Your first forum

[ricalynn]

Originally Posted by Purr

I've been to a lot of forums, but this is the first REAL forum I've ever joined. By real, I mean real people talking about real things, and not some kids--or adults in some cases--desperate for attention.
It's always one of the first sites I visit after checking my mail in the morning, and I visit throughout the day.

and I'll second consumercity as well.

I found TCS when I was looking for Bella (or she was looking for me?) because I hadn't owned a cat of my own and hadn't lived with any for many years. I had always been leery of forums/bbs/chat because I'd always heard what a lot of wierdos were on the net. But I wanted the best for my soon-to-be baby, and so I dove in, and found it to be warm and inviting, and much like family - you know, mostly sweet, with a few nuts

I have joined a couple other forums since on petcare and other topics, but some of them are downright mayhem! It's like the adults think that just because they're hidden behind a comp screen they can lower themselves to a 6th grade level and no be expected to communicate any better??!!?? I love TCS, and I'm proud I can now help keep the weirdo's at bay!

 

[gemlady]

I wasn't a forum virgin when I joined TCS, just extremely inexperienced.

It's the only one I'm active on now. There are a couple I read, but don't participate.

 

[dicknleah]

The Border Collie boards were my first forum. Mainly because I was researching the breed before I adopted one. Heee-heee now I have two BC's. TCS was actually the 4th forum I joined. I didn't know it existed till a member here posted the link on another forum.

 

[graykittenlove]

Originally Posted by gemlady

I wasn't a forum virgin when I joined TCS, just extremely inexperienced.

It's the only one I'm active on now. There are a couple I read, but don't participate.

Me too. I was a member and probably still am of a couple of other forums but no other forum ever sucked me in like TCS did. I still find it hard to believe I'm as active as I am on this forum.

That being said, I lurked here for a couple of months first and found nothing that turned me off of joining. I like to do that before I join a forum, I've done the same thing with some others and sadly there are a lot of forums that just aren't very nice places.

 

[gilly]

I am joined to a few other forums (non-cat related) so this is not my first.

However, I do visit TCS more than any other forum - I visit here nearly on a daily basis but the others only every few weeks

I can't remember how I found TCS though, but it must have been in a search or something

 

[hopehacker]

The first Message Board Forum's I ever went to., was The Kiss Asylum. It was a HUGE board dedicated to my favourite band Kiss. Sadly, The Kiss Asylum boards ended, because the owner/Mod just didn't have time to Moderate the boards and keep up his website. The next Message Board I joined was my own, Hope's Paul Stanley Page, Message Board, which I started up to go along with my website. I still have my message board and still moderate it, myself. After that, I joined numerous Kiss message boards, and still go post on some of them, on occasion. I came to TCS a couple of years ago. I love it here. I love how nice the people are here, and the varity of topics we discuss here. This is the only non Kiss related board I go to, and I visit this board as much if not more than I do my own message board.

 

[vespacat]

This is the first and only forum I've ever posted to (and it has a wealth of information that has been helpful to me). Believe it or not, I just got my first computer in February, so an entire new world has opened up to me. I have access to the internet on my work PC, but it's not the same.

 

[chester&piper]

I am a member of a few other forums (non-cat related), but this is the only one I ever post at.

TCS ROCKS!

 

[binkyhoo]

I spent alot of time in the heath forums befor i got the guts to post in the lounge

 

[lisalee]

I started out on Cat Fancy and posted on there for a few years. I now belong to so many forums, I can't keep up with all of them! I need a lot to keep my interest I guess.

Most are cat forums, and a few are non-cat related.

 

[sooz123]

My sister had Prodigy back around 1993, I used to message people that way and it seemed like that's about all you could do.

I played on her pc a bit through the years until I got a job where there was internet access in 1998 (and they were fine with people surfing during work hours as our job was painfully boring and we could do both at the same time). Being woefully in love with Leo DiCaprio due to Titanic having just come out, I became a loyal member of a forum for his fans. I taught myself web design because I wanted to have my own fan site for him, finally got my own PC at home a year or so later and have advanced to being able to get paying design clients... that is, if I wanted them anymore.

Over the years I quit posting there altogether although I do visit mostly every week. Too many trolls came about, and it got too big to be moderated by the owner so he got volunteers. But the volunteers are nearly Nazis, handing out warnings like cigars at a maternity ward. The worst part is I know one of the mods in RL. You couldn't dare talk about the things we used to... and people have left in droves. It was as active as this forum is for years, but in the past year or so activity has dropped so much that there's only a few threads with new posts each day. Sad, really.

 

[yayi]

TCS is the one I am most active. I visit around 4 others (also cat related) like once a month or even less.

 

[zoe'n'misskitty]

I joined the SciFi Channel's FarScape forum back in 2001...it was really crappy back then; they didn't have the greatest format. But most of the people there were cool, and mostly geeks like me, sooo...right at home! From there I joined another FarScape board, which was equally cool. I quit going to those when I changed jobs and couldn't play online all day...and the show got cancelled shortly after that and the board just got FOUL and troll-filled.

I also joined a horse board, but quit going to that around the same time as the FS boards.
I occasionally read a Nine Inch Nails board and the Queens of the Stone Age board, but never feel compelled to post...most of the music boards are populated by pretentious jack@$$es or obnoxious teenagers. lol
By far, TCS is the best of all of the boards I have been to, and the only one I post on anymore.
TCS rocks!!

 

[ollyextra05]

This was/ is my first forum--found it when I was doing research about getting our second cat (Emma).
And, now I need a twelve step program!

 

[stormy]

This is the second forum I've joined. The first was a weight loss forum, which I still post on, but not as much as I do on TCS. I also once in a while post on another cat forum and recently joined a...hold your excitement

...crochet forum!

 

[save_adopt]

my first forum was a backstreet boy one of my moms

 

[sandra]

I am an 'old hat' when it comes to forums

. I belong to 2 relationship forums and about 3 military ones also.

 

[wellingtoncats]

My first forum was talkpet or something and I joined as badkitty, posted there for a day or two then got bored. Surfed around a bit and then I found my home.

 

[okeefecl]

A long time ago I was involved in two bulletin boards, one for the DC Vertigo comics and one for the writer Clive Barker. Those died out after a while, and a few years ago I found TCS and never left. I also post on one non-cat related forum that a co-worker of mine moderates.

 

[MoochNNoodles]

I joined TCS after searching for help about Mooch when we first broght her home. I've been a member of a few other forums (not pet ones) and the trolls were too much. TCS is the best!