anyway revealed if you want any given person to give feedback. What you can do to avoid trouble is to keep your activities at a minimum, which means not accepting dubious requests, like all these stupid game requests that often hide a virus attack. Another thing you should avoid is to click on any link that somehow appears on your Facebook wall. Safest way to use it is by just exchanging messages and not much more than that.