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I have acquired quite a few interests over the years so yes I lurk and sometimes post on other forums. But I tend to spend the majority of my free time here. And this is the only place I feel comfortable posting anything personal.
 
Oh no. I have a number of other interests, so I post on other bulletin boards and definitely lurk on lots others too.
 
Nope, this is it.


I''m still scared of misinformation on the big bad internet, and even though I don''t know PSers "IRL" I "trust" them and the info/advice much more than some random forum where I have no idea of "who" is responding
 
I''m a (very recent) member of a cooking forum. BF and I are trying to eat healthfully on a budget, so I''m trying to get ideas and tips. Plus I want to cook more and bake/eat processed foods less, so it seems like the smart thing to do right now.

Other than that it''s just PS for me.
 
I only ever post on PS but I read some of the threads on another website related to bags/shoes/clothes.
 
PS is more then enough forum for me
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I only post on PS, but I recently started lurking on a child free by choice forum. I have no plans to post there, its just nice to be able to read posts from like minded people.
 
I participate in a chat room related to a critter cam. 88 character max posts -- when it''s busy there the stream really flies. It isn''t moderated and we have had some very disruptive bullies harass us, one member in particular. But for the most part people are considerate. Heck, the critter cam was turned off 2 weeks ago, and we''re still chatting in there!

88 characters... a bit more spontaneous, and people get pretty creative! And very forgiving of typos and stuff!
 
I lurk a couple of other forums but PS website is very well-organized and I suspect it is half of its pull for me. For my current hobby, it is almost enough. I am not a forum person and did not even know about forums in early 2000-es when my hobby was totally different (history). Too bad, I might have met many interesting people!
 
Aye Kenny it seems we hardly know ye
 
Kenny - I can relate to what you said... I was on another board years ago (started 11.5 years ago)... it was a pregnancy board and well my son is now turning 11 next month so... obviously our pregnancies are over but you know, I am still friends with about 10 of them and a few I''m in regular contact still a couple, in fact one of my two best friends in the world I met there... from there I went to a debate board that was technically about parenting but boy did we fight. There were two factions and it was war - sometimes crossing lines of personal boundaries in scary ways. It wasn''t all fighting though, when 9/11 happened it was like this cease fire happened for a few months - enemies were friends. It was very interesting... and now all the wars are over - the board doesn''t exist anymore and we''re on facebook. There are people who just didn''t and never will like one another and they just aren''t friends but losing the anonymity actually erased so much of the fighting... people would imposter to insult and harass someone even further than they would to their face.

Anyway, I learned so much from those hot seats... sometimes when I see people here in the hot seat I feel really badly - but these hot seats are nothing like what I used to see. I''m not interested in that sort of debate or fighting anymore though... I think it was a lot like kenny describes board B but now I''m more interested in being on what would be board A. And those needs are quite satisfied here :)

The only other board I am on on a regular basis is one that I am the moderator for lol But thankfully everyone''s really cool and I''ve only had to remove like 2 posts in 2 years. I have some boards that only certain levels can access (like rough rock etc) so I have had to move a few posts to more appropriately private areas, but that''s it - never any fighting. Oh except that one time, but we didn''t have to remove any posts. I just had to pull out the ruler and say now now folks...
 
it''s the only jewelry/diamond forum i read, but I belong to other communities as well (a couple for mommies, a couple for lesbians). I wish PS posters were more post-happy so I could read new posts more often. But maybe I would get no work done then ;)
 
Kenny-- I''ve witnessed forum wars too. I too started out on Forum A (theknot.com actually), then a bunch of us spun off and created our own board (B). Then there were fights and C came along. And then D. And while A is still around (don''t read it at all), B and C are totally gone. There are probably 60 of us on D who are a mix of A, B, C and newbies we''ve invited along the way. We very rarely every have any arguments, it''s totally harmonious, etc, but it was about 7 years in the making.
 
I have a few other forums that I visit. There is one other which I post on regularly. The others are more occasional. PS is the forum with which I am most involved. I'm on here a whole lot
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Date: 6/23/2010 12:53:17 PM
Author: HappyNewLife
Kenny-- I''ve witnessed forum wars too. I too started out on Forum A (theknot.com actually), then a bunch of us spun off and created our own board (B). Then there were fights and C came along. And then D. And while A is still around (don''t read it at all), B and C are totally gone. There are probably 60 of us on D who are a mix of A, B, C and newbies we''ve invited along the way. We very rarely every have any arguments, it''s totally harmonious, etc, but it was about 7 years in the making.
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This makes me laugh because I''m on a subforum of that parent forum you mentioned and what you wrote makes total sense. It happens on there too
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I was a forum virgin, until I met PS and it swept me off my feet.
 
I''m mostly on PS. I love that PS has stayed relevant for me for the last 3 years I''ve been on it. I started in ''LIW", then progressed to BWW and now Family & Home. It was never about the diamonds for me. I like that the people around here are friendly and intelligent and interesting, and I love that we can discuss a variety of general topics in a mature way.
 
I belong to a few other forums and am even a mod on one. They''re all animal and pet related, and those are topics I don''t get much of on PS (aside for a few cute pet threads now and then)
 
This is the only form I post on. I am kind of "internet shy" and it look me a long time to register for this one. I frequently lurk on a medical education/young professional forum but have never actually posted. I might someday if I really have a question. I have also recently started reading a medical form geared towards women with families since I am getting married I am looking for info on name changing and work life balance. But have not posted on that one either.

When I am board I look at some of the bridal forums for entertainment.
 
Wow! I''m feeling rather proud of myself... this is the first thread I''ve ever started that seems to have gotten people interested enough to reply!
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Right now Pricescope is the only forum in which I participate. A few months ago when I wanted to buy an accessory I joined another forum (to which I still belong) and a few of years ago I joined a forum in order to follow the news about the marriage of Prince Charles in more detail. I still, nominally, belong to that forum, too. I seem only to belong to one major diamond forum at a time. Before I joined Pricescope I belonged to another one for several years and was very loyal to it; I did not sign up at Pricescope at its inception although I "knew" Leonid from the other forum and could have been one of the original posters here. I posted on the other forum and felt loyal to it. When I was bounced off that forum I came here and have really stayed only here although once in a while I have visited a new forum that featured gems if a friend recommended it. I just never stayed anywhere else but here.

In "the old days" before Windows and websites I belonged to some very different and interesting fora that I reached by going through newsgroups. I barely remember how one did it! There were settings on the computer that allowed one to pick his newsgroups. Some (in the soc. area) were moderated. Others (in the alt. area) were not. They were a wild free for all. I belonged to some of those groups. The spam in the alt. groups was unbelievably bad! And, as Kurt Vonnegut said, so it goes....

Deb/AGBF
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Date: 6/24/2010 5:32:32 AM
Author: mayerling
Wow! I''m feeling rather proud of myself... this is the first thread I''ve ever started that seems to have gotten people interested enough to reply!
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I visit educational sites for my job, and there are message boards on some of them, but I don''t post. PS is really the only site/forum I visit regularly. I love researching things, so sometimes I stumble across another forum for this or that, but I generally find what I need without having to log in and post.
 
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